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We did not give Arrow Video permission to use our extra features on their USA edition of Pit Stop or our Q and A on their USA edition of Nekromantik (which we filmed, edited and hosted for free).
After six years of working hard to build this label we are both hurt and angry that they refuse to honour deals and still want to sell their titles on our extra features even after we have been dismissed from their label.

EddieLarkin wrote:but since then he's had a big public falling out with Arrow and now I guess wants to take steps to prevent them using his past work?

Yes this was my fault and I apologise without reservation for the confusion.

I am somewhat saddened however that armchair 'experts' on the Critereon Forum seem to have their own madcap ideas about my actions and thinking. I will make it very clear - when you work for a company, any company, as a freelance employee you do so under clear guidelines. Pit Stop is not the first time Arrow has breached the agreement under which we worked for them - we were expected to give Scream Factory our Motel Hell extras, for free, so Arrow could gain their stuff on Night of the Comet - an arrangement that benefited them and not us. On the other hand when Synapse asked us to re-edit the interviews with Luigo Cozzi and Sergio Stivaletti that appeared on Arrow's Demons BD (footage we gave them for free and which they proceeded to pay another editor to put together) we were told this was unacceptable. Even though this footage which we shot and supplied we were never paid for.

There has been a bit of this in the past and we finally put our foot down with Mark of the Devil. We were paid for the use of our stuff on the Arrow USA edition and promised by email this would never happen again. As I said, I honour my side of this - Synapse asked me if I could supply them our stuff for Tenebrae and Phenomena just last week and I said I could not as it would breach the agreement I have with Arrow.

To now see our stuff announced on Pit Stop is frankly shocking and I trust and hope they will pull this material.

domino harvey wrote:I don't think it takes an armchair expert to see this guy is committing career suicide by trash talking his former employer/contractor/client/whatev so publicly and with his factual accuracy in dispute from literally the first message he broadcast (re: Nekromantik)

EddieLarkin wrote:From his examples, it sounds like Arrow proceeds on the basis that if they engage a company to make a supplement, they control that supplement and if they want to allow another label to use it, they can, and if they want to prevent another label from using it, they can. Whether that goes against agreements they had with Calum I don't know but it sounds SOP for this line of business.

zeroman987 wrote:the Pit Stop UK release is region free and already accessible to the US market.

domino harvey wrote:To be clear, it does not matter if he is 100% correct in Arrow screwing him over, the point is instead of dealing with the label privately and directly, he's aired the dirty laundry for all to see, and that's stridently unprofessional. He's making himself unemployable, period (and if he has retired, it's shaping up to be irreversible). I'm not an Arrow fanboy (they typically do good work but frankly I find some of the fawning exerted here over the label a bit overblown), this is just a common-sense objection

ianungstad wrote:Arrow bumped up the release date on Pit Stop by over a month to July 7th. (The Code Red release is slated for July 14) and dropped the MSRP to $29.95 to match Kino's pricing.

How deliciously bitchy and passive aggressive.

Thornycroft wrote:

ianungstad wrote:Arrow bumped up the release date on Pit Stop by over a month to July 7th. (The Code Red release is slated for July 14) and dropped the MSRP to $29.95 to match Kino's pricing.

How deliciously bitchy and passive aggressive.

To which Code Red has responded by shifting their release date forward to July 7th and dropping the MSRP to $23. Looks like Bill is willing to fight this one with more than incoherently worded Facebook posts.

Regarding Waddell - I'm kind of surprised he's had such a prolific career. A fairly vocal segment of the cult film community seem to despise him (which his occasionally litigious nature hasn't helped), and the few interviews and liner notes of his that I've read struck me as both moderately obnoxious and lazily researched. Still, I doubt this immature public outburst is enough to constitute career suicide.

Orlac wrote:Is Calum really as terrible as Latarnia Forums makes him out to be? They've really got it in for him.