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Hello there, and welcome back to Wildside, the official Monda Micabre Podcast, and we are deep in the throes of October, which means it's time to discuss the Halloween sale here with me as usual, mister Chris Haskell.

Chris, thanks for coming back.

And of course, on that note, we had to bring in mister Monta Micabreau for the States himself, mister Jared Honor.

Hello, Jared.

Hey, guys, really happy to be back.

We are, of course thrilled to have you.

But you have certainly been busy.

How's the last couple of months been?

Oh?

Very I mean the last like month, the last few weeks incredibly busy, racing to finish the last mail out, which is done now.

So when this goes out on the Monday ahead of the Halloween sale, when people hear it, know that this is If you pre ordered Hungry Snake, Woman Killer is Not Alone or Cocagawa sexpand your order is been has been dispatched, know that.

And if you haven't gotten an email with a tracking number you can you can contact me.

Obviously we're recording this slightly earlier than Monday.

But how are we looking?

Unlimited editions on those still available for anybody.

Yeah, actually, I can just go right here and just see right now, I can just give a quick update on where we stand.

There are one hundred and forty Hungry Snake Woman's, just under three hundred killers not alone, and just a smidge over two hundred Tokugawa sex bands, one hundred and seventy five Max Pakas collections still left, about three hundred sex apocalypses, one hundred and forty six Fata Morganas, let's see four hundred secrets and mysteries, the pedro Alea set one hundred and eighty Sinister Doctor Orloff's still have that one, and Shadow of Death one hundred and thirty three of that one and two that we're starting to get a little bit low on.

Finally is Night of the Executioner, the Paul Nashy movie that's got sixty rashing Danny and the Girl Can't Help It.

Now, what is that movie called.

It's not the Girl Can't help It, it's the Girl can't stop.

Sorry, that's different movie that's got seventy left.

So getting close.

A bit more than you asked for, but that might be nice for people to to hear just ahead of the sale.

Well, it's perfect and obviously getting it with catalog titles on sale is the perfect time to pick up some of these limited so you get a discount on some titles.

Pay for and some of those limited will be on sale too, actually, like the Pedro Alea set I'm going to put on sale, and a couple of the others maybe not the ones that are really low or some of the are like the ones from the Last Time a Hungry Snake Woman won't be on sale, but in between there those will be on sale a little a little bit off the top anyway.

Not the Halloween sale obviously always a big deal for Monto Micabro.

What are price is going to be like this year for everybody?

I mean, it's going to be more or less the usual probably, you know.

I have most of the I mean, the Blu rays are discounted on our site always anyway, they're always at twenty bucks.

The retail editions I'll probably put those, you know, just depending on how old they are, how well by sell.

They may be anywhere from like eight teen to fifteen, maybe even a few fourteen maybe even one or two at thirteen, so pretty cheap.

Any of the DVDs that are on there will be ten or less.

So ten or less is exciting to hear.

You have any, speaking of limited editions left, do you have any Bollywood of Warrior left?

Or are those gun?

I do, Actually, that's a good question.

I don't have a ton.

I am going to put that that is going to be on sale.

That'll be on sale.

I'm going to say right now, that'll be on sale for seventy five dollars, which is going to be a really good deal for what we have it as, honestly, because I mean Amazon was selling that for like eighty two or something for so long, and so it's barely sold for us since that happened.

But they should be running out of that by now because we are down to the wire I have currently, so there will only be some on sale for seventy five.

I think There's going to be about thirty or so copies that I'm going to have on there on the site for the sale at seventy five bucks.

So once those sell out, there's about eighty that are earmarked just for us.

Those will come back.

I'm not gonna those will come back.

I want to put those on the site like after everyone else, all the retailers have sold out of theirs.

I'm not going to jack up the price or anything.

It'll still be the same price that's always been.

But so roughly, so roughly about one hundred and ten hundred and twenty copies of that left.

It's still too many.

I mean, that is easily one of my favorite box sets from last handful of years.

It is such a fun exploration of some of these titles.

Thank you.

Yeah, it's a it's a great it's a great set.

It's one of the things I'm proudest of having even played a small part and making happen.

There's a what's the guy's name that does a lot of the intros.

Tim Pexton, Yeah, animated character.

I'd love to have a dinner with that guy.

Yeah.

He's definitely a character and someone who's been in this community before this was even sort of a community.

I mean, he's was doing zines back in the eighties, maybe even all the way back to the seventies.

He's yeah cool, so he knows what he's talking about, and he's someone who's really in the last twenty years, has really been a pioneer and exploring the sort of the dregs, and I mean that, you know, in a positive sense, the dregs of like the Indian you know, commercial underground, just the lowest rung of exploitation movies.

Can we take a quick Ramsey tangent Ryan?

Is that okay?

Of course?

Because I'm happy.

Yeah, I just want to.

Call out like the story behind me, because I think there's a temptation when I look at every single credit going to a Ramsey of thinking like, oh, it's nepotism, but that's not exactly what happened.

And I just think it's the coolest story about this guy, like the paternal figure, the father Ramsey was like an electronics dealer, went out of business, was forced out when the British came in, forced out of like the area that's kind of in between.

When partition happened.

They were they were Hindus living in Karachi there you go, now part of Pakistan and they and when partition happened, once independence came in, they they left for Bombay.

Now, so yeah, and then I guess like there're a series of things he made, like two or three movies that were vomb and kind of figured out to get into horror, and then they just figured out this way of kind of becoming almost like.

An AIP or almost like a trauma or like you know, he had all these kids and one of them was interested in photography and one of them was kind of interested in music, and like they just kind of made this whole little studio system outside the studio.

It's just I think it's the coolest story.

And you know, if you're looking at it through a lens of Hollywood films, I guess they're not perfect, but they're they're creative, they're fun, they're interesting, like they're I don't know, I just I love the backstory a lot.

As I was digging more into the box set and then kind of reading about the family and stuff, it's just a I don't know, it felt like a really cool family and like, you know, I don't know, move into support almost is like kind of getting into this studio.

Yeah, if you're interested, there's a there's a book all about the Ramseys the Dead, the Dead don't Talk or something like that.

I mean, it's it's not the best book.

It's a little bit on the fluffy side, but there's a lot of good just background information and family Ramsey family lore included in it and stuff, and it's really neat.

And yeah, they they I mean you said they may not be perfect, but that and that's one of the things that's very attractive.

I think about a lot of this stuff is this they're sort of idiosyncratic imperfection, you know what I'm talking about, you know, and and I love and you're right, the sort of sense that they kind of created their own mini industry that was very family based.

And that's that's I mean, it's not nepotism.

Nepotism is a concept and that really only exists in our culture for this sort of thing.

Almost everywhere else in the world, everything is a family concern.

Every every business is a family concern, no matter what it is.

If it's if if your family is movies, then you know, if your dad made movies, you're going to go You're going to go into movies.

That's why every Bava, you know, since Eugenio Lava in Italy when it became you know, some started working in movies because that was the family business.

And it's the same, you know, the same with the Ramseys, and it's you know, it's the same all over the planet.

