Die Monster Die! - Mini Review

  Die Monster Die was one of the earliest film adaptations from an H.P. Lovecraft story.  It was also one of Boris Karloff's last films.  Made in 1965, the film is very loosely based off of Lovecraft's story, "The Color out of Space".

  It is a decent horror film.   The two things that keep the movie interesting are the acting and the atmospheric film locations, particularly the cool mansion in which most of the story takes place.

  The Blu-ray was recently release from Scream Factory.  It is not a special edition release, the only extra is a trailer.  The trailer is made up of all the action scenes in the movie, including the ending.  It is kind of like fast-forwarding through the entire disk.

  I did enjoy the movie.  I would have preferred that the film had followed Lovecraft's story more faithfully, but I guess the special effect technology at the time wouldn't allow it.  I would give it 3 out of 5 stars.

Scream Factory changes

 

It appears that Scream Factory, a sub-division of Shout Factory, has made a couple of changes recently to their collector's editions.

 

One change is that if you order from them directly, many times on their collector editions, they will give you a free poster.  If my memory is correct, they used to send the posters out rolled in a tube.  Now, they are sending them out folded in a magazine-sized cardboard sleeve.  I guess it saves them money, but it sort of ruins the poster.  See the picture below of two of their recent releases.

 

The other change is that they now shrink wrap the cardboard slipcase on their collector edition titles.  They are doing this to protect the slipcases, because the slipcases themselves are now "collector items", because they are only going to be included on the first pressing of the combo packs.  You can see the shine of the shrink wrap on the recent releases below.  It is funny because the original reason slipcases were put on dvds and blu-rays, was to eliminate the glare of the shrink wrap and to make them stand out on the shelves.  Now they are going to have to put a slipcase over the shrink wrap on the first slipcase.  It's a never-ending cycle.