SHAM017 - Oasis of Fear

[Almar@Cult Labs]

You know the idea was to have Shameless as a label of discovery where people would take the plunge and try out films they might otherwise never watch. Never knew if it would work but that's very cool Dougal you took the plunge and got something out of it - a tune that will drive you nuts!

[dougal]

Originally Posted by Almar@Shameless

You know the idea was to have Shameless as a label of discovery where people would take the plunge and try out films they might otherwise never watch. Never knew if it would work but that's very cool Dougal you took the plunge and got something out of it - a tune that will drive you nuts!

I'm looking forward to watching it again with the fact track - I'm interested to find out more about it all.

Keeping up my penchant for retrospectively suggesting potential extras...

Possibly prohibatively expensive but for a film with such an interesting score the inclusion of the soundtrack album as digital files would make excellent bonus content.

I'm assuming though that the music rights are generally held separately to the film rights so you'd have to shell out twice and then there's the complexities of royalties etc. It's a shame because the music from this film will probably sit in the vaults of some distributor for decades without gathering a penny of income and yet it's prohibatively expensive for anyone to actually do anything with it.

[eiren]

Want to contribute and say this is a great release, thank you Shameless! More of this please.

My one (minor) criticism would be that I would have prefered it to have been released/more commonly referred to as the (in my opinion) more appropriate title of 'Dirty Pictures'. The reversible cover though helps me through this difficult issue! hehe

The rest is brilliant though... more please!

[bedorca]

OOF (!) is a forgotten classic restored to greatness by the Shameless crew

Check out the fact track dougal, you won't be disappointed

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by eiren

Want to contribute and say this is a great release, thank you Shameless! More of this please.

My one (minor) criticism would be that I would have prefered it to have been released/more commonly referred to as the (in my opinion) more appropriate title of 'Dirty Pictures'. The reversible cover though helps me through this difficult issue! hehe

The rest is brilliant though... more please!

The Dirty Pictures side of the cover might have boosted sales Almar....

[Almar@Cult Labs]

Maybe the title might have but the image is not likely to get many pulses racing!

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Nah,probably right.The Union Jack ahem,stance is probably more noticeable...

[Peter Neal]

I just reviewed this, post 320:


http://www.shameless-films.com/forum...2030#post22030

Neat flick for a winterly day!

Strangely enough, I came across an entry in the German ofdb listing the "Shameless" disc as cut due to some bits supposedly missing in the UK and Italian release, but apparently present in the German VHS and some French Pay TV screening, including a snippet of a scene between Irene Pappas and Ornella Muti, showing Irene touching Ornella's breast, hence Ornella's sudden aggressive turn when she's pushing Irene away.

http://www.ofdb.de/view.php?page=fas...069&vid=258134

Nevertheless, I liked the presentation and the movie, though it's not exactely close to my "Shameless" Top 3, which would be currently "Flavia", "Night Train Murders" and "Strip Nude for your Killer".

[WaveCrest]

Found out about Oasis of Fear from a review in DVD & Blu-ray Review magazine (they gave it 2 out of 5 stars). Following that I saw it in my local HMV in the horror section. They were charging £15.99 for it. However I've just looked on Play.com and they've got it, with a price of £7.99. I've also searched for the film on dvdcompare.net. It's on there but the explanation about which version is better is very confusing. I couldn't understand it.

[bedorca]

In a nutshell (!) Wavecrest

The Italian and Shameless DVD's are the same version with the exception of 1 extra scene in the Shameless release.

The original English dubbed edit version of the film (currently unavailable on DVD so I don't know why they are discussing it on DVDCompare!) does not have some scenes that are currently in the Italian and Shameless releases BUT it does have it's own footage that is not available in the Italian or Shameless DVD's

Any clearer?