Fright Night (1985) December 13th

[The Limey]

It is limited to 3000 discs, it costs $40 but what the hell - at last it is arriving in Hi Def.
Oh your're sooo cool, Brewster!

TWILIGHT TIME joins forces with SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT to release Blu-ray editions of classic Columbia titles

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (September 1, 2011) — Specialty label TWILIGHT TIME has struck a deal with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment to license and release classic films from the Sony-owned Columbia Pictures library in high-definition Blu-ray editions. In line with TWILIGHT TIME’s innovative limited series concept, just 3000 units of each title will be produced, aimed at the collector/classic film aficionado market, and available exclusively online through Screen Archives Entertainment, the nation’s largest independent distributor of specialty soundtracks.

The November 8th Blu-ray debut of director Cy Endfield’s and special effects master Ray Harryhausen’s 1961 science fiction/fantasy classic, Mysterious Island, will be followed by a new release on the first Tuesday of each month. Scheduled follow-up on December 13th is the original Fright Night (1985), the horror/comedy cult favorite written and directed by Tom Holland and starring Chris Sarandon and Roddy McDowall.

TWILIGHT TIME—the label that has made a recent splash in the classic film home video pond with the release of such titles as The Kremlin Letter, Violent Saturday, and The Egyptian—is the brainchild of 30-year Warner Bros veteran Brian Jamieson and filmmaker/music restoration specialist Nick Redman. In his long tenure at Warner Home Video, Jamieson initiated and oversaw countless legacy restorations, including the films of Stanley Kubrick, Samuel Fuller’s The Big Red One, and Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch. Redman, a film historian and Oscar nominee for his 1997 documentary, The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage, is also a prime mover behind Twentieth Century Fox’s pioneering series of limited edition soundtracks, the inspiration for TWILIGHT TIME’s release model.
TWILIGHT TIME, Jamieson explains, is motivated by a desire “to optimize the film enthusiast’s dream, providing long sought-after collectible and fully restored titles, in their original aspect ratios, all manufactured to the highest quality available, and at an affordable price.”

Unlike movies-on-demand offerings, each TWILIGHT TIME release is a BD or DVD (not a DVDr) properly pressed from a restored transfer. Each is accompanied by a collectible 8-page booklet complete with original essay, stills, and poster art. And each TWILIGHT TIME disc provides, whenever possible, that extra most coveted by cinemusic enthusiasts: an isolated score. Mysterious Island offers a particularly high incentive along these lines, featuring music by pantheon composer Bernard Herrmann.
Grover Crisp, Sony Pictures Entertainment's Executive Vice President for Asset Management, Film Restoration, and Digital Mastering, is enthusiastic about his studio's new partnership with the label. “Our collaboration with Twilight Time will allow us to make available for Blu-ray release some of our library's most collectible titles in a way fans have been asking for: restored and re-mastered with attention to detail and quality.”

FSM Board: Classic Columbia Blu-rays from TWILIGHT TIME!

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

As soon as it's available for pre-order, I'll be on it like a fat kid on cake!


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[The Limey]

Yeah I am waiting for that pre-order link too - big time.
Gotta make you wonder though - if Sony licensed this title in the US to a specialty label like Twilight Time then it surely has got to be worth Arrow approaching them about a UK release?
THAT title in a white sleeve and the usual extras?
If ever a title was made for an Arrow release...
They would get my pre-order.

[Daemonia]

Limited to just 3000 units? That's a bit stupid. With the remake doing the rounds the original would shift far more than that. And what's the betting that the site you have to order it from won't ship outside the USA?

But, as someone pointed out, if Sony are willing to license catalogue titles, it might do well for Arrow to make enquiries. I mean, they're clearly going to be remastering Fright Night in HD, so the master will already exist...what say you, Arrow?

EDIT: Just checked the retail website and they do ship internationally. So, providing it's not region-locked, I might grab a copy after all.

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Daemonia

Just checked the retail website and they do ship internationally. So, providing it's not region-locked, I might grab a copy after all.

That was the first thing I did when I read the news. $47.50 including shipping. It's a lot, but it won't stop me from grabbing a copy

[the blob]

I'm actually more interested in Mysterious Island, although it's been a long long time since I saw Fright Night but was never that big of a fan.

Don't forget to add on a likely heavy Customs and handling charge to the price. I'll have to seriously think about whether I want to pay that much for either.

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by the blob

I'm actually more interested in Mysterious Island, although it's been a long long time since I saw Fright Night but was never that big of a fan.

Don't forget to add on a likely heavy Customs and handling charge to the price. I'll have to seriously think about whether I want to pay that much for either.

I'm also a little worried about the artwork. It's said that the company usually includes collectors booklets that feature poster artwork. I hope they don't give us a crappy new cover for the Fright Night BD.


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[dream demon]

Originally Posted by the blob

I'm actually more interested in Mysterious Island, although it's been a long long time since I saw Fright Night but was never that big of a fan.

Don't forget to add on a likely heavy Customs and handling charge to the price. I'll have to seriously think about whether I want to pay that much for either.

At the moment $47.50 comes out at £29.28; fingers crossed that there are no wild changes in the exchange rate, we could be okay re the import fees.

[the blob]

Originally Posted by dream demon

At the moment $47.50 comes out at £29.28; fingers crossed that there are no wild changes in the exchange rate, we could be okay re the import fees.

Only if they mark as a Gift, otherwise I make that about £6 in VAT + £8 RM handling fee. So basically, £44 all in.

[keirarts]

Bugger that, I like fright night but i'm a minimum wage slave, so i'm not paying that for one film.

Fright night and fright night 2 have never had great treatment on dvd and the fact that fright night is getting this sort of limited release at a vastly inflated price seems crazy.

Pdersonally I reckon their just testing the waters with this, if the titles sell well i'm betting we'll see wider releases of these titles at a better price.

Nah, theres still a TON of arrow/shameless/code red releases I need and the 40-50 quid will buy me a few of these at least.