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I screened Hercules in the Haunted World last night. It is a great transfer and the color is fantastic. But as a movie, it sucks. The acting is bad, the story is bad, the dialogue is bad, it isn't terribly entertaining. But the lighting and cinematography are great. Mario Bava was a genius at...

Did that guy who crashed and burned with the Elvira movie ever license it to be released? When he disappeared he said he was on the verge of making a deal for it. But that was a long time ago.

16mm TV print perhaps

I just finished screening The Invisble Man Returns from the German box set. The German set appears to come from different transfers than the French Elephant Films discs. I am betting that the Invisible Man set is 2K transfers and the Elephant Films discs are the 4K transfers. Like the French...

I see a restoration and a transfer as two very different things. Every film blu-ray should have a good transfer. But I don't think every film needs restoration. If a film element is in excellent shape, I would actually prefer that no restoration, or at least very minimal restoration, be done to...

Perhaps the movie buying public in those countries respect America's cultural heritage more than American movie buyers do.

I have the complete Edgar Wallace DVD set and it looks good. Why couldn't they put two on each disk? These run a little over an hour apiece don't they? As I remember they are very short.

As long as the DVD Beaver caps are consistent in their calibration to each other, I can tell what I need. It would be mighty difficult to create a cap that looks just like everyone's TV. But if all of his caps are consistent, you can look at something you know and be able to figure out how...