Evil Dead: Book Of The Dead Shipped (1 Viewer)

[Jeffrey Noel]

I too received mine today! The "case" of this dvd is awesome!

Can't wait to watch it!!!

 

[Matt_Marlow]

And what about the new DVD? Is it 1.85:1 or 1.78:1? And why didn't AB simply make it 1.66:1?

According to the packaging it came in, it is 1.85:1.

 

[GuruAskew]

I've managed to decode all of the text in the "Book Of The Dead" Here it is:

The first page of text says "Dedicated to those who bled for The Evil Dead and their familes friends and fans TS" Second page of text "For you scholars out there this is the ancient languate of bullskrit aka as (sic) font of the dead I hope you enjoyed decoding this as much as I did read on" The same page also says "your ad here" Third page of text: "I can draw skulls all day long" Fourth page of text: "Employees must wash hands before returning to workplace thanks" Fifth page of text: "Bow down before me and beg fo... Hey, it's Sam" Sixth page of text: "Raw Medium Well" Seventh page of text: "Get a load flying Deadites Tom must be psychic" Eighth page of text: "visit lovely Kandar castle" Ninth page of text: "Not scientificalay (sic) accurate gross huh" Tenth page of text: "Been reel kids make movies not war"

 

[David Ruiz]

For those who have already recieved your DVDs, *PLEASE* don't keep us waiting any longer. TELL US HOW IT LOOKS IN WIDESCREEN!!! Does it have a lot of information mising on the top and bottom? Does everything looked streched out? Please tell us!

 

[Zack Scott]

oviously the site that offers Deep discounts got more in. Mine is being shipped today. YAY!!!!

 

[Adam_WM]

Mine is on its way too! OH HELL YEAH!

 

[Chris Xolotl]

Y'all are just p1551n me off now! Mine don't comma in till 3/1.

But, I paid $26 for mine and hopefully the latex smell is gone by then...

Damn... I should've gone that discounting the deep prices way.

 

[GuruAskew]

I think the movie looks great in widescreen. There are only a handful of times in the movie when it seems "cropped" and they wouldn't even be remotely bothersome if they weren't more clearly visible in the open-matte version. Off the top of my head, I can remember that the tree branch that impales Scotty is less visible (but this was always hard to spot) and the Band-Aid box in the cellar is barely visible now, but other than those minor quibbles, the movie looks great in widescreen.

 

[Greg_Y]

I haven't seen Evil Dead in the last 2 years. I watched The Book of the Dead version tonight. Are the "moon mattes" that noticeable in every version of the film? I'm talking about the exterior shots where they obviously superimposed the moon over the night sky. Or is it just me?

The audio was more or less tame (I listened to the DD EX track) but not disappointing at all. The soundtrack is spread nicely across the front channels.

The Bruce Campbell Fanalysis documentary is an absolute riot. The "fanatics" in this are scarier than any horror film ever could be. This is only on the Book of the Dead version. I love well done short documentaries that aren't made up of the usual fluff interviews and film clips.

 

[Rob Lutter]

Well... I got the Book of the Dead in the mail today from my favorite deeply discounted dvd store and I must say...
EWWW... the latex on the packaging is much to realistic and alot softer than I thought it would be... just like real flesh (try putting it in the refrigerator for 15 mins [take the DVD out ]... feels like dead flesh).
Haven't had a chance to watch the DVD, but I am thinking about a double feature of this and Jay and Silent Bob tonight... yipee! I'll give a full review in this thread when I get done watching it. Later.

 

[Darren Crouse]

I've had mine since last week. I too noticed that it is now a widescreen film as opposed to 1.33:1.

Anyway take care,

Darren.

 

[LarryH]

Saw both versions on sale at a certain nationwide B&M retailer today - the special edition was priced at $29.99, though. Since I pre-ordered with DDD, I guess I'm stuck until they get in a new shipment.

 

[Adam_WM]

Still waiting...

 

[AdrianOC]

Got mine on monday.
Boy does it smell!

 

[George Cifrancis]

I got mine from DVDEmpire this week. I paid $39.98 for it but was bummed to go to Best Buy and see it for $29.99 there! Grrrr!!!!

 

[Josh_Hill]

Well, I dont have a Best Buy around here so $38 from Amazon was a good deal.