I picked this up just because word of mouth. I was going to rent it but it was already checked out at the only store i will rent from. They had it for sale so i went ahead and bought it. Paid a few bucks more there then i would have anywhere else(something i'm happy to do at an independent video store, espicially one that has a whole section devoted to the films of Lynch,Bava,and Ray Harryhausen.)
I really loved it too.
Speaking of BU, is the Toolbox Murders and the Prowler worth picking up.

I just finished watching it a few minutes ago for the first time.

Wow,it really truely creeped me out big time!

Very rare for that to happen to me nowadays.

The mono soundtrack was excellent & very atmospheric. Had me on edge at some spots,disturbed..& just a few unsettling images i can't get out of my head.

Another example at the superiority of 70's & early 80's horror compared to the majority of todays stuff.

I'm really glad that people are digging it! I picked up DEAD & BURIED at Best Buy along with Miracle Mile, another one of my sleeper favorites. I've had the R2 German (Dragon) edition of this for a while, but Blue Underground's blows it away.

Okay, I'm hooked. Just ordered it from DDD, based on this thread. Read the book years ago and can't even remember the plot, but do remember I couldn't put it down.

Hope it's all I hear...

I picked it up at Best Buy yesterday. I know it was cheaper at DDD, but I heard about all the people who ordered from there were still waiting for it. I have to pay tax at DDD anyway, since they are based in IL.

Hopefully, I'll get a chance to watch it this weekend.

thats a big YES.....The Prowler has always been one of my personal favs.....pick up both.

I would agree whole-heartedly with gutwrencher. The DVD and movie are great - a nice behind the scenes documentary is included showcasing Tom Savini's effects.

i picked up "The Prowler" this afternoon but haven't had a chance to watch it yet. I plan on getting Toolbox murders,Venom, and Contraband tomorrow and i go back to Wild and Wooly.

I got this movie a couple weeks back just based on threads bragging it up, and that I'm a big horror mark.

I gotta say I was dissapointed in this movie, maybe I was expecting too much, but it was one of those movies that started off well and just fell flat, it had decent atmosphere but that didn't help too much. It could of used alot more gore, and the eyeball scene was good but not Fulci good.

You went in expecting or wanting a gore fest - the movie isn't about that.

I'm a gore hound...but gore would have ruined this film. I'm a huge Fulci freak....even though he could be a sloppy film-maker. D & B is fine the way it is.

Much of the gore in the film was an afterthought, anyway. Gary Sherman's first cut of the film had much more humor and less gore in it. AVCO Embassy, the distributors, liked Sherman's original cut. Mark Damon, one of the men in the charge of the project, did not. Damon demanded additional shooting for more violence and gore. Damon also wanted much of the humor cut out. Sherman and editor Alan Balsam originally refused to have any part in the re-cut, but they eventually decided that they're rather have a bad cut releaed that they had done themselves than one done by someone else.

Damon, of course, was afraid that AVCO would overrule his decision for a less funny and more gory version and release Sherman's original cut, anyway. To make sure that this never happened (and cause all of the money he spent on re-shoots to go to waste), Damon had all of the excised footage destroyed. For the new DVD, Sherman and Blue Underground did an extensive search to find any of the deleted footage, but it is believed to be completely destroyed. I haven't picked up the DVD yet, but Sherman may relate this story on his commentary.

Sherman is apparently still pretty happy with the film as it exists now, but I'd really love to see his original cut. I found the film to be very funny, and if there's more of that, it'd be a real treat.

DJ