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Hello Aron, Welcome back to Wildside, the official Mando Macabre podcast.

Here with me as often times, we've got mister Jared.

Honor Jared, thank you for taking time from your busy announcement posting schedule to come and talk about those announcements that you were posting.

Welcome.

Yeah, of course, thanks for having me.

I just literally got done posting one of those announcements, so yeah, literally kay from social media.

Yeah.

Well, on that note, I'm so beyond thrill today because somebody else is on the show and it's somebody that you have all probably heard the name and hopefully the voice of if you're listening to your special features, because that is very joined today by the esteemed mister Pete Toombs.

Pete, thanks for hanging out.

It's my pleasure and thank you for asking me and esteemed.

It is not a wordless normal, so I have to look at what does it mean?

From what I'm reading, it says lightly poached.

Oh dang it, I looked up the wrong word.

I'm more than likely post at the moment.

Well, it's the Halloween season, which in Mondo Macabre world, that means it's an important time of year.

We got new announcements, We've got a sale, and depending on when you purchase your things or how you purchase your things, it is a time for many people to finally break the bank on lots of titles that have been waiting on for Auto Miccaber because now they're gonna at the best prices they're at all year cheered.

How's the how's the season been prepping for all this?

Ah?

Busy for sure.

Yeah, there's a lot going on all at once, so yeah, kind of get everything all the ducks lined up in a row and everything.

It's it's been.

It's been busy.

But I think there's been a good reaction so far, so I am cautiously optimistic about the the prospects for the sales.

Hopefully everything will go well.

I'm pleased to hear there's been a good reaction or any reaction.

So I tend not to track these things, so, you know, I'm always a little bit nervous, you know.

I mean sometimes you know when when when I first drew up the list or we first through up the list, you know, I looked at those and I thought, I don't know that's a bit of a weird list, you know, but now I've actually kind of think it's a pretty good one.

I mean, one of the best ones we've done.

Actually, Pete, I'd like to ask have you met Manda Micabro because a weird list is kind of what it what it is, that's the thing.

We specialize in.

I think we sometimes I look in the mirror sometimes I'm shocked, who is that guy?

Well, Pete, as it's your first time on here, let's get a little bit of an introduction for everybody that's not only heard you, you know on commentaries and pieces form on a macabro.

How did you get started in this whole world?

Because you've been doing this for what a good seven to eight months something like that from what I'm hearing, I.

Say, yeah, I think it's about nine months.

We're just about to give birth, nine months.

I know.

It's a scary thing.

I was thinking the other day, actually, how long have I been doing this stuff for?

I almost used a real word there.

It's a long long time, you know.

It's it's over twenty years, and actually I think it's probably over twenty five years.

And before that with the books and things and the TV stuff and so on.

It's going back way into the early nineties.

And I was thinking, I was the other day, I was looking for some stuff and working out you know that I kind of first went to it.

I mean, I went to India.

I've been to India a number of times.

Well, when I first went to India to try and sort some Mondo type stuff, that would have been about ninety ninety two.

And I think most of the many of the people that we met then, you like Torsy Ramsey and so on, and no longer with us now.

So you know, it's it seems an age and it's kind of a bit scary.

Actually, you think, what the hell have you done with your life?

Well, you know, I sort of put out some strange films.

I think that's very worthwhile personally.

Thank you.

You have to say that I do.

Yeah, I'm contractorally obligated.

So yeah, So it goes back a long way, but you know, it goes back way before then, right, And I think, you know, I was interviewed by some while ago, by somebody else kind of not about this, but you know, it came in into the into the picture, and I was thinking, you know, beforehand, I was thinking, how did I get into this?

And I think I don't want to get too serious, God forbid.

You know.

I think I was quite ill when I was a kid, like a young kid, and I spent some time in a kind of isolation ward.

I mean, this was a long time ago, you know, because I'm ancient.

The hospitals were a bit primitive in those days.

And I was in this kind of kind of like a glass room.

You know, it's like a room with the big windows.

