Optimum / Studio Canal Thread

[Mojo]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Castellari...Fantastic!

Definite purchase for me. When's it out?

Think it’s June or July.

[Rob4]

They are also releasing Kill Them All and Come Back Alone and Extreme Prejudice in this new 'Cult Classics' line

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Extreme-Pre...g=bluraycom-21
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kill-Them-A...g=bluraycom-21

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Rob4

They are also releasing Kill Them All and Come Back Alone and Extreme Prejudice in this new 'Cult Classics' line

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Extreme-Pre...g=bluraycom-21
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kill-Them-A...g=bluraycom-21

If this line is reasonably priced i'd quite like to collect them seeing as i'm there for the start.

If they are £25 then forget it. Looking at the actual titles themselves i'd say £10-15 max.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

from what i understand High Crime might be the English export version which runs ten minutes less and changes the ending.

[peter alex]

its just a shame that high crime is English export version that as some trims and 5 minuets of the climax that changes the fate of some of the characters

[Susan Foreman]

Synopses and special features:

HIGH CRIME: "Vice-Commissioner Belli (Franco Nero), the assistant chief inspector in Genoa, is investigating a series of crimes committed by a drug-running gang. He approaches the apparently reformed old-fashioned gangster Cafiero (Fernando Rey) for information on the gang, not knowing that Cafiero plans to take care of them himself. When Belli's boss is murdered, he takes over as Commissioner and fights on, hoping for a chance to avenge his boss and take down the underworld organisation"

SPECIAL FEATURES:

• A Criminal Conversation: Enzo G. Castellari Remembers High Crime
• The Scene of the Crime: interview with cinematographer Roberto Girometti
• High and Dry: The Stuntwork of Massimo Vanni

KILL THEM ALL AND COME BACK ALONE: Mercenary Clyde McKay (Chuck Connors) leading a squad of mercenaries on a dangerous Confederate mission: to infiltrate and raid a Unionist army fortress where a million dollars in gold has been stowed away in boxes of dynamite. A single bullet could send the whole treasure sky high but for these renegades nothing is impossible. Only madmen could pull off such a job!

SPECIAL FEATURES:

• Audio Commentary by filmmaker and fan Alex Cox
• Shoot to Kill, Aim to Thrill: Interview with director Enzo G. Castellari
• Shoot-Outs in the Old Spaghetti West: Filmmaker Romolo Guerrieri on a Family of Filmmaking
• Italy's Cult Auteur of Action Cinema: A Critical Retrospective of Enzo G. Castellari

EXTREME PREJUDICE: Tough Texas Ranger Jack Benteen (Nolte) fights to bring down his childhood friend Cash Bailey (Powers Boothe), now a ruthless drug baron operating across the Mexican border. Jack is recruited by the CIA to terminate Cash with extreme prejudice, but must also reckon with a clandestine army of veterans officially killed-in-action but now on a top-secret assignment in pursuit of the narcotics kingpin, leading to an epic and intensely violent showdown.

SPECIAL FEATURES:

• Audio Commentary by film historians C. Courtney Joyner and Henry Parke
• Isolated Score Selections featuring an audio interview with music historian John Takis
• The Major's Agenda: Interview with actor Michael Ironside
• The War Within: Interview with actor Clancy Brown
• Capturing the Chaos: Interview with director of photography Matthew F. Leonetti
• Original Trailers
• Vintage EPK
• Stills Gallery

[Dave]

Near Dark [Blu-ray] https://amzn.eu/d/erjNQlI

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StudioCanal UK are re-releasing 'Near Dark' in what appears to be a carbon copy of the old Optimum disc. Disappointing - as I had hoped a new remaster was on the way instead of this bare bones rehash from 2009.

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Ah well,at least the superior LOST BOYS is getting the bells and whistles treatment from Warner....

[MrBarlow]

Originally Posted by Dave

Near Dark [Blu-ray] https://amzn.eu/d/erjNQlI

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StudioCanal UK are re-releasing Near Dark in what appears to be a carbon copy of the old Optimum disc. Disappointing - as I had hoped a new remaster was on the way instead of this bare bones rehash from 2009.

Did I read it right that the Blu-ray is cheaper than the DVD

If they gave us a reverse art cover to the original I may have considered a purchase

This was the artwork that sold it for me to rent it back in the day.

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Yeah instead of the Twishite cash in!

Honestly,I bought a German bd last year and I really struggled to sit through it.
It's so depressing compared to Ze Lost Boys......