DAGON (2001) (Umbrella Blu-ray Review)

DAGON (2001)
WORLDS ON FILM: BEYOND GENRES VOL.3

Label: Umbrella Entertainment
Region Code: Region-Free (Labeled Region B)
Rating: R 18+
Duration: 98 Minutes 
Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio Surround 5.1 with Optional English Subtitles 
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1.77:1) 
Director: Stuart Gordon
Cast: Ezra Godden, Brendan Price, Javier Sandoval, Victor Alcazar, Francisco Rabal, Raquel Merono, Macarena Gomez

Dagon (2001) opens with our main guy Paul (Ezra Gordon, Band of Brothers) having a aqautic nightmare, in it he is scuba diving and discovers some strange underwater ruin, also encountering a toothy mermaid (Macarena Gómez, Witching and Bitching), startled he wakes up next to his girlfriend Barbara (Raquel Meroño). We come to realize he's on a boat sailing off the coast of Spain along with husband and wife Howard (Brendan Price) and Vicki (Birgit Bofarull). Not long afterward a storm blows in and the boat becomes stranded on some rocks just off the coast of a small island called Imboca. Vicki is seriously injured during the wreck and her husband stays behind with her while Barbara and Paul take a dingy to the nearby island. They arrive at a small fishing village that looks to be abandoned at first, but they eventually find a strange priest at a church, who in turn enlists the help of some fisherman to return to the scuttled boat with Paul and retrieve his friends. However, when they arrives his friends are gone, returning to the island empty handed he finds that his girlfriend is also now missing, and things just get weirder from there. 

It turns out the island is home to a race of mutated fish-men who worship a deep-sea old god named Dagon, as they rain pours down ceaselessly he makes his way around the island looking for his girlfriend, eventually finding some help from a sympathetic drunkard named Ezequial (Francisco Rabal, Nightmare City), who appears to be the last full-on human left on the island. He spins a tale for Paul, explaining how everyone else on the island has been transformed into half-man, half-fish hybrids who worship an ancient undersea god.

The special effects of this one are fun, the webbed-fingers and deformed fishy features of the locals are eerie and weird, I like that as they mutate they lose the ability to stand on their own as their bodies morph slowly into tentacled appendages, with many of the locals hobbling around on rudimentary crutches and other wheeled devices. At one point Paul finds what looks to be a tannery full of human skins (including one of the friends from the boat), and he begins to see how truly desperate things are, coming to realize what exactly his recurring mermaid nightmare means, trying to save his girlfriend from becoming a breeding partner for the Lovecraftian water-god while trying not to become another skinned sacrifice for the same dark God.

The film is dripping with atmosphere and Lovecraftian intrigue, the ever present downpour of rain and the mysterious fish-men on a strange island makes for a good watch, enhanced by some attractive lensing and an powerful eerie score from Carles Cases (The Nameless). I really liked the main protagonist as played by Ezra Godden, he looks a bit like a younger Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator) with similar looking cropped hair and spectacles, you get the feeling that the director really wanted Combs in the role, which makes sense, this was supposed to be a follow-up to Re-Animator with Combs starring. Godden balances fright, desperation and humor well, it's not slapstick funny but there's definitely some humor imbued into his performance, he's a bit inept and reluctant hero. 

What didn't work for me are the poorly rendered and badly dated digital special effects, these were bad even for Syfy originals of the time. Some of the worst offenders are an underwater shot of the boat early, tentacles emerging from a mouth,  and Dagon emerging from the depth, so hopefully your invested in the story and a little forgiving about the shortcomings in the F/X department.

The story doesn't have a lot of narrative momentum, once we're on the island there's a lot of general mystery and weirdness, with it becoming a chase film peppered with siege moments, culminating in a show of Lovecraftian other worldliness, there's a surprise revelation that by the time they get around to it has been strongly hinted at for long enough that it's not really a surprise in my opinion, but I still enjoy this one a bunch as an atmosphere heavy Locevcraft adaptation. . 

