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[Dr. Kobb]

Feb 2, 2018 22:36:34 GMT -5 Deeky said:

That's pretty neat!

I loved it because you could come up with your own legend around it.  You know?  Unlike most character driven models, the forgotten prisoner had just enough backstory that your imagination could do the rest.  He was really well made, too. 

[Deeky]

Okay, I just found this picture, and his limp wrist is killing me.

I'm just imagining him going "Oh, guuurl, you have no idea."

[Killer Goldfish]

[Dr. Kobb]

Oh man!  Whad you think of it?  Fun flick or what?  8D

[Deeky]

Blade Runner 2049 I'm not sure what it was about or if it even had a point, but it was beautiful.

[Billy A. Anderson]

I'm watching those Sinister Cinema DVDs I got from the Myrtle Beach city library, and the viewing experience is the same I reported it here, last year with the Eddie Constantine films, and Ron and June Ormand's Untamed Mistress, among others:

After about seven minutes of OK viewing, the picture just freezes up.

It's the same on all 3 of my DVD players. So far, I have gotten past 24 mins of Mad Doctor of Market Street, into chapter 5 of 11 chapters.

I'm making a note of the chapter and minutes into the film and viewing however long I can watch it every night.

Anybody got any idea what this problem is, and why it is unique to Sinister Cinema DVDs?

Anybody here on the board watch Sinister Cinema DVDs, other than me?

[Choconado]

I'm leaning more towards the idea that you got super cheap, super used discs than there being a problem with the brand, my dude.

[Deeky]

The only time I've had a movie skip or stop playing was when it was visibly scratched.

[Dr. Kobb]

Feb 4, 2018 1:25:34 GMT -5 Billy A. Anderson said:

I'm watching those Sinister Cinema DVDs I got from the Myrtle Beach city library, and the viewing experience is the same I reported it here, last year with the Eddie Constantine films, and Ron and June Ormand's Untamed Mistress, among others:

After about seven minutes of OK viewing, the picture just freezes up.

It's the same on all 3 of my DVD players. So far, I have gotten past 24 mins of Mad Doctor of Market Street, into chapter 5 of 11 chapters.

I'm making a note of the chapter and minutes into the film and viewing however long I can watch it every night.

Anybody got any idea what this problem is, and why it is unique to Sinister Cinema DVDs?

Anybody here on the board watch Sinister Cinema DVDs, other than me?

I haven't bought any Sinister stuff in ages.  I made a couple of purchases with them many years ago.  Even then, there would sometimes be slight issues with their product.  For instance, one of my old purchases was this wondrous compilation of trailers for fantasy films.  From Harryhausen to Hershell Gordon Lewis and all points in between.  It's a marvelous collection, but everything has this harsh reddish yellow tint.  Such a shame, as the trailers themselves never fail to bring a smile. 
Issues like that had me shying away from more purchases, although I nearly pulled the trigger on some of their K. Gordon Murray children's fantasy films just to have them.

[Dr. Kobb]

Feb 4, 2018 1:25:34 GMT -5 Billy A. Anderson said:

I'm watching those Sinister Cinema DVDs I got from the Myrtle Beach city library, and the viewing experience is the same I reported it here, last year with the Eddie Constantine films, and Ron and June Ormand's Untamed Mistress, among others:

After about seven minutes of OK viewing, the picture just freezes up.

It's the same on all 3 of my DVD players. So far, I have gotten past 24 mins of Mad Doctor of Market Street, into chapter 5 of 11 chapters.

I'm making a note of the chapter and minutes into the film and viewing however long I can watch it every night.

Anybody got any idea what this problem is, and why it is unique to Sinister Cinema DVDs?

Anybody here on the board watch Sinister Cinema DVDs, other than me?

Yeah, the same issues became a real problem back when Netflix was literally a red envelope with a disc in it.  Towards the end of those days, I started finally being able to score some of the harder-to-rent titles, and the majority of those wouldn't play correctly.  The worst is when you're invested in this movie, you're down to the final act...and the disc freezes.  Especially when they tease you for a couple of tries and play again for a minute. 

Honestly, I wonder what kind of shelf life my hundreds - nay - thousands of DVD-R burns will actually have.  They should be good for whatever years I have left in the tank, anyway.  Right?

[Billy A. Anderson]

Thanks for the replies, everybody. I have looked at the emulsion side of those DVDs and can't see any scratches. They seem very fresh and new, compared to those Mill Creek 50 SF Classics and 50 Horror Classic DVDs that Wild Bill sent me, that had small scratches ALL OVER them. Some of them won't play on either or both of my desktop computer's 2 DVD players, but do play OK on the DVD player I have on top of my 2 working VCRs on top of my old 1988 cathode ray TV set.

I'm really out of touch with the times.

[Billy A. Anderson]

I think that the weather might be part of the problem with those Sinister Cinema DVDs. Today it was warmer, about 80 degrees in my shack with the heat on, and I was able to play a 7 minute chapter of Mad Doctor of Market Street before it froze up again.

Last night, I couldn't even get one minute of play on any of those 3 Sinister Cinema DVDs.

Maybe whatever is wrong with them is related to the temperature where the DVD player is.

Of Mice and Men is from another DVD distributor, but I don't know if it has any problems or not. I'm just not ready to watch that one yet.

Last year, the DVDs I got from the Myrtle Beach Library by other distributors than Sinister Cinema did play OK.

I'm kind of sorry that I got rid of Love Island where Eva Gabor had dark hair.

As I noted on the old board, it was in Cinecolor, but the print seemed to only have a green tint or tone to it.

I was told by someone supposedly in the know that Cinecolor does not fade.

I did a net search and found that there is at least one OK Cinecolor print of Love Island, and the web page showed some film strips of the print.

I said on the old board, that I wouldn't want to watch Love Island again, unless I could see it in a good Cinecolor print, but now I think I might want to see it again, even in that whatever you would call it next to no color greenish print that I gave away to the public library in North Myrtle Beach.

[Billy A. Anderson]

Last nite(Forry Spelling), I got the Mad Doctor of Market Street DVD to play to the end, so Dark Intruder will be next.

Mad Doctor of Market Street is supposed to run 61 mins, but the print I watched from Sinister Cinema ran 59:43. I did notice what appeared to be some cuts in the film. Just wonder if it was a TV print with some of the horror stuff censored?

[Dr. Kobb]

I've seen a psychedelic flick from 1969 called Attraction that was somehow pretentious and naive at the same time...yet I still found aspects of it endearing.

Also:

Jesus Franco's A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973) was in French, but I'm not at all sure if that's why it made no sense.  Anyway, as with all Franco flicks, it has a certain flair and individuality to it, and certain scenes definitely stay with you.

Also:

 A print of the legendary Wizard Video's Breeders (1986) that was delightfully twisted and garish as an 80's flick could get.  Sure, it's a shitty movie, but it's never dull!  On a side note: There are Japanese live-action tentacle rape flicks out these days, and the reason I bring them up here is that I wouldn't be surprised if this sicko flick wasn't something of an inspiration. 

Also:

Henry's Night In (1969) about an average Joe (named Henry) who discovers a working formula for invisibility in an old trunk he accidentally purchases at an auction.  He uses it to sleep with his wife's friends, and the viewer is privy to these naked women hugging air and moaning a lot.  As if the invisibility angle wasn't enough, a psychiatrist in the movie uses hypnotism to make his patients do his dirty bidding. 

Also:

Carnal Encounters of the Barest Kind (1978) centers around a lecture being given by a "Dr. Yes", who introduces four films of actual encounters with aliens who are here for a little mating fun with us humans.  CEotBK is xxx-rated, so most of it is the usual fucking and sucking.  The alien costuming is worse than high school play level, the jokes are dumb, the sex is mostly tepid, and the guy who plays Dr. Yes seems like a genuine jerk.  Not a lot to recommend, here. 

[Billy A. Anderson]

Dr. Kobb, I had read descriptions of Henry's Night In in the AFI Catalog. It seemed to me, more like the old fashioned nudie films that had gone out of style by 1969.

Of course the old nudie films din't have hugging and moaning in them, so maybe the film was more up-to date, but the invisibility formula definitely reminds me of the old nudies.

What's your view on this?

I'm wondering if the Carnal Encounters with the 1978 date might be another title for a 1978 Harry Novak film that was titled among others, Wham, Bam, Thank You Spaceman, which I saw although I don't think that was the title.

Do you have any idea if that could have been the retitiled Harry Novak film?

[Billy A. Anderson]

On the subject of the bad playing Sinister Cinema films, I am now getting near the end of my fits and starts viewing of Dark Intruder.

I could see it and probably Mad Doctor of Market Street, on u-tube for free, but there is something about the challenge of doing the next to
impossible and being able to watch the whole film, the way I am doing, that I have an urge to do.

Of course, if I used my common sense, I'd just watch the u-tube versions in the first place.

Dark Intruder is a well made film, which most reviews of it find it to be.

But, I do not recognize Leslie Neilson in it. I know he's in it, but he doesn't look anything like he looks in other films that I have seen him in.

[Dr. Kobb]

Feb 12, 2018 11:03:55 GMT -5 Billy A. Anderson said:

Dr. Kobb, I had read descriptions of Henry's Night In in the AFI Catalog. It seemed to me, more like the old fashioned nudie films that had gone out of style by 1969.

Of course the old nudie films din't have hugging and moaning in them, so maybe the film was more up-to date, but the invisibility formula definitely reminds me of the old nudies.

What's your view on this?

I'm wondering if the Carnal Encounters with the 1978 date might be another title for a 1978 Harry Novak film that was titled among others, Wham, Bam, Thank You Spaceman, which I saw although I don't think that was the title.

Do you have any idea if that could have been the retitiled Harry Novak film?

Yeah, Henry's is very much in the nudie mold.  And I doubt Carnal is the same as the Novak film.  I dunno if Wham Bam was triple X or not.  I didn't see any indication that it was a Novak number.  Most of the credits were those coy alias sorts.  I'm mainly suffering through these to have oddities to write about for the next Hypno.

[Billy A. Anderson]

It seems to me that Wham Bam Thank You Spaceman might have been a softcore film with added porno inserts. As I remember, the credits were all funny sounding pseudonymns.

Glad another Hypno is in the making.

[Deeky]

[Dr. Kobb]

I suffered through Sex and the Single Vampire last night.  Another wretched dog of a film.