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Your are in your local video store.  A certain video catches your eye.  You pick it up and out pops a genie.  He will grant you three wishes under one condition.  The wishes are for what three movies you would like to see  Special Edition DVDs made of.  The DVD will contain the movie(of course) and tons of really cool stuff(interviews, deleted scenes, ect., ect.) What movies would you pick?  My choices would be:

1. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, because I don't even think it is on DVD
2. Dead Alive, with the scences that haven't been released on the American VHS versions.
3. UHF, just because I loved that movie and it isn't on DVD that I know of

You'll be pleased to know that UHF will be released on DVD several months from now. From what I heard, there will be some extra stuff thrown in besides the movie and the trailer.

1. Revenge of the Cheerleaders (very over the top, hasselhoff's first)
2. Black Magic  (THE late night 70's kung fu movie w/ no kung fu)
3. Anna Kournikova exercise video

Well, since there is magic involved anything is possible right?

Nosferatu (1922)
For this one I want commentaries, interviews, any lost footage, and a fully restored print.

Plan 9 from Outer Space
Commentary track by Tor and Ed Wood!  More stock footage of Bela!  The chiropractor being interviewed while cracking a back!  A techno-dance video edited from the film by Ed Wood!  Gimme!

Can I please, please, please ask for a special edition box set?

No?  Well, I'm going to any darn way.

All of Toho's monster movies, in a special edition box set.  The Japanese version of the movie on one side, the American version on the other.  Interviews, behind the scenes pictures, commentaries.  Sometimes I go to bed praying for this to happen.

Andrew

I'd have:

1) Street Trash - With good extras this time and without the opening show party.

2) Something Wicked This Way Comes - Showing that Disney can make good movies.

3) The Vindicator (aka Frankenstein '88) - with Pam Grier on the commentary.

I want Street Trash also.

Cemetery Man
Daughter of Darkness (other Soavi movie)
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
The Psychic (Fulci)

There is a Nosferatu special edition; it's got commentary, a few different scores, a featurette about the locations it was shot at, and some other stuff (It's been a whike since I've played it),

As for me, let's see here:

1) Corman's "Little Shop of Horrors," in its first decent release... well, ever! It'd have a cleaned up print, commentary by Corman, Jonathan Haze, Dick Miller, Jackie Joseph, and Mel Welles, any trailers or promotional materials, any deleted scenes (though I doubt Corman would let anything hit the cutting room floor), and anything else of interest. (MGM, are you listening to me?)

2) "Rat Pfink A Boo Boo": Commentary on this one would be a must, to find out just what Steckler was thinking when he made the mother of all plot twists. Interviews with Steckler and Brandt would be nice too-- either new or archival (I know there are some out there).

3) I'll put in a vote for the Godzilla set, too-- I'd love to see the uncut versions on something other than fifth-generation bootlegs for a change.

Let's see:
-Encounter of The Spooky Kind-(Sammo Hung in a true classic) must have a commentary and behind the scenes documentary.
-The Hills Have Eyes- the commentary would have a part in it where Wes talks about why he is at his best when he is being strange and disturbing.
-The Younge Master-I'm sure Jackie would have a lot to say about this early classic of his.
 Many others I would like to see so I guess I would also wish for more wishes so I could also see special editions of: Last House On The Left, Night Of The Creeps, Re-Animator, and The Beastmaster just to name a few more.

Encounters Of The Spooky Kind - Special Edition is out in the uk with a load of extras:

Scene Access
Interactive Menus
Photo Galleries
Digitally Remastered
Feature Length Audio Commentary with Hong Kong Cinema Expert Bey Logan and Director/Star Sammo Hung
Trailer Gallery
Interview Gallery with Sammo Hung

There's already a Re-Animator disc out there that's about as special as I would imagine it could be: Two commentary tracks (one with the director, one with the cast), All the scenes that were added for the R-rated version, a scene that was even cut from that, and trailers (also w/ commentary). It was out of print for a while, but now you can find it at most places.

Massacre at Central High-one of the greatest films ever made.

The Thing from Another World-its fiftieth anniversary came and went without ANYTHING special done to commemorate it-no DVD, no special articles in any magazines I came by, nothing.

Ugetsu-the greatest of all Japanese fantasy films (doesn't it count as a horror film?)

