The Playgirls and the Vampire
One of my favorites for so many reasons. Anybody else out there harbor a fondness for it? (This is just a "toe in the surf" -- I have lots to say about it, but I will hold back till I know that there...
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I put it just above The Red Shoes in my personal film guide, giving it sixteen and a half stars.
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I have such a hard time rating movies and making ranking lists. So I just have to include VAMPIRE AND THE BALLERINA along with , oh, about 500 other movies as Best Movie Ever Made. ZD
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I also have Video Screams video of "The Monster of the Opera", which is along the same lines Is that the same film I used to see stills from, called VAMPIRE OF THE OPERA? I'm still waiting for The...
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Netflix has this available on their streaming feature. I just watched and enjoyed it for the first time (that I can remember). The print is quite good, as is the sound. Is the score original or just...
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The Dark Sky DVD of "Slaughter of the Vampires" is unfortunately an abomination, being hideously cropped above and below, just to please to the owners of these wide-screen TV sets. In some key...
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todmichel wrote: ...just to please to the owners of these wide-screen TV sets... The problem with SLAUGHTER (as well as many Dark Sky releases) is not that it's matted for widescreen (it should be)...
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It's perhaps one of the problems, but, anyway, zoomed or not, the image ratio is incorrect. This movie wasn't intended for 1.85. The correct ratio is 1.66 and it makes at LOT of difference. Now, of...
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todmichel wrote: It's perhaps one of the problems, but, anyway, zoomed or not, the image ratio is incorrect. This movie wasn't intended for 1.85. The correct ratio is 1.66 and it makes at LOT of...
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Their ratio is 1.85, according to their own box notice... but to be frank, I didn't measure the image on the screen. Anyway, I don't see where is the problem in having a 1.66 ratio on these large TV...
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todmichel wrote: Their ratio is 1.85, according to their own box notice... but to be frank, I didn't measure the image on the screen. Anyway, I don't see where is the problem in having a 1.66 ratio on...
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Source for the caps: The Latarnia Forum The four images below are from the Retromedia disc (left) and the Dark Sky disc (right). This is the proof that the MAIN cause of the damage caused to the movie...
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I'm well aware of the problem with SLAUGHTER, and Latarnia's initial exploration of it. We can go back and forth on the relative demerits of presenting SLAUGHTER at 1.78 rather than 1.66, but the .12...
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Thank you for the link ! in fact, I have read the entire thread, and I also sent a (polite) mail to Dark Sky. I bought several of their discs before noticing their zooming and cropping... and it seems...
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I just received a copy of this film. I hope I can watch the whole thing before I fall asleep. Sounds good and campy. Always nice to have a writhing hand in the first scene
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Jeffrey Allen Rydell wrote: I'm well aware of the problem with SLAUGHTER, and Latarnia's initial exploration of it. We can go back and forth on the relative demerits of presenting SLAUGHTER at 1.78...
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Dennis Fischer provides a little retrospective review at Cinefantasitque, part of the on-going 50th anniversary celebration of 1960 horror...
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Dark Sky's track record elsewhere bears out that they've some serious ongoing issues with zoomed-in transfers. I like that Dark Sky has given us so many vintage horror titles on DVD, but they have...
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I agree that the strange, boring/interesting CUADECUC would make a perfect 'extra' for COUNT DRACULA, but it's really not a short. I know it runs at least an hour, maybe even 70-75 minutes. It's an...
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