Matthew Chmiel

God. I used to love those special edition VHS tapes that Anchor Bay/Elite/Video Treasures used to put out from the mid-to-late 90s.

I remember the remake of Invaders From Mars in widescreen. The two-tape set of Nightmare on Elm Street. The clamshell releases of Halloween and The Stepford Wives.

Ah.... the memories.

The Monkees

I notice it has the documentary One More for the Fire. Is this the 40th anniversary documentary that they filmed for this year? I certainly hope so.

The Monkees

I have all that too, except I have Land of the Dead on HD-DVD, I have the 1990 remake of NOTLD signed by Tom Savini and my Dawn of the Dead 4 disc is signed by George A. Romero, Tom Savini and Ken Foree.

rider555

Who wants to bet that in 10 years,we will see Anchor Bay put out a 50th anniversary edition of NOTLD,not to mention a 40th anniversary edition of Halloween?

Alkaline

No need for bets. Foregone conclusion!

Darth Maher

Can somebody post the cover for the original Elite version with the cool intro?

I'd love to see that. I'm going to check out my library to see if they have it.

scarredgod

ive contemplated buying that version just to see that intro, sounds really cool to me.

DeadMADMAN

Elite is where its at but I am a completest so I have all of the versions except the lame 3-D remake and all of those public domain ones.

The 30th Anniversary is definitely crap but I don't mind it considering you can still get the original (unlike Star Wars...well until recently, or Ozzy Osbourne's bastardized Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman).

The commentary on the Elite disc is great though. John Russo often times has to correct Romero on a number of facts and sequences. Its quite humorous considering Russo probably has held onto all of that info since his career hasn't brought him much else whereas NOTLD was just a starting poiunt for Romero. I do have to hand it to Russo though, he gives a lot of interesting facts and really makes what probably would have been a good commentary a GREAT commentary.

Darth Maher

Is this the one?

sracer

Yes it is.

I'll never forget waiting for it to arrive from Amazon, calling my brother over to watch it, opening the case, popping the disc in, kicking back, pressing PLAY.... then....

WTF!?!?! (My brother and I said that in unison) .... and then our jaw dropped, and we had a great laugh about it.

Giles

believe it or not, the Weinstein Co. just announced it's first Blu-ray and it's.... (drum roll): Night of the Living Dead ... the original...

http://forums.highdefdigest.com/showthread.php?t=52132

who knew?

SuckaMC

Oh man, you're not lying. I bought the Laserdisc of that Elite version. I was PISSED after spending $100 for the disc and that intro played. Then it broke into the great pic quality....whew... Nice one Elite, you got me....bastards.

SterlingBen

The same intro is on the dual tape version I might add.

Bill Needle

Surprised to see no previous mention of the Romero supervised remastered version being released on 5/20/08.

Rockmjd23

I've been thinking of buying it, I wonder what the extras are and if I should sell my Elite disc.

Bleddyn Williams

Don't sell your disc until someone has this new version in their hands and can confirm what's on there. Otherwise you may find yourself losing some features and regretting parting with the Elite.

xage

The reason why you are Suprised is because you are not readin the rest of the posts in this thread (despite having three pages only). Please see post#19, then your suprise will be gone.. geez...

Bill Needle

You're kidding, right? That 3 year old post is talking about a release (SCE) from only a few months after the format was first introduced in the US in 1997. Even the also referred to ME was released over 6 years ago.

tylergfoster

I'll get this because the documentary on the DVD is supposed to be good. And why not? I already have two other copies of this movie. Maybe I'll turn into xage...

Johnny Zhivago

*fixed*

dumio

Millenium Edition is the one. Here's the link about visual comparison

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/dvdcom...livingdead.htm

tylergfoster

There is a brand-new DVD coming out, and that comparison has not yet been updated to include it. Since the Elite Millennium is six years old, this new one could offer an improvement. Additionally, there's the Fox DVD with Mike Nelson commentary, but I wouldn't imagine it has better PQ than the Elite even if it was restored (before anyone complains, yes, the Fox DVD includes BOTH the colorized and non-colorized film).

Giles

personally I found the Mike Nelson commentary completely unamusing.

Living Dead

Same here. But that's true for me with pretty much anything Mike Nelson does.

tylergfoster

I like Mike, but he's hit or miss.