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Post by andydecker on Aug 26, 2021 10:00:53 GMT
For those who are interested, Severin in the US just announced the sale of a Folk Horror Box. All the haunts be ours - A compendium of Folk Horror. 19 movies, a reading of The White People by Linda Hayden and a book.
Unfortunatly they will sell only in the US as due to the fragile box postage for International customers would be 100 USD, but are willing to make exceptions. You can read it here: severin-films.com/shop/folk-horror-box/#page
As far as I am concerned Severin is of good quality as far as the xtras go, the remastered quality of the two movies I ordered wasn't bad, but somehow I expected more.
The compiled movies are mostly Eastern Europe and the UK and seldom seen, I guess. Two are on my want-list for ages, but as I was mostly diappointed by low budget productions or at least thought them 'meh' I just can't decide.
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Aug 27, 2021 19:38:15 GMT
Unfortunatly they will sell only in the US as due to the fragile box postage for International customers would be 100 USD, but are willing to make exceptions. You can read it here: severin-films.com/shop/folk-horror-box/#pageThe set does ship internationally ($30 to the UK), and the $100 International Postage is for 'The Witches Bundle', which includes the boxset alongside other items, such a a reproduction of a plate from 'The Owl Service', a tarot deck, posters, and other items. It's the fragile nature and weight of these additional items that makes shipping so expensive. |
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Post by helrunar on Aug 27, 2021 23:34:54 GMT
Andreas, I bought the Christopher Lee Eurocrypt set which Severin released late last Spring. It was very well produced and included a couple of my favorite Lee films (including one he filmed in Bavaria under the direction of Harald Rainl in '67, Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel which has something like five different release titles or more in Anglophone markets--I know it best as The Torture Chamber of Dr Sadism). The set was impressive and I'm still exploring some of it... but somehow it didn't knock my socks off. One of the best of the extras was film impresario and mega-collector David del Valle reminiscing about his friendship with Christopher Lee.
The Folk Horror Box is around $70 more than I'd want to pay for such an item, particularly since some of the films are unlikely to be anything I'd view more than once. The Eurocrypt box did include this offbeat early 70s Polish horror anthology series for which Lee shot intros. I thought that was interesting because the material is so obscure.
Best, Steve
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Post by andydecker on Aug 28, 2021 12:14:39 GMT
The set does ship internationally ($30 to the UK), and the $100 International Postage is for 'The Witches Bundle', which includes the boxset alongside other items, such a a reproduction of a plate from 'The Owl Service', a tarot deck, posters, and other items. It's the fragile nature and weight of these additional items that makes shipping so expensive. Then I misunderstood that these are two different goods. I checked and discovered that I have at least one of the movies on the shelf, maybe two. Not sure about Dark Waters, I taped this many years ago and am not sure if this is the Dark Waters included here. But I have Witchhammer, which was included in one of those dirt-cheap nonsensical compilation packs - six movies for a fiver or so - of mostly Eastern-European historicals shot in black and white. The rest were such obscure gems like Corman's Dracula or Bunuel's Eleonore. (Juan Luis, not Luis  ). I don't remember much about Witchhammer except that it was impressively authentic in its photography and sets, had more nudity than Blood on Satan's Claw and basically the feel of a documentary. One just can't compare this with a Tigon movie,and calling if Folk Horror ... I don't know. Andreas, I bought the Christopher Lee Eurocrypt set which Severin released late last Spring. It was very well produced and included a couple of my favorite Lee films (including one he filmed in Bavaria under the direction of Harald Rainl in '67, Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel which has something like five different release titles or more in Anglophone markets--I know it best as The Torture Chamber of Dr Sadism). The set was impressive and I'm still exploring some of it... but somehow it didn't knock my socks off. One of the best of the extras was film impresario and mega-collector David del Valle reminiscing about his friendship with Christopher Lee. I am with you here. Those movies are indeed more interesting than good. Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel is terribly tame German horror kitsch, I always wondered how the movie would be if it would have been produced 20 years later and taken seriously for a change. The screenplay had potential, you just don't see this on the screen. The tone is like a Funhouse ride, actors in costumes on cheap sets. On the other hand it is charmingly naive and the actors seemed to have had fun back then. Even if the plastic skeletons are borrowed from middle school. The Lee Sherlock Holmes movie included in the Erocrypt set is another (mostly) German production and I really hate it. As phony as a three dollar note. The Italian horror movies included I have never seen, either they are unavaiable or too expensive for something you just watch once and mostly for the audio commentary. Of course these are slow by nature, but beautiful to look at. I have seen Camillo Mastrocinque's (Crypt of the Vampire) An Angel for Satan, I think the last movie Barbara Steele did in Italy, and it is beautifully done. But also very slow (and tame) by today's standards.
I ordered two movies from Severin in the recent past, Nosferatu in Venice and Patrick still Lives. If one orders these movies, you (hopefully) know what to expect as far as the content is concerned. I really like the later, a fine piece of Euro-horror-sleaze, but at least on my TV it didn't looked much better than the old edition I already had, and the former was okay, I guess. Terrible movie and a truly wasted opportunity, and mostly this is Kinski's fault.
Still, the service of Severin was beyond any criticism and very well done.
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Post by drauch on Aug 30, 2021 19:27:43 GMT
Very excited for this set and ordered day one. A lot of stuff that hasn't had a good release in many years time. Severin does a great job in my experience and I own a decent chunk of their catalogue and their Intervision (primarily SOV movies) sub-label. Could very well be the state of the print provided regarding the movies not looking as good as you would hope, as some things they've gotten hold of had been sort of pushed back into the netherworld, like the incredible The Sinful Dwarf.
It is indeed the 1993 Dark Waters directed by Mariano Baino. I bought it back when NoShame released it on DVD with a cool little plaque/emblem. It's been fifteen-ish years, but wasn't too fond of it at the time. Perhaps another chance is in order.
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). I don't remember much about Witchhammer except that it was impressively authentic in its photography and sets, had more nudity than Blood on Satan's Claw and basically the feel of a documentary. One just can't compare this with a Tigon movie,and calling if Folk Horror ... I don't know.