So the windows in Mexico, yes, yeah, so yeah, lost, I mean you could name endless example, go to any country that isn't I mean, and it happens in the United States too.

I mean, people, you know, they go into the same businesses they're you know, they're they act because their dad was an actor.

You know, if your dad is Tom Hanks, well maybe you know why not, you know, you you know, And I mean people talk.

I mean, there's a lot of discourse right now on the internet about like Nepo babies, and it's just and I think it's kind of silly.

I mean, yeah, maybe they get a little bit of a leg up, but that's just literally what that is the nature of the world.

As you go into your family business a lot, it is more the norm for that than what we think of is the sort of Western individual, go your own way sort of thing.

You know, you're more likely to be a plumber.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, yeah, I just looked up that book is available on Amazon just for everybody listening.

It's called Don't Disturb the Dead.

Okay, there you go.

Yeah, I knew I didn't have that title, right, but I at least I got the word dead right.

What's great about physical media is the physical version is availab for eleven seventy two right now, the Kindle version fourteen ninety nine.

So support physical media, look at you?

Okay?

With the sale of course, going back to this, we've got four brand new titles.

Lots to discuss here.

First, one is one that has been hinted at, teased at revealed for quite some time.

Cafe Flesh is coming as part of this as a four K and Blu ray dual format release.

And this is a really big deal.

Tell us the story behind this one.

They're jared, Well, this was something that well, for one thing, this restoration has been in has been in the works almost as long as the Doctor Kaligari restoration was in the works.

I mean, I think they pretty much Stephen Saadi and pretty much started the process of both of these restorations around the same time.

Kaligari went further first because he had the negative.

So, and that's something to just sort of establish right up front, is that the negative for Cafe Flesh is gone, daddy gone.

It does not exist.

So it's this is assembled from the best thirty five millimeter prints and from what I understand, A lot of the a lot of the stuff, I mean a lot of it had to be assembled from different bits.

But what is there was and a lot of it was in really good shape, so good.

So yeah.

So it's been years, years, years in the making, at least probably five years.

So when we first started on Doctor Kligari, we it was part of the conversation was, you know, are we going to do Cafe Flesh?

Are we not going to do it?

And we didn't make the deal for it.

And originally there were some rights kerfuffles.

Vinegar Syndrome claimed that they had the rights and I think they had purchased the rights for a bunch of the rent dream movies from somebody else.

Uh, And it's just in one of those things.

It's not in any way a criticism of them or anyone involved.

That's just the way this stuff works.

Rights get sold all over the place sometimes, especially when you get into the more murky world of you know, adult films or exploitation films.

You know, it's just the way it goes.

So there was a little bit of our rights thing, and so there was a little bit of like, well maybe Vinegar Sindrome will do this, maybe Stephen would go ahead and license it to them, But in the end he was he really liked what we did with Doctor Kligari, so we got the deal.

So yeah.

So yeah, it's it's not that exciting of a story, really, but it's it's just neat that this is something that's been in the works for so long and I'm glad that we did it.

It's it's a really interesting project and God, people have been really excited about it for a long time now, Like I mean instantly when we like have probably the first comment that anyone made about when we announced Doctor Kylagari is wow, are you doing Cafe Flesh too?

You know.

So it's it's nice to be able to finally, you know, put it out there.

Like just enjoy the good news for thirty seconds.

Man.

I mean, if you talk to me long enough, you'll know that.

That's a That's a bugbear of mine, is you know, you announced something and people are immediately like, wow, that's great.

What else you got?

Well, for anybody that has never seen this movie, everybody's first reaction is just off of the title is oh, this is a porn and uh, it's so depraved.

For anybody that's not seeing this, how do you describe this to everybody else?

I mean it is, I mean it is a it has hardcore in it.

Just establish that.

So so I mean, if that's a weird thing for you, and it's and it's we're not we can't advertise that all, like on the site or anything, for fear of being shut down.

So it's kind of nice to be able to talk about it a little bit here that people know that there is hardcore sex.

Now.

Now, I saw this movie long, long, long, long ago, and so I my memory of it is is sort of vague.

I have not seen the new restoration.

But it's not really erotic in any way.

I mean, it's it's sort of you know, it's I think Saadian's sort of intent was almost anti erotic.

Yes, I think he was trying to use sex to provoke people and to make people feel uncomfortable a little bit.

Not that I think it's not like seedy or rapie, you know, nothing like that, but it's just not It's just not a you know, a tug one out film necessarily, you know, you know, so so you know, you know, buyer beware.

But I mean it is if you like doctor Kaligari.

It's very much that same sort of aesthetics that is a designer.

He's like a graphic designer, and so he has a very much his own individual style and aesthetic that he brings to his films, and this is maybe like the purest distillation of that style.

There's a lot of buzz right now in the boutique blu ray community around Caligula, which was a Larry Flint production, and there's a tie between Larry Flint and Sad and Jerry Stall as well.

Right, yeah, yeah, I mean this is not my area of expertise at all.

I think they were all working together at Penthouse for a while.

Yes, there is, there is some tie in fact, like I think the Hustler, the Hustler Empire owns perpetual DVD to this film.

So that's why if you guys remember, if anyone else is listening, remembers, I guess it was earlier this year or maybe late last year, there was a bootleg a company that does hardcore films.

They do bootlegs of it, but they're well known.

Excuse me, they're pretty well known and well established, and they announced they were doing Cafe Flesh on they're like a new DVD of Cafe Flesh, and so I sort of that's when I sort of made the announcement saying, hey, you know, we're doing this.

Don't like you know, And we tried, you know, we got him, We got it stopped.

And one of the things that we did was we went to the Hustler team.

We went to that, We went to Larry Flint's lawyers and do you guys think Larry Flint has good lawyers?

Yes, Larry Flint.

So yeah, so that got the we got the kibosh put on that real quick.

And and that was in part because of the Hustler Empire.

Yeah.

Interesting, Well thankfully too.

We get a bunch of extras on this to put the film in context.

Audio commentary with our director, We've got an interview with him as well, interview with Jerry Stall who's just mentioned, interview with Jacob Smith, interview with Jessica Stoya, and some archival once at b Roll.

That's a lot of pretty good stuff for this movie.

Yeah, and there might be one more interview coming kind of at the last minute.

Something was brought up as a possibility and we're looking into it now.

I won't say, just because I don't want to jinx it, but there might be one of the actors in the film might still be added, interviewed and added to this disc.

We have a little bit of time, We have a little bit of wiggle room.

These aren't gonna that's another thing to mention right away.

I've mentioned it everywhere, but this stuff isn't gonna ship until January.

So we're looking to have all this done by no later than the end of November.

So we have a little bit of wiggle room.

So there might be one more thing at it.

And that means to keep in mind when you were shopping the sale, if you don't want to wait for those sale items, but you do want to pre order these things order separately.

Ask that I would recommend.

That make sure you get the pre orders in one order and then get in stock items in another order.

If you're wanting those by Christmas or something.

Yeah, I will.

I intend to.

