Screenbound releases were generally good, but for NotBH, for whatever reason, they used what looks like a print rather than the OCN or at least something closer to the source like an interpositive. Hopefully, 88 will get better materials. I have a soft spot for the movie after seeing several TV airings as a youngster and it would be nice to see it in the best presentation possible.

I wonder if 88 will do a re-release of Island of Terror? Wasn't the previous UK release the cut version? I have the US release which is uncut.

Also speaking of Planet, I don't think Devils of Darkness has ever had a BR release. It would be good for UK horror completists to have that one on the shelf in HD.

Devils would be great as would Witchcraft. A movie i have paired with Devils on a Midnite Movies dvd.

Directed by Don Sharp and starring Jack Hedley and Lon Chaney Jr, i really like it, much more than Devils of Darkness. Despite being a British film it was made by Lippert Pictures not Tigon so can understand why it's not in the Tigon Collection from 88.

Just a heads up if anyone's interested.

Skinned Alive is a very low budget Texas Chainsaw style gore film that borders on silly comedy. I have the Film 2000 dvd from years ago.

I've seen the dvd a couple of times but it's not the sort of thing i'd upgrade to Blu-ray.

Well that sounds right up my street.:lol:

This is a list of movies that were produced by Tigon:

Mini Weekend (1967)
The Sorcerers (1967)
The Blood Beast Terror (1968)
Witchfinder General (1968)
Love in Our Time (1968)
Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)
The Body Stealers (1969)
What's Good for the Goose (1969)
The Haunted House of Horror (1969)
1917 (1970)
Monique (1970)
Zeta One (1970)
Black Beauty (1971)
The Beast in the Cellar (1971)
The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)
Hannie Caulder (1971)
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971)
Virgin Witch (1972)
Doomwatch (1972)
Au Pair Girls (1972)
Neither the Sea Nor the Sand (1972)
The Creeping Flesh (1973)

Orange - released or announced by 88 under the Tigon sub-label

I guess it's unlikely we would get The Creeping Flesh as I understand it is partially owned by Kevin Francis

A couple of the others - Virgin Witch & Haunted House of Horror already have special editions from Screenbound

Probably we can expect a re-release of The Blood Beast Terror and there's a good chance of Zeta One.

I'd really like to see Niether the Sea Nor the Sand upgraded to BR.

I'm not sure what the commercial viability of the rest would be?

EDIT: I think its with Sony in the US, so I wonder if Indicator would consider a US only release of the The Creeping Flesh once Mill Creek's rights have lapsed? Just an idea for Michael Brooke to kick around maybe? ;)

Yeah at a quid for the dvd. Not ?18 on Blu.

Zeta One, Au Pair Girls and The Sex Thief (Which you omitted from the list) have already been released by 88 Films as their Saucy Seventies box set. I know this as i watched Zeta One on Friday night. :lol:

Monique is an excellent film by the way. I have the Odeon dvd. Oh and Doomwatch would be very welcome even if you don't think it would be commercially viable, although i disagree. Especially as the series sold well on dvd.

Black Beauty another you don't think would sell well is probably the most commercially viable of the whole list.

Thanks Dem,

I didn't know about the 'Saucy 70s' set. I wonder why they didn't put those on the Tigon sub-label?

Ah my bad, I didn't mean to miss out Doomwatch! I have the US import for that one as well but I'd consider a double-dip on a UK release.

For the others, it's not that I don't think they would sell. It's just I don't know enough about them to make a judgement. I tend to avoid things like Black Beauty, Lassie, Skippy, Flipper or anything of that ilk... except Champion the Wonder Horse... now that's quality :lol:

Haha. Black Beauty was never like Lassie and Skippy and those shows. The Britishness of it always gave it that streak of something bad might happen to the animals. Especially in the movie versions. See Tarka the Otter and The Belstone Fox as other examples.

Zeta One looked lovely by the way. The set is pretty cool with a good booklet and double sided poster on quality thick paper.

I love The Belstone Fox. It's so dark, I consider it a horror film...

Did you pick up the Network Blu?

Stunning image quality.

The Odeon Blu ray is uncut.

I'm quite happy with the Blu ray titles already released from Odeon including The Black Torment and Island Of Terror.

Curse of the Crimson Altar has a beautiful image quality on the Odeon Blu. I rewatched it last night.

Yeah, I must watch that again myself. Not seen it in a while.

25 minute making of, Steele commentary and hour long interview with Christopher Lee, so good extras as well.

