The Warner Archive Blu-ray/DVD Thread

[Jason C Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jason C]

It's feel like an eternity since they've released any 70's exploitation or 80's horror.

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As of Feb. 1 Warner Archive launched a streaming service, it's in beta right now and only available if you have a Roku device. Many titles that haven't been released on disc yet though and probably more to come. Many are in HD too.

Yeah, and NO support in Canada. I bought a Roku for stuff like this, and so far I've been underwhelmed. It's sitting in the rec room unused right now.

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

It's feel like an eternity since they've released any 70's exploitation or 80's horror.

These came out today... 50s and 60s not 70s and 80s but horror at least!

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Ian shockingly left off what is easily the cream of yesterday's new releases (and a 1960s horror film too): THE FROZEN DEAD.

Wall of undead Nazi arms!


Jan in the pan!

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Yeah, that was kind of a big omission, thanks for catching that.

I mgiht step out on that one once WA has another sale.

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Some horror titles today from Warner Archive but they're all stuff that's been on dvd. Bummer.

TARGETS (1968) Peter Bogdanovich makes his directorial debut (thanks to some help from B-Movie maestro Roger Corman) and hits the ground stunning in this masterwork meditation on the nature of horror and entertainment in the ante-celluloid age. Boris Karloff, in a true career-capping performance, plays an aging horror star eager to escape into retirement but gets caught up in the undertow of repertory revival. Tim O'Kelly plays an insurance agent whose mind harbors America's true horror — and violently cracks under the strain. Their two paths collide at a drive-in for a climax that cements Targets as a master thesis that's unites art house and grind house that is both reflective and prescient. Shot by the equally esteemed Lí¡szlí³ Koví¡cs. 16x9 Widescreen

FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL (1971) Terence Fisher makes his directorial denouement in the final Peter Cushing Hammer Frankenstein flick. This installment finds the mad doctor pretending to be a mad doctor in a madhouse thanks to some skeletons in the asylum director's closet. Thanks to some ill-advised bodysnatching, a young protégé for the Baron (Shane Briant) arrives as an inmate and becomes the perfect apprentice from hell. The two set about restoring a monsterwork (David Prowse) of the doctor's, but the creature proves beyond the pair's control. 16x9 Widescreen

LADY IN A CAGE (1964) Golden-age great Olivia de Havilland takes a spin in Grand Dame Guignol and delivers an altogether different — and masterful — kind of chiller. Thanks to an electrical failure, a temporarily invalided rich widow (de Havilland) finds herself trapped in her home elevator. Hovering nine feet above the floor, she's suspended between two worlds — her life of cloistered privilege and the nightmare world of the have-nots outside after her home is subject to a series of invasions. Trapped without a Virgil to guide her out of hell, she is subject to torment and bears witness to depravity before her psyche pushes her to make a stand. James Caan plays the tormenter-in-chief in his first major film role, while Jeff Corey and Ann Sothern play the derelicts who usher in the blood-dimmed tide. Directed by Walter Grauman. 16x9 Widescreen

LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH (1971) HP Lovecraft, 20th Century Providential heir to the legacy of Poe, would have whole-heartedly approved of this modest haunter from the early seventies that has risen from the grave of neglect to be embraced as a true cult classic. Leaving the horror mostly unseen, whispered, or suggested, writer-director John Hancock enlists our own feverish imaginings into the mix, creating a truly haunted piece of unsettling cinema. Recent asylum inmate Jessica (Zohra Lampert) is spirited away from the big city to the wild woods of a small Connecticut island (Christmas in Connecticut this ain't!) following her release by her cellist spouse. But this island proves as shadowy as Innsmouth when Jessica finds herself stranded between madness and murder. 16x9 Widescreen

[Richard--W a straight arrow Find all posts View Profile Close Richard--W]

Why would anyone buy any of the above when the DVD's are still easily obtainable, and dirt cheap?

[Zane C. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Zane C.]

Why would anyone buy any of the above when the DVD's are still easily obtainable, and dirt cheap?

Good question. Warner needs to comb the vaults and come to the table with unreleased stuff, not stuff that's been done already. This is a head scratcher of a move.

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The Warner Archives Blu-ray/DVD Thread

Why would anyone buy any of the above when the DVD's are still easily obtainable, and dirt cheap?

TARGETS is OOP and goes for crazy money new (though its cheap enough used) so maybe I could see that one but yeah - dumb idea in general unless the title is seriously unavailable in even the used market. And btw - are Warner Archive still doing limited edition Blus?

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

These are coming 10/15/13...

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Some new Blu-ray titles are available now from WA:

Fearless (the 2003 Jeff Bridges movie)
Batman: The Brave And The Bold - The Complete First Season
The Mentalist: The Complete First Season
Billy Rose's Jumbo

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WA quietly put Fearless (the 1993 movie) out on Blu-ray.

http://shop.warnerarchive.com/produc...+1000365845.do

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Mondo Digital just posted this on FB....

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WA said that their PERFORMANCE Blu will have the line that is missing from the DVD.

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