4k UHD Blu-ray recommendations

I've at least 3 different releases of this.. original 2 Disc Grindhouse release with a cool fold out poster, Australian 2 Disc release and a VCD version (anyone else familiar with VCDs'?)

This is the perfect opportunity to upgrade to a BluRay/4K edition. Although ideally, I'd love to get my hands on an original UK precert VHS on the 'GO' video label.

A lot of potential viewers are put off from watching this due to the inclusion of the few brief animal cruelty scenes.. understandably so!.. but they're missing out on a classic '80's exploitation flic especially when pretty much all modern home media releases provide the option to view with those scenes excluded.

I've been caught with Arrow before - re Weird Science UHD vs BD. Their packaging should be clearer - their limited edition sets with booklet disappear quickly but the standard editions look identical with nothing to obviously differentiate them. Unlike Vinegar Syndrome, Indicator or Imprint.

Good stuff.

Shame they stopped absorbing the VAT on international orders. I haven't ordered off them since that change but have a few items on the wantlist namely

Bloody Legend Cliff Twenlow box

House Of Psychotic Women 2

Spanish Exorcismo

Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee Volume 3

Andy Milligan Gutter Auteur

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The War Game as well

And a Disco Italiana box plus The Music Machine (disco glitter fest from London, 1979) which I saw on VHS many years ago while skipping PE.

Faces Of Death finally makes it to UHD, wow. Remember watching it on VHS in the late 1980s. Rented from the dodgiest video library in town.
Arrived as part of my latest Vinegar Syndrome order. The Eurocrime Rarities set looks great - have only seen Day Of The Cobra. The Forgotten Gialli series has thrown up some serious gems, now moving into the 1990s with volume 9. The Shaw Brothers box has a nice mix of magic, atmosphere and dread. Nice to get quality editions of The Gambler, Body Of Evidence, Boxcar Bertha etc. Will post up reviews in the other thread as I go through them.

I've never ordered from Rarewaves - what's the service like and do they use IOSS?
For UK orders that Amazon or the boutique labels can't fulfill, I've been using Chalkys - no VAT issues, just a little slow.

Depends what you're into but Vinegar Syndrome in the US are great for cult movies - https://vinegarsyndrome.com/ - albeit many are region locked to A.

Imprint in Australia are very prolific, if a little pricey - but practically everything they put out is region free - some great genre / director box sets.
https://viavision.com.au/collections/imprint-films

Not altogether surprising. Fincher is a bit of a perfectionist, he made changes when Se7ven got the 4k treatment too.

That's fair. Perfectionist might be a poor choice of words. I meant it in the sense more that he strives to perfect something, not saying that his changes are an improvement.

He's meticulous and a nitpicker. Seeing flaws where there isn't any at times. Makes him a bit of a pain to work for I'd imagine.

I'm not disagreeing or defending it. I think it's a pointless change too. I saw some people say the changes were to do with the colour changes in tv technology over time but don't know how accurate that is. He changed the prescription on the medication bottle too.

Cameron's use of AI is questionable for sure, it's put me off some of the 4k's of his films. Even before that he's redone some effects for Titanic and Terminator 2 as well. Spielberg added some effects to Close Encounters as well, although the ET walkie-talkies are far more infamous. Which he'd regret afterwards.

I think as you said, not having access to the originals is definitely a sore spot. Some directors, Fincher for sure but Cameron even more so will forever tinker with their work. Cameron already mentioned converting Aliens to 3D this week and it won't be shocking that if he does convert it that more changes are made to the film.

Some directors for whatever reason can only see non-existant flaws in their films when they look back at them. Either because visual standards or conventions of filmmaking have changed since it's released or because more modern technology makes fixing the imagined issues far more affordable or easy. It's pointless to us and frustrating when the original version becomes more obscure but they won't stop. They see it as their film as opposed to a communal piece of relevant pop culture and studios are only more delighted to tout an improved re-release or pimp out a new 'edition' for streaming or physical releases.