Sounds cool Darkstar but I'm not in the U.K. and last I heard, their DVDs weren't compatible with our players.

Hey Vermin, would you happen to know where I could find a copy of the Re-Animator S.E.? If you could thanks!

I've always wanted to see Summer Camp Nightmare get a Dvd release, Wacko would also be a great dvd but only if Andrew Dice Clay and Joe Don Baker would do commentary, and lastly The Legend of Billy Jean (another of my guilty pleasure movies).

What type of player have you got ??

The thing about US DVD's are that you've got the better share when it comes to extras,sound and content, thats why a lot of UK DVD owners import movies. However sometimes we get gems like Sammo Hung movies uncut with loads of extras that you can't get anywhere else (also see Lam Ching Ying,Jackie Chan and Jet Lee movies)

Also most UK players have build in NTSC - PAL60 converters because we share the same region code as Japan.


Search out the Hong Kong region 0 version, that should be compatable.

Ooh,ohh, what Andrew and Vermin said about Toho! Perfection! Me want!.....second, As a genie is involved, how about a DVD of The Dirty Dozen, with commentary by Lee Marvin, Cassavetes, Bronson and Brown, and bloopers, and outtakes and alt. Scenes,oh my.........and third, a double feature of Giant Claw and Kronos, with cast commentary.....he he he...lets hear what Jeff Morrow had to say about the big bird and the killer Kelvinator!

Just check your local record store/Media Play/Best Buy, chances are you'll find it. If those don't work, I'm pretty sure CDNow carries it (but not, for some reason, Amazon). Good luck!

It's a Samsung. I checked on the back and it said it was a region 1. I hate region coding.

I've got a samsung 709, most samsung's have a region hack built into them the most famous being the All-For-One/AIWA remote hack but there is a hack you can do with the remote you get with you machine.

The region resets itself if you apply a cold start on your machine (holding play and stop on the machine) this also resets all the settings to the factory state.

heres the hack:


http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/info/multiregion/full/thomson3300.asp


I've used it on my Region 2 709 and it works fine, it also disables Macrovision when set to region 9, the downside is on region 9 you can't use RCE disks.

UHF will be on DVD this summer on a fully-loaded disc with Weird Al's complete cooperation (commentary?)! YYYESSS!!

This is very good news. About time this flick gets the DVD treatment. Hopefully there will be some nice extras(I'm sick of dishing out $20+ for DVDs when they have ZERO extras.

Star Wars Trilogy Platinum DVD Box set, w or w/o cg option, with bloopers, with ability to add the lost scenes on tatooine with bigs and others etc. with Lucus transcript and original conceptual drawings layered on, soundtrack removal, scene manipulation.

Up in smoke with actor commentary by cheech and chong high.

Gummo with deleted scene.

It's well-nigh impossible to narrow it down to just three, but I'll try...

The Thing (1951), mentioned earlier, is a good choice near the top of my list. It would help me forget the Carpenter version.  Of wait, I just forgot it again. ;)

The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) is coming out soon anyway, or so I've heard. The finest sf film ever made deserves the royal treatment on DVD.

And just for fun, Them (1954) would be nice to have on DVD, since all I have is a crappy VHS copy from cable.  The best of the big bug movies (apologies to my old friend Bert I. Gordon)!

What would really be fun is a bunch of the hard-to-come-by 1950's Roger Corman AA titles, like Not of the Earth, War of the Satellites, Attack of the Crab Monsters, etc.  But as my wife would say, "Dream on, MacDuff." :/

Cheers,

Kevin

Plus Lucas could do some new scenes for the trilogy, with Jar-Jar's grandchildren
and a whole new song and dance routine.

ha ha ha

I like your list,too, Kev. Those could make good double features. Two movies, like Them and Black Scorpion, and trailers included. Yeah....at least we can dream.....

I seen this movie, but I would like to see the triolgy of Indiana Jones with interviews and the history behind all the artifacts in all three movies.

The first ever Hip-Hop movie Crush Groove with a where are they now segment on most of the performers.

And a DragonHeart series.  Just cause I like the first one

Mine would be:

1. Carnosaur 3: Primal Species
2. American Werewolf in London
3. Pretty Woman................................ Just kidding, it would be ................................................................................................... Screamers