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Re: The Official Second Sight Blu-ray Thread

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Originally Posted by dex14 (Post 14448611)

THE HITCHER LTD ED 4K UHD & BD released Sep 30th, available for pre-order now! New 4K restoration with Dolby Vision grade, Atmos audio + hours of new bonus material! Also includes hardback book, script book + more. Standard Editions also available.
https://secondsightfilms.co.uk/

https://secondsightfilms.co.uk/cdn/s...g?v=1720087491Director: Robert Harmon

Starring: Rutger Hauer, C Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh

A would-be samaritan picks up a hitchhiker and soon discovers the man is a relentless serial killer. Framed by the cold-blooded murderer for a string of slayings, his only help comes from a caring waitress as they attempt to flee from both the law and the hitcher.

Special Features

Dual format edition including both UHD and Blu-ray with main feature and bonus features on both discs
A new 4k restoration by Second Sight Films from the original camera negative supervised and approved by Director Robert Harmon
UHD presented in HDR with Dolby Vision
Features Dolby Atmos and original stereo audio mixes
New audio commentary by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Audio commentary with Robert Harmon and Writer Eric Red
Scene specific audio commentary with Robert Harmon, Eric Red, Executive Producer Edward S Feldman, Composer Mark Isham, Director of Photography John Seale and Actors Rutger Hauer and C Thomas Howell
The Projection Booth Podcast: featuring
Robert Harmon and Rutger Hauer
Bullseye: a new interview with Robert Harmon (41 Minutes)
Penning the Ripper: a new interview with Eric Red (41 Minutes)
Doomed to Live: a new interview with C Thomas Howell (28 Minutes)
The Man from Oz: a new interview with John Seale (10 Minutes)
A Very Formative Score: a new interview with Mark Isham (15 Minutes)
Duel Runner: Leigh Singer on the evolution of The Hitcher and Rutger Hauer (20 Minutes)
China Lake: a short film by Robert Harmon newly restored (35 Minutes)
The Calling Card: Robert Harmon on China Lake (15 Minutes)
Telephone: a short film by Eric Red (26 Minutes)
The Hitcher: How do these movies get made? (38 Minutes)
Trailers (5 Minutes)

Limited Edition Contents

Rigid slipcase with new artwork by Adam Stothard
200-page hardback book with exclusive Robert Harmon interview by Lou Thomas, exclusive Eric Red interview by Matthew Thrift, new essays by Heather Drain, David Kittredge, Craig Ian Mann, Rebecca McCallum, Meagan Navarro and Jon Towlson, archival Fangoria article and Behind the Scenes photo gallery
Eric Red’s original screenplay book
6 collectors' art cards

Catalogue number: 2NDBR4227

Certificate: 15

Region: UHD Region Free / Blu-ray Region Free
Language: English

Subtitles: English SDH

Audio: Dolby Atmos, Original stereo 2.0

...and ordered. can't wait for this. one of my all-time favs. i have another foreign country version, but it doesn't have those extras. can't fucking wait!!

Re: The Official Second Sight Blu-ray Thread

It’s funny how excited I was for this to come out and I still haven’t made the purchase. I’m kinda surprised they’ll release the standard right away. Unless of course the US version is coming out around the same time. They’ll want to capitalize as much as they can.
I’ll order the standard through Diabolik next month. All these July sales are killing me.

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Originally Posted by Toddarino (Post 14449542)

I’m kinda surprised they’ll release the standard right away. Unless of course the US version is coming out around the same time. They’ll want to capitalize as much as they can.

With these editions being openly Region Free, I’d imagine potential distributors of a U.S. edition would see sales impacted by the existence of these. I’m curious if Second Sight has the North American rights as well (?).

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I was holding out for a US release, but at this point I just said screw it ordered the SS set. I can retire the old snapper case dvd and whatever company releases it in the US will not make a set as nice as this one.

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If all the rumors and stories are true, Second Sight kind of had to bend over backwards to get their hands on this from Warner Brothers. That’s pretty much the reason I’ll get their release down the road.
Supposedly someone has the rights in the US and all the delays in this coming out were because of that deal WB made with the US label. So I’m guessing an announcement is imminent unless Second Sight was able to leverage a small exclusive window for doing all the restoration work themselves.

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^ either way it's a gorgeous looking set. and all those extras are just the cherry on the whipped topping.

