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Old 10-31-09 | 08:13 PM
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From http://www.dvdtalk.com/horror/blog/toxies_back.html :

Troma's 35th year is proving to be one of our strongest yet. In addition to our strong slate of new movies and productions, we'll be releasing a new blu-ray every month starting in January.
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dvdaf.com is saying poultrygeist will be february's release:

Old 10-31-09 | 08:58 PM
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poultrygeist on bluray?!?!?!

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I absolutely loved this fuckin movie so much!! haha
Old 11-01-09 | 04:33 PM
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Is it.. could it.. yep, I just came.
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If it has all the bonuses from the 3-disc, I'm in, because I was just about to buy that one.
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Awesome news, now I can (hopefully) have Troma's catalog in Blu.

Will there be a January release? It say's they will start releasing Blu's in January, but Poultrygeist comes out in Feb.
Old 11-01-09 | 05:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Justinmilkman87
Awesome news, now I can (hopefully) have Troma's catalog in Blu.

Will there be a January release? It say's they will start releasing Blu's in January, but Poultrygeist comes out in Feb.
i'll bet money its toxie #1
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yea i wouldnt be surprised at all if toxic avengers is the first bluray to be released from them... im just worried how these could possibly look...they dont even look that good on SD. haha
Old 11-01-09 | 05:49 PM
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im just worried how these could possibly look...they dont even look that good on SD. haha
And they probably won't look that good on BD either.
Old 11-01-09 | 06:02 PM
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im not expecting them to, considering how old some of them are and how low-budget they are. i DO hope that poultrygeist looks good. besides toxic avenger, poultrygeist is my favorite troma movie.
Old 11-01-09 | 10:26 PM
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Tromeo & Juliet better be on their short list.
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Originally Posted by droidguy1119
If it has all the bonuses from the 3-disc, I'm in, because I was just about to buy that one.
That's exactly what I was thinking...
Old 11-01-09 | 11:38 PM
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Originally Posted by riotinmyskull
i'll bet money its toxie #1
I was thinking the same. Will take some new features and (hopefully) cleaner transfer for me to purchase on Blu.

As others have said though, i doubt the transfer will look great, just slightly better. The Toxie films are all very low budget, but I hope they put out a good transfer.
Old 11-01-09 | 11:53 PM
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Calm down everybody, Troma on Blu-ray means everything looks shittier, and that should be a good thing.

Definitely will grab Poultrygeist and any Toxic Avenger that comes out.
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I'm sad to say that I could never get into Troma films....
Old 11-02-09 | 04:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Solid Snake PAC
I'm sad to say that I could never get into Troma films....
Definitely an acquired taste. Troma is the definition of low-budget B horror, gore and comedy. I personally love Troma but I can see how people can be turned off by it.
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Oddly enough I liked the Toxic Avenger cartoon cuz Toxie looked cool.
Old 11-02-09 | 11:30 AM
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Poultrygeist should look good in HD... it was shot on 35mm stock. ...

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Unlike, unfortunately, every. other. troma. production. ever.
Old 11-02-09 | 11:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Justinmilkman87
Definitely an acquired taste. Troma is the definition of low-budget B horror, gore and comedy. I personally love Troma but I can see how people can be turned off by it.
Agreed. I've found that I've come to appreciate them more over the years. I'll definitely pick up Poultrygeist and am looking forward to hearing what their other releases will be. Do you really think they'll make Toxic Avenger the first release? I would have thought they would treat it like the Star Wars of the lineup, hold it back for a little bit to get people excited about it. OK, I supposed that is a flawed comparison. We all know that Star Wars gets held back for way more than just a little bit.
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Originally Posted by clckworang
Do you really think they'll make Toxic Avenger the first release?
That's their moneymaker that got them started. Then it went downhill from there. There's no way it won't be one of the first release products.

Main thing I'm worried about is that they don't care about aspect ratios or putting out the best product they can. Even things like subtitles have been jacked up. I remember, I think it was The Children, where the director had some extra stuff and was really interested in being part of the project with getting the movie out but they ignored him.

I'm interested in some things but I'm going to wait for reviews first.
Old 11-02-09 | 12:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Mister Peepers
Main thing I'm worried about is that they don't care about aspect ratios or putting out the best product they can.
That's what I'm worried about too and I love Troma films.

When I first read this, the Toxie films were the first to come to mind. The headache I've had trying to differentiate the full Uncut films to the ones just marked wrong.

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Originally Posted by clckworang
Agreed. I've found that I've come to appreciate them more over the years. I'll definitely pick up Poultrygeist and am looking forward to hearing what their other releases will be. Do you really think they'll make Toxic Avenger the first release?
The more Troma movies I see the more I like them. I think it is safe to say Toxic Avenger could be Troma's first release. That movie essentially made Troma and that is Kaufman's baby. I will have to read reviews to see if an upgrade is worth it, since I own the Complete Toxic Avenger Boxset. I hope the release the movies in a new blu-ray boxset with possibly new features? It would be awesome if the Toxic Crusaders was included, I love that cartoon.
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Originally Posted by Justinmilkman87
It would be awesome if the Toxic Crusaders was included, I love that cartoon.
That's what I want. I want the Toxic films, uncut, no messed up framing, and the complete cartoon series.

That would make me happy.
Old 11-30-09 | 06:42 PM
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The boxart was posted on Amazon. theres a bigger picture when u click on it, but i couldnt get it to save. release date says 2/23/10



Poultrygeist BD on Amazon
Old 11-30-09 | 07:20 PM
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Sweet. Just put my old 3-Disc on Amazon.com

I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt that the excellent feature-length making-of will be included.

Definitely Troma's best film... it's just too bad that it's the only one shot on 35MM.

Are most of their other features 16mm or shot on tape? I think a bigger factor is also that all of their films (minus Poultrygeist, of course) are 1.33:1 and, from Kaufman's recent cropped release of Toxie I think we can expect them cropped to 16x9.


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