George Romero's Season Of The Witch is coming to DVD this October in a special two disc edition from Anchor Bay according to DVD Maniacs. Here is the link:

http://www.dvdmaniacs.net/


This should be great news for all George Romero fans.

This is from the Anchor Bay site:

Here is the link:

http://www.anchorbayentertainment.com/future/

The fact that this will also contain There's Always Vanilla is incredible.

I can't wait!

I had thought that There's Always Vanilla was lost forever, so this is a real treat. It will be interesting to learn the story behind its recovery.

Wow, I was having a pretty crappy day until just now. Great news!

2004 is turning out to be an amazing year for DVD. My wallet is constantly empty.

All I can say is they better not pull an Evil Dead "Within the Woods" and pull it at the last second.

That was a rights issue. I doubt that is the case in this matter.

Great news. Today is turning out to be great!!!

I had always been under the impression that There's Always Vanilla had been re-titled Season of the Witch. I didn't know they were two seperate movies.

After the seeing the two scenes on the Night of the Living Dead DVD, I was interested in seeing the entire film. Looking forward to this coming out.

Yup, two completely different films. Although Season of the Witch has gone by other titles, such as Hungry Wives and Jack's Wife. It was eventually retitled to tie in with both the Donovan song and to appear closer to the subject matter common to most of Romero's films.

It's an interesting little movie. I know a lot of people don't care for it, but I have a soft spot for it. I probably watch it at least once a year.

I'm pretty excited about this new edition -- it looks to be about 15 minutes longer than the one I've always watched. The Vanilla just makes this all the more of a no-brainer.

Waiting for the obligatory "HALLOWEEN III sucks!" comment from the movie wizards out there.

(I hope that everyone understood the above sarcasm.)

I have never seen either of these films, but have always wanted them. I like Romero's work in general and think they will both interest me. I have read about them, and Season Of The Witch sounds fascinating plotwise. I am going to enjoy Halloween this year.

Good news. I love Season Of The Witch. Even if everyone else, including George Romero, doesn't like it.

"There's Always Vanilla" was not a "lost" film. It's just been unavailable for so many years because no legitimate video company ever wanted to release it due to its limited appeal. A screener of the film passed my desk about 15 years ago directly from the film's agent after we expressed interest in releasing it at that time. We ended up passing on it, however, because it had such very little appeal to any kind of mass audience. AB is doing the smart thing by adding it as a "bonus" on the SOTW disc. I doubt it would sell many copies on its own outside of the devoted fan-base of Romero completists.

And AB already released the 104 minute version of "Jack's Wife" on VHS several years ago under the SOTW title. Nice to finally get it on DVD, though, and hopefully they'll correct the soundtrack which had strange newly recorded sound efx on it. Just give us the original mono and we'll be happy.

Thanks for the info.

Man, you made my week! Thanks for the info!

You just had to one up me, ehh, Mr. Exister?

yeah...I have like 160 titles on my list for the year...and thats just through the summer, and not including catalog titles and imports, which makes it a 400 dvd year. I always said I'd be at 2,000 titles by the end of the year...looks like I'll make it.

thanks for the news man!! it's now been added to "the list".

It seems to me that it was referred to as a lost film on the Blue Underground release of The Crazies. I will check it out tonight and let you know what I find.

Tremendous news. Stuff like this reminds me of why I used to really love AB!