Obviously I'm remembering now something that happened a long time ago.

And my family couldn't come and see me, other than we couldn't make physical contact.

They could just wave at me through this kind of big glass window.

And I have this strange memories from that time, you know, and things like that there was somebody, there was a girl in the next room who was all blue.

You know, I don't even know.

I'd rather hallucinating.

I saw these things.

But there was a lot of strange things.

And I think, you know that I was a very very young age, and I think that maybe that is one of the things that kind of gave me a taste for the bizarre, for the strange, you know, it's something like that.

You know, I was talking to a many years ago.

I was talking to another filmmaker who made a lot of fantastical, weird type films, and he said that, you know, all of us who who are into this kind of stuff, we all something happened to us at an early age, and we all feel that the world isn't quite right, perhaps needs remaking.

And I think that's definitely, you know, kind of part of where I come from.

And the second thing I would say, I remember we went up to stay my grandmother.

Me and my father went up to stay my grandmother who lived in the north of England, and I was probably around about twelve.

I guess, you know, it's a quite important age, isn't At twelve you're starting to no longer bit a child, but you're not quite an adult, are You're growing into an adult age of twelve thirteen?

You know, you're thinking about the world.

And I remember my father go with this book.

You know, we took some things that he had as a kid, you know, to bring back to our place because we lived in the south of England, in London in fact, and he gave me this book, which is a collection of Egrahallam post stories and said, oh, you might like this.

I read this when I was a kid, and you know, I don't think I've probably ever heard of Egar Allam Poe, but you know, obviously that that was that's a major thing in the world of kind of fantastical stuff that we're talking about.

And I read those and that kind of started me off, you know, reading looking for horror stories, horror books, reading horror stories and things, and it seemed to be this this kind of particular period, it seemed to be a there was a revival certainly in the UK of kind of horror stuff, you know, HP Lovecraft, Clark, Ashton Smith, you know, all those guys and collections of stories came coming out in paperback, probably for the first time, and I hunted those things down, you know, and had a huge collection of these kinds of things.

And I suppose that that that's all connected, isn't it.

You know, that's sort of where you get a taste of these things and movies, though I think came later, you know.

I mean, we were all quite lucky in the UK because we had some you know, there was some channel, because we only had like three channel.

In fact, I think in those days when I'm talking about we've probably only had two channels or not, and we haven't got that many now, you know.

Uh.

And there was one of those where they used to play sort of late night kind of horror movies, and one where they played kind of art movies, you know, like and Tony Only and stuff like that, and they would have a little A guy would come up at the front before the film started, a film critic, and it would tell you a little bit about what the film is about and put giving it context and so on.

And then you'd see the movie.

And we had Italian there was neo realist stuff.

Then, as I said, Antoni Only, there was a Brazilian cinema Novo came up in that strand, which was quite amazing really, And I think I started to put all these things together in a way.

You know, what do I like?

I kind of like these things.

I don't like those things.

I used to go to the cinema.

I've jumped ahead a bit now.

When I was old enough to go to the cinema, I used to go maybe three or four times a week, and I remember my mother was quite worried about me, you know, is it healthy to spend all this time in the cinema.

You know, it was a battles you could never win, so you and I just hammer stuff, you know, I kind of, you know, came across that at the young age.

I mean I was too young to go and see these films.

But some of those hammer films were classified A in the in the in the UK, which meant that they were not suited for children.

But you could go in if you if you were coming by an adult.

And we used to stand outside the cinema this is are very kind of rough what we call fleepit cinema.

But you don't have that expression.

I guess in America you would say grindhales.

I suppose, wouldn't you.

And we would stand outside of the certain we wait for somebody going in, and you know, there's a guy with his girlfriend or something, and we'd say, oh, mister, can we come in?

Can we come in?

And they go what we say, well, you know, they weren't see otherwise, you know.

And there was a kind of a feeling I definitely remember from those times of a kind of communal thing.

And everybody was in this film.

