New Blu-ray/DVD Releases

[Monsters For Sale]

Shout/Scream is putting out so much good stuff - and digging down deep for movies less lauded.

Great time to be a monsterkid.

[Mord]

SHOUT! is retooling there Karloff/Lugosi BD Collection with new packaging and a Vol. 2 to come! 

I hope MURDERS is on V2! What will the other 3 be?

Does anyone know if any restoration or upgrading will be done to sound or picture? I have two DVD copies already. I'm fine with them unless something spectacular has been done to the bluray.

[Memphremagog]

Does anyone know if any restoration or upgrading will be done to sound or picture? I have two DVD copies already. I'm fine with them unless something spectacular has been done to the bluray.

I've heard that INVISIBLE RAY and BLACK CAT have had work done on them as well as having commentaries recorded for each..

[Mord]

I've heard that INVISIBLE RAY and BLACK CAT have had work done on them as well as having commentaries recorded for each..

Well, that's something,  at least. Being a huge "Black Cat/Raven" fan, I'll wind up getting this (and griping about triple-dipping later). Thanks for the info, Memph.

[Radioactive Rod Whitenack]

I'm glad to see "The Reptile" getting upgraded. I only had that one on VHS and never picked up the DVD. Same thing with "The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas." I hope that's in the pipeline as well.

[Mike Scott]

This is everything from the "Universal Cult Horror Collection" except "House of Horrors". For V3, I'd suggest HOH and the three ape woman movies.

Coming July 23 from Shout Factory:

[Mike Scott]

What do you want to see in a possible Shout! Blu-ray "Universal Horror" Volume 3?

PAULA THE APE WOMAN:
Captive Wild Woman (1943)
Jungle Woman (1944)
The Jungle Captive (1945)

Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
Secret of the Blue Room (1933)
Night Key (1937)
The Missing Guest (1938 Remake of "Secret of the Blue Room")*
The House of Fear (1939 Remake of "The Last Warning")*
Tower of London (1939)
Man Made Monster (1941)
The Black Cat (1941)
Horror Island (1941)
Night Monster (1942)
The Climax (1944)
Murder in the Blue Room (1944 Remake of "Secret of the Blue Room")*
The Spider Woman Strikes Back (1946)*
House of Horrors (1946)
The Cat Creeps (1946)*

*never before released on home video.

[Memphremagog]

Dont forget MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD(1935) and MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET(1942)...

and the Inner Sanctum Films..

as for the next set:

Man Made Monster
Night Monster
Horror Island
The Spider Woman Strikes Back

These would do me fine.

[Mike...In 3-D!]

What do you want to see in a possible Shout! Blu-ray "Universal Horror" Volume 3?

Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
Oh, Glenda Farrell. Be still, my beating heart.

[Mike Scott]

Dont forget MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD(1935) and MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET(1942)...
and the Inner Sanctum Films..

I didn't figure they would include those in a horror set.

Maybe a classic lit set with DROOD, ROGET, 7 GABLES and MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE?

[Mike Scott]

Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

Warner Bros. has that one.

[Anton Phibes]

I must be getting old......I have a hard time getting too awfully excited when I already have a film on dvd when a blu announcement is made. Unless its something that is cleaned up substantially, never had a commercial release at all, or a found flick...I just kind of shrug it off. 

[Mord]

I must be getting old......I have a hard time getting too awfully excited when I already have a film on dvd when a blu announcement is made. Unless its something that is cleaned up substantially, never had a commercial release at all, or a found flick...I just kind of shrug it off. 

My sentiment, exactly. I've spent enough money on movies l ready have. How much more definition do you need. You can see the actor's pores for God's sake. We're already at 4k hd, with 8k waiting in the wings. Enough already.

[Monsters For Sale]

My sentiment, exactly. I've spent enough money on movies l ready have. How much more definition do you need. You can see the actor's pores for God's sake. We're already at 4k hd, with 8k waiting in the wings. Enough already.

Yeah.

I do like to indulge in Commentaries.  Especially the ones that tell about hardships in securing literary rights, casting and filming.  I like to hear about some of the more obscure actor's careers and lives.  I also like knowing about the film's critical reception and financial success/failure.

That sort of thing makes me want most of my double dips.

[Anton Phibes]

I think I have only listened to a few of the commentaries on blus and dvds. I ate Christopher Lee's commentary for City of the Dead up like it was thanksgiving turkey. Yet for the most part, I don't even listen to them. I dig what universal did for the essentials. Especially Dracula. I love it when films like Wasp Woman, Monster of Pierdas Blancas, Boy Who Cried Werewolf, and even House of Long Shadows  get "the treatment". So I bougth all those. But I really can't get too excited about revisiting a film that's already released in high quality. My peepers ain't what they used to be anyway.