The New York Ripper
The R2 French Collector's Edition of Lucio Fulci's The New York Ripper arrived this morning.I'm afraid it's bad news. The transfer is an NTSC to PAL conversion and doesn't look very good at all. (I suspect they sourced it from the Anchor Bay release.) It's soft and has quite a bit of ghosting. On the plus side, though, the colours seem pretty good.
Audio options are French, Italian and English, all mono. However, if you want to watch it in English or Italian, French subtitles are forced. I can defeat this on my PC using DVD Region Free, which allows me to turn off things like forced subtitles, but for most people this will be a major problem.
I haven't had a chance to look at the extras yet. There are a lot of them, but unsurprisingly they're all in French.
4 Comments:
I had a feeling this might be the case,Neo Publishing have a history of releasing bad prints.They're Cannibal collection dvds are all a bit rough and ready bar DEEP RIVER SAVAGES which i suspect is ported from the Shriek Show disc.Micheal is the booklet any good?
I may still get this when they reduce the price here in France but for now i'm sticking with the release's from US and Italian companies.
By Stephen Grimes, at 17:16
The booklet is okay. It has an introduction by Antonella Fulci, some promotional stills and poster art, a few pages of production notes, and bios for the principal cast and crew. I think the bonus features on the discs themselves will prove to be the real meat of this release, particularly the commentary by Fulci specialist Paolo Albiero (provided I can make sense of the French subtitles, that is!).
By Whiggles, at 17:30
Just got 7 Notes in Black today Micheal and even though it states an English track on the box when i played it nothing at all,only the Version Francais and the original Italian language with burnt on French subs.Somebody at Neo Publishing needs shooting for this mistake!
By Stephen Grimes, at 18:14
Damn! I'm sorry to hear that. I have half a mind to cancel my order now, but given how good the extras for The New York Ripper are, I think I'll keep it on order.
By Whiggles, at 18:19
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