Audio/Video: Dagon (2001) arrives on region-free Blu-ray from Umbrella Entertainment as the third release of their fledgling Worlds On Film Beyond Genres. Like the recent Vestron Blu-ray release there's no information about the source of the HD transfer, but it's presented in 1080p HD and framed in 1.78:1 widescreen.  The image has some heavy digital noise reduction applied to it, stripping it of grain, leaving skin tones waxy looking. Comparing it to the Vestron release the image is very marginally brighter here, black levels are not as deep though, and both have artifacting and black crush. While most of the screencaps are near identical with the same framing it is notable that during the opening nightmare scenes the underwater scenes are much bluer on the Vestron release, I have no idea which is truer to the theatrical release, but I prefer the deeper blues of the Vestron release. See a screencap comparison of the Vestron and Umbrella Blu-ray releases HERE and a review of the Vestron Blu-ray HERE. 

The only audio option is an English DTS-HD Master Audio Surround 5.1 mix that has some effective use of the surround channels, especially during the shipwreck scene at the start of the film and with the continual downpour of rain on the island, the score from Carles Cases (Darkness) sounds pretty great in the mix, optional English subtitles are included. 

Extras come by way of some vintage interview and bahind-the-scenes footage, we get 4 minutes of scenes of the film being shot, scenes from the village and on the boat, plus we get over two hours of interviews with director Stuart Gordon, and stars Macarena Gomez, Stuart Gordon, Raquel Moreno, and Ezra Godden. The disc is finished-up with a teaser, trailer and TV spots for the film.

This is the third release from Umbrella's Beyond Genres: World's On Film imprint, the single-disc release comes housed in an over-sized Blu-ray keepcase with a reversible sleeve, the a-side featuring a new and cool-looking illustration, presumably by Umbrella's in-house designer Simon Sherry, the b-side featuring a reprint of the H.P. Lovecraft story "Dagon". This release also comes with a handsome slipcase which which is branded with the Beyond Genres logo and movie title, which is absent on the sleeve of artwork, the spine of both the sleeve and slip are numbered, this being volume 3, the disc itself features excerpts of the same artwork. 

Special Features: 
- B-Roll/Making Of (4 min)  
- Vintage Interviews with Macarena Gomez(12 min), Stuart Gordon (17 min), Raquel Moreno (14 min), Ezra Godden (20 min)
- Interview from Set: Stuart Gordon (4 min), Ezra Godden (3 min),   
- Theatrical Trailer (3 min) 
- Teasar (2 min) 
- TV Spots (2 min)

Shortcomings aside Dagon holds-up surprisingly well as a hybrid Lovecraft adaptation, Stuart Gordon is the go-to guy for this sort of thing, so much so that when I think H.P Lovecraft adaptation on film his name is always second on my tongue, and there's a reason for that, he had a real affinity for bringing these to the screen, and even this later entry in his career manages to bring the otherworldly magic. While not all the special effects hold-up the tone, atmosphere and locations are pretty fantastic, it's not perfect but it'll do the job when you're craving a Lovecraftian vibe. 

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DAGON (2001) (Vestron Video Blu-ray Review)

DAGON (2001)

Label: Lionsgate/Vestron Video Collector's Series
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: R
Duration: 98 Minutes 
Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio Surround 5.1 with Optional English, Spanish Subtitles 
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1.78:1) 
Director: Stuart Gordon
Cast: Ezra Godden, Brendan Price, Javier Sandoval, Victor Alcazar, Francisco Rabal, Raquel Merono, Macarena Gomez

Dagon (2001) opens with our main guy Paul (Ezra Gordon, Band of Brothers) having a nightmare, in it he is scuba diving and discovers some strange underwater ruin, also encountering a toothy mermaid (Macarena Gómez, Witching and Bitching), startled he wakes up next to his girlfriend Barbara (Raquel Meroño). We come to realize he's on a boat sailing off the coast of Spain along with husband and wife Howard (Brendan Price) and Vicki (Birgit Bofarull), on some sort of vacation. Not long afterward a severe storm blows in and the boat becomes stranded on some rocks just off the coast of a small island called Imboca. Vicki is seriously injured during the wreck and her husband Howard stays behind with her while Barbara and Paul take a dingy to the nearby island. They arrive at a small fishing village that looks to be abandoned at first, but they eventually find a strange priest at a church, who in turn enlists the help of some fisherman to return to the scuttled boat with Paul and retrieve his friends. However, when they arrives his friends are gone, returning to the island empty handed he finds that his girlfriend is also now missing, and things just get weirder from there. 

