Dracula (Blu-ray SteelBook) (Zoom Exclusive) [UK]

[cooey]

Release date: October 31st , 2016
Purchase link: Zoom - Zavvi
Price: £14.99
HDN Group Buy: Hosted by Cooey

 

[cooey]

GB open

https://www.hidefninja.com/communit...ook-zoom-exclusive-group-buy-worldwide.80597/

 

[lgans316]

There's a user named "cudzndrips" over at the other forum who hosts a lot of GBs for Zoom, HMV, and other UK steelbooks. I've sent him a PM asking if he plans to do GBs for this and The Mummy. I'll let you guys know what he says.

Discounted price not offered and works out £5 extra due to high packaging charges.

 

[cooey]

You can expect these to be around the same here too. There's GB fees and PayPal fees to factor into this

 

[Lollard2002]

Thank god proper artwork. I was expecting a picture of a red background with a single tooth on the front cover dripping blood. So obsessed are the labels at the minute with those dire pop art covers.

 

[paulboland]

GB open
https://www.hidefninja.com/communit...ook-zoom-exclusive-group-buy-worldwide.80597/

@cooey
Brilliant
Any chance you also do a GB if possible for Barbarella (Zoom Exclusive Steelbook Limited Edition) [Blu-Ray]
It you cant that's ok but there might be others also interested in this release also

Thanks
Paul

 

[paulboland]

Just to give you heads up I have been contacting Zoom just recently regarding providing shipping to countries outside the UK

I got this reply today
Thank you for your interest in Zoom Online and our Steelbooks. Currently we are unable to ship outside of the UK but we are working to change this. We hope to be able to ship outside of the UK within the next few month and we would advise signing up to our newsletter for updates


So it's possible in next few months they will start to provide shipping to other countries

 

[cooey]

@paulboland Yeah no worries, I'll get that sorted too

 

[GeekSexy]

Dang. I really want an entire collection of Universal monster titles, but I feel like there's way too much color for a classic B&W film; like it doesn't really match the film, itself. The reverse artwork is also a little jarring. I really the Creature From the Black Lagoon release. I SO wish it matched that one. But as this may be the only version these films ever receive, I'll probably bite anyway.

 

[Bengaloo]

Wonder if Zoom's slips are of better quality than Zavvis's

 

[psychoscot]

Wonder if Zoom's slips are of better quality than Zavvis's

Never had a Zavvi slip, they that bad?

 

[paulboland]

Wonder if Zoom's slips are of better quality than Zavvis's

Zavvi don't make or design them they just sell items provided by film studio distributors
The Film Studio Distributor design the artwork and get a company to make the slips

These slipcases steelbooks recent exclusive releases been sold by Zoom and Zavvi are from Distributor Universal Pictures
The slipscases with Dracula and The Mummy will be the same type as what you already seen from Zavvi with Top Gun/Snow White and the Huntsman/Once Upon a Time in the West and the other Slipcase steelbook releases

Universal Pictures distribute Paramount Blu-ray releases in Europe and Universal Blu-ray releases

 

[Bengaloo]

Never had a Zavvi slip, they that bad?

A bit thin, flimsy for my taste.

 

[Mindcrimes]

Live now with price of £1499.00 , bit expensive for me

 

[paulboland]

Inside Artwork

 

[sunnyx]

I think I'm gonna pass, bit too black and white for my liking

 

[virkia]

I think I'm gonna pass, bit too black and white for my liking

Of course you're joking so not taking your comment seriously about the artwork being a "bit too black & while" . . . for a film from 1931
Made me chuckle and was wondering if you'd have preferred something in the Pop Art style for this classic horror film.
Anyway, the inside has a nice splash of red and the colourful original poster artwork used as the back image of the steelbook looks gorgeous (IMO).
Also, a couple of the previous more recent DRACULA steelbooks haven't exactly been a riot of colours . . . even the so-called Pop Art one:-

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RE: QUALITY OF SLIPCASES:-
It's difficult to show without taking photographic comparisons of the various slipcovers/slipcases and I'll try to source comparison slipcover/slipcase pics:-

Top: REGULAR AMARAY SLIP / Bottom: STEELBOOK SLIPCASE

Arrow and some other Amaray slipcases twice as thick as these steelbook slipcases.

As can be seen compared to a regular Amaray slipcover the slipcase for the steelbook is about twice as thick (the walls at least).
Compared to an Arrow or HMV "window" Amaray slipcase, for example, the walls of the steelbook slipcase is about half as thick.

 

[sunnyx]

Of course you're joking so not taking your comment seriously about the artwork being a "bit too black & while" . . . for a film from 1931
Made me chuckle and was wondering if you'd have preferred something in the Pop Art style for this classic horror film.
Anyway, the inside has a nice splash of red and the colourful original poster artwork used as the back image of the steelbook looks gorgeous (IMO).
Also, a couple of the previous more recent DRACULA steelbooks haven't exactly been a riot of colours . . . even the so-called Pop Art one:-

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RE: QUALITY OF SLIPCASES:-
It's difficult to show without taking photographic comparisons of the various slipcovers/slipcases and I'll try to source comparison slipcover/slipcase pics:-

Top: REGULAR AMARAY SLIP / Bottom: STEELBOOK SLIPCASE
View attachment 265883
Arrow and some other Amaray slipcases twice as thick as these steelbook slipcases.

As can be seen compared to a regular Amaray slipcover the slipcase for the steelbook is about twice as thick (the walls at least).
Compared to an Arrow or HMV "window" Amaray slipcase, for example, the walls of the steelbook slipcase is about half as thick.

I was referring to the actual movie!! Not a fan of old movies in black and white.

 

[virkia]

Ay, caramba!

 

[sunnyx]

Ay, caramba!

Steel looks good though!

 

[C.C. 95]

I think I'm gonna pass, bit too black and white for my liking

Black and white isn't just a lack of color. It is a style. As much an artistic choice as a lens or the music.
Some of the best B&W movies I wouldn't want in color at all. Manhattan, Schindler's List, Last Year at Marienbad, Young Frankenstein...heck, even The Mist is better in B&W. (The image is not simply draining the color out like turning it down on your tv. The grading and contrasting during the mastering process is completely different from color).