Latest Horror Purchases

by **The Hitman** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 4:17 am

dragonmanes wrote:and was the Uwe Boll travesty, not the New Line original.

Wasn't the New Line original a Uwe Boll travesty, only less so?

by **dragonmanes** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 5:19 am

New Line's first feature was also titled Alone in the Dark, I believe it was made in 1982 starring Martin Landau and Jack Palance. Its an awesome slasher about three escaped loonies that suspect their new doctor of killing their old one, so they stalk him and his family in their isolated house. Highly recommended, but beware of getting the Uwe Boll title!

by **zigzag** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:14 pm

Alone in the Dark 1982 - ROCKS!

Written by Robert Shaye (President of New Line) and directed by Jack Sholder.
Three years later Sholder directed the super homo-erotic Elm Street 2.

by **The Hitman** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:27 pm

zigzag wrote:Alone in the Dark 1982 - ROCKS!

Written by Robert Shaye (President of New Line) and directed by Jack Sholder.
Three years later Sholder directed the super homo-erotic Elm Street 2.

And before that, Sholder did the equally Freudian "The Hidden," didn't he?

by **dragonmanes** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:17 pm

got a steal at the swap meet this weekend:

Koma
R-Point
Memento Mori
Vital

All Tartan Extreme titles, brand new sealed packaging for $2.50/ea

American Gothic (like new) $3

by **The Hitman** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:52 pm

I dug R-Point.

So did Neon.

(ETA: I completely doinked the phrasing of that. So fixed.)

by **zigzag** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 6:25 pm

dragonmanes wrote:got a steal at the swap meet this weekend:

Koma
R-Point
Memento Mori
Vital

All Tartan Extreme titles, brand new sealed packaging for $2.50/ea

American Gothic (like new) $3

Nice Catch, Sir

by **dragonmanes** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 6:30 pm

I was going to put Vital up on Half and Amazon, heard it wasnt as horror as one might hope, what do you guys recommend, is it a keeper?

by **zigzag** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:33 pm

All four titles are a great find (plus American Gothic- Steiger rocks!)
Vital is a bit slow but creepy. A different pace from Shinya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo, Snake in June) but effective.
Tartan was almost always reliable for strong presentation and fun titles.
Miss them.

by **Alien Redrum** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:48 pm

zigzag wrote:Tartan was almost always reliable for strong presentation and fun titles.
Miss them.

Co-signed.

IIRC, most, if not all, of them had DTS tracks, too.

by **dragonmanes** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:40 pm

I was bummed to hear they went down too, their presentation of A Tale of Two Sisters was amazing, thankfully I grabbed the unrated 2-disc ($2.50 from the same seller

)

Who are we supposed to rely on for the upcoming Asian releases? Magnolia grabbed The Host, but no one else seems to be producing the same high volume and quality as Tartan

by **Neon Maniac** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 11:32 pm

R-Point was a great flick. :up:

by **dragonmanes** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:29 am

should be filtering in the pipeline sometime during this week when the wife is busy with American Idol

by **The Hitman** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:06 pm

dragonmanes wrote:I was bummed to hear they went down too, their presentation of A Tale of Two Sisters was amazing, thankfully I grabbed the unrated 2-disc ($2.50 from the same seller )

Who are we supposed to rely on for the upcoming Asian releases? Magnolia grabbed The Host, but no one else seems to be producing the same high volume and quality as Tartan

Tokyo Shock (Media Blasters?) is hit or miss, but I find when they hit, they do pretty well. Not up to the Tartan standard, but not bad. (When they miss, it's teh suck, though.)

by **dragonmanes** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:18 pm

teh suck is infinitely worse than just suck, too, its like suck to the 13th power