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A SERIOUS DISC AGREEMENT: IMPRINT FILMS - SILVER SCREAMS CINEMA (1944 - 1957)
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A Serious Disc Agreement is the only "serious" podcast on the Australian Internet about "Movie Disc Culture."
Hang onto your slipcases because Alexei Toliopoulos (Finding Drago, Total Reboot) and Blake Howard (One Heat Minute) team up to unbox, unpack and unveil upcoming releases from Australia's brand new boutique Blu-Ray label Imprint Films. This is the second episode on the July 2021 Imprint Films drop, and we're talking:
SILVER SCREAMS CINEMA (1944 - 1957)
Disc One:
The Phantom Speaks / The Vampire’s Ghost (Imprint Collection # 54)
The Phantom Speaks (1945) – Starring Richard Arlen, Stanley Ridges, Lynne Roberts
The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician and forces him to do its bidding–namely, murder.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 1080p presentation of the film on Blu-ray
- NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Tim Lucas (2021)
- NEW Audio commentary with horror/ fantasy authors Stephen Jones and Kim Newman (2021)
- Bonus 1944 movie “Lady & The Monster” (SD)
- LPCM 2.0 Mono
- Optional English subtitles
The Vampire’s Ghost (1945) – Starring John Abbott, Charles Gordon, Peggy Stewart
In a small African port, a tawdry bar is run by a man named Webb Fallon. Fallon is actually a vampire, but he is becoming weary of his “life” of the past few hundred years.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 1080p presentation of the film on Blu-ray
- NEW Audio Commentary with film historian Tom Weaver (2021)
- LPCM 2.0 Mono
- Optional English subtitles
Disc Two
Return of the Ape Man / Valley of the Zombies (Imprint Collection # 55)
Return of the Ape Man (1944) – Starring Bela Lugosi, John Carradine, George Zucco
A scientist seeks to transplant a brain into the body of a thawed caveman in order to get it to do his bidding.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 1080p presentation of the film on Blu-ray
- NEW Audio Commentary with film historian Tom Weaver (2021)
- LPCM 2.0 Mono
- Optional English subtitles
Valley of the Zombies (1946) – Starring Robert Livingston, Lorna Gray, Ian Keith
A mad undertaker, restored by a potion, has an all-consuming need for blood and seeks revenge on those who had him committed to an insane asylum.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 1080p presentation of the film on Blu-ray
- NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Tim Lucas (2021)
- NEW Audio commentary with horror/ fantasy authors Stephen Jones and Kim Newman (2021)
- LPCM 2.0 Mono
- Optional English subtitles
Disc Three
She Devil / The Unknown Terror (Imprint Collection # 56)
She Devil (1957) – Starring Mari Blanchard, Jack Kelly, Albert Dekker
Doctors Scott and Bach inject the dying Kyra Zelas with a formula that saves her life – but also renders her almost immortal and wickedly evil.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 1080p presentation of the film on Blu-ray
- NEW Audio commentary with horror/ fantasy authors Stephen Jones and Kim Newman (2021)
- Tales of Tomorrow episode “The Miraculous Serum” based on the sc