I'm going out of town to visit family for Thanksgiving for a week at the end of November.

My intention is to have all the sale orders done in November before I leave, so nice, so hopefully I'll only take two to three weeks This one.

I mean, I'm not trying to artificially create fomo at all by saying this, but just factually speaking, if there's only two thousand copies of this, there is a good chance it sells out during the block Friday sale, right, or there is a chance of that.

Absolutely there's a chance.

I'm gonna say it's it's somewhat unlikely, just given sort of the the track record of things selling out and the fact that, I mean, two thousand is a lot of copies for us.

You know, it's maybe not a lot for some other companies, but for us, that's a lot.

So of all the titles, though, I think this probably has the best chance of selling out.

Doctor Caligari did sell out.

I don't think it's it didn't sell out super quick, but it I can't I can't remember it was I think less than a month anyway, So of all of them, I'd say this is the best chance.

But what is telling about that day or that week even I doubt it.

Okay, if you do want the limited edition version, that one does come with a booklet with new writing by Heather Draine, who was very involved in the Caligary release as well.

Uh Daniel byrd Eric Peretti and then some archival text by Jerry Stall.

Those are always great for me.

A lot of the booklets, Like we were talking about the Bollywood Horror Box earlier, that booklet is astounding.

It's like a full on history of the genre in that booklet.

And yeah, that was like a book Yeah yeah.

And I'm really excited about these contributions.

I loved Heather's essay for Doctor Caligari.

Uh, And I'm really excited to have Daniel Bird on board.

He's one of my favorite people work who work in the industry, really, someone I really look up to and admire and like is writing a lot.

So very happy that he's involved, and he's he was very instrumental from the beginning for both Caligari and Cafe Flesh in the restorations of these, He's a big fan.

He's been involved like almost every step of the way, so nicely.

He's also involved and contributing something to the booklet.

Yeah, incredible.

Our next release is one that we have talked about publicly before as well, Bohachi Bushido.

This is from Japan from nineteen seventy three.

Another four K blu ray dual format, dual format combo release.

This is first off, gorgeous looking out from justin coffee on this one looks incredible, beautiful.

You have been seeing the praise of this film, and tell everybody about this one, Jared.

It's my favorite taru o Ishi film.

I like a lot.

I think, as we talked about a little bit the last time, I'm not as big a fan of some of his sort of Joys of Torture and Orgies of a Too sort of films.

They're interesting, but I'm not as much a fan.

But I love this one.

I love Horrors of Malformed Men, I love you know, female Yakuza Tale, And this is just sort of where his just weirdness went off the rails.

It's just like sort of of looking forward a bit to sort of the approach that almost someone like Tikashi Mike would take in the nineties in the early two thousands, where he's just sort of throwing whatever he can at the screen and seeing what sticks and it's and it's sort of glorious and it's just sort of bizarre.

And this one is just it's just maybe the best example of that because it's sort of a compelling story too.

It's based on a comic book by the guys that did the Loan was in cub Comics, So it's you know, you know, if you've read if you I mean probably most people have seen the movies, and if you've read the manga, you sort of know what to expect from that.

But this, of course is just it's got like wall to wall naked ladies in it too, and just you know, weird lighting and you know, heads being decapitated and like flying across the screen and just just outrageous action, you know, and attitudes and just a very weird, cynical, nihilistic worldview being explored in the film.

Just and you know, and if you're like me, that's a lot of fun.

That's that's a good time exploring, exploring happy go lucky nihilism.

I love it.

So yeah, I love this.

This was when I first went to toe to start licensing films.

This was one of the first ones I asked about, and it wasn't available for a long time, but as soon as a four K scan of it was available, we snatched it up.

So I think it's probably worth calling out some of the cast on this too, just because you know, like I think sometimes we don't think about you know, we have like like Franco Niro is a household name and a lot of people, you know, if you're just getting into movies, you kind of know Franko Niro.

You might not know Goro Ibuki.

But this guy was in like ninety movies.

He was in a lot of genre movies, and he was in a lot of samurai films.

Yeah, and he's just a total badass, Like he's great at playing this like intensity but with comedy too, like he can kind of manage both very well.

Yes, And then there's another guy who's his name was Tetsuro Tanda, and he was in four hundred movies.

I know, it's almost hard to watch a movie from like the late fifties through the seventies that he's not in.

Yeah, yeah, it really is astounding.

And he's always such a great like presence.

He just has this very stone face and that it's very archetypal performance of that sort.

In this film, it's just he's just never gives any sort of expression other than just like, you know, just I'm not the viewer.

The listeners can't really see what I'm doing right now, but yeah, it's just he's he gives a great performance.

Uh and and without really doing much, and that's sort of he's sort of an icon of screen presence like that, you know, almost like someone like Christopher Lee almost.

You know, yeah, you made that in this movie because the scenes and everything going on kind of around him is so crazy that like, you know, if he's crazy too, it becomes like Looney Tunes almost or something like you know, you need you need that stoicism.

I think it's perfect.

Yeah, yeah, for sure, it's it's a it's a really he's great in it.

It's a really great movie.

I'm really excited that we were able to make this happen.

We talked about the extras on the last one, but I have seen some people really excited about the extras on this one because we had an audio commentary by Tom mess hard to to you know, over sell how great Tom is.

He is immersed in Japanese culture and loves everything about these He's incredible.

However, everybody is referring to the interview that you got for this with Shinya Sukamoto about the career of tu Man.

That is exciting.

Yeah, yeah, that was Yeah.

Tom produced the extras for this too, or he produced.

He produced that.

We were hoping to get some other interviews and sort of anything sort of fell through, but he produced that, and he's he was really excited about it too.

He's of course he's written about Sukimoto and is definitely one of the world's foremost experts and knows him and h and was able to get I mean, it was it was just like he pitched it and boom it happened.

It was.

It wasn't even difficult to get to get Sukamoto.

But Tsukumoto was.

He worked with Ishi.

He worked.

I can't remember what he worked on.

If he worked, it was, as I said, maybe he's an assistant director or something I I can't quite recall.

But he knew.

Oh, he was an actor in one of his films, one of his like nineties films, one of his s OV films.

That's it.

There's a lot of acting as well he has.

He's a wonderful actor.

I love seeing him in anything.

And that's how and that's what it was.

As he was an actor.

And I think blind beast versus killer dwarf.

Someone someone will furiously write a comment uh my, but it's it's I think that's the one.

Uh, and so he has a very neat perspective having known and worked directly with is She and is also a fan and can speak to the qualities of is She's work that make his movie so compelling.

So uh yeah, great, great little extra.

And Tsukamoto is just a great and interesting person and someone you want to hear talk about and find out what they think.

You know, he reminds me of a little bit.

I'm not going to compare them as far as filmmakers necessarily, but have you ever heard Alex Cox.

Talk about movies?

Yes, Yeah, he's just so passionate.

He's just like, yeah, yeah, it's a very similar thing.

They sort of they almost have sort of similar it's a similar thing where it's it's very obviously someone who thinks very deeply about movies and is a fan of movies.

Yea.

And yet when they they have their own career as a director where they take their very own idiotcratic you know path, So it's not like they're just paying homage to whoever.

Although I know Alex Cox does a lot of homage just to spaghetti westerns and stuff, but his stuff is not just you know, trying to emulate spaghetti westerns by any means, and Sukamoto is the same thing.

It's just he's very much a fan of movies and Japanese movies that he grew up with, and just everything is filtered through his sort of very very unique, very very unique perspective.

For my money, one of the best and most interesting filmmakers still working today.

And it's astonishing because he's been working since the late eighties and everything he does is super compelling.

Still I haven't seen his latest film, but the movies that he made before that, like Killing and Fires on the Plane are just amazing, extraordinary.

So yeah, very very happy to have him on board.

I was about to say he was just touring a brand new movie, I think too, right.

Yeah, it's like a gosh, I can't Third Window.

I have put it out.

I haven't picked it up yet.

I will though.

I've heard really good things.

It's something said in like the Aftermath of World War two, shadow of Fire, A Shadow of Fire, that's it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've heard good things.

Amazing.

So that is Bohachi Bushido.

We got a booklet coming in that one with writing by Mark Shilling as well.

Again limited to two thousand and this and Cafe Flesh did not say previously, but those will both be in slipcovers as well as the next one that we're going to talk about.

I know that we had somebody on the Facebook group.

I believe it was ask a question, and now that we're seeing this, I guess this is a good time to bring it up.

Are you Do you think Monta Micabro is starting to go towards the slipcover route more rather than the red case route.

Maybe?

Yeah, it's I mean, for things like this dual disc sets.

There aren't two disk sets for red cases.

The red cases are only single disc so in order to sort of give it some sort of more packaging value, we've you know, for a long time now, we've you know, occasionally put out stuff with slipcovers.

It's nothing new.

So but as far as the future, yeah, we probably are gonna have to go in that direction.

I'm not sure how many more of the red cases we can get.

Personally, I'm starting, I you know, I I see everyone else, all the crazy packaging everyone else, and then I sort of look at our measly red cases and they sort of seem like flimsy things.

But it's I appreciate very much how much people like them though, and how much of a collector's item they all have become.

So I appreciate that they're probably not going anywhere, but they're without saying anything too exact yet, there will be changes and how that stuff is handled in this upcoming year.

That's all I'll say at this time.

And then you know, well, well, I'll be back on in a future podcast and you can grill me about the changes that I announced when they happen.

So, uh yeah.

The slipcovered game is a completely different, interesting, wild topic that people are discussing to death on message boards everywhere.

It's a it's a rough conversation because no matter what you say, you piss some people off.

I want to just put in my two cents about slipcovers.

I like them, and I don't.

I don't.

I'm not a maniac for them.

I don't understand quite the collector mania the base.

There's the people who will just buy slipcovers on eBay or whatever.

I don't quite get that, but I man, I think they look nice.

I think it's it's I think it's a nice way to highlight different artwork.

And I think they just makes a nice looking package.

So I've always been a fan of them.

I like doing them.

The only reason maybe we haven't done more of them is that it is sort of expensive.

It just adds an extra cost to them and so and you know, and then it drives up the price that we charge for them.

So but just as a personal note to put my two cents in the ongoing slipcover debate, as I think they're great.

I think they're really neat, and especially I love it when it can highlight different art.

If it's just the same art on the slipcover as it is on the inner sleeve.

Man, that makes me mad.

I felt like that.

And I say, right now, I say that, right now, I say this.

I declare we will never do that.

We will never either Mando Micabro or Neon Eagle, the two labels that I'm involved with, we will never do the same art on the slipcover that's on the inner sleeve.

Will not happen.

I won't let it come.

Thank you anyway, I'm sorry, what were you saying?

I don't even remember that that was a good difference.

Sorry, yeah, no, no, no, it's perfect.

I think that that's a good way to leave it because there's a lot of questions about, you know, the the quality of the slipcover for a lot of people.

There's questions about why why they're so popular for other people.

But then there's other people that will literally say, if it doesn't have a slipcover, I will not buy it.

And that's where Stiff starts to get really silly.

Yeah, that's really stupid.

I mean, you know, I don't know, you know, and not to talk shit about anybody, but come on, come on.

Well, let's let's leave slip covers in the past and travel back in the deeper past to France from nineteen seventy one and talk about a UHD blu Ray upgrade for Monta micabre for the girl Slaves of morgana le fee one.

That is I mean, this is up there, like one of the quintessential perfect Mondo micabre titles.

I feel like, uh so this is this is a big deal that this is getting this upgrade.

Yeah, this is a this is another one.

This is.

Of I mean a lot of these projects, like you know, every time we you've bring one up and I'm like, oh, well, this has been in the works for a long time.

We've been working on it.

This goes back to the very beginning of Monta Micabo doing Blu Ray and certainly to the beginning of Monto Micabre itself.

This has been I think it even came out on VHS and DVD from Pagan, which was Pete Toombs's pre Mondo Micabre label.

Wow uh, and then he put it out again on Mondo Micabro and I think that was when he was able to debut like a full uncut version, and then we were going it was going to be I think it would it probably would have been third or fourth Blu Ray we would have done.

But there was a sudden rights kerfuffle about it that came up when Pete started to just you know, secure everything.

I won't go into why, just you know, it's just it's and it's all in the past anyway, but it took years to sort out and and so but once it was sorted out, it was something we have essentially perpetual rights to for the home video for US home video rights.

So so we sort of it sort of was on the back burner knowing, Okay, well we're going to get to this, We're going to get to this.

Yeah.

So yeah, it just it was something that we just sort of kept putting off and putting off.

And then now that we sort of knew that there was the UHD market and everything, I just was I really pushed for us.

Okay, this is the time, let's do it.

Let's do a new four K restoration.

And it is brand spanking new this year four K restoration of this film.

So, you know, a long time coming for this, but but well worth it.

It should be.

It's a beautiful looking film.

So I haven't seen the new restoration yet, but I'm going to guess it will be exquisite.

It will be beautiful.

It is a pretty movie.

And then on the extras on this we've got audio commentary with the writer, director, new and archival interviews with the director, a new interview with one of the actresses, and a short film how many I don't remember was the short film on the DVD as well?

Remember I think, actually I have the DVD right here because I was, yes, yes, it is on there, so and so yeah, So there's an archival interview with the director that's also on here, but there's also a new new interview and a new commentary with the director, and probably most interesting at all.

Of all, an interview with the actress who plays morgana very very very nice to have just because yeah, it's no one.

I don't think anyone had ever interviewed her, so Dominique de Plaire or something like that, Doug Pierre.

So yeah, really exciting little extra there.

The Bruno gantheon is an interesting one because he's been working essentially he has a similar career to Michelisuave almost and that they kind of they directed a few movies and then just went into TV and it sort of made the rest of their career in television, right, But he was still working up until just a few years ago.

Yeah, I think so.

I think he actually got his start in television, is what I understand.

Uh, And then you know, it was just you know, like a lot of people wanted to make that jump and this was sort of his his his tool that he wanted, you know, his sort of stepping stone to a bigger career, and it never really happened for him, which is a shame because if you see the film, he's obviously very talented.

So I haven't seen this movie before, does it?

It kind of gives me like genre on vibes is it.

Yes, yeah, it's it's not quite there's.

It has its own vibe going on, but it definitely if you like genre lan films, I can't imagine that you won't like gross slaves of the Morgan effect.

It's it's definitely got that sort of dreamy French countryside naked girls wandering through a cemetery sort of vibe, you know.

And then we got a booklet in this with writing by Pete Toombs and some double sided art cards coming with this solid release.

Obviously Pete's got an extended history with it.

I'm sure the booklet's gonna be great.

Yeah, I think it's.

I think it's more or less just sort of like a reformatting and a re update and an updating of some of his notes that came with the DVD back in the day.

So maybe nothing mind blowing, but it's nice to have, nice to have in an actual physical form.

So good, solid release.

Glad this is coming out.

And this next one, there are so many questions about this because this one has been in the works for quite some time.

A punishment, Yeah, yeah, the punishment.

And I'll say right away, I I it's hard for me to sell this one.

Because I've I actually have not seen the film, so just full disclosure, I have not watched this even it's been something that we've been working on for years.

I've never gotten around to watch.

But yeah, can we get into the story after we go to the features real quick.

So we got a brand new two K restoration from the original negative.

We got an audio commentary by the one and only Sam Deagan, which we all love and respect.

Here we got an interview with the soundtrack composer and cast member Bookie Binkley, Hell of a Name, interview with the author Jean Luke moritt Or Murray, and then an interview with the cinematographer Noel Verie Man.

This has been like it was originally announced as coming soon from Anno Macabre right, and then.

K yes, like six years ago.

It was like we announced, like a bunch, Oh, here's here's four things that we're working on.

I think it was Woman Chasing the Butterfly of Death, which came out not long after, Dangerous Cargo, the Greek Greek Sleazy Greek film came out not long after, and then this and Queens of Evil, which we have MHM licensed from the same company, a French company, and immediately that deal went like yeah, there were there were issues immediately with it, and and basically a rights dispute who actually has the rights?

We were able within a year or two, maybe it was a couple of years to sort out Queens of Evil, but this one just sort of fell by the wayside.

It was just.

No one knew what had happened to it.

Pete kept trying and going back and just nothing happened to it.

Uh.

And then a few years later, Pete has dinner with Joe Ruben from Vinegar Syndrome and and and Joe just kind of casually mentioned, oh, yeah, we've we've we've licensed La and Pete was like, what, I've licensed Lapa Ischeon.

And Joe is a really stand up guy, someone I respect a lot in this industry.

U Joe said, you guys got it, it's yours.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's just like, oh that's cool.

I mean, I know he has a lot of respect for Pete, and he's done that before with us.

There was you know, we were having I had a conversation with him and he told me he was gonna license Killer of Dolls and I was like, oh shit, we're We're about to we're we're about to license that.

I think it was just that the licenser like just they were just licensing so many titles that they had neglected to realize that we had, you know, put in a bid on this already, and he very he like stood back and said, no, we will take ourselves completely out of that.

It's yours.

And it was a similar thing with this, only it was they had actually licensed it to us, so they sub licensed it to us.

So big, big props to Joe and everyone at Vinegar Syndrome for making this happen, you know, six years after we announced it.

And it's a movie that Pete loves.

Like I said, I haven't seen it.

Pete has been in love with it and wanted to do it for a really long time.

So very exciting that we're finally able to get it out there.

That's so cool.

This is this is the title a lot of people have been wanting.

When there was some hints that you gave.

People on the Blu Ray dot com forums were throwing this title out as a as like a man, I really hope they can get this one again.

A lot of people have been dying to see it and now here it is with obviously incredible cover art.

You've got a lot of extras on here.

You got a big booklet, some art cards.

This this looks like a hell of release.

It does, and I want to just emphasize it.

I don't like I say, I haven't seen the movie, but what I do know about it from what Pete has told me and other people, this movie is very, very extreme in its content.

It's very violent and sleazy and uncomfortable.

So just sort of you know, I or beware you know either if you like that sort of thing, this is the movie for you.

If that sort of thing is makes you uncomfortable sort of S and M style content, you know, just be aware that it's it's for its time, really pretty shocking from what I understand.

I know, I know that one of the things that I've heard about this movie.

I haven't seen it either, but I know I've heard Sam talk about it briefly and she said that it's visually very surreal and very interesting.

So if that's yes, that's something that kind of sometimes art can kind of trump like the content in a way, like if a movie's very it makes you feel safer and it kind of takes it almost like away from reality a little bit and makes it more you know, it's easier to get kind of engaged with some of the tougher content.

But that you know, if this is like one of these visually surreal movies, and that's very interesting because I was maybe similar to like some of the euro Group of stuff that was coming out in Japan or I don't know, just in terms of you know, there's an artist at work here, right.

Yeah, it's it's not just sort of sleeze for slee's sake, from what I understand.

Maybe another point of reference would be Alen robe Gleat if you've ever seen like slow Slidings of Pleasure or Trans europe Express stuff like that, where there is sort of like some fairly gnarly smm sleezy content about it.

But he was an artist, you know, he was.

He was not someone just making slap dash exploitation phones.

And this is sort of a similar thing.

The director did have a lot of background in Abancotte art and that sort of thing, so and sort of experimental cinema.

So it isn't just sleeze.

It just is sleezy, Yeah, in addition to everything else that it is.

Yeah, as usual, we got a bundle option if you are going to the sale and you want all four of these limited titles pretty fairly priced for three uhds and Blu Ray with you know, new extra bonus features on every single title.

Our card slip covers all that fun stuff.

It to me, I mean it looks like you know, you're getting your money's worth if you get the bundle out of this one.

I think.

So.

It is as always with our bundles, it's it's cheaper to buy, like if you were but if you bought all four individually in your car and you checked out that way, it would be more money than if you bought the bundle.

So buy the bundle if you want all four because it's cheaper.

I think it comes out to like forty for twenty five, whereas it's forty two, forty two, forty two and twenty seven.

So I mean that's not a huge amount, but it adds up and it just you know, and the cheaping the excuse me, the shipping is also cheaper.

Not the cheaping is also shipper.

The shipping is also cheaper if you buy the bundle.

Nice, Yeah, this is this is a hell of a slate.

I even saw somebody on Oh man, I couldn't remember what announcement it was.

Somebody actually called out and said, this is the best release slate for any label so far this year.

Well, damn, I you know that's I kudos to that person.

I you know, I think that all the time.

I think that we that we give as good as anyone in the business, as far as just you know, I'm biased, of course, but you know, I really think we do give a lot of really interesting stuff, and this is as good as any of them.

It's a really strong slate.

And you know, these are beautiful restorations, even the punishment, even though we didn't do that as a four K, it's still it's a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful restoration by far, by far, the best it's ever looked.

