Looks a bit barebones I'm afraid, for those out there that are fans of all the additional stuff used on DVDs to pull in and totally convince those that have already seen the film that they need to fork out for it again, well there's not much here. For those that like the films primarily, well it's here - finally. Has a nice little documentary on there though, all new interviews and stuff like that within it. Main thing for me is, the films getting its long-awaited R1 USA DVD release, as we have mentioned before, and the Anamorphic 1.66:1 transfer and 5.1 sound mix needs, and I emphasise this strongly, to be absolutely spot on Anchor Bay. They've done it before, so they can do it again, and I don't want them to feel that the film communities eyes are staring relentlessly at them, but they are. Trust me.
Oh, and that artwork there, that's the same picture and quote that was used previously - seen it elsewhere online in a slightly larger or broader / uncropped form with the 20th Century Fox logo in the bottom corner. The details on the disc were revealed yesterday, and the artwork later added in, but since there's little on the disc that shouts 'special treatment', it has me thinking. [Source : Fangoria].
I hope AB is planning to include the film's original audio mix, which I'm assuming, for a small Italian film from the mid-90s, was not done in Dolby Digital. According to EOFFTV, the original mix was in Dolby Matrix (the same as Dolby Surround, which was up to four tracks I believe), and according to IMDB, it was straight Dolby stereo.
In any event, AB has ticked me off in the past for omitting the original sound mixes for some classic titles. Hopefully they won't continue that trend here.
I'm really looking forward to having a decent-quality copy of this film, on my favorites from the mid-90s.
Sucks that they didn't port over Soavi's audio commentary and slap some English subs on that like I had secretly hoped. But that'd have been the first time for Anchor Bay to subtitle a commentary I think. Hell, they seem to have preferred to have Dario Argento talk in unintelligible "English" as opposed to subtitling a nice and fluent Italian commentary. Media Blasters-Tokyo Shock seem the only folks who really get this subtitling commentaries thing.
Finally! What took them so long. Now, if they could just release Razorback.
Sooo. with the current specs, other than the documentary is there anything on this that's not on the Italian disc? -- looks like a different aspect ratio from the Italian as well.
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