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I just saw on Facebook one of the October releases is Trick R' Treat.

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Isn't Shout’s version still in print? Or is Arrow’s a 4K edition?

EDIT: Just looked it up and it’s a 4K. Seems like all the old extras are ported over with nothing new.

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If there's no new extras I'll stick to my Shout Factory bluray.

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Doesn’t Arrow usually have a 50% off sale around this time of year, along side Criterion? There’s a few titles I still want to grab, but I’m willing to wait a bit.

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Barnes and Noble was running the two side-by-side but have started running them successively, where Criterion is first and Arrow follows afterwards. (Actually, I think it's more Kino/Criterion/Arrow.)

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The Camp Arrow sale is going on now if you’re talking about buying direct.

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Thanks guys. Yeah I meant either sale to be honest. :up:

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Does anyone know if Arrow corrected the framing issues on Hellraiser III: Hell On Earth (1992) from their earlier releases?

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Gotta give them credit on that J-horror set, even though most the films are somewhat second-tier efforts that only got attention because they came out in the wake of THE RING. I recall buying every one of them except Persona on Hong Kong DVDs or VCDs in Chinatown media shops here because THE RING was just so unique at the time, and suddenly I was seeing all this seemingly ‘adjacent’ stuff in those shops, most of it simply released to capitalize on the earliest part of the ‘wave’ in Asian countries and diaspora communities before it eventually spread to the mainstream in the west. Most of them also got U.S. DVD releases that still turn up used pretty cheap. SHIKOKU is by far the best of them, so no surprise that the set leads off with it, but they all aim for that unsettling slow burn that worked so well in RING, some pulling it off more successfully than others (I thought INUGAMI and ST. JOHN’S WORT burned so slowly they almost flatlined). Still, I might be tempted to revisit some of these with 20-plus years of hindsight when the box goes on sale some day.

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FINALLY!!


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Friday The 13th is now $24.99 on Amazon for the 4k edition. I went ahead and preordered it at that price.

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Amazon is price matching Barnes And Noble, all Arrow discs are half off there including 4k UHD.

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I ended up ordering Friday The 13th from Amazon because I couldn't find anything else I wanted from B&N to qualify for free shipping there. :(

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Other early leaks, from MifuneFan on the other forum:

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https://i.ibb.co/qnP4s12/elv.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/7J24zLL/elv.jpg

A Simple Plan is definitely the showstopper.

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My favorite Raimi by far. Can’t wait to replace my dvd copy.

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I pre-ordered that and Riddick from B&N.

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I happened upon a Blu-ray of Blackhat at the used store and used a coupon to get it for $10 so that's going to be my Arrow sale haul for now.

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Not all Arrow discs. Most of the Arrow titles on my Amazon wishlist are not showing a 50% price match.

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I like the film and I already have their blu-ray. I'll wait to see if there are any compelling reasons to upgrade to 4k.

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I finally cracked open my Elvira copy late last year and was impressed with the PQ and the extras. I bet this will just port over the same extras and bump up the PQ, so it is fortunately a pass for me. A true guilty pleasure favorite film of mine, anyone who is remotely considering watching this film gets lucky to be able to now pick it up as a 4K disc.

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Amazon never matches more than a handful of Arrow or Criterion discs at once. I wish they would.

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I finally got my deliver date on Friday the 13th 4k set of October 16th from Amazon. I hope if its a good release and it sells well maybe Arrow can get a hold of the rights to release Freddy vs. Jason in 4k.

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Oh boy...

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I'm conflicted because I'm sure Arrow's releases are going to be great but I'm satisfied with KINO's discs and my feelings are that I can't start double dipping 4ks now.

For those that held out on KINO's discs, pre-order the Arrow release as soon as it's up. This is going to be a hot release.

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Never did buy the KINO discs. Wonder if there will be that much of a difference in the transfers to pay more for the Arrow releases?

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Assuming Arrow are doing new transfers themselves, there should be a marked improvement over the Kino's. Kino did a solid job, but the Ritrovata transfers they were working with (for Fistful and GBU) were so thoroughly compromised that there were some issues with the color and the dynamic range that just could not be reversed. I presume HDR would be on the table as well?

Bottom line is that Arrow is best in class when it comes to this stuff and I fully expect them to knock it out of the park if they have access to the proper materials. That would include getting the various edits of the films right and perhaps including the proper Italian cut of GBU to go along with the American version. (I couldn't care less if they included the extended cut).

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Well, damn. I bought all the Kino discs and would normally not be inclined to double-dip. But, indeed, if these are new transfers properly color graded from scratch (not just reverse-engineered in an attempt to fix the faulty Ritrovata masters), that would be a compelling reason to upgrade.

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I'll wait and see if David M. and Fidelity in Motion are doing the encodes. If they are, I am retiring the KL editions. FIM hits it out of the park every single time.

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I haven't even finished watching my Sergio Leone DVD set of the 4 films, and I think there's been at least six more versions since that came out.

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This will probably be my first UHD double dip.

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I'm definitely interested in Demolition Man. I want an extra explaining the three sea shells.😂

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No explainer, but you do get some stickers!

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I guess it will remain one of life's greatest mysteries.

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If I had not purchased the blu ray Critters box set from Shout on sale a few years ago I would be all over the Critters box set. I watched all the Critters films and even all the extras. Even the not great 3rd and 4th film get making of/behind the scenes docs. The first two really are wonderfully fun films to watch. I really like the artwork for the set too, but the blu ray PQ was actually pretty impressive so I will have to lust for this set from afar.

I say this a lot, but I really feel it is true, even not being in a position to buy or double-dip on some of these films in 4K, it is utterly fantastic that so many films/shows are indeed making their way to market with oftentimes high-quality 4k releases.

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I feel like the scene in the first Terminator film fully encapsulates my feelings of December's releases:

"Well, which shall it be?"

"ALL."


I'm in for everything except The Last Video Store.

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Yikes, wallet murder. In for Demolition Man The Addiction and the Critters set.

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It was pretty obvious WB was never going to do anything special for Demolition Man with all the major studios focusing on digital. So glad they licensed it out to Arrow.

I'm in for it.