Blue Underground

[Der Spieler]

Also, DiabolikDVD has now got 84 copies of the Blue Underground disc in stock so hurry up!

[dwk]

God bless DiabolikDVD, they are limiting The Bird With the Crystal Plumage Blu-ray to 1 per customer.

[Lazertron]

God bless DiabolikDVD, they are limiting The Bird With the Crystal Plumage Blu-ray to 1 per customer.

All gone now, I assume. Didn't find it on their website. Too late...

[dwk]

Yeah, about 6 hours after Der Spieler pointed out they had more copies they were all sold. Hopefully DiabolikDVD can get some more copies in.

[perkizitore]

I think they look OK but we'll see what it'll look like in motion.

The colors though are a huge improvement.

Land of Whimsy pans the blu-ray

[Der Spieler]

I thought it looked OK on a 40-inch screen. "OK" in this case not meaning "correct, no problem" but more like "better than the DVD but slightly sub-par". It did look kind of noisy and detail was not very strong. I can imagine that on a larger screen these flaws would be even more apparent. I have to say I'm kind of disappointed. It's an upgrade over the DVD, but compared to Deep Red, Inferno and Bird with the Crystal Plumage, it pales.

[perkizitore]

Beaver endorses the blu-ray

[David M.]

They really need to fix their screen captures or at least add a disclaimer. That's excessively softened compared to what's actually on the disc.

[Der Spieler]

BD.com have posted their review of 'Cat':

The Cat O' Nine Tails may represent Blue Underground's finest release yet from a purely visual perspective. This 1080p Blu-ray transfer is marvelous from the top down, and aside from a few white speckles and a handful of early scenes where grain appears frozen in place rather than naturally swirly, it never misses a beat. Colors are fantastic, enjoying a fine period appearance, accentuating brighter shades of red and the like but also handling naturally warm and less pronounced hues with equal precision. Additionally, skin textures are natural and black levels are nicely inky and deep, never crushing out detail and refusing to unnaturally brighten up. Fine detail is strong, made all the better by the intact grain structure and fine sharpness and clarity the image enjoys. Facial and clothing textures are superb and environments positively sparkle, both exteriors and interiors alike. There's a natural depth to the image and it never goes soft. In short, Blue Underground has a winner in every regard with The Cat O' Nine Tails.

[Ashirg]

Zombie - Ultimate Edition on DVD and Blu-ray on October 25.

[ouatitw]

hmmm where did you see Zombi?

There is a new version of House by the Cemetery on bluray coming, I'm looking forward to all of these Fulci's, I'm still crossing my fingers for a blu of Conquest.

[knives]

I hope they can get to Opera soon. They've been on an Argento rush and that's my favorite by him. Fingers crossed I suppose.

[dwk]

According to an email one of the guys over at AV Maniacs got from Blue Underground they want to release Opera on Blu-ray, but the licensor has not authorized it yet.

[knives]

Well that's terrible. Hopefully things turn around soon.

[dwk]

I agree. Still, I imagine that even if they had the go ahead, they wouldn't release Opera until the 2nd or 3rd quarter of next year.

[AfterTheRain]

Night Train Murders will be the first Blu-ray title for 2012; expect it to come out on January 31st. Brief overview here.

[Ashirg]

Baba Yaga blu-ray. 2/28/2012

[JPJ]

Hopefully someday they will release Larry Cohen's Q and God told me to on blu.Q was pretty bad on SD.

[dwk]

They had plans to release either one or both of those Larry Cohen films this year, but they, obviously, got bumped. Lustig expects to release them next year

[Ashirg]

March 27 - Strip Nude for Your Killer blu-ray
April 24 - Killer Nun blu-ray

[duck duck]

Does anyone know if they have plans to release new titles again? I know Lustig basically said he was done, but a few things have came out since.

[JPJ]

Does anyone know if they have plans to release new titles again? I know Lustig basically said he was done, but a few things have came out since.

If I remember correctly Lustig said he mostly wants to release "cream of the crop" titles like Zombie now.Pity that planned dvd of High crime (Enzo G.Castellari,1973)never materialized.

[Ashirg]

Their last new release was The Nesting in June.

[duck duck]

I thought Lustig was into releasing things that weren't on DVD anywhere and a few years ago he just kinda said "I did what I wanted" and quit. Is he still in control of the company?
They've released some great films that I would have never known about, so it sad to see them just re-releasing things, surely
there's stuff that they could release new stuff as Region 1 and make more money then they are now....?

[stroszeck]

Does anyone know if they have plans to release new titles again? I know Lustig basically said he was done, but a few things have came out since.

If I remember correctly Lustig said he mostly wants to release "cream of the crop" titles like Zombie now.Pity that planned dvd of High crime (Enzo G.Castellari,1973)never materialized.

I read somewhere that they in fact went through a whole restoration of High Crime. I don't really get why they won't just release it? Castellari is very underrated I think, and High Crime was so much damn fun to watch growing up. I know he said in an interview that the previous Castellari releases were only somewhat profitable and had very average sales.