So you know, yeah, well you know what more can you add it?

Really?

It's these are great movies and they're the best that they've ever looked, for sure.

On that note, that segues perfectly into one of the questions from the Facebook group.

By the way, if you are on Facebook and not a part of the Mona Micabro group, you should absolutely join it.

It is literally called the official monda Micabro fan group.

Pretty great group of people there discussing these and the more that we do some of these recordings, the more I'll be posting there to solicit questions from people.

We got a couple of questions about upgrades.

The first one I saw the name I'll shout out Virgin Llewellyn is saying any chance of Dangerous Seductress getting a UHD release or a Blu Ray upgrade.

But also that leads into the larger question of now that we've seen, you know, a couple titles go from DVD to blue or now DVD to four K, is there a chance of more upgrades of past titles like The Killer mus Kill Again, Medusa or Crazy Love or anything.

Yeah.

I mean, it's hard to talk about a lot of that stuff because we don't want to reveal anything before it's time.

You know.

I will say that of those titles you just mentioned, we don't have any plans.

I mean, I'll just you know, be honest that we don't have any plans for any of those.

I would say if if any of any of them, Dangerous Seductorists, Dangerous Seductress might be one that is slightly more you know, I just because I I that movie has a lot of detractors, but I really love it, and so it's something that I think that I would enjoy pursuing.

So but we're not at the moment.

And certainly, you know, stuff like Medusa, which is a really cool movie, Uh, I don't know, you know, it was we released that on DVD right at the right as Blu ray was really taking over, and so that one sort of suffered in the sense that it just never had never really sort of found its audience, and I think that was why it sort of fell in between, you know, you know, in the sort of the time when people just sort of stopped buying DVDs, you know, and we had it in print for years still, and it just it never really sold.

It's a really cool movie, but are we ever going to go back to it, I really don't know.

And same with like Crazy Love.

That's something that goes back way to the beginning of Monda Macabre.

A really cool movie would probably look gorgeous, and in fact, I'm surprised no one else has done it.

It seemed would seem perfect for some a label like Indicator or something, but no one, No one has I don't know why.

Maybe there's a right thing killer is uh, I'm blanking on the title.

What is the Killer Must Kill Again?

The Killer Must Kill Again?

That's right?

Yeah, which I like.

I don't love it as much as a lot of people do, but I do like that one.

You know, maybe we've actually talked about that one, but it's never nothing's ever happened with it.

Again.

I'm surprised that no one else has done it.

I'm surprised Vinegar Syndrome hasn't done that, and as part of one of their forgotten Gali sets.

But you know, I don't know.

I can't say that.

We are working on some upgrades.

There are some other things.

You know.

We got very excited about something for an upgrade and then got like got the wind completely, you know, knocked out of our sails about it about something because negative potentially has gone missing, maybe an alo Karda situation.

So I won't I'm not going to mention what it is off air.

I'll mention what it is, and then everyone else can be really jealous that you guys know they don't.

But yeah, and and something else.

We definitely have one sort of much requested title not coming to four K, but coming to Blu Ray next year.

We have a bunch of like new completely new to us two and you know, and a few just like I think I've mentioned in passing, but I don't think it's ever really gotten much.

Traction is that we're going to upgrade the Greek films The Wife Killer and Tango of Perversion.

Oh well, those will be.

Coming at some point next year, along with some other some other Greek stuff that we've had forever that we've just never quite found the time to put together and put out right.

So we will be doing more Greek stuff, including Blu Ray upgrades of those those have been DVD only for a long time.

Do you guys know that?

Do you guys know Tango of Perversion?

Have you guys seen that?

I've watched Tango.

That's the only one of those I think that I've seen so far.

Chris, have you have you watched that one?

No?

In fact, I was just kind of looking up on my phone or you're saying that, but is that is that something I should see?

I love it, I really really really love it.

I'm really excited.

Uh it's really grimy and it's really sleazy, but not in a like deeply uncomfortable kind of way.

It's almost like you can't take it too seriously sort of a thing, and just has that sort of sweaty, grimy feeling that a lot of Greek seventies exploitation has.

So I highly recommend it.

Wife Killer is great too, It's more of a Jallo they're both sort of jallo esque, but wife Killer is more of an actual also known as the rape Killer.

We didn't use that title for perhaps obvious reasons.

Wow, but wife Killer is a legit title.

A lot of people gave us guff but wife Killer is actually a legit That was the original export title before American distributors changed it to the more salacious rape Killer.

Uh so you know.

But so those are coming.

Those are things I can mention.

But we've got a lot of really cool stuff coming.

I'll reveal some stuff at the end of the year and then maybe I can come on and talk about it, maybe in January or something.

But I'm glad you said Tango was sweaty.

I almost popped in and said that it feels like European sleezy, which is weird because Italian obviously is sleezy and a lot of that stuff.

People get that feeling, but it does feel more like, I don't know, are arty, sleezy in a weird like this is my uncle that comes around on holiday.

He always feels kind of weird.

Yeah yeah, everyone uncomfortable because he's making weird comments and he's really sweaty, maybe a little drunk.

Yeah yeah, And this film is sweaty, uncomfortable and a little bit drunk too.

So yeah, yeah, I highly recommend it if hopefully it's something that Again, it was something we put out on DVD, like right as that change was happening, when Blu Ray was really just starting to take over, so it sort of fell between the cracks.

I don't know if either one of those films has ever really gotten the attention they deserve, so hopefully people will check them out.

Well.

That weird space in between the two formats is the last question from the Facebook group for now, and it's it's odd because it's happening right now, and because of how niche the physical media market's gotten.

There's so many different thoughts and feelings about how you choose some of these things.

But Chris and the group had a question on you know, people that want four K and people that want Blu Ray only some of these dual formats are a little more expensive than they want because they don't necessarily want both.

How are labels making that choice nowadays?

It is a tough choice, and it's not It wasn't an easy decision really necessarily.

I think a lot of it came down too.

For me.

For one thing, I enjoy the UHD Blu Ray combo.

I have two TVs.

Only one of them is four K, and honestly the one I have a four K TV with a UHD player in my living room, but I have a just a regular two KA TV in my bedroom, and honestly, I watch more movies.

I watch a movie like every night after my wife goes to sleep.

She's a solid sleeper, so I just watch a movie in the bedroom, and it's you know, it's I can only watch stuff on Blue.

So I kind of like having that option of I can watch it in the living room or I can watch it in the bedroom.

So I personally enjoy that.

I enjoy having that option, But I understand quite well why people sometimes don't like that option that, you know, they feel like it's just adding extra cost to it and honestly.

Honestly, the Blu ray is almost free in the disc at this point because it would not be that much cheaper if we were just doing UHD only to be honest, So I get it, I get why people don't like it.

But it's just something that and again probably the deciding factor for us.

And it came down to me, so people can blame me if they want.

Is that I I don't have the room or the wherewithal to ship out two different versions of one limited edition film, you know one you know, two different limited editions of one film, like say Bahachabashido came out and we did a UHD version and then also a like a red case blue version.

