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dwk wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 4:05 pm Zot, no one knows what is up with Existenz.

Thanks, yeah at this point it feels like they ran into a snafu, at least I can get in early on the Mac and Me Collectors Pack...fuck's sake.

Disco Boy is 70% off today

If the Stuart Raffill floodgates are open, fingers crossed we get the lunacy that is Standing Ovation

Sometimes I imagine what I could do with VS’s resources.

It’s not Mac and Me, suffice to say. Good thing for them the Internet is full of chuds who honestly believe “I am required to own every disc ever pressed”.

CSM126 wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 6:41 pm Sometimes I imagine what I could do with VS’s resources.

It’s not Mac and Me, suffice to say. Good thing for them the Internet is full of chuds who honestly believe “I am required to own every disc ever pressed”.

I'll never drink the VinSyn Kool-Aid, I don't understand the hype.

I'm sure it just the same impulse that drives people to collect every Criterion disc, just for trash instead of treasure. As Morrissey (R.I.P.) once said, "One man's nut loaf is another man's baked nose-pickings."

Elaine May's A New Leaf in 4K UHD next up from Cinématographe.

andyli wrote: Thu Jul 03, 2025 12:37 am Elaine May's A New Leaf in 4K UHD next up from Cinématographe.

Very excited for this… but dear God I hope one day Bristol Myers Squibb will hand the rights to The Heartbreak Kid over to someone

TechnicolorAcid wrote: Tue Jul 01, 2025 4:28 pm I agree that there’s not much I’m interested in but I’ll probably pick up Satan’s Bed, if only because of its infamy from inexplicably popping up in a taping of a Corey Feldman special.

Discretion to anyone who wants to preorder this release, please watch it first before you spend your hard-earned money. I’m sure whoever watched this back in the day found it watchable or even titillating but the only thing this does to my sensual body pieces is make me want to cut them off in order to feel something during my viewing besides complete and utter boredom for most of the runtime. Findlay’s parts at least feel like an attempt to make something out of nothing and I think his vision is deranged enough to warrant SOME enjoyment but the rest of the film feels like what I’ve heard most Lauryn Hill concerts feel like. At first an interesting, maybe even exciting prospect (Yoko Ono in a sexploitation film) before devolving into something just sad and draining. And somehow the other film in the set is worse.

We're No Angels Blu-ray is today's pre-order

andyli wrote: Thu Jul 03, 2025 12:37 am Elaine May's A New Leaf in 4K UHD next up from Cinématographe.

I initially assumed this post meant it would be today's announcement. Do we have an idea when this will be announced?

From their FAQ:

July 7th at 12:01 PM ET
- 1 Cinématographe

Thank you

Matt wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 7:24 pm As Morrissey (R.I.P.) once said, "One man's nut loaf is another man's baked nose-pickings."

Morrissey died? and I fnally broke down at bought tix to see him this year (after having given up on him a long time ago after so many no-shows where I lost the Ticketmaster service charge) just because it fell on my birthday.

jt938 wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 6:55 pm I'll never drink the VinSyn Kool-Aid, I don't understand the hype.

I don't think it's hype, I think it's that their selection is so random & so niche that they're bound to release at least one title that you were hoping to see released by another label but gave up on, no matter who you are or what your taste.

Morrissey didn’t die, I think they met R.I.P. as in liking him due to his um outspoken beliefs.

Also good luck seeing him if it doesn’t get rescheduled.

Actually I was making a joke because he just used his last name, but I think he may have actually been talking about Paul Morrissey, as VS released Flesh For Frankenstein.

Bad joke, maybe. I meant the former singer of the Smiths who is dead (to me).

Though I do one day hope to own that Flesh for Frankenstein UHD if I can ever justify the cost to myself.

The Flesh for Frankenstein UHD is definitely worth it if you are still trying to justify purchasing it. The transfer is incredible and the different supplement interviews are fun.

....and the price has been going up on the VS release ($80 on Amazon). There is now a newer UK edition which deep discount has @ $36. And the German Mediabook edition contains the Paul Morrissey commentary not included on the VS edition.

But it's odd that VS has Frankenstein & Severin has Dracula. All other editions are on the same label.

Vinegar Syndrome got the rights to both films but David Gregory at Severin had always dreamed of releasing Blood for Dracula so they worked out a deal.

Matt wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 7:24 pm I'm sure it just the same impulse that drives people to collect every Criterion disc, just for trash instead of treasure. As Morrissey (R.I.P.) once said, "One man's nut loaf is another man's baked nose-pickings."

It's spine-number OCD. A few months ago, someone was expressing the hope that Indicator's Jean Rollin survey would be over soon because he'd felt compelled to buy them all for spine-number reasons despite the fact that he hated his work.

The only complete run of spine numbers that I've actually paid for is Deaf Crocodile's, but that's because their taste chimes more perfectly with mine than does the output of practically any other label - and even on the rare occasions that it doesn't, I can easily justify the purchase on the grounds of supporting them.

To be fair though, the labels releasing things with spine numbers know exactly why they're doing it : to exploit said-OCD.

Oh, of course, but I was very struck by someone buying a dozen discs (with another eight in prospect) purely to have a complete set.

I mean, that's a lot of money to spend on discs that he most likely isn't even going to watch.

MichaelB wrote: Fri Jul 04, 2025 2:21 pm

The only complete run of spine numbers that I've actually paid for is Deaf Crocodile's, but that's because their taste chimes more perfectly with mine than does the output of practically any other label - and even on the rare occasions that it doesn't, I can easily justify the purchase on the grounds of supporting them.

I think for a lot of VS collectors, wanting to support them was a driving force behind getting the yearly subscription packages. But they have gotten quite large and I wonder, if they continue down their path of a ton of re-issues, and with so much coming out on sublabels (VSU, VSA, VSL, Degausser, Cinematographe) that aren't included in the yearly package, how many people that do subscribe are going to stop. (looking at this half year subscription sale week and they are releasing twice as many titles that aren't included in the subscription as they are titles included in the subscription. I know they a give a 50% off discount on excluded titles, but people can wait and get most of what they want at that price during sales.)

Fire Maidens of Outer Space is today's release