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Cool. I will check it out. Never saw or heard of it that I can remember.

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Well, I like the Rudy Ray Moore movies (haven't seen them all though), but yeah, in general I can't do the action movies with D-level acting. VS talked themselves right out of a sale by including a clip of Alley Cat on their website.

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I really liked Champagne and Bullets. It’s by no means a good film, but I had a great time watching it.
Don’t Go In The Woods was definitely a bad purchase. I don’t see myself watching that again.
I’ve watched LA Wars a few times since I picked it up, but that movie was definitely not representative of the trailer.

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The sheer amount of songs from John De Hart (and their awkward placement in scenes) had me bursting at my sides :lol:

With that said, I just finished the film and agree that the film is not good.

I will say however, that I continued to stick with it to see what other random shit might happen throughout the film's run-time.

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Can't speak to the other two, but Don't Go In the Woods was terrible. Not laughably terrible, just bad all around.

BTW, in case you haven't already, check out Red Letter Media's Best of the Worst episode featuring Champagne and Bullets (aka Geteven) as one of the films they watched. I believe LA Wars was featured on an episode as well.

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I know this probably isn't the best thread for this but thought I'd give it a shot. I've been backing up my physical collection and have run into issues with a couple of Vinegar Syndrome titles: The Human Tornado and Graduation Day. I've watched both of them before, so I'm not sure if this might be like a disc rot issue or similar. I purchased them through the VS website a while back. I was considering sending an email to VS to inquire about it, though I'm not sure if it would do any good. Anyone else have any issues with VS discs?

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I have Graduation Day. I can try to remember to pop it in tonight and see if it plays ok.

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I haven't tried playing it recently, but giving Graduation Day a quick look, I don't see any bronzing on the disc itself.

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The forum rules prohibit talking about ripping discs:
https://forum.dvdtalk.com/misc.php?do=showrules

So all that can be discussed is normal playback of a disc. That said, different players can have different reactions to the same disc, so a disc that plays fine in one player may not play in another. Blu-ray is a spec, and each player can implement it slightly differently, as well as there being potential differences in the authoring and pressing of discs.

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My “Christmas Evil” disc gone bad, it was unplayable towards the end...fired a email to VS but never heard back, this was a couple years ago.

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Does that mean the entire Plex thread needs to basically be removed? For being against the rules, talk about it is pretty rampant. Zyzzle gave detailed instructions on how to do it in Other.

That's kind of what I figured.

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It's funny because I recently saw another ad, on this site, for disc ripping software. They can advertise it, but we can't talk about it. :D


Anyway... I watched Dead Heat last night. Ridiculous movie. Looks great in 4K. Some truly awesome gore. 8/10. Will watch again.

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I recently watched my copy of Human Tornado that I have had for several years and had no issues with it.

When in doubt, boil it. It seriously works.

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I didn't think much of the movie when I saw it back in the Anchor Bay DVD days, but it sounds like Dead Heat is one I need to revisit.

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:lol: I mean it's not great by any means, but it knows exactly what it is. I had a good time watching it. Some very nice looking 80s ladies, too. :)


I got my Flesh For Frankenstein replacement disc. It definitely looks a lot better. I can do some screenshots if anyone cares, but I'm sure someone's already done that elsewhere.

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I also got the Dead Heat 4K. Looking forward to the 1980s cheesiness.

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No problems with my disc.

On a side note, I watched the old BD release of Dead Heat for the OHMC. It was my second viewing and while I collect a lot of Vinegar Syndrome titles, there’s no way I’m picking it up.

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Holy shit their February title announcement might include Drop Dead Fred.

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:lol: “Holy shit”? If you want a Blu-ray of it, the one from the UK is region free and has been available for years.

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Well the Vinegar Syndrome release will be top notch with a good amount of extras and a slipcover.

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Imprint is also putting out Drop Dead Fred fairly soon and will likely be region-free, possibly with its own special features.

Imprint out of Australia is taking a page from Arrow Video and trying to build a more global brand.

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Can you link me the replacement program details? What was wrong with the original copies? Thanks in advance for your help.

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If you ordered from VinSyn directly, you’ll automatically get a replacement disc. No extra effort required. The issue was only on the UHD disc, where the HDR was overcooked.

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gotcha. Thanks Adam.

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Drop Dead Fred is official and it ships at the end of the month.

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Too bad Hard Rock Zombies didn't show up this month. I would've ordered Drop Dead Fred, but I think I'll wait until the March reveals to see if there's something else I'd like to get to save on shipping.

I used to like Beware! Children at Play back in the very early days of DVD, but I can't really imagine it holding up that well. I'm a sucker for movies with murderous kids, but I seem to remember just skipping to the big massacre at the end most of the time I'd put Troma's disc on.

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Also, the problem with Flesh For Frankenstein is only the 4K disc, not the Blu. Apparently it was triggering some kind of setting on some brands of players that rendered it very poor-quality. Like, you would know immediately something was off, it wasn't one of those defects you had to look for.

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As long as 3D good. I didn’t get a replacement and I bought direct. Oh well.

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They only just started sending them out. You haven't missed out on anything, AFAIK.

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Watched Dead Heat last night and the 4K transfer was excellent. Fun movie, too.

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For Dead Heat…are the extras included on the separate Blu-ray Disc and not the UHD from VS? Thx.

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Yes. The commentary is the only extra on both discs; everything else is on the BD only.

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Thx AT.

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time for me to checkout Dead Heat as well...on my Divimax edition DVD. :(

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Dead Heat sounds like fun so maybe I’ll add it to my next VS purchase. Also the next sale is this weekend. They always put their vintage porn on sale the week of Valentine’s Day.

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There’s also a UHD upgrade to one of their horror titles coming on Friday. (Madman? Graduation Day? No idea.)

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The new UHD horror title was Madman. My Valentines day sale purchase consisted of Drop Dead Fread and four Peekarama titles

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The Billy Blanks 90s action movie Talons of the Eagle is coming. Looks like about 1,000 copies are left.

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There are 5,000 to start.

These Jalal Merhi movies are really bad. I've never been too impressed with Blanks either. I seems like Vinegar Syndrome made some sort of deal to with Merhi's production company and got the licenses for a bunch of these on the cheap (TC 2000, Tiger Claws). I'm sure more will be coming.

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I have Scream Factory's Schizoid / X-Ray double feature and didn't think much of it, and I have vague memories of Reform School Girls from the $0.25 Troma DVD sale back in 1999, but...yeah. I think Hard Rock Zombies / Slaughterhouse Rock will do it for me this month, and I might wait until the April titles are revealed to save on shipping.

Did Billy Blanks do any other action flicks? I remember renting one on a lark in college, but I have zero memory of the title or premise.