It turns out the island is home to a race of fish-men who worship a deep-sea old god named Dagon, as they rain pours down ceaselessly he makes his way around the island looking for his girlfriend, eventually finding some help from a seemingly crazy drunkard named Ezequial (Francisco Rabal, Nightmare City), who appears to be the last full-on human left on the island. He spins a tale for Paul, explaining how everyone else on the island has been transformed into half-man, half-fish hybrids who worship an ancient undersea god.

The special effects of this one are fun, the webbed-fingers and deformed fishy features of the locals is eerie and weird, I like that as they mutate they lose the ability to stand on their own as their bodies morph slowly into tentacled appendages, it's a nice touch, with many of the locals hobbling around on rudimentary crutches and other wheeled devices. At one point Paul finds what looks to be a tannery full of human skins (including one of the friends from the boat), and he begins to see how truly desperate things are, coming to realize what exactly his recurring mermaid nightmare means, trying to save his girlfriend from becoming a breeding partner for the Lovecraftian water-god while also trying not to become another skinned ritual sacrifice himself for the same dark God.

  
The film is loaded with atmosphere and Lovecraftian intrigue, the ever present downpour of rain and the mysterious fish-men on a strange island makes for a good watch, enhanced by some attractive lensing and an powerful eerie score from Carles Cases (The Nameless). I really liked the main protagonist as played by Ezra Godden, he looks a bit like a younger Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator) with similar looking cropped hair and spectacles, not helping is that he's also wearing a Miskatonic University sweatshirt. He balances fright, desperation and humor well, it's not slapstick funny but there's definitely some humor imbued into his performance, he's a bit inept, coming across almost like Ash from Army of Darkness at times, a reluctant hero. 

What didn't work for me are the poorly rendered and dated digital special effects, from the underwater shots of the boat early on to the emerging water-demon it's bad, real bad, so hopefully your invested in the story by that point so you can bee a little forgiving about, which I am. 

The story doesn't have a lot of narrative momentum, once on the island there's a lot of mystery and weirdness, with it becoming a chase film with siege moments, culminating in a show of Lovecraftian other worldliness, and there's a reveal that by the time they get around to has been strongly hinted at for long enough that it's not really a surprise in my opinion. 

  
Audio/Video: Dagon (2001) makes it debuts on Blu-ray from Lionsgate as part of the Vestron Video Collector's Series, not sure what the source for this one is but it's not an elevated transfer like we saw with Vetsron's release of Beyond Re-Animator. Presented in 1080p HD and framed in 1.78:1 widescreen the image is off and on soft looking and sufferers from heavy digital noise reduction stripping it of grain, leaving skin tones looking waxy. Black levels are generally good but there's some artifacting and black crush that shows up as well. If I had to guess I would say that Vestron probably did not have access to the original elements and were supplied an older master provided by the licensor with some baked-in DNR and just went with it. 

The lone audio option is an English DTS-HD MA Surround 5.1 mix that has some effective use of the surround channels, especially during the shipwreck scene at the start of the film and with the continual downpour of rain, I kept thinking it was raining outside my house, the score from Carles Cases (Darkness) sounds fantastic in the mix, optional English subtitles are available. I don't generally critique menu screen but notably the audio volume on the menu seems to be set much higher than the feature presentation. I went into the other room as the title credit were rolling to do something and suddenly the score from the film was blasting through the house at a much higher volume, which startled me a bit.

Vestron offer-up some new interesting extras produced by Red Shirt Pictures, the first being an interview with Stuart Gordon conducted by Mick Garris, with Gordon revealing how he came to read Lovecraft, as a kid and how this was actually supposed to be his follow-up to Re-Animator, but apparently the idea of fish-men was even too ludicrous for Charles Band and Empire to want to do. So it ended up being produced in Spain years later with Brian Yuzna producing it through his Fantastic Factory production company. Gordon speaks about combining elements from Lovecraft's Dagon and The Shadow Over Innsmouth, and what it was like shooting in Spain, and finding the fishing village location. He also teases us with some spooky ghost stories from the location, what it was like working with actress Macarena Gomez and what a find she was, proving brave enough to jump into a pool of cold water that was deemed too cold for the stunt people, who then had to do it since she was willing to do it. There's also discussion of the make-up F/X and he touches on Lovecraft's anti-semitism - it's a solid watch with loads of information about the production, it even opens with Gordon telling the story of how when he was working for Disney on one of the Honey I did something to the damn kids movies that none other than Roy Disney caught him screening a rough cut of Dagon in the Disney screening room, and he liked it!

