No it wasn't - I think I paid about the equivalent of £15 for mine from Xploited Cinema - and that was during the good ol' days when the £ was around 1:2 on the dollar!

Mine was similar. As you say back in those days new gialli were hitting dvd every other week. Up until 2010 i was like a pig in shit, there was so much stuff to buy from all these exciting labels.

It's available on Amazon for £13.97 if anyone want to buy it. Free postage if you have Prime as well.

Yeah, it was really great. I loved browsing sites like Xploited and Kult Video for their latest influx of weird and wonderful DVDs from all over the world. It was just amazing to be able to own some of these titles in many ways. Things such as 'price' became a secondary almost unimportant factor at times. Now with such a saturated and competitive market we're spoiled for choice and often take that for granted.

I saw my original order for Crimes when i checked if it was still available.

I ordered it on April 26th 2009 from a marketplace seller called Inandout Distribution. An Austrian company. It cost £5.79 plus £1.21 postage, £7 in total.

Bargain. :lol:

I thought you said it was expensive?! :lol:

Jammy sod! :tongue1:

Ha,ha. I thought it was. Luckily it wasn't.

When you see the print quality it does seem expensive. :tongue1:

I guess you have a point there... still, over half the price of my copy so I still think that's cheap! ;)

EDIT: Checking my e-mails I've just discovered that I paid £16.99 for it from an eBay seller on November 1st 2008! :faint:

You should have waited 5 months. ;)

Crimes of the black cat shows up on ebay from time to time. I won mine for about £8 inc postage.
It looks like reheated shit.

That's the same as I have as well (bought for just under £7 back in 2009), and would buy a Blu-ray in a heartbeat.

They announce recently there's going to be a third line to run alongside Slashers and Italian. Wonder if Creepshow 2 will be part of this?

I thought they already (semi) had two sidelines for the Full Moon stuff and also Troma? They're not numbered or bannered though I guess.

About a month ago Calum posted on Twitter: "There will be a new @88_films sub label coming soon (ala slashers and Italian). Any guesses?"

Nothing announce so far as far as I'm aware.

I'd love for it to be a Spanish horror line.

That particular nugget has been pretty much unmined on Blu. Although, there is the problem with masters (both the expense and the quality of materials), plus the fact that they tend not to be big sellers... look what happened to BCI.

The majority of those BCI releases looked stunning on dvd. They wouldn't need much to make the jump to blu. I'd say some if not all those dvd's would look better than some of the blu's that have been released such as Anthro.

I think it's more the cost to license them that is cost prohibitive - even though he's niche on physical media a lot of Naschy films are reportedly extortionately expensive to license. Plus, buying rights to a film doesn't necessarily guarantee you a certain master. You may get stuck with a mouldy, old degraded negative of a cut print with no sound or a digitally enhanced mess. Any additional clean-up work / searching for new or additional materials would then incur more cost.

From memory though, I think those BCI DVDs were sourced from HD masters (obviously downgraded when put on DVD). They certainly had HD masters for Night of the Werewolf and Vengeance of the Zombies as those two were actually released on Blu as a double feature. It's safe to assume that if BCI hadn't of folded then the others would have been released too.

The Spanish Collection would look beautiful next to The Italian Collection, and there are loads of films which are well overdue top notch releases.

We're already spoiled for choice as far as horror goes, so I'm hoping for something a little different.

Some kind of VHS-era action and thriller collection would be most welcome, for example. I had assumed the American Ninja box set was 88's method of testing the waters before committing to such a label.

I was hoping for a late night softcore thriller label lol. We could get titles like the Body Chemistry movies. In fact, a while ago I suggested these, but I was shot down straight away. [emoji23]

I remember one film reviewer comparing the monster in The Raft to a giant black bin bag. :lol:

I'd love a release of The Blood Spattered Bride.
One of my all time favourite Spanish horrors.

Blue undergrounds Daughters of Darkness release on blu-ray and DVD has Blood Spattered bride as an extra

And it's region free! :woot:

It's a pretty poor SD print though. A remastered Blu ray would blow it out of the water.

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Both movies are fun in different ways. GD has a feature length documentary on Scream Queens, you are in for a treat.

My copies of Blastfighter and Spasmo arrived today from HMV. :pop2:

The Bloodstained Shadow BD, is it supposed to have an artcard inside? It says on the cover that it does, but mine only has a booklet.

Mine has the card & booklet.

Thanks, looks like I'm missing out then! Unless it's one of those papery ones. ;)

Mine is quite a thick one and came inside the Blu-ray case, from what i can tell the papery ones are being given out with direct orders from 88 and just come loose inside the parcel.

For the record, every Blu in The Italian Collection so far has had a numbered (matching the Blu-ray collection number) postcard.
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88 have also just announced the rewards scheme on Twitter and Facebook.

I think it was just the first pressing that came with a booklet, the artcard should be in there though.

Any news on if Children of the Corn films will be uncut or at least have deleted scenes?

I'm sure someone's mentioned the 'Skull Points' somewhere. In order to redeem them on pre-orders, all I have done is replied to the order confirmation e-mail, basically saying 'From this you can see the order details and my details', and they've replied to each one saying how many points they have added to my account. All e-mails go to – and come from – the same address anyway.

Just received Blastfighter & Spasmo and im sorry to say both have "Collectable Poster Artcard" on the back cover but both have the papery thin flyers in them, looks like its safe to say all the so called poster/art cards from now on no matter how you get them will be the papery thin ones.

I hope to God this has the iconic artwork on the reverse.
I'll be doing without if it hasn't.

I'm 99% sure that 88 mentioned it would have a reversible cover.

Thank God for that!


Awful......:crying:

Iconic.........:woot:

Blade In The Dark, for example, has the very same art on the reverse and an alternative one on the flyer/postcard, wasted oportunity, I think....

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