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I have spent my life now chronicling forgotten films, stars who went AWOL (such as Me Me Lai), past genres and entire industries which no longer exist. You have no idea how pissed off I was that this really interesting fundraiser - which will remaster the blaxploitation movies made under apartheid in South Africa - didn't take off... Restoration Heaven: Help Retro Afrika Bioscope Rescue Lost African FilmsZombie Hamster Yet you are shelling out for what might be bare bones movies. Now tell me which of these fundraisers is more immediately vital? Films made under a period in history that should never be forgotten and taught to generations for centuries to come or an HD version of Aenigma with a slipcase and nothing else on there? Now god bless 88 (and I got them to take on the UK license for Joe Bullet - which I hope to god you will all rush out and buy and for which I can't thank 88 enough because it is such an important movie) but we need to act responsibly with these films. All of them. Late era Fulci, for instance, is surprisingly undocumented. As is late period cannibal movies (we couldn't get Michael Sopkiw without paying him a fee for Eaten Alive - and we funded that thing ourselves and then sold it to 88/ Grindhouse). There's stuff to be done with these titles. I can't do it - I'm in Asia now - but 88 can, and they can find people who can too. I'm honestly baffled that so called 'fans', many of whom are the first to dump all over me (and if you think you'd be seeing Shaw Brothers movies, or apartheid cinema or the bloody Suckling in HD without my existence you're living in cloud cuckoo land) don't seem to give two hoots about the movies they love and the stars and directors from eras which are fast dying out. I'm reading a great book just now called Rhodesians Never Die (I'm on a bit of an African history bender). If that book had been written in 50 years time, no one would be around who lived in Rhodesia and remembered the ins and outs of the Bush War. And a vital insight into a time of change would not exist. Whomever my critics, I intend to keep going on and writing about/ documenting stuff that no else seems to give a toss about. I write and document this stuff for myself - and hope to bring things, such as apartheid era cinema, to a curious audience who may also be intrigued by life in the townships under a white supremacist government and the struggle for expression. I have lots more I want to do too - stuff based in Indonesia, Taiwan, the Philippines and beyond. I have a huge list of projects because I absolutely live, eat, sleep and breath my research. You guys should be asking for/ thinking about doing the same. Keep that in mind. |
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__________________ Frolic in brine, goblins be thine. |
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Extras for a film are personal choices and some are outstanding as on Deep River Savages and some are barely worth the videotape they are recorded on making it appear that they are there just as filler to make the edition that much better than say, its USA incarnation, never mind the quality of the film itself. If a Blu Ray is filled up with the same old stuff that has appeared on every DVD release in the past then its question of validity to be recycled once more is surely an issue. Some people, obviously like yourself Callum, love the history and background but the majority of fans just want to see the feature in its best possible presentation as when these films first attracted us there were no extras at all, it was the film that captivated us and it is that nostalgia which drives us to buy copy after copy. I am not a film historian, I am just a mangy old horror film fan and for that I do not apologize. For me, and perhaps for me alone, I don't know, extras are not a deal breaker but a pristine uncut presentation is. Hey, it would be a boring old world if we all liked exactly the same thing. On an aside, as for Rhodesians Never Die, I lived there from 1969 to 1984, right through the most vicious bush war Africa has ever seen, lost many friends and my home in Zaka - to the East of Fort Victoria now called Masvingo- was attacked on numerous occasions including my father driving over three landmines in a specialy built vehicle called a Leopard. I was in Bulawayo during the Battle of Bulawayo when Mugabe's North Korean 5th Brigade slaughtered thousands and chased Nkomo- the man who should have won the presidency- out of the country.
__________________ "Why did they have to go and cut her for?" "She could have been used two, maybe three more times!" |
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D'oh!! Of course! Mid rant, sorry!!
__________________ "Why did they have to go and cut her for?" "She could have been used two, maybe three more times!" |
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When it comes to blind buys special features are essential to me. I mean I'm pretty certain that I've seen all the best slashers from the 70 and 80's. and all the recent slashers that Arrow and 88 films have put out in the last year have been well crap, so I do want extras if I'm buying stuff I'm unlikely to watch ever again. And I'm sure as hell not watching Dinosaur Valley again, gotta be honest that's going straight on ebay (but will unopen and watch them special features beforehand if there's any). |
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Been trying to cancel an order from 88Films, both on the site and on the FB page, but I still haven't gotten an answer. I will be pissed off, if they keep ignoring me, and still ship the movie
__________________ I watch my filth and grue on: Super 8mm, VHS, Beta, V-2000, CED, LD, DVD, BD and UHD. |
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only two guys working but they hat to but themselves together |
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The indiegogo campaign is over 61k now, could Anthropophagus be a realistic goal??
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