Up next we have a new interview with Producer Brian Yuzna who also speaks about wanting to follow-up Re-Animator with Dagon through their deal with Empire Pictures, but they balked at the idea of a fish-men story, reviving the project years later when he moved to Spain and had a production deal with Filmax, shooting in Spain and deciding along with Gordon that they needed to tone down the appearance of Dagon onscreen, knowing from experience on his own film Faust: LOve of the Damned (2000) that Spain just did not have the resources to do at the time. He also describes the rainy wet condition as being miserable, having been shot in the winter he enjoyed being nearby in a bar that served whisky with imported Scottish ice cubes and Cuban cigars while the cast and crew suffered.   

Then onto an interview with S.T. Joshi, author of I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H.P. Lovecraft -  you can tell he's a passionate fan of Lovecraft so that makes his conversation all the more interesting. He speaks about the source material for the film, Dagon and The Shadow Over Innsmouth, how they were originally published, the author's fascination with the sea and world-ending deities, and the cults who spring up around them. Also giving his opinion on how this adaptation fares, and speaking of Lovecraft's disdain for seafood and film in general. The last of the new extras in a 9-min Art Gallery from Artist Richard Raaphorst, lots of gorgeous conceptual art from the director of Frankenstein's Army (2013).

Additionally Lionsgate saw fit to carry-over what looks to be all the extras from the previous special edition DVD release, this includes two audio commentaries,  the first with Director Stuart Gordon and Screenwriter Denis Paoli, the second with Gordon and star Ezra Godden, of the two I went with Gordon and Paoli, they paint a fuller picture of the production and have a great rapport with one another. We also get 22-min of vintage interviews, a 27-min EPK, storyboards, still gallery and theatrical trailer. 

The single disc release comes housed in a standard Blu-ray keepcase with a one-sided sleeve of artwork, I dig the new illustration Vestron went with, it has a woodcut charm about and it captures the essence of the film nicely, I believe it was done by Justin Osborn whose done loads of covers for Scream Factory. The same artwork also adorns the slipcover and the disc, the slipcover branded with the Vestron Video Collector's Series banner and the spine of both the slipcover and artwork are numbered.

Special Features: 
- Audio Commentary with Director Stuart Gordon and Screenwriter Denis Paoli
- Audio Commentary with Director Stuart Gordon and Star Ezra Godden
- NEW – “Gods and Monsters” – A discussion with Director Stuart Gordon, Interviewed by Filmmaker Mick Garris (22 min) HD
- NEW – “Shadows over Imboca” – An Interview with Producer Brian Yuzna HD
- NEW – “Fish Stories” – An Interview with S.T. Joshi, author of I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H.P. Lovecraft
- Vintage EPK (27 min) HD 
-  Archival Interviews with Stuart Gordon, Ezra Godden, and other Cast and Crew (22 min) 
- Theatrical Trailer (1 min) 
- NEW – Conceptual Art Gallery from Artist Richard Raaphorst (9 min) HD
- Storyboard Gallery (9 min) HD
- Still Gallery (5 min) HD

Shortcomings aside I think Dagon holds-up surprisingly well as a hybrid Lovecraft adaptation, Stuart Gordon is the go-to guy for this sort of thing, so much so that when I think H.P Lovecraft adaptation on film his name is always second on my tongue after Lovecraft, and there's a reason for that, he had a real affinity for bringing these to the screen, and even this later entry in his career manages to bring the otherworldly magic. Not all the special effects hold-up though, the digital stuff is bad, but the tone, atmosphere and locations are pretty fantastic, it's not perfect but it'll do the job when you're craving a Lovecraftian vibe. Vestron did good with the new extras, they're rather excellent, and the audio sounds fine but the video transfer on this one seems a bit iffy, better than the old DVD but not up to current standards of HD by any means.

