James 'Tiger' Lee
Second Unit
- Joined
- Mar 3, 2007
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- James Lee
I keep telling you people! Get a multi region player and get them cheap from the UK.
That, my friend, is awesome news!! (and hilarious for my misfortune!!). I received my supposed region-free DVD of Vampire Circus and it turned out to be a DVDR bootleg!! I'm getting my money back. Ha! I'll gladly pay Synapse for these titles, which are guaranteed to be FANTASTIC!! (Although I already have the Hammer House of Horror set from A&E.) For those who don't own that TV series, I highly recommend picking up Synapse's upcoming release. Most of the episodes are excellent, and much better than anything I expected. Hmmmm..... I wonder if a new thread should be started ?Originally Posted by Worth has acquired the rights to four titles from the library of the classic British horror studio. Synapse’s Don May Jr. gave us the scoop that they’ve picked up Robert Young’s VAMPIRE CIRCUS, John Hough’s TWINS OF EVIL and Peter Sasdy’s HANDS OF THE RIPPER, along with the classic 13-episode TV series HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR. “We have new high-definition transfers of all three features. It’s very possible we will be putting out the three features on Blu-ray as well. If we do, we’ll announce both the DVD and Blu-ray releases at the same time.
Originally Posted by DeWilson
I'm gussing they will be getting their master elements from Hammer,not MGM?
What Synapse wrote on another forum:
"The VAMPIRE CIRCUS and TWINS OF EVIL transfers came from MGM and are actually better looking than their HD broadcast versions. HANDS OF THE RIPPER should be complete soon with digital restoration."
You don't have to feel bad about a thing you said about MGM. They've actually had the DVD rights to all three Hammer films that we're talking about for years, but just sat on them, even after doing new transfers on at least two of them. The rights recently went to Granada, and I imagine that's when Synapse wisely got a hold of them for home video. It's a great time to be a Hammer fan and collector of Region 1 DVDS.Could the reason MGM never released THE VAMPIRE CIRCUS and TWINS OF EVIL is that they did not own the DVD rights to the two films. If so, I kind of feel bad about the all the things I thought and said. (No really I don't, they deserve it anyway).
Originally Posted by Nebiroth
The reasons are:
Basic mismanagement of the MGM catalogue which includes an entanglement with Fox at one point. They also got their fingers burnt by a misjudged resurrection of the Midnite Movie range (which to my mind failed largely because they released, ironically, too many at once, with some very odd titles and at a weird time of year).
Originally Posted by Nebiroth
The reasons are:
Basic mismanagement of the MGM catalogue which includes an entanglement with Fox at one point.