What Have You Bought Recently?

[trebor8273]

Originally Posted by Wes

Yep, this is better known as Witchcraft Through The Ages, and is a very weird but wonderful Danish film from the 20's, a sort of investigation into witchcraft and folk lore. Antony Balch of Horror Hospital fame re-edited the movie in '68-ish and added a narration by William Burroughs (where it became Witchcraft Through The Ages). It's a real one-off oddity, and it demands a certain mood for viewing but fascinating stuff nonetheless, and some strong imagery as well for a Silent...

Does the Tartan DVD contain the two versions ?

yes it does any recommendations on which i should view first?

[Edgeworth]

Time Bandits for a tenner in HMV, oh yeah. They only had steelbooks for House of Usher so I didn't bother.

I usually pre-order the Arrow titles I want at the beginning of the month (payday) but I don't know if I will bother with American Virgin/Squirm/Lifeforce if HMV keep those prices for new Arrow releases.

[Wes]

Originally Posted by trebor8273

yes it does any recommendations on which i should view first?

Great. Watch the original first I think. The Witchcraft Through the Ages version is shorter than Häxan but it's still a valid re-design of the original film. I'm a big fan of William Burroughs so it's my preferred version. Let us know what you think of it when you get 'round to seeing it !

[napalm-in-the-morning]

Your CEX's are a lot better than the grotty Southend branch. Bunch of chav titles that aren't worth the plastic they're pressed on!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

@Trebor.

The Bay of Blood / Halloween double is terrible. Bay is cut heavily and the Halloween disc has terrible sound that doesn't bother to use a centre speaker so voices come from the rear and side speakers.

Luckily it was only 50p.

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Edgeworth

Time Bandits for a tenner in HMV, oh yeah. They only had steelbooks for House of Usher so I didn't bother.

I usually pre-order the Arrow titles I want at the beginning of the month (payday) but I don't know if I will bother with American Virgin/Squirm/Lifeforce if HMV keep those prices for new Arrow releases.

I'll be interested to see what they want for the Lifeforce steelbook when it comes out. They've been reasonably good with Arrow titles lately in ours. Though I'm not paying fifteen quid for Spider Baby.

[trebor8273]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

@Trebor.

The Bay of Blood / Halloween double is terrible. Bay is cut heavily and the Halloween disc has terrible sound that doesn't bother to use a centre speaker so voices come from the rear and side speakers.

Luckily it was only 50p.

Well it had the anchor bay for Halloween and arrow bay if blood disc inside but I've just noticed the thieving : haven't given me my terror at the opera or naked lunch DVDs

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by trebor8273

Well it had the anchor bay for Halloween and arrow bay if blood disc inside but I've just noticed the thieving : haven't given me my terror at the opera or naked lunch DVDs

Yes its the AB disc that's poor sound.

Don't know how you managed to get the Arrow disc - a mistake by shop staff probably. It should be the Film Shock 2000 version with 43 seconds cut out.

[trebor8273]

Well I'll have to go back tomorrow and ask them if the discs are their, if there not , not much I can do. That's really me off,should know with cex to check everything before you leave.

On the plus side I can pop into Hmv and pick up that lovely elephant man blu ray

[Linbro]

Ordered from AmazonUS - Scream Factory 'The Fog', 'The Howling' and 'Rolling Thunder'.