Quite a good week for German Blurays. In addition to The Brides of Dracula and the uncut Death Wish 2 I today received the 3 disc mediabook of Dario Argentos Opera.
An entire disc of bonus features with lots of interviews but unfortunately they are all in Italian with only German subtitles...
The Brides of Dracula is a more pleasing 1.78:1 ratio on the German disc although there are moments when there is more top or bottom image on the UK disc but presumably because the full image is 1.66:1. The German disc is definitely better than the UK one and all the bonus features have...
I ordered a separate Death Wish 2 with cover A , then Brides of Dracula with DW2 Cover B but for some reason only Cover A arrived today. They were all posted together as far as I know so it seems strange.
However, DW2 is region free and looks very nice. The dvd is also nice quality. Bluray is...
Amazon Germany never have these Austrian releases. There's a choice of 3 covers but all are LE Mediabooks so move quick
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MY orders for the Anolis Brides of Dracula and the complete uncut Death Wish 2 have just been despatched to the UK so I hope to have them by the end of the week.
Not usually a widescreen nazi but the 2:1 of the UK Brides was a bit too tight and the German one is 1.85 so I'm hoping it looks better.
Got the German discs of Samson & Delilah and Revenge of the Creature today.
S&D looked nice and is a completely English friendly Paramount disc.
ROTC looks not too bad bu the anaglyph 3D version is unwatchable crap. They shouldn't have bothered
The ever increasing selection of great Blurays exclusive to Germany adds the 50's classic This Island Earth to its collection in October in a special edition and an ultimate edition. Quite what the difference is remains unclear at the moment...