Re: The Official Second Sight Blu-ray Thread

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Originally Posted by dex14 (Post 14448611)

Dual format edition including both UHD and Blu-ray with main feature and bonus features on both discs
A new 4k restoration by Second Sight Films from the original camera negative supervised and approved by Director Robert Harmon
UHD presented in HDR with Dolby Vision
Features Dolby Atmos and original stereo audio mixes
New audio commentary by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Audio commentary with Robert Harmon and Writer Eric Red
Scene specific audio commentary with Robert Harmon, Eric Red, Executive Producer Edward S Feldman, Composer Mark Isham, Director of Photography John Seale and Actors Rutger Hauer and C Thomas Howell
The Projection Booth Podcast: featuring
Robert Harmon and Rutger Hauer
Bullseye: a new interview with Robert Harmon (41 Minutes)
Penning the Ripper: a new interview with Eric Red (41 Minutes)
Doomed to Live: a new interview with C Thomas Howell (28 Minutes)
The Man from Oz: a new interview with John Seale (10 Minutes)
A Very Formative Score: a new interview with Mark Isham (15 Minutes)
Duel Runner: Leigh Singer on the evolution of The Hitcher and Rutger Hauer (20 Minutes)
China Lake: a short film by Robert Harmon newly restored (35 Minutes)
The Calling Card: Robert Harmon on China Lake (15 Minutes)
Telephone: a short film by Eric Red (26 Minutes)
The Hitcher: How do these movies get made? (38 Minutes)
Trailers (5 Minutes)

Limited Edition Contents

Rigid slipcase with new artwork by Adam Stothard
200-page hardback book with exclusive Robert Harmon interview by Lou Thomas, exclusive Eric Red interview by Matthew Thrift, new essays by Heather Drain, David Kittredge, Craig Ian Mann, Rebecca McCallum, Meagan Navarro and Jon Towlson, archival Fangoria article and Behind the Scenes photo gallery
Eric Red’s original screenplay book
6 collectors' art cards

Catalogue number: 2NDBR4227

Certificate: 15

Region: UHD Region Free / Blu-ray Region Free
Language: English

Subtitles: English SDH

Audio: Dolby Atmos, Original stereo 2.0

I can’t recommend this set highly enough. It definitely ranks as one of my favorite sets ever. The extras are amazing. Wait till you see C. Thomas Howell. Looks good but barely recognizable. The audio specific commentary was great. Hearing Rutgers’ voice was thrilling. He didn’t even want to do this movie. I think John Ryder is an iconic villain.

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Originally Posted by OldBoy (Post 14497310)

I got the Blu-ray instead, which I likewise highly recommend (and the 4K non-box combo is only a bit pricier. Same extras, which is where the meat is. I was able to see the books outside of the box at a video store here and can do without them: the screenplay is unnecessary because the movie’s right there, and the bigger book has two interviews with Harmon and Red that seem to cover ground already in their av supplements, plus a bunch of blogger essays. It’s a nice looking set, though. I’ve been watching Howell age through his rather odd mix of mainstream TV and B-movies for a couple of decades now. Gotta give him credit: he’s not above playing shaggy-looking characters that look a lot older than his actual 57 years (in fact, in the trailer for his new DTV movie called RIDE he practically looks like a hobo).

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The extras are great. Of course, Howell seems like a looney bird now. In the new interview I had no idea wtf he was saying. Long rambling 30 minute story. It really seemed like he was on something, in his speaking and gestures.

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I’ve seen things written for a while now about him possibly being a bit nuts. Not sure if that explains his latter day career options, but he’s been in some pretty dire Asylum/SyFy-grade crap that is definitely beneath his former talent, but then he’ll turn up in some TV guest spot and do a solid turn. I guess a gig’s a gig at this point. Kinda sad, too, that supplement producers occasionally let subjects ramble on like that without trimming down the results. I don’t see it often, but just enough to make me think they might be afraid of angering them even when they’re borderline incoherent.

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Considering the long road this has taken to get a proper, and of all things, a 4K release is a big deal. Let them ramble - who gives a shit. I have the non-limited set on 4K disc.

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So no sidebar discussions when releases are awesome. Got it! :lol::thumbsup:

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Yeah, the C. Thomas Howell interview was wild. I don't think he was necessarily high but just excited to be there. Reflecting on what a cult classic the film is. I know he had some health issues a couple of years ago that almost killed him, so who knows if that has anything to do with his temperament.

Oh, and the 4K from SS is phenomenal.