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CSM126 wrote:I still haven’t received the replacement discs. Starting to think I need to contact them about that.

jazzo wrote: Sat Aug 26, 2023 2:42 pm There’s a new restoration of Michel Brault’s brilliant 1974 docudrama, Les Ordres, premiering on Hollywood Suite here in Canada. Fingers crossed, this is the next announcement from Canadian International Pictures.

MichaelB wrote: Sat Aug 12, 2023 9:35 am I gather there was a mistake in the original booklets - possibly author misattribution - and so they took the opportunity to fix that as well.

nick wrote: Tue Aug 08, 2023 12:44 pm

Could you also check something else for me? There may be a major quality control problem in the film itself. The entire scene between Pernath and Miriam in the empty room that begins at 1:08:00 (right after Pernath’s encounter at the escalator after visiting the empty TV studio where the musician is playing) is low-res and has a very stutter-y frame rate. While it is possible that is what Szulkin intended and what appears on the original prints, I really couldn’t discern any aesthetic reason he would do that. This is my first Szulkin film, and I have never seen it screened from a print. Please verify against an actual print to see whether perhaps an incorrect insertion occurred in production of the disc. Thank you!

While I've not seen Golem from a print, I can confirm that the frame rate effect is present on other digital formats like the one streaming on 35mm.online. I assumed while watching it off the VS disc that it was an intentional effect but I'm happy to hear if anyone has more information.

Dave78 wrote: Fri Sep 01, 2023 8:02 pm Great to see 'Arnold' finally getting a release

Included are: Oliver Drake’s forgotten proto-slasher, THE LAS VEGAS STRANGLER (aka No Tears For the Damned), Larry Crane's murder mystery/nudie, BEWARE THE BLACK WIDOW, Joe Sarno’s stirring seaside drama, DEEP INSIDE, Albert Zugsmith’s notorious bad-taste thriller, VIOLATED!, Walter Burn’s underground sexual freakout, BARBARA, James Newslow’s nuclear holocaust scare film, RED MIDNIGHT, Titus Moede’s ode to forgotten Americana, THE LAST OF THE AMERICAN HOBOES, Carlos Tobalina’s “erotic” morality tale, WHAT’S LOVE?, Charles Nizet’s sex and gore frenzy, THE SEX SERUM OF DR BLAKE (the original cut of Voodoo Heartbeat), and finally Donn Greer’s jaw dropping and unnerving, “kiddie film” and musical, THE RARE BLUE APES OF CANNIBAL ISLE (aka The Pirates of Cannibal Isle).

What’s more is that this release also includes Elijah Drenner’s brand new, feature-length documentary AGAINST THE GRAIN, which examines how genre film focused home video companies have taken the charge in preserving, restoring, and releasing so many works which otherwise might have been lost to time.

This massive collection also comes complete with two thick, fully illustrated perfect bound books of newly written essays and historical analysis covering each of the included films.

But that’s not even close to being all as there’s two more titles which we’re not gonna tell you about...perhaps the craziest of the bunch...the Surprise Titles, one of which is will mark the UHD debut of a major work by one of genre cinema’s greatest auteurs and the other is a criminally under-seen gem of early 80s horror. We can basically guarantee that you're not gonna be disappointed...

As we’ve hopefully demonstrated in the past, we often save the weirdest and wildest, and most unexpected films as surprises, and this upcoming duo will be no different, including the world 4K UHD debut of a slimy epic from from one of the greatest genre filmmakers to ever live along with another never-on-disc treasure that will surely satiate those craving squirm inducing carnage.