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Old 4th April 2010, 09:00 PM
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Just watched House By The Cemetery. It's the first time I've watched the film and I really enjoyed it. This was much helped by the awesomeness that is the Arrow package!

The transfer is brilliant, very fresh and professional. The film itself was very enjoyable - I think heightened by the fact that I watched it with company, we love riffing movies together and there certainly were some humorous moments! How difficult it is to get your arm out of an open door?

In terms of extras. I loved the reversible sleeve idea, and the booklet and poster are great additions. These should definitely be staple features of all DVD releases, let alone Arrow! I liked the Fulci In The House featurette. Personally I never watch trailers on DVDs, and will only once cycle through an image gallery. Also, the deleted scene seemed a bit pointless. I would rather have Arrow ditch the other extras in favour of an extended documentary. Twenty minutes for a featurette was very generous, but, in my opinion, I think losing the other extras, and making a documentary out of the featurette footage (say, 40mins) would've been better. Perhaps the deleted scene could've been included in the documentary for good measure.

Despite those nigglings, all in all a great package. My first of many Arrow purchases!


EDIT: One extra thing that would be nice is the inclusion of the original language track, ie. Italian audio with English subs, on future Arrow releases. I personally prefer to watch subbed films rather than dubs. What are other people's take on this?

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