^Yeah fellas, just had to preorder the Lenzi/Baker set yesterday as 2 or 3 of the films have been ripe for a release for a while. Of course, like a lot of people I just recently got the 88 version of Quiet Place, so now I will have both the US and UK releases. Coincidentally enough I also bought the individual release of Knife of Ice from France which just shipped yesterday, so much for not double-dipping! I’ve had major wood for Carroll Baker for a while now so pretty much anything of hers that gets released is getting bought by
me.

Hoping to see a shipping notification for the Adamson set soon as I hear they are starting to ship.

The only QC issues I predict with the Adamson set is the fact that they bothered to put Al Adamson movies on Blu-rays. Based on Severin's track record, though, I'd imagine they'll be careful with it otherwise. I'm sure there will be individual releases, too. They did that with the Blood Island and Hemisphere Horrors boxed sets (and probably others I'm forgetting). Each of those had one exclusive disc that hasn't been re-issued, but the rest are available as singles. In the Adamson box, I don't see anything marked as a boxed set exclusive, so it's inevitable that they'll release a series of 'double features' using the same content configurations as the box.

Hack though he was, it's a shame Adamson didn't live into the DVD era. No doubt he would've done commentaries and interviews for most of his films, which could've been ported over. Still, Sam Sherman's commentaries are pretty good.

I love Sam Sherman’s commentaries also, almost like taking a short film school class, very information packed! It’s a shame that so many of them are partial commentaries, that is, many of them run for only 50-60 minutes of the movie.

I don't know about that. I prefer when they have zero dead air and just get to the point. When Matt & Trey started doing mini-commentaries for South Park, it was the best thing (though sometimes they went way to short). I prefer those over long spots of dead air or people just describing what you are watching onscreen.

Even though they're short, the Sherman commentaries are always a great listen, and his memory (at least when he recorded most of these for earlier DVDs) seemed as sharp as a tack. His tracks, btw, weren't 50-60 minutes spread out over the full length of the film, they just run that long in their entirety, and then he'd sign off, usually, because he'd said all he could possibly say (which is still quite a lot). Not much dead air, as I recall. And considering the films in his catalog are pretty dire, it's amazing that he could stay interesting and relevant for as long as he did.

Severin’s adding a nice-sounding little bonus for all buyers of the Lenzi/Baker set, according to their social media:

Coolness! Makes me anticipate this even more!

I was going to skip this one, but that extra is going to make it hard to resist.

Looks like a disc in the new Adamson set is proving to be faulty, seems to affect all copies of the set. Severin is working on a replacement program.

https://m.facebook.com/#!/story.php?...d=139375155037

It looks like the 5/26 titles, like The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh and Horrors of Spider Island, are going to miss their release date by at least a short while.

Severin's Mid-Year Sale is live but the website is getting (obviously) thrashed.

They just posted on their social media that they got hit by a DDOS attack and have canceled the sale.

What the fuck? What the hell is wrong with people?

Some people simply want to see the world burn.

It's not canceled, the site is closed while they figure out a way to handle the heavy traffic. And I seriously doubt it was a DDoS attack, it was a bunch of customers refreshing as soon as the site went live because there were such limited amounts of remaining box sets and bundles. Their site has always crashed and burned when they do a sale like this and they've made no attempt to improve their infrastructure.

Vinegar Syndrome went through similar issues when their sales began to get more popular, so they upgraded their website. That's why it's down for two weeks before the sale. Severin seems to have copied that formula but not actually do site upgrades, instead just trying to build hype for their sale, which turned out to be a disaster.

The site will come back online at midnight tonight(EST) to continue the sale.

The site is down again. It still can't handle the traffic. Severin is asking folks to email their orders in.

Yup! Screenshots for pricing are up on their Facebook page.

Their statement on Facebook (8 hours ago):

Well despite our best efforts and money put into upgrading the site in the past few weeks, it's fucked. Until traffic and refreshing subsides apparently the site will not function. Our host is suggesting DDOS again but, whatever it is, it ain’t working. So here’s what we suggest if you want to order from the sale tonight:

Email your order to [email protected]

Include items that may have been listed as OOP. We will not charge if we do not have the stock. And we will fulfill on a first come first served basis. There are still bundles but stock is getting lower as, it may be hard to believe, a number of orders were able to come through tonight but we still have plenty of all the Fulci and Franco and even some Franky & His Pals so order if you still want them, we will break up the bundles if you need a Franky until all 1000 are sold. Include your catalog and merch items too and we will generate an invoice.

Edit: Please include shipping and billing addresses along with your order. FYI you don't need to send payment info with your order but it will help if you email from the address you use for paypal or if not then put your paypal email address in the email so we can generate an invoice. Either way we will email you with an invoice in the coming days. If you have sent the email, you can go to bed. Sleep tight.

Until the site gets back up and running this is how will we take orders. We will be extending the sale further also once the site is back up. What a fucking nightmare. Sorry everyone.

Cruel Jaws...!

That's a great trio of releases for September. I might have to pick up all three.

I always wanted to see Cruel Jaws. Heard a ton about it but have never seen it.

And I can give a for Massacre In Dinosaur Valley. It is a lot of fun! Lots of boobs, terrible acting and bad action with a fun story.

Just ordered Cruel Jaws and Massacre In Dinosaur Valley. I know it was six bucks but I had to get that Jaws 5 slipcover. Also got the toilet seat cover for my submarine bathroom. That’ll look great.

The Black Cat

Shock Treatment

Patrick Still Lives

I'm definitely interested in Patrick Still Lives.

I'm trying to think if I've seen that Black Cat. Rings a bell but I forget if I caught it on DVD.

This looks pretty cool...