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What A Disgrace wrote:The other three items - "WWS", "REB BOXSET", and "DEHH" - did not manifest.

I guess the Weird Wisconsin - Bill Rebane set is the REB boxset (though WWS could work too !).

Would Arrow be interested in restoring Halloween (1978)? I´m no expert on the film´s home video history, but I know there has been a few revisions of the colour timing.

WWS and REB BOXSET are separate items on the list, so I imagine WWS refers to Wolf of Wall Street...but Arrow's just cheeky enough that I won't discount the possibility that WWS stands for Weird Wisconsin, and REB stands for something else.

Fran Simeoni said that WWS isn't Wolf of Wall Street

Kim Newman tweeted that Arrow is releasing the Daimajin Trilogy

dwk wrote: Sun Mar 07, 2021 8:46 pm Kim Newman tweeted that Arrow is releasing the Daimajin Trilogy

These are interesting films I suppose if a gigantic statue completely wrecking shit is your forte. I'm pleased that some of the other kaiju films, namely the ones not produced by Toho are finally getting some time in the spotlight.

Fingers crossed for the Yokai Monsters trilogy as well...

Stefan Andersson wrote: Sat Mar 06, 2021 4:43 pm Would Arrow be interested in restoring Halloween (1978)? I´m no expert on the film´s home video history, but I know there has been a few revisions of the colour timing.

I'm not sure whether a better Halloween UHD can be made can the one currently in circulation. It's not the most visually impressive UHD I've ever seen but it's consistent with every iteration of the film I've owned on home video, and I've owned it in every medium since widescreen VHS. In the Mouth of Madness could use a good restoration, though.

RitrovataBlue wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 6:57 am

Stefan Andersson wrote: Sat Mar 06, 2021 4:43 pm Would Arrow be interested in restoring Halloween (1978)? I´m no expert on the film´s home video history, but I know there has been a few revisions of the colour timing.

I'm not sure whether a better Halloween UHD can be made can the one currently in circulation. It's not the most visually impressive UHD I've ever seen but it's consistent with every iteration of the film I've owned on home video, and I've owned it in every medium since widescreen VHS. In the Mouth of Madness could use a good restoration, though.

Hi! Thanks for the response!

Unfortunately, I´m not equipped for UHD. Which bluray edition do you prefer for fidelity to original colours? I know there is one or more home video edition with a grey filter to simulate Autumn light.

I believe the best Blu-ray is supposed to be the Anchor Bay 35th anniversary edition

swo17 wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 6:06 pm I believe the best Blu-ray is supposed to be the Anchor Bay 35th anniversary edition

Hi, thanks for the tip!

Stefan Andersson wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 6:21 pm

swo17 wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 6:06 pm I believe the best Blu-ray is supposed to be the Anchor Bay 35th anniversary edition

Hi, thanks for the tip!

Unfortunately this one doesn't have the original mono audio which is worth calling out. I don't believe any release has the right color/original mono track

The copy of Halloween found in the Scream Factory boxset uses the 35th anniversary edition's video and has the original mono audio.

A filmmaker named Jonathan Zaurin revealed in a interview last month that he had edited an essay for an upcoming Dario Argento release from Arrow. I wouldn't be surprised if "T UHD" was for 'Tenebre'.

Arrow's plans for the releases of Richard Stanley's 'Hardware' and 'Dust Devil' have been cancelled due to claims of domestic violence against him.

Nico Mastorakis was a Greek junta collaborator, but that did not stop them...

He’s dead though so no one cares.

He's actually still alive...

I'm not very familiar with the Greek junta and have no idea who Nico Mastorakis is. I'm guessing I'm not alone there so it's a bit easier to fly under the radar. Whereas people who regularly collaborate with Arrow are tweeting about Richard Stanley. It's good they made this announcement now.

yoloswegmaster wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 9:30 pm Arrow's plans for the releases of Richard Stanley's 'Hardware' and 'Dust Devil' have been cancelled due to claims of domestic violence against him.

They know that more than one person makes a film, right?

furbicide wrote: Thu Mar 18, 2021 1:45 am

yoloswegmaster wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 9:30 pm Arrow's plans for the releases of Richard Stanley's 'Hardware' and 'Dust Devil' have been cancelled due to claims of domestic violence against him.

They know that more than one person makes a film, right?

No, they probably don't! You should tell them!

mteller wrote: Thu Mar 18, 2021 3:39 am

furbicide wrote: Thu Mar 18, 2021 1:45 am

yoloswegmaster wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 9:30 pm Arrow's plans for the releases of Richard Stanley's 'Hardware' and 'Dust Devil' have been cancelled due to claims of domestic violence against him.

They know that more than one person makes a film, right?

No, they probably don't! You should tell them!

I hope they’ll thoroughly check the backgrounds of every director from now on. I want my movies clean.

Having seen the specific nature of the allegations against him, I'm not surprised that Arrow took that decision - it would have been a potential PR nightmare for them.

Non-British readers may not be as aware of this as British ones, but over the last ten days or so misogyny in general and violence against women in particular has become perhaps the main national cultural talking point following the Sarah Everard murder, the charging of a serving police officer, and a subsequent vigil-cum-protest that was subjected to a needlessly heavy-handed crackdown (which in the process created truly terrible optics for the Metropolitan Police). For Arrow to then blithely release films known to have been made by someone allegedly responsible for repeated instances of precisely the kind of misogynist violence that's being increasingly widely condemned...

...well, as I said, I'm not surprised they took that decision.

And I doubt that too many anonymous keyboard warriors would have done differently if they had to defend their decisions to the people who paid their salaries and who obviously have a strong vested interest in their company not getting caught up in all this.

The inevitable posts of “Yeah, he abused those women, but I want my sci-fi blu-ray” are disheartening.

These are the specific charges against him - short version: repeated instances of domestic violence against more than one partner, including revenge porn. All untested allegations, obviously, but law enforcement and the FBI were contacted on more than one occasion so there'll presumably be an official record of things like physical injuries.