Re-Animator (Blu-ray SteelBook) [United Kingdom]

[snooloui]

Release date: June 2nd, 2014
Purchase links:
Amazon.co.uk
Base.com
Zavvi.com

Per Second Sight's FB page:

RE-ANIMATOR update… We can confirm we are releasing
on Blu-ray and DVD (Region B/2) on June 2nd. The Blu-ray will be a 2 Disc Limited Edition Steelbook and feature both Unrated and Integral versions.

Bonus Features will include - audio commentary with director Stuart Gordon; audio commentary with producer Brian Yuzna, and actors Jeffrey Combs, Robert Sampson, Barbara Crampton and Bruce Abbott; Re-Animator Resurrectus documentary; interviews with Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna, writer Dennis Paoli, composer Richard Band and Fangoria editor Tony Timpone; extended scenes, deleted scene and trailers.

 

[8bitheart]

I at least expected it to be despatched today.. all my other June 2nd releases have shipped... maybe they just haven't had the stock yet? This isn't exactly a big well known studio like Fox.

 

[bigrob]

Gave my check discs for this a spin last night

Picture quality good. VERY VERY GOOD!!!!!

 

[jitstark]

Gave my check discs for this a spin last night

Picture quality good. VERY VERY GOOD!!!!!

Better than the recent German steel?

 

[hiphopnrap]

looks like a high quality matte finish, just like the ones from arrow video.
glad i pre-ordered.

Couldnt agree more my friend

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Glad I have the glossy German steel.

This will Go Nicely With The German Steelbook And Spanish 5 Disc..

 

[axldelarge]

I cancelled my preorder hoping for a large print run and a price reduction... but now I'm starting to get a lil anxious

 

[hellboydce1]

just got to cancel mine just in time then, want it but for no more than £10 -£12

 

[bigrob]

Better than the recent German steel?

I don't own that so I can't compare sadly but apparently Second Sight did some additional cleanup work on it by removing print damage

Hope to get it reviewed over the weekend

 

[cooey]

No movement on my Amazon UK order yet

 

[8bitheart]

I've found Amazon don't normally ship until the Saturday - but I know Zavvi ship a few days ahead as it takes so long for delivery, I received my Full Monty steel today, also not out til Monday. Not sure if this is a issue with the retailer or supplier, but I would have expected Zavvi to have shipped this by now..,

 

[hiphopnrap]

Great News Just Got A Email From Amazon
Delivering Today..Still No Movement In Zavvi Though
Wierd

 

[cooey]

'Dispatching Now' from Amazon

 

[8bitheart]

Still no movement from Zavvi.
How annoying. I was hoping this would have arrived by the weekend

 

[MrFurious]

mine just arrived from amazon, when i saw the package i feared the worst, it was crushed and filthy, but the steel was fine, nice steel book, shame there is no inside art but i'll do custom art..
Plus didn't know the unrated version was a brand new 4k restoration!

 

[8bitheart]

No inside art?!

Bummer

 

[ben6212]

No inside art in 2014? Poor and lazy

 

[hellboydce1]

No inside art?!

Bummer

glad i decided to wait for price drop now

 

[8bitheart]

No inside art in 2014? Poor and lazy

Agreed. Part of me expected it though I guess - their steelbook of Scanners had no inside art either, yet 'Return of the Living Dead' has inside art AND a collectors book... I was kind of hoping we might have got a similar treatment here... but I guess they spent more of their time/budget on the actual restoration of the prints, rather than the packaging

 

[snooloui]

No inside art in 2014? Poor and lazy

Agreed. The last UK Steelbook (excluding jumbos) without inside artwork was Scanners, also from Second Sight, back in April 2013. If they want to compete with companies like Arrow and Eureka, then they need to put more effort in.

 

[cooey]

Agreed. The last UK Steelbook (excluding jumbos) without inside artwork was Scanners, also from Second Sight, back in April 2013. If they want to compete with companies like Arrow and Eureka, then they need to put more effort in.

Depends how you look at it. I've bought Re-Animator for the disc content, the fact it comes in a steelbook is an added bonus to me in all honesty. If it were available as an amaray from Second Sight then that would've been the one I would have bought. In my opinion they easily compete with Arrow, etc when it comes to content and discs (but I know this isn't the point you were making).

I do agree though, it is laziness and it can't be that much of an extra task to stick some interior artwork inside, but this is something that doesn't bother me one bit.

 

[cooey]

In reply to your deleted post Snoo - I agree. But they know they're onto a winner with steelbooks and will make a nice bit of £££ off it