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rapta wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 12:56 pm Let the Corpses Tan getting a UK Blu-ray later in the year from ANTI-WORLDS. Better late than never!

I wonder if they can include some Cattet & Forzani shorts as extras, or maybe even one of their previous features (Amer has long been OOP in the UK, and I was too slow to snap it up).

Did The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears ever appear on Blu-ray? I only have the UK DVD from Metrodome from 2014.

colinr0380 wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 5:32 pm

rapta wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 12:56 pm Let the Corpses Tan getting a UK Blu-ray later in the year from ANTI-WORLDS. Better late than never!

I wonder if they can include some Cattet & Forzani shorts as extras, or maybe even one of their previous features (Amer has long been OOP in the UK, and I was too slow to snap it up).

Did The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears ever appear on Blu-ray? I only have the UK DVD from Metrodome from 2014.

No, it was DVD-only like many Metrodome titles were (I can't remember if I got this one or not, I might have done). The large majority of the Metrodome licenses were inherited by 101 Films when they purchased their library, but the rights might have expired since they haven't done anything with it on Blu-ray. Hopefully a label like Anti-Worlds can rectify that...

Strange Color was released in 2014 on BD in the US by Strand (but indeed not in the UK) : https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Stra ... ay/111156/

tenia wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 9:21 pm Strange Color was released in 2014 on BD in the US by Strand (but indeed not in the UK) : https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Stra ... ay/111156/

It also had releases in France, Italy, and Germany - though none of them English language friendly.

The "Coming Soon" section of the Anti-Worlds site has been updated with pictures of Blu-rays for Murder, Me, Monster and Lucille Hadzihalilovic's Earwig, so those look to be the next disc releases for the label, although no release date or details of any extra features as yet.

Man, I've been waiting for an English-friendly blu-ray of Lucille Hadzihalilovic's Innocence forever, which is a million times better than anything her husband has made

colinr0380 wrote: Sat May 13, 2023 4:19 pm Murder, Me, Monster and Lucille Hadzihalilovic's Earwig

There is a 48 hour pre-order for these two Blu-rays, for newsletter subscribers today, so they should be live for everyone by Monday morning. I haven't been tempted by any Anti-Worlds releases yet, but I might take a chance on these.

I liked Krabi, 2562 a lot, but was cold on Whale Bone Box and Infinite Football, and none of the others have interested me at all. But I still keep an ear open...

Thanks for pointing this out. I have just checked on Amazon and both are up for pre-order at £15 for release on 24th July, so I suppose we have a bit longer to wait than the direct-from-website buyers.

Can anyone comment on Murder, Me, Monster?

Nice to find out that Murder Me, Monster apparently has instructions for a 3D printable monster according to a sticker on the front of the Blu-ray! It is also all region too (Earwig is Region B only)

Beaver-Wig and Murder, Me, Beaver.

I have only just seen this, but Anti-Worlds announced on their Twitter feed back on 11th April that Holiday will be going out of print "in a couple of weeks".

Anti-Worlds just sent out a newsletter hinting at an upcoming Bertrand Mandico release:

Anti-Worlds wrote:We're also very excited to announce a very special evening at the ICA London when Bertrand Mandico will be present to intro a double bill screening of his of his latest masterpiece CONANN along with his first feature THE WILD BOYS on Saturday 6th December - DO NOT MISS! More info on tickets very soon and hugely exciting news about a big big Mandico release.

They also mention several more titles going out of print: Murder Me, Monster; Days of the Bagnold Summer, Patrick, and Earwig.

Typically after holding out for a year I recently gave up on any hope of these being released by Anti-Worlds and picked up The Wild Boys along with After Blue and She Is Conann on the US Altered Innocence discs, to go with the "Apocalypse After" collection of Mandico shorts.

And bizarre that Earwig and Murder, Me, Monster are going OOP when they are their most recent disc releases (EDIT: And Patrick and Days of the Bagnold Summer were the two releases prior to that!). They don't seem to be wanting to build up any physical media momentum at all.

To be fair to them, I think they've probably found out the hard way that sales are slow for obscure contemporary films, as was clearly also the case for ventures like Eureka's Montage Pictures line (and likely the reason many small labels often only do DVD, not even Blu-ray; though things are looking up with Modern Films, and they're back into releasing Blu-ray titles again). Similarly to Arrow with their contemporary titles, they've put a lot of effort into these releases and it's not really their fault it's taking so long for them to sell out (they've been very reasonably priced, both on pre-order and long after release). A bit of a shame none have seemingly done well enough for them to re-press or release a standard edition, but I suppose that was part of the risk of releasing most of these in the first place.

I'm still itching for them to release Let the Corpses Tan, as that was potentially the first indication they're prepared to go a little further back and release some films with built-in cult appeal. They teased it early last year and we've not heard anything since...nearly two whole years later!

Was rooting around for a BD of Luna Carmoon's Hoard after seeing it on Prime's BFI Channel this week, as Anti-Worlds was involved on the production end of the film. Plumeria released a Region B only disc w/ a director's commentary (still slightly available), though I'm not sure if it'll hit stateside physical distribution anytime soon (again, BFI).

However, it led me to the Anti-Worlds site, which only has one blu ray up for pre-order (the Nurse With Wound-involved Mismantler BD + CD) under the "Anti-Worlds Originals" line:

Anti Worlds Originals wrote:
A new label showcasing original feature films produced by us.

Anti-Worlds originals will not be available on VOD - its a broken system that doesn't support films and film-makers so we're charging a little more - but profits will go to make more films.

Each release will be lovingly curated and packaged in consultation with the film-makers...and very limited. When they are gone...they are gone!

Here we hope to build a unique library of wierd and wonderful films that otherwise may not find the light of day... lets celebrate the different!

All previous AW releases are being handled directly by Limelight distro, but I don't know if there will be another wave of strictly Anti-World titles based on that move? I miss the big waves, but I also get that the reception has seemed less than lucrative on this side of the aisle.

Thank you for pointing that out pianocrash, as otherwise that release would have entirely passed me by!

Continuing Anti-Worlds' commitment to an almost subterranean anti-marketing approach, they have a second release in their "Anti-Worlds Originals" line, with Ben Wheatley's 2025 film Bulk, with Sam Riley and Noah Taylor in the cast, getting a UHD/Blu edition on 2nd March!

Miracles can happen: a new main line (number -15) release has been announced of 90's rave scene set horror-thriller Game.

Invada Films wrote:Late summer 1993. After stealing a stash of money and drugs, aging raver David (Marc Bessant) crashes his car deep in the woods - trapped in the wreckage, injured and helpless, he hangs suspended between life and death. When a mysterious poacher (Jason Williamson) discovers him, no rescue comes, only a watchful, unsettling presence that seems intent on letting nature finish the job. As the hours stretch and the elements close in, a tense and claustrophobic battle of wills, and wits, unfolds - where survival hinges on outlasting both the wilderness and the predator at its edge.​

Also they have announced the cinema release of Cattet and Forzani's latest Diabolik-al film Reflections In A Dead Diamond, which hopefully bodes well for an eventual physical media release of their films at some point. Especially since the Manchester cinema screening is going to be a double bill with Let The Corpses Tan, it makes me speculate that part of the lengthy delay in that film coming to disc may be so that they can do a characteristic for this label 'new film supplemented by an older, previously unreleased in the UK feature' release?

Anti-Worlds Originals #3 is going to be The Haunted Moustache