FEAR IN THE NIGHT - another Alpha Video Disaster (1 Viewer)

If you are looking to add to your DeForest Kelley collection, forget this one. I bought it, hoping that it would be one of Alpha Video's accidental PD titles that looked half-way decent, but it doesn't. It's blurry, almost unwatchable. Too bad. The noir movie isn't bad. We'll just have to wait for a legitimate company to release this.

In other news... The Sahara is hot.

Lord Dalek said:

In other news... The Sahara is hot.

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Good one.

Get the Film Chest release of Fear in the Night

My local Book Off sells Alpha Video releases (all used) sometimes for $10.00 each. I wouldn't pay that much if they were new.

Anything from Alpha video is a total disaster. Some of the worst quality I've ever seen in my life.

markiebuggles said:

Anything from Alpha video is a total disaster. Some of the worst quality I've ever seen in my life.

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We know that they put out crap, but some if it is pretty good. Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla is a very good print. Just bought Brain of Blood and it was a pretty good print too.

If you don't buy some of them, you'll never have that title that you need for your collection...no matter what it looks like. They are a step up from Cheezy Fliks and Madacy, but those companies have titles that if you didn't buy, you wouldn't have the title in your collection. It's a give and take situation.

Alpha typically masters their stuff from VHS tapes. That makes them nowhere near as good as the dearly departed Roan Group.

Alpha typically masters their stuff from VHS tapes. That makes them nowhere near as good as the dearly departed Roan Group.

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You're so right. I bought all their horror DVDs before they sold out, so at least my collection is complete in regards to them.

John Sparks said:

We know that they put out crap, but some if it is pretty good. Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla is a very good print. Just bought Brain of Blood and it was a pretty good print too.

If you don't buy some of them, you'll never have that title that you need for your collection...no matter what it looks like. They are a step up from Cheezy Fliks and Madacy, but those companies have titles that if you didn't buy, you wouldn't have the title in your collection. It's a give and take situation.

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I'm sure if Alpha's release of Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla is very good, that means it was sourced from the Image Entertainment release which the best release this movie has ever seen. Alpha has never "originated" anything worthwhile. I would suggest picking up the Image DVD.

Cheezy Flicks and Madacy are garbage as well.

You're right about the 2001 Image release. I never knew they released it. I finally found it at CD Universe for $9. If I didn't have the Alpha release, I'd get the Image one. Don't need another DVD, just something I don't have.

Meet Corliss Archer doesn't look too bad to me. It is an Alpha release, no?

Another?

I buy these Alpha Video releases all the time (mainly on special on Oldies.com) and their print quality will always be terrible, but the dvd covers are true masterpieces -- that's the way to market vintage movie titles these days, and from a movie/dvd promotion standpoint, these people are geniuses -- no wonder one can buy mini-poster prints of these covers for framing.

There was a cover of a docu-drama starring Leo G. Carroll about the Kinsey Report -- it had a cover that no movie buff could possibly resist, by the mere fact that is looked like something from bizzaro world or something -- the movie? An oddity if there ever was one -- let's leave it at that....

Here's the cover -- what the....

http://www.oldies.com/product-view/7258D.html

Richard V said:

Meet Corliss Archer doesn't look too bad to me. It is an Alpha release, no?

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A PD company released around 20 volumes on VHS in the late 90's of Meet Corliss Archer. I'm sure that's where the Alpha DVD's are sourced from.