Like I don't have the time, energy or space to separate to do those, to you know, to do both of those.

That's just it's just not I'm still a one man shipping operation, you know.

I we have never we we probably never will upgrade.

It's just not something that's We're not a big enough company and I and I think a lot of my own money into the shipping operation.

It's not it's not as a as a business entity onto myself.

So it's so it's just not really feasible to have a bigger operation where that would be sort of a thing, like you know, like Indicator does a really great job.

They put out the UHD edition and the blue edition, but they're a big, huge company with a warehouse and you know, and all this stuff, so at least compared to us, so it's just not feasible right now.

So doing the combo packs, I understand that people, you know, feel that maybe I only want the blue I don't.

I don't even care about the four K, and now I have to pay extra to get it.

And I'm sorry, I really am.

I really do sympathize with that point of view, But the economic realities of the business demand that we do at least some uhds, and we should because some of these four K restorations are just too beautiful not to in some cases.

But this is just the way that we have to do it, the way that makes sense for us as a small business.

So I don't understand.

Though, like, and I don't mean this has any offense to the people asking the question, because I'm sure many people have the question, But why is it?

Why does it matter?

We've been seeing combo packs of DVD blu ray and then Blu Ray four K like this has been going This is not like a Mondo Micabro thing like this is going on with.

I mean, there's.

Probably way.

Companies do it too.

Yeah, I mean Vinegar Syndrome I think still does UHD.

I think Savern still does them too, or do they not?

I can't, I can't recall it.

They do as well.

And I think that the most vocal of the people that are raising the question are the ones that are and it happened from VHS to DVD and then DVD to Blu Ray as well.

It's the people that were stuck on the older format.

And I don't mean stuck in a derogatory way here, what you mean if they are if somebody only wants Blu Ray, they're kind of paying a bit more for a four K disc that they're not even going to be able to use.

Yeah, okay, I mean I guess I can see it.

Yeah, I mean, and it's fair, But it's just one of those things that you know, honestly, you know, and if you never know.

I mean, if you are a physical media collector and you don't have a four K player at some point, at some point, you probably your TV, your plasma that you've had for twelve thirteen years is going to fail and you will need to upgrade, and you're probably going to upgrade to a four K TV and then why And it's not like four K players are crazy expensive.

So when you have that and then boom, you've got at least you have, you know, you automatically have your future proofed as far as having that.

And like I say, like for me again, I have a four K player and just a regular Blu Ray player, and the situation may call for me where I just want to watch something in bed, lounging in bed like a lazy bastard.

That's that's that, and so it's great to have the Blu Ray there too.

So I mean, it's you know, I think it's I think it's a good compromise.

It obviously isn't perfect, but you know, nothing is perfect in this world.

That's just I mean, I'm probably the worst person in the world to talk about this conversation because I'm waiting until four K TVs get under three hundred bucks to get one.

So I'm still watching.

You know, I don't have any sound system because it's a small house to be live in and so I at the volumes on like eight and sometimes and I'm watching on a two K TV even if it's a four K disc.

So for me, I'm like, this seems like a sophisticated conversation.

Yeah, yeah, no, yeah, and yeah I'm sympathetic to that.

Yeah, I mean it was.

I you know, I understand.

I get that some people.

It's not.

Not everyone is upgraded to four K.

Some people don't.

I am not a four K end All be all guy, to be honest, either, I've seen four k's that I don't think look any better than blue ripes, and in some cases I think sometimes look worse because of HDR.

I'm an HDR skeptic.

I'll just put it out there.

So is Pete.

So is almost everyone we work with, to be quite honest, not that the I mean there's sometimes HDR and sometimes four K.

It's just it'll be like breathtaking how good something will look, but not always, to be honest in my estimation, so you know, I get it.

I get not everyone wants to.

But like at a certain point, like it just becomes like if you're a physical media person, eventually you had to upgrade the blu ray from DVD.

If you're someone who was continuing to do it, it just made sense.

And the same thing from Blu Ray to four.

K it doesn't make sense.

You have to almost try to not buy a four K TV when you're buying a TV in twenty twenty four, so it makes it makes absolute sense.

With Monta Micabre and this sale, there's the obvious question of some recommendations, but with the catalog, We've talked about this a handful of times.

There's pretty much not a movie that we wouldn't recommend in there.

But what is?

What are some favorites cheered that you haven't talked about in a while.

Yeah, that one that I've been thinking about a lot.

I think about it a lot, and I've mentioned it before, but maybe not as much as others.

Is the film Spider Lotvian film from ninety one.

Really I just blown away.

It's like I've watched it like three times I think since we released it, which is a lot for me.

I don't watch like I don't you know, I rewatch movies, but I don't watch them usually that often, And honestly, like I feel like I could watch it right now, even though I just maybe watched it two years ago, and again that is that is that's frequent for me.

That it's just a very unusual, very it's from thing a Latvian film.

There are not too many Baltic films in general on the market, and you know, much less Latvian film and coming from an interesting time nineteen ninety one, like literally months away from Latvia leaving the USSR, I think was when this was made.

So just very and a very peculiar very you know, dreamy like if you like euro horror, if you like Jess Franco and Genrelan and you know and all that stuff.

It's different, but it has that same sort of uh you know, dreamy power to it, the same sort of erotic horror aspect that you might get from something from the seventies, from from Italy or Spain, but just you know, in the nineties and you know, the Soviet Union, uh really weird.

And the for for the people that care about these things, the girl in it is very pretty.

The girl in it is extremely extremely pretty.

So if that's your thing, and she has sex with a giant spider, so if that is your thing, seeing beautiful women have sex with giant animals, boom boom, I got the movie for you.

What a selling point?

I know, right, how is this not our best selling title?

I don't get it.

But it's weird.

It's it's sort of doesn't come up.

I mean, it comes up every once in a while in these sort of conversations about about you know, what are some underseen Mondo Macabo TITLETS know, people will mention it, and I've mentioned it several times, but it's something that I want to mention again.

It's just you know, this is this is really something to check out.

So yeah, check out Spider.

Yeah.

On that note, Chris, any recommendations people that are checking.

Out, Yeah, I'd love to hear what you guys, what you guys, what you guys would recommend to people.

Yeah, of course.

So I think there's two things we spoke about it earlier, So I really want to talk I really want to push people to the Bollywood Horror bucks that.

But the fact that it's still in print, I mean, I think this is one of those things that in time will be worth a lot on like the seller resell market.

So it's a good chance to kind of get in before it gets discovered.

And I don't know why people aren't talking about the movies more.

I think, you know, I understand that there's a lot of like singing in them, and maybe some people are a little bit skeptical on Bollywood to a certain extent, I guess, but I don't think that should be the case.

These movies are great.

The Ramses loved horror, and so I think one of the things that's fun about these is there's a lot of references to American horror.

So you know, you're like, throughout all these movies, you're constantly whether it's well, I should say American and also Hammer, and you know, they just there's references to horror movies everywhere in the films, and so there are a lot of fun Let's see what I've been thinking of.

The something that's not talked about a lot is the Dick Randall Collection.

