The Burning (Blu-ray SteelBook) [UK]

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Dec 30, 2011
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Release date: October 10, 2016
Purchase links: Arrow Films - Amazon UK - Zavvi - HMV
Price: £17.99

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Yes, I've got a shelf and a half full of U.S. Import Region Free reasonably priced at the time Blue Underground titles and most of those titles are "interesting".
Personally speaking perfectly happy with my copy of "Last House on the Left" 1972 and I don't mind that it's a bit rough around the edges and as one of the better early U.S. exploitation films, with a $90,000 budget and Wes Craven's first film it's certainly worth checking out . . . although to tell the truth I don't automatically prefer the original over the later remake (and that applies to most of these).
Anyway, not unhappy I picked this one up (U.S. Region Free import from an AmazonUK marketplace seller in July 2014 for GBP 6.94 + GBP 1.26 P&P) and it's still cheap as chips today both here and in The States and as a fan of this film in both incarnations I should mention NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS 1975 from 88 Films' Italian Collection, if you're not familiar with it, as one to watch with LAST HOUSE back-to-back... preferably at Hallowe'en.
I went through a stage of trying to get almost everything that's in The Deep Red Horror Handbook. But a lot of it is just garbage. I have the uncut versions of Cannibal Holocaust / Cannibal Ferox even though I can't watch the animal killings (I did once) I do have a soft spot for Deadbeat At Dawn, raw film making at it's best. I look at Last House the same way, raw and brutal. True horror in the sense of the word. A lot of todays horror films are too polished but I did like Sinister.
 
I went through a stage of trying to get almost everything that's in The Deep Red Horror Handbook. But a lot of it is just garbage. I have the uncut versions of Cannibal Holocaust / Cannibal Ferox even though I can't watch the animal killings (I did once) I do have a soft spot for Deadbeat At Dawn, raw film making at it's best. I look at Last House the same way, raw and brutal. True horror in the sense of the word. A lot of todays horror films are too polished but I did like Sinister.
Have you checked out the Last House On The Left Futurepak?

 
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Sadly I have to agree. I purchased a lot of those same films and end up selling them on ebay because they simply disappointed major league.
A classic example I purchased The Arrow pressing of Squirm as I'd heard so much about the film and I have to be honest, I've never been as bored in my life. I was rapidly losing the will to live to get to the end of it......Having said that The Burning is one of the few exceptions. I found it to be a very good film which I would and could easily watch again and probably enjoy it even more a second time.
 
Sadly I have to agree. I purchased a lot of those same films and end up selling them on ebay because they simply disappointed major league.
A classic example I purchased The Arrow pressing of Squirm as I'd heard so much about the film and I have to be honest, I've never been as bored in my life. I was rapidly losing the will to live to get to the end of it......Having said that The Burning is one of the few exceptions. I found it to be a very good film which I would and could easily watch again and probably enjoy it even more a second time.
I liked Squirm, one of the first region 1 DVD's I bought back in 2007 but I can understand why you didn't like it. The Burning was one of the first video rentals I saw back in the early 80's before the term video nasties appeared. Of course that sits in my collection too. I'm not really pushed in getting the steelbook though.
 
Sadly I have to agree. I purchased a lot of those same films and end up selling them on ebay because they simply disappointed major league.
A classic example I purchased The Arrow pressing of Squirm as I'd heard so much about the film and I have to be honest, I've never been as bored in my life. I was rapidly losing the will to live to get to the end of it......Having said that The Burning is one of the few exceptions. I found it to be a very good film which I would and could easily watch again and probably enjoy it even more a second time.
Agree, there's a lot of garbage to sift through in 80's horrors. But if you can, you can find the odd diamond in the rough!

I remember The Prowler and Night Of The Creeps had a certain charm to them. Something that made them a bit more memorable from the others. Effects by Tom Savini on The Prowler also.
 
Agree, there's a lot of garbage to sift through in 80's horrors. But if you can, you can find the odd diamond in the rough!

I remember The Prowler and Night Of The Creeps had a certain charm to them. Something that made them a bit more memorable from the others. Effects by Tom Savini on The Prowler also.
I like both films. I think the main reason for watching The Burning is Tom Savini's effects.
 
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Final update from Arrow regarding my enquiry of last week regarding Zavvi's stock of this steelbook:-

Hi Nicholas,
While I can’t give you numbers, I can tell you that Zavvi never received another shipment from us. It appears that they re-allocated the stock to their store, for whatever reason, be it cancellations and what not. They’re no longer available from the site now.
Kevin Gilvear - Customer Relations Supervisor

Many thanks, Kevin, for taking the time and trouble to assist in this matter.
Regards,
Nicholas
P.S. Big fan of your products since the days of the late lamented window slipbox editions

End of story . . . 4,000 Arrow THE BURNING steelbooks sold in record time.
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EDIT 13th Nov 2016
Still available from MOVIE MAIL http://www.moviemail.com/film/blu-ray/the-burning
 
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Steelbook is not listed as on back order on amazon website
It isn't now Paul, but it was when I posted; Amazon must have made a mistake in their listing.

The link has now changed to the product details page whereas the original link was to the buying choices with Amazon at the top 'in stock on November 16th'. All irrelevant now though.