I mean, obviously all these people we'd be get your girlfriend with he probably got gone for the things other than watching the film.

But there was this feeling that all these people were in there together, you know, to what to see this film, and we were part of this kind of you know group, communal group.

Obviously known of these people, but there was that kind of thing, you know that we're it's almost like a club that we're also members of because most of the films I'm talking about, the shows and that cinema they were they were not first run films or even second run films.

They were probably third run films, you know, the Roger Corman, E.

Graham Poe films for example.

I saw all those in that kind of in that place and in that kind of you know, in that environment, and you know, that kind of gave me a taste for these things, but also that you have to seek them out.

You know that you wouldn't necessarily get them in your big, major cinema in town.

You'd have to find this scuzzy place, you know, where you discover these strange films.

And I never knew what was going to be on.

We just used to go there and it was like on a Sunday afternoon quite often, and they played like maybe three films and there was really strange stuff, but you know, I didn't know anything about of course, because there was no internet.

They work books about horror films, Carlos Claren's book and so on, and they were all a bit you know about Boris Karloff and that kind of period, you know, thirty or forty horror films.

I don't think there was much about contemporary stuff, you know, that was coming out then.

So there was a kind of a sense of discovering something and you know, kind of looking for it.

And obviously this was years before video, I mean that came in.

When when did video start vhs where you could buy them?

In thirty years?

Yeah?

Yeah, yeah, that's right.

Yeah, I mean because I used to collect a little eight millimeter they call them cutdowns.

I don't know that I used to collect these, you know, and they're completely crazy when you get a feature film and you cut it down to ten minutes, you know, and quite often they didn't have soundtracks, so you were just looking at these bizarre and I can remember, even way back then, I was a little kid thinking wouldn't it be great you had your own library of films?

That you could seriously.

I mean, I can remember thinking that, and of course that's what we've got now, isn't it.

So I don't know if that gives you, if that gives you any kind of an idea of, you know, where we go and what you wanted to know.

But some of it it helps a lot.

I'm sure there's a lot of people listening that have not even heard some of.

That about you.

I mean it's, you know, kind of classic Monda macabre that a lot of this starts with things like Edgar Allan Poe.

I mean, the basis for a lot of the weird, and you know, the tagline being the wild side of cinema starts with things like I don't know, being six years old and reading the Telltale Heart and trying to realize, oh, well, this is dark, but for some reason, I'm intrigued and I want more like this.

And you've taken that to lead into TV series and books and now home video for decades.

At this point, the response to everything in the nineties and what we're seeing over the last you know, ten years of how the home video market has changed.

How do you feel like the audiences have developed over those thirds years?

I think it must be a different audience, you know.

I think I think we're getting different audiences because when we first first started doing this, which like my time thing, as you can tell, is really quite bad.

But I suppose we start When did we start, Jared, advise me, when did we start punning?

When did Mondo start putting stuff out?

In the early early two, late late nineties?

I think we had some stuff late nineties on on on our first label, so.

The pagan label in the l.

Yeah, that's right, and that was all VHS, you know, so it was way before v D.

Sorry, what was the question?

What was the question?

How has the audience changed over that period?

Okay, there wasn't really much of an audience for the kind of stuff that we the kind of stuff that we're doing now.

I don't know, but there was I don't know there was specialist horror lab was that.

I don't think there were?

You know, I mean the person who comes to mind, you know, is the is the guy, is the Redemption guy.

You know, Nija wing Grove.

You probably know who he is, and that was quite important meeting.

I'd always credit nize it as being a pioneer in that sense that he discovered.

You know, there was there was all these European old European mostly horror movies that were a lot of sitting in catalogs, distributed catalogs, and you know, it could be picked up very cheaply at the time, and that if he marketed them in the right kind of way, I made it look like you're going back to what I was saying about, you know, those fleepit cinemas.

If you made it look like it was you were joining a club some sort when you bought these things, you brought into this kind of lifestyle thing.

You know.

I think that was probably an important kind of thing.

And he was doing that well in the mