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Malpertuis 2-disc special edition

Could this be a port from the Region 2 DVD?

Evidently the transfers are different, there's a comparison up here. There's already bickering at some forums over which DVD is more "correct."

Sorry for the gigantic thread bump, but I thought it worth noting that:

(a) Barrel Entertainment seems to have gone the way of most of the other small foreign/horror specialty labels of the '00s, i.e., it's toast;

(b) Malpertuis is now OOP and rather expensive on Amazon, although still available from Netflix at the moment; and

(c) stephan73 was correct, the Barrel release is a port of the Belgian Royal Filmarchive disc, and a poor PAL->NTSC conversion as well, as this comparison makes clear (via the running time comparison; the reviewer doesn't note the PAL speedup effect in the text). There are some differences in the extras on the R1 vs. R2, with the significant omission of two of Harry Kumel's (unsubtitled) short films on the R1. Both versions include some vintage "Orson Welles drunk" outtakes that should really be on Youtube.

(d) the Belgian disc seems to remain in print.