So I think that's a DVD.

Is it still in print?

Uh?

Well, we had sort of several titles that were sort of part of the Dick Randall Collection.

For your head only challenge of course.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for you for your height only, and uh.

The challenge of the Tiger Challenge of the.

Tiger, Yeah, which is funny It's funny that I that I couldn't remember that title because I honestly like it more than for your eye only.

Yeah, I love it.

I love love, love love that.

Yeah, those are just fun I think, you know, on these kind of shows, we don't talk all about you know what we were talking about Shinyasukumoto earlier, So how can we not mention Hitoku the Goblin, right?

I mean, I think that one of his.

More gemini as well.

Yeah, which is a really which is a really fantastic movie.

I think He's Hitku is an interesting one to me because it's kind of like you get to see it.

I mean, he's a very imaginative guy anyways, but I think a lot of his imagination comes through in Hiroku, and he just I don't know, I really like that movie a lot, I don't.

I don't know if I'm ready to say it's a favorite of mine of his only, because how do you claim one of his movies as like a favorite.

They are also interesting and like energetic and engaging, But this is one that I would put in my top three of his at least if I don't.

Know if he's made a bad movie for mine exactly I've not seen quite everything, I think.

I think there's a few blank spots that I've not yet.

But Ruko is great because it's a really wonderful use of his sort of amant guards sensibilities in a very commercial context.

He's making just like a silly monster movie, but it still has this weird edge to it, this very like you know, gross body horror edge to it that he brings from the Tatsuo stuff.

You know.

Yeah, I love it.

Yeah, really glad that we were able to do that one.

And then the only other one I'll just call out unless I mean, I can keep going.

But there's the other one that I kind of top of mind, is are there any retail copies or copies left of Apocalypse After?

Oh?

Yeah, yeah there are.

In fact, that's not one that I sort of mentioned earlier, but we do have some of those left.

I still have as of this moment, two hundred and seventy two copies left.

Yeah, you know, that's a shame, Like, please please give that one a chance, because Bertrae and Mendel is one of these people that I think in twenty years people will be talking about Bertran and Mendico as this like very revolutionary filmmaker making really fascinating stuff.

And you know, I think it's a seeing just seeing a glimpse into his mind and the visuals.

And I think there's a one of the shorts in that is his best work and I'm trying to remember the exact title of it, but what anyways, one of the short films in that set, I think is the best thing he's done.

And he's made some amazing movies.

Yeah, he's a very talented and unique artist for sure.

And that will be on sale that you know.

I'm that's one of the handful of limited edition ones I'd really like to move copies of.

So that's going to be kind of cheap during the sale.

So I'm not sure how much right now, because I've had it on sale, it's been reduced on price forever, like it's not at its original sell price just because I want to get rid of it.

But but it will be even cheaper during the sale.

So yeah, listen to everyone listened to Chris.

Chris knows what he's talking about.

Yeah, And then if you want to see something recently, he has a movie called She Is Conan.

I think that just came out.

Yeah, I'm very curious about that.

Yeah, I can't wait.

I'm gonna try to find it.

I really want to see it, but I don't know.

There's just some of these filmmakers that come around that they feel like they were making movies in the seventies and eighties, and he's one of those.

To me, just for people that are skeptical of like modern day movies, if you want to call it that way, He's one that I think is everybody would love if they're like a cynic like me.

Well, he has sort of that maverick sensibility that we sometimes don't see as much in modern filmmakers.

Someone who's really just like Shinya Tsukamoto.

I think, just going back to that, you know, he's someone who goes his own way.

He follows his own path no matter what else is going on.

You know that's true.

Uh one, I'll call out since Chris gave you many there, I feel like no one ever mentions nineteen eighty three's Hunting Ground, and the first time I watched that movie, I was so captivated.

Again, Just like Jared said, I don't rewatch a lot of stuff, but that movie deserved a couple watches for me.

Loved that movie.

It is unrelenting.

Uh, it is.

It's a it's a rough one to watch.

It's a good movie, but it's.

Truly truly shocking.

Yeah, conclusion to that one, Like the most jaded viewer will be like, what the fuck?

What?

Yeah, yeah, it's it's curious and it's like a serious film too.

It's it's it's like, it's a real it's the real deal.

It's not just it's not just trash.

Not that there's anything wrong with trash, right, you know, watch trash all day long, but like, it's it's a real it's got some serious intent to it and it's very well made.

On that note, anything else you want to shout out Jared before we call it a day.

Yeah, no, I don't think so.

Just you know, everybody, you know, with the sales going, the sales going from October twenty second to the twenty seventh, that that's the actual sale itself, the discounted the discounted back catalog on the twenty that's through the twenty seventh, So that's a Sunday.

So that Monday morning, the twenty eighth, I will shut down the store for a couple of hours, maybe and then the pre orders for the new stuff will be back.

So that's not that's the pre orders are not limited in that way.

It's not just you know, you only have this limited a time during the sale.

Now, those pre orders will go back up right as soon as soon as as soon as you know, I'm able to get the store back up, but just and and everything else will be sort of gone for a while, but the pre orders will still be there, so everyone can still make.

Those perfect Another reminder, just in case you fast forwarded through the middle part, the new brand new pre orders not shipping till January most likely, and potentially even early February.

Yeah, I mean, I think it's a good chance right now for January, so but you know, be aware that February is possible.

And in all likelihood, even if they start in January, it'll take me a while.

It'll take it'll take probably at least three weeks for me to do all the orders, and so that may bleed into February.

So just be aware, anyone who's listening to this, just have that expectation in your mind.

Hopefully it won't be a case like some of the previous Halloween sales.

I know, We've been criticized for that, and with good reason, although we had good reasons for not being able to ship out things as soon.

But you know, hopefully it won't be a case where it's like March April, May or something, you know like that.

So hopefully February at the latest, and I'm fairly confident that that will be the case.

Amazing, Chris, anything from you.

And I just I mean, this conversation, I think one of the themes that's come out for me that I mean, I kind of already knew that's why I like Mondo is the how much this is the love child of Pete and Jared here, right, I mean that's just the thing that jumped out to me.

And Jared invested his own money for the shipping stuff like this is you know, like this is your you're truly supporting small business and you're truly supporting someone that's doing it for all the right reasons.

So that's I just really came out in the conversations today for me.

Yeah, of course, And that's I mean, that's why Chris and I do this.

It's not like we'd ever jump up and down to do a Universal Pictures podcast or something right.

This is this is something small that we care about that we want to just simply be a part of and try to help get the word about out there for everybody.

It has been an incredible time over the last couple of years to see what Mondo's able to grow and put out and excited for twenty twenty five.

I hope everybody has a good Halloween after the sale and looking forward to the next round of announcements.

Thank you, Jared, Thanks Chris.

Yeah, thank you, thanks for having me on.

All right, everybody, reminder we'll be having our Bollywood Horror episode that Chris and I are doing a couple a couple of films out of the box set.

We'll be talking about those in the next couple of weeks and until then, we'll see you on the next one.

Bye bye.

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