I have to say, I'm pretty pleased with the lineup. Some of it was expected (ATTACK THE BLOCK's been making the rounds, and everyone knew about BATTLE ROYALE a while ago.) Glad to see BRAINSTORM again, haven't seen it since its DVD release, I think.
It will be good to see THEY LIVE finally get its shot, but for my money there's still another Carpenter sci-fi that's never shown which is by far a better work. But hey, chewing bubble gum and kicking ass. Can't go wrong there.
SOURCE CODE is pretty good. Would have preferred that we corrected the MOON debacle from a few years ago, but I can live with this.
ELECTROMA I can't speak to, not having heard much, but REPTILICUS ... YAY!
I hope people enjoy THE CREEPING UNKNOWN. I've been a huge fan of the Quatermass films for years, and this one JUST finally got re-issued by Warner Archives. British storytelling at its finest, and 35mm to boot.
Speaking of WA, the reissue of THE GREEN SLIME is good enough (finally) that even a DVD presentation will play well. The color reproduction is superb and showing that film in anything less than 1.85 loses way too much on the margins. Wouldn't be my first choice of format, but if we don't show it sometime I'll never get that song out of my head.
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