RE-ANIMATOR (1985) (Umbrella Entertainment Blu-ray Review/Comparison)

RE-ANIMATOR (1985) 

2-Disc Collector Edition 

Label: Arrow Video
Region Code: B
Rating: MA
Duration: 86 Minutes/104 Minutes 
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 with Optional English Subtitles Options (on the Unrated cut only) 
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1.77:1) 
Director: Stuart Gordon
Cast: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, David Gale

Synopsis: Adapted from H.P. Lovecraft’s sepulchral 1922 pulp horror story, arguably the first such tale to ever consider scientifically affected corpses as zombies, Re-Animator is Stuart Gordon’s cult classic trip into the realm of the living dead. Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs, From Beyond, The Frighteners) reveals to fellow graduate student Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) his groundbreaking work concerning the re-animation of fresh corpses. West’s secret reagent is a powerful injection with the capacity to give life where there is none – destined to capture the imagination of the entire scientific community. However, between life and death is a thin thread of understanding and when obsession gets the better of West, there is no stopping his wicked ways – dead or alive! Presented complete and uncut in gore-glistening HD, Re-Animator is a true gore-fest of mortal manipulation in the most demented sense.

Very few movies have scarred me the way Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator (1985) did with it's dark alchemy of horror, comedy and weird perversion, it's just one of those films that you will never forget once it your eyeballs. The movie opens with a great pre-credit sequence by which we are introduced to Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs, From Beyond) a medical student at the Zurich University Institute of Medicine in Switzerland where he's been studying with his mentor, Dr. Hans Gruber (Al Berry, Halloween III) whom died suddenly right before the film opens, we are thrown directly into the fray as West injects Gruber with a strange glowing-green liquid with the apparent ability to re-animates the dead man, but not without some truly grotesque consequences, which are witnessed by staff and security of the institute who break into the lab after hearing an awful commotion. It's great stuff and it's only a small taste of what's to come, there's plenty more exquisite 80's gore and madcap horror on the way!

Somehow West is not prosecuted for crimes against natural law following the events in Zurich and ends up in back in the U.S. in New England at Miskatonic University where he studies under Dr. Carl Hill (David Gale, Rituals). The student-professor relationship is strained to say the least, made worse when West accuses Hill of poaching Dr. Gruber's theories of brain death very directly in front of his class. Shortly after West is introduced to promising medical student Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott, Bad Dreams) and the two become housemates even though Cain's girlfriend (and daughter of the Dean) Megan (Barbara Crampton, Beyond the Gates), is creeped out by the deeply weird West, and she just might be onto something for it's not long before before Dan awakens to the unearthly shrieking of his pert cat. Following the unnatural cat-shrieking to West's basement laboratory he finds the dismembered feline resurrected and very ravenous. Combs sells the rather corny stuffed feline prop as a menacing clawed demon-cat, it's great schlocky stuff, while Dan's unnerved by the ghastly affair West wins him over with the miraculous glowing-green re-agent fluid and joins in on West's mad quest for life after death leading to more death and tragedy. 

Jeffrey Combs' turn as the mad-scientist is a performance for the ages and his nemesis Dr. Hill is just as fantastic. Hill manages to turn the school's Dean Halsey (Robert Sampson, Robot Jox), against West and Cain using an under explained form of mind-control, he loathes West and is a total perv for Dan's girl Megan, and who wouldn't be, Barbara Crampton is a total babe, and she's still pretty damn hot these days. In the aftermath West and Cain are barred from the med-school but that doesn't stop them from breaking into the morgue and administering re-agent on cadavers which not so unexpectedly goes horribly wrong resulting in the death of the Dean, oops. West doesn't skip a beat and takes advantage of the freshest corpse in the room, injecting the Dean with the re-agent who becomes a brainless zombie, with the Dean being committed to the psychiatric ward under the watch of Dr. Hill who begins to connects the bizarre incident to West's research into brain-death. When confronted by Hill in his laboratory West decapitates the professor with a shovel, but still incapable of curbing his macabre curiosity he uses his re-agent to resuscitate Hill's disembodied head, causing even more problems down the line. 

Turns out that Hill can telepathically control his headless body which knocks the distracted West unconscious and stealing the re-agent and then kidnapping Megan to perform a bizarre act of disembodied cunnilingus - one of horror cinema's most-tasteless and glorious moments. We get loads of gore effects, a gorgeous face-peel, a brain exposed after having the skull removed, oodles of animated intestines, a decapitated head and a dismembered cat that gets it's brains smashed against the wall, those seeking the grotesque shall not be disappointed by Re-Animator - it holds up quite nicely.