'Night Of The Big Heat' (1967) - Coming to Blu-ray in the UK from 88 Films

Release date: July 15

"A scorching picture from 1967, Night of the Big Heat is a sweat-inducing shocker based on the 1957 novel from John Lymington

The remote island of Fara is experiencing a stifling heat wave in the middle of winter, causing life, as the locals know it, to come to a halt. Tensions rise as the heat increases plus a high-pitched tone of unknown origin is incinerating the villagers

Directed by Hammer favourite, Terence Fisher and starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee alongside chisel jawed Patrick Allen, Night of the Big Heat is sizzling British sci-fi at its most intense"

More info TBA

'An Autumns Tale' (1987) - Coming to Blu-ray in the UK from 88Films

Release date: July 15

"Set in New York, this bitter-sweet drama stars Chow Yun-Fat as Sam, a cool, and charismatic waiter who takes his na?ve and heart-broken NYU student cousin, Jennifer (Cherie Chung) under his wing

Their friendship grows as he shows this innocent youngster all that life in the Big Apple has to offer

This wonderful time capsule of New York as it was 1987, is perfectly constructed by director Mabel Cheung who frames each shot with care making sure that this a true love-letter to the iconic city from a very original point of view."

More info TBA

'Immortal Story' (1986) - Coming to Blu-ray in the UK from 88Films

Release date: July 15

"A story of lost lives and lost souls, writer / director Yonfan delivers one of his strongest studies of human fragility

The movie focuses on the relationship between a chanteuse and her Japanese lover from the time they first meet to the present day where she is now at rock bottom and he?s a washed-up drug addict.

With incredible performances from Sylvia Chang and Shingo Tsurumi, we act as a voyeur, dipping into their bleak, fragmented existences where others control their choices and the only the only light in their lives is their unbroken love."

More info TBA

'Pumpkinhead 2: Blood Wings' (1993) - Coming to Blu-ray in the UK from 88Films

Release date: July 15

"35 years after young Tommy is killed by greaser thugs in 1958, he is brought back to life by a group of teenagers, however, he has come back in the form of Pumpkinhead an evil demon, out for revenge

This direct-to-video sequel to 1998?s Pumpkinhead is an entertainingly splatter-fuelled horror movie cast in the mould of the video nasty era. Fun, fierce, and dripping with blood."

More info TBA

When I saw there was a film called Skinned Alive was going to be released, I thought that it was some film from the 80's.

Then someone mentioned it was originally released by those beacons of OTT takes me out of it for FX and dodgy acting. Film 2000

Also has previously mentioned, these type of films have their place, when they cost ?3 or less or maybe ?5 if it looks really good, where expectations are low but not at ?18 or even in one of their sales prices.

If there was a Documentary on the OTT schlock films that were around in the late 90's to early 2000's like 88 did with Cannibal Terror with their Eurocine Cannibal Movie Documentary. Then it would make it interesting.

'Sex And Zen' (1991) - Coming to Blu-ray in the UK from 88Films

Release date: July 29

"?Banned for 400 years!? screamed the original poster and you can see why as this erotic comedy is brilliantly bizarre, pretty sleazy and downright weird

Also known as The Carnal Prayer Mat's Stash of Illicit Love and slightly based on the seventeenth century novel The Carnel Prayer Mat, we follow a desperate man who is convinced by his mentor that he needs to be ?well equipped? to pleasure his wife, so he has a horses appendage transplanted onto him! From here on in it gets really strange!

A box-office hit in Hong Kong, this Category III movie is an erotic experience like no other and presented here UNCUT and remastered for the very first time."

More info TBA

'Skinned Alive' (1990) - Coming to Blu-ray in the UK from 88Films

Release date: July 29

"Rob Zombie popularized the 'hillbilly horror' subgenre with films like 'House of 1000 Corpses' and 'The Devil?s Rejects,' but writer / director Jon Killough did it over a decade earlier by making a movie that?s fun for the whole family? the Manson family, that is!

Crawldaddy and her kids travel cross-country selling fine leather apparel when their van breaks down in the Ohio backwoods. Auto mechanic Tom and his wife Whinnie put them up for the weekend, until ex-cop neighbor Paul discovers what their product is really made of...

Painstakingly restored from a 2K film scan of the original 16mm A/B roll cut negative with a dynamic 5.1 surround remix, 'Skinned Alive' debuts on Blu-ray. This Ultimate Edition includes hours of vintage and newly-prepared bonus materials plus three audio commentaries. Starring Scott Spiegel ('Intruder,' 'Evil Dead II,' 'From Dusk ?Til Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money) and produced by J.R. Bookwalter ('The Dead Next Door,' 'Robot Ninja')!"

More info TBA

'Funeral Home' (1980) - Coming to Blu-ray in the UK from 88Films

Release date: July 29

"Young and easily frightened Heather (Lesleh Donaldson, 'Happy Birthday To Me') is called to stay with her grandmother in the hopes of helping her turn an old funeral home into a bed-and-breakfast. But strange happenings and unexplained murders around the home quickly make this vacation spot a "dead-and-breakfast." It is up to Heather to investigate the eerie and creepy corners of the former funeral home to unlock a decades-old secret. Will she survive long enough to solve the mystery???"

More info TBA

'The Pleasure' (1985) - Coming to Blu-ray in the UK from 88Films

Release date: July 29

"Prolific Italian director Joe D?Amato is back in the softcore zone with a sordid tale about Gerard (Gabriele Tinti) who pines for his dead lover, Leonora (Andrea Guzon) whilst listening to old audio tapes of them having sex sparking memories of their erotic encounters

Back in the present his daughter, who is the mirror image of her mother finds the tapes which leads to questionable trysts and sordid couplings

With plenty of exposed flesh and the bonus of starring Laura 'Emmanuelle' Gemser this is one of D?Amato?s most stylish and accomplished bump and grind efforts. Fans of Tinto Brass will want to get their hands on this one."

More info TBA

I would like to see a Blu Ray of NEITHER THE SEA NOR THE SAND.
It?s quite an understated piece and quite atmospheric.
I have the old Redemption dvd, but an upgrade would be welcome.
Always thought it would make a good Flipside release too.

I've been trying to find a list of extras and, well, any information on this release, but none seems to be available. Even the 88 Films website doesn't mention it, even though it's already available for pre-order on Amazon. Cushing + Lee + Fisher, what's not to love? :) odd that it's so low-profile...

We are still waiting for further info regarding 'American Pie', and that is only about a month away from being released

When was the last time 88Films had a vanilla release with absolutely no extra features?

Night of the Comet.

It's not a lot, but that had a photo gallery and trailer

Photo Gallery and Trailer isn't special features, it's not 1998, next you'll be saying an interactive menu lol.

I think there are quite a few 'Studio' releases from 88 with nothing on them.

According to the 88Films website, they are!

SPECIAL FEATURES

• INCLUDES FIRST PRESSING SILVER BOARD DOUBLE-WALLED O-RING
• INCLUDES FIRST PRESSING BOOKLET NOTES BY BARRY FORSHAW
• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) Presentation in 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio
• LPCM 2.0 English Stereo
• Optional English Subtitles
• Original Trailer
• Stills Gallery
• New Artwork by 17th & Oak

The Booklet is more of a special feature

Edit, I got my Arrow Blu out the other week and that's pretty stacked, but they either produced those themselves or licensed them Shout Factory and they probably didn't want to share :lol:

the did license them from shout factory except for the interview with Mary Worornov which is exclusive to the arrow 2014 release.

The Package and Once Upon a Crime only have a trailer and reversible sleeve (OUaC has widescreen and fullscreen trailers).

The standard edition of Piranha II had a trailer; the original pressing had a slipcase and poster; Sahara had a stills gallery.

The Spanish Chainsaw Massacre and Footsoldier are completely barebones.

You say they're barebones but they did have interactive menus 🤣

None of this bodes particularly well for Night of the Big Heat's list of extra features lol

Nowadays we're (barely) past the interactive menus as a special festure, but we still get so much filler: how many times have we seen a 3 minute interview with the second assistant to the gaffer? I mean, it's interesting, but barely adds anything to the film :)
Still, one takes what one can get, but hoping for an interesting and informative commentary at least.

Upcoming releases from 88 Films

Crawlspace [Blu-ray]
Legacy Of Rage - Deluxe Limited Edition [Blu-ray]
Doomwatch [Blu-ray]
The Blood Beast Terror [Blu-ray]
Orgasmo [Blu-ray]
Island Of Terror [Blu-ray]
Black Cat II - Deluxe Limited Edition [Blu-ray]
The Bodyguard From Beijing - 4KUHD / Blu-ray

Finally Orgasmo!:clap:

Update:

Mini Weekend (1967)
The Sorcerers (1967)
The Blood Beast Terror (1968)
Witchfinder General (1968)
Love in Our Time (1968)
Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)
The Body Stealers (1969)
What's Good for the Goose (1969)
The Haunted House of Horror (1969)
1917 (1970)
Monique (1970)
Zeta One (1970)
Black Beauty (1971)
The Beast in the Cellar (1971)
The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)
Hannie Caulder (1971)
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971)
Virgin Witch (1972)
Doomwatch (1972)
Au Pair Girls (1972)
Neither the Sea Nor the Sand (1972)
The Creeping Flesh (1973)

Orange - released or announced by 88 under the Tigon sub-label
Blue - Saucy Seventies box set