What's wrong? Other than the levels being a little high (hot), I watched it in the original mono, and the audio seemed OK to me... I always go with the original mono score over some reworked and tweaked 5.1 'reimagining'.

There's a sibilance issue, extreme hissing during any S sounds. Contact Shout for a replacement disk. Or maybe you have a corrected version all ready if you didn't notice any issues.

NEW – A Conversation With Director John Waters, Actress Kathleen Turner And Actress Mink Stole
Serial Mom: Surreal Moments – Featuring Interviews With Waters, Stole, Actress Patricia Hearst, Actress Ricki Lake, Actor Matthew Lillard, Casting Director Pat Moran, Production Designer Vincent Pirano & More!
Feature Commentary With John Waters And Kathleen Turner
Feature Commentary With John Waters
The Making Of Serial Mom – Original Promotional Featurette
The Kings Of Gore: Herschel Gordon Lewis And David Friedman Featurette
Original Theatrical Trailer

Street date: 5/9

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One of my absolute favorite dark comedies. So very stoked on this.

Oh, I love this announcement! I will definitely purchase Serial Mom when it comes out. With this and Multiple Maniacs, it's good to see some more John Waters finally hitting Blu-ray.

i'm glad i didn't wind up getting that foreign release of Streets of Fire.

Artwork for Streets of Fire.




Shout says it will be a 2-disc set.

That is nice!

I've always liked the poster for this film. I love that Scream Factory uses the original theatrical poster art for their releases or at least has it as an alternative to their newly commissioned art.

The cover is meh but the fact that it gets a second disc for special features is pretty awesome. I've never seen the movie despite loving just about any 80's movie. I'll probably pick it up because of the musical aspect.

Robocop 2:

Special Features:
ˇ NEW 2K scan of the inter-positive
ˇ NEW Audio Commentary with author/CG supervisor Paul M. Sammon
ˇ NEW Audio Commentary with the makers of “RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop” documentary – Gary Smart, Chris Griffiths and Eastwood Allen
ˇ NEW Corporate Wars: The Making of ROBOCOP 2 – featuring new and vintage interviews with director Irvin Kershner, producer Jon Davidson, cast members Tom Noonan, Nancy Allen, Galyn Görg, executive producer Patrick Crowley, associate producer Phil Tippett, cinematographer Mark Irwin and author/CG supervision Paul M. Sammon (32 minutes)
ˇ NEW Machine Parts: The FX of ROBOCOP 2 – featuring Phil Tippett, Peter Kuran, Craig Hayes, Jim Aupperle, Kirk Thatcher, Paul Gentry, Don Waller, Justin Kohn, Randal Dutra and Kevin Kutchaver (31 minutes)
ˇ NEW Robo-Fabricator – an interview with RoboCop armor fabricator James Belohovek (9 minutes)
ˇ NEW Adapting Frank Miller’s ROBOCOP 2 – an interview with comic book writer Steven Grant (6 minutes)
ˇ NEWOCP Declassified – a collection of rare archival production and behind-the-scenes videos including interviews with director Irvin Kershner, actors Peter Weller, Dan O’Herlihy and a look at the filming of some deleted scene (46 minutes)
ˇ Theatrical Trailer
ˇ Teaser Trailers
ˇ TV Spots
ˇ Deleted Scenes Still Gallery
ˇ Still Galleries (behind-the-scenes photos, stills, posters and lobby cards)


Robocop 3:

ˇ NEW Audio Commentary with director Fred Dekker
ˇ NEW Audio Commentary with the makers of “RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop” documentary – Gary Smart, Chris Griffiths and Eastwood Allen
ˇ NEW Delta City Shuffle: The Making of ROBOCOP 3 featuring director Fred Dekker, actors Nancy Allen, Bruce Locke, producer Patrick Crowley, cinematographer Gary Kibbe and production designer Hilda Stark (38 minutes)
ˇ NEW Robo-Vision: The FX of ROBOCOP 3 featuring Peter Kuran, Phil Tippett, Craig Hayes, Kevin Kutchaver and Paul Gentry (12 minutes)
ˇ NEW The Corporate Ladder – an interview with actor Felton Perry (11 minutes)
ˇ NEW Training Otomo – an interview with actor Bruce Locke and martial arts trainer Bill Ryusaki (8 minutes)
ˇ NEW War Machine – an interview with RoboCop gun fabricator James Belohovek (9 minutes)
ˇ Theatrical Trailer
ˇ Still Gallery

Wow, those seem like pretty huge titles to be put on the Select line... What are the current releases like?

I'll probably buy Robocop 2 now, those extras look great.

Extras announced for Red Dawn:


The 70 minute documentary sounds kind of weak considering the people they managed to get. I mean Doug Toby??

According to Shout's website, there are going to be 2 versions of Game of Death


I've seen the US version obviously which sucks. How different is the Mandarin/Cantonese version? I see it's 10 minutes shorter. Has anyone seen that version?

Game of Death isn't even worth a single release. On the other hand, Return of the Dragon is probably Lee's best film.

yeah, that is disappointing considering one of my favorite movies of all time, but hopefully a sparkling new transfer is a bonus.

Those sound like some nice SEs.

It's weird... I have all of the Alien movies, the Predator movies, and the Terminator movies on blu, but never felt the need to have more than the original Robocop. I guess it's because I remember the sequels being a big step down from the original, but that still didn't prevent me from getting stuff like Terminator 3 or Alien Resurrection.

But even though those are nice SEs, they're still pricey for crap movies.

Dunno. I'll have to mull it over...

2 is good, but a huge step down. I wouldn't get 3 under any circumstances.

Scream Factory needs to do a special edition of Brainscan.

I pre-ordered 2 from Shout and that should come in the next few weeks.

I haven't see 3 in years and I recall it was a really inferior sequel. PG-13, No Weller. I didn't order it, but I need to stop getting into the habit of buying inferior movies just because it has great bonus content or to be a completist. Plus, paying $20-something plus tax and shipping isn't cheap for these Shout releases. You have to really want it.

Same applies to the new Bruce Lee releases. I own like 2-3 versions (DVD and BD) of each of his movies. I really don't need to order them anymore even if the bonus content is mind blowing and the picture is outstanding.

I have a new 4K TV and the new 4K transfers sound enticing, but I own too much God damn Bruce content already.

..I wish scream factory would release "Willard" and "Ben" on a special edition bluray..

They're both coming in May, so... wish granted.

Hope Willard has some kind of special feature detailing it's ownership status. It was independently produced and distributed by an independent distributor.
It was syndicated to local broadcast stations in the seventies, and received a VHS release by a company called Prism. Near as I can tell no studio has ever had any ownership/rights to it.
The film has never appeared on cable tv, commercial or premium. No DVD release either.
Both Willard and Ben were huge box office hits that have dropped off the face of the earth.
Probably privately owned, the negative in some guy's basement the past 45 years.

Also completely removed from distribution the past 30 years, the 10 AIP films 100% owned by Jack H. Nicholson's widow Susan Hart. Among them, Amazing Colossal Man, I Was A Teenage Werewolf, I Was A Teenage Frankenstein, Invasion of The Saucermen, and It Conquered The World.