This film is a horror classic for good reason, it's loaded with macabre atmosphere, blood-soaked gore and delicious black humor - it really stands the test of time and if you are not familiar with the works of Stuart Gordon do yourself a favor and remedy that right quick, the man is a twisted genius, and a somewhat under appreciated one at that in my opinion. 

Audio/Video: Re-Animator (1985) arrives on 2-disc region-B locked Blu-ray from Umbrella Entertainment, this is the initial offering of their new Worlds On Film: Beyond Genres imprint. The 2-disc set includes both the unrated (86 min) and integral (105 min) versions of the film in 1080p HD widescreen (1.77:1), each presented on it's own Blu-ray disc. This is sourced from the same 4K TLE restoration as the Arrow Video release, and the image looks very pleasing, it's a gorgeous transfer. The grain appears natural and the fine details pop, blacks are good and deep, and the colors look accurate - the green really radiates nicely. When comparing this too Second Sight's over-bright release and Arrow's 4K restoration I give the upper hand to Arrow because the grain is more finely resolved, but it's a close call, check out the screenshot comparisons below for the three versions from Arrow, Second Sight and Umbrella Entertainment.  

The only one audio option on this release is an English DTS-HD MA 5.1 Surround Audio options with optional English subtitle for the  unrated cut only. Dialogue is crisp and well-balanced and the iconic Richard Bands score has some nice presence in the mix, it's a solid track with no issues.   

Onto the extras we have a ton, Umbrella carry-over/license what looks to be all the extras from the previous US release from Image as well as the UK release from Second Sight Films, we get the fantastic in-depth, full-length making of doc Re-Animator Resurrectus, the two audio commentaries, sixteen extended and deleted scenes - all this on disc one. Onto disc two we get the longer 104-minute integral cut of the film plus vintage the interviews with Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna, Dennis Paoli, Richard Band and Timothy Tempone, the extended and deleted scenes, trailer, and TV spots for the film. 

The 2-disc release comes housed in an over-sized Blu-ray keepcase with a sleeve of reversible artwork with four panels of artwork, though there's no text/logo on any of the artwork options, but the spine is logo-ed. If I had to niggle a bit I would say I would have preferred the four panel reversible artwork should have featured the logo on each panel, it looks sort of naked to me when it's not in the slipcase. Speaking of the slipcase, this release also comes with a handsome slipcase which I believe was designed by Umbrella's in-house designer Simon Sherry, and is branded with the Beyond Genres design, and the spine is numbered. Looking at the discs themselves disc one features an excerpt of the artwork fro the slipcover and disc 2 features one of the artwork options on the four-panel sleeve.  

Special Features: 
Disc 1  
- Unrated Version (86 min) HD
- Audio commentary with director Stuart Gordon
- Audio commentary with producer Brian Yuzna, actors Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Bruce Abbott, and Robert Sampson
- Re-Animator Resurrectus – documentary on the making of the film, featuring extensive interviews with cast and crew (96 min) 
- Deleted (3 min) HD
- 16 Extended Scenes (23 min) HD 
Disc 2 
- Integral Version (105 min) HD
- Interview with director Stuart Gordon and producer Brian Yuzna (49 min) 
- Interview with writer Dennis Paoli (11 min) 
- Interview with composer Richard Band (15 min) 
- Music Discussion with composer Richard Band (17 min) HD 
- Interview with former Fangoria editor Tony Timpone (5 min) 
- Trailer (2 min) HD 
- TV Spots (3 min) HD

Umbrella's 2-disc Collector Edition Blu-ray is a handsome release, a great first offering from their new imprint, which is being followed-up with a 2-disc double-feature of Bride of Re-Animator and Beyond Re-Animator! The A/V is solid, the extras are plentiful and the packaging is pretty damn sweet, highly recommended. 

TOP: UMBRELLA: 2-DISC COLLECTOR EDITION BLU (2018) 

MIDDLE: ARROW VIDEO: 2-DISC LIMITED EDITION BLU (2017) 

BOTTOM: SECOND SIGHT: LIMITED EDITION BLU (2016)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All screenshots sourced by me directly from individual Blu-ray releases from Umbrella, Second Sight and Arrow Video.