Zombie Holocaust / Zombi Holocaust / Doctor Butcher M.D.

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Severin announced a UHD is coming later this year.

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Just announced on Severin's FB page:

****NEW RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT****

DOCTOR BUTCHER M.D. / ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST UHD 4-DISC SET

THE NORTH AMERICAN UHD PREMIERES. FULLY RESTORED. TOTALLY UNCUT. MORE DEPRAVED THAN EVER BEFORE!

“IT EPITOMIZES THE SEVERIN AESTHETIC… This 1980 zombie/cannibal-hybrid is so gore-drenched and savagely, stupidly delightful, it must be seen to be believed.” DVD Talk

It sparked riots on 42nd Street, spawned a generation of gorehounds on VHS, forever set an insane standard for Italian zombie/cannibal carnage worldwide, and is now presented in UHD: Ian McCulloch (ZOMBIE), Alexandra Delli Colli (THE NEW YORK RIPPER), Sherry Buchanan (TENTACLES) and Donald O’Brien (EMANUELLE AND THE LAST CANNIBALS) star in this unabashed EuroTrash orgy of gut-munching, eyeball-gouging and face-chopping originally known as ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST, which a notorious American distributor would then re-edit, re-title as DOCTOR BUTCHER M.D. and re-release as a certified grindhouse masterpiece. Severin Films now presents both films scanned in 4K from original vault elements discovered in Manhattan and Rome with 4 hours of archival and all-new Special Features that reveal the unbelievable truth behind its bizarre history, infamous marketing and still-deviant legacy.

Disc 1: UHD (DOCTOR BUTCHER M.D. Feature + Special Features)

• Theatrical Trailer
• Video Release Trailer
• TV Spot

Disc 2: UHD (ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST Feature + Special Feature)

• Trailer

Disc 3: Blu-ray (DOCTOR BUTCHER M.D. Feature + Special Features)

• Butchery & Ballyhoo – Interview With Aquarius Releasing’s Terry Levene
• The Four Boroughs Of Blood – Rue Morgue's Michael Gingold Tours New York Locations Of Italian Horror
• Down On The Deuce – Nostalgic Tour Of 42nd Street With Temple Of Shock's Chris Poggiali and Filmmaker Roy Frumkes
• Tales That Tore Our Heart Out – Filmmakers Frank Farel And Brendan Faulkner Discuss Unfinished Anthology Film
• Roy Frumkes' Segment Of Unfinished Anthology Film TALES THAT WILL TEAR YOUR HEART OUT With Accompanying Director Commentary
• The Butcher Mobile – Interview With Gore Gazette Editor And Butcher Mobile Barker Rick Sullivan
• Cutting Doctor Butcher – Interview With Editor Jim Markovic
• Illustrated Essay: “Experiments With A Male Caucasian Brain (…And Other Memories Of 42nd Street)” By Gary Hertz
• Theatrical Trailer
• Video Release Trailer
• TV Spot

Disc 4: Blu-ray (ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST Feature + Special Features)

• Voodoo Man – Interview With Star Ian McCulloch
• Blood Of The Zombies – Interview With SFX Master Rosario Prestopino
• Filmmaker Enzo G. Castellari Remembers His Father, Director Marino Girolami
• Neurosurgery Italian Style – Interview With SFX Artist Maurizio Trani
• Sherry Holocaust – Interview With Actress Sherry Buchanan
• New York Filming Locations: 1980 & 2015
• Audio Bonus: Ian McCulloch Sings “Down By The River”
• Trailer

Disc Specs:

• Limited Edition Slipcover
• Limited Edition Barfbag
• DolbyVision
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Audio: Doctor Butcher M.D. - English Mono
• Audio: Zombie Holocaust - English Mono, Italian Mono
• Closed Captions
• English Subtitles: Zombie Holocaust
• Regions: A/B/C
• Run Time: Doctor Butcher M.D – 82 mins, Zombie Holocaust – 89 mins

https://severinfilms.com/collections...hd-w-slipcover

[James Reed Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close James Reed]

The Severin version 'fixes' mistakes that are funny, such as the nurse's out-of-sync scream and the dead cannibal blinking his eyes. That's a bit dull.

[agent999 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close agent999]

The Severin version 'fixes' mistakes that are funny, such as the nurse's out-of-sync scream and the dead cannibal blinking his eyes. That's a bit dull.

Agreed. We've known and loved things like that for decades. You know what you're getting when you decide to watch this, it's just like putting screen doors on a submarine. Things like the arm falling off the dummy and then being reattached in the next shot of the real person are part of this film's charm.

[Matt H. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Matt H.]

The Severin version 'fixes' mistakes that are funny, such as the nurse's out-of-sync scream and the dead cannibal blinking his eyes. That's a bit dull.

That's not good. What gives them the right?

[agent999 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close agent999]

I should be getting the UK UHD next week, I hope that's unmolested.

[Darcy Parker Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Darcy Parker]

The Severin version 'fixes' mistakes that are funny, such as the nurse's out-of-sync scream and the dead cannibal blinking his eyes. That's a bit dull.

What a way to fuck up a release.

[Dom D Spoon! Find all posts View Profile Close Dom D]

The Severin version 'fixes' mistakes that are funny, such as the nurse's out-of-sync scream and the dead cannibal blinking his eyes. That's a bit dull.

For real?! That's totally unacceptable. There's too much of this nonsense at the moment. Labels have to get it through their heads that they are just distributing the movies, they are not in a creative role here.

[BW Haggar Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close BW Haggar]

If this is true, I'll be appropriately shocked and appalled, but I find it hard to believe Severin would be so silly.

Surely they, of all labels, must realise that the imperfections in movies like this are half the fun (as well as being well-known and beloved by all the fans buying this thing for the 5th time)?

[Darcy Parker Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Darcy Parker]

If this is true, I'll be appropriately shocked and appalled, but I find it hard to believe Severin would be so silly.

Surely they, of all labels, must realise that the imperfections in movies like this are half the fun (as well as being well-known and beloved by all the fans buying this thing for the 5th time)?

Never forget that Severin fucked up many releases by mastering them in the wrong gamma setting. They ruined black levels by using the gamma that PC monitors use instead of using the correct value for TV content, and they never fixed ANY of them, so them “fixing” the errors that make Dr, Butcher what it is certainly wouldn’t seem out of character in my eyes.

[Matt H. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Matt H.]

Never forget that Severin fucked up many releases by mastering them in the wrong gamma setting. They ruined black levels by using the gamma that PC monitors use instead of using the correct value for TV content, and they never fixed ANY of them, so them “fixing” the errors that make Dr, Butcher what it is certainly wouldn’t seem out of character in my eyes.

That's not the same thing, though. Improper gamma levels is a mastering error.

[Darcy Parker Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Darcy Parker]

That's not the same thing, though. Improper gamma levels is a mastering error.

It’s more their insistence that they hadn’t done anything wrong and refusal to correct it that indicates the level of arrogant cluselessness that leads one to “fix” things fans love about a bad movie like they did with Dr. Butcher.

[Matt H. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Matt H.]

It’s more their insistence that they hadn’t done anything wrong and refusal to correct it that indicates the level of arrogant cluselessness that leads one to “fix” things fans love about a bad movie like they did with Dr. Butcher.

Allegedly. I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere else. I'm not really doubting James Reed's report, but you'd think something like that would be noticed by more people.

[Darcy Parker Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Darcy Parker]

Allegedly. I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere else. I'm not really doubting James Reed's report, but you'd think something like that would be noticed by more people.

It was a big thing on the Blu-ray.com forums, which is where a Severin rep claimed that there was nothing incorrect about mastering a Blu in PC gamma instead of TV gamma, which got him torn a few new orificies.

[agent999 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close agent999]

I had a quick look at the 88 Films UHD, the nurse's weird double scream is still out of synch and the cannibal with a machete through his head still blinks if those are the bits being referred to? So the UK version sounds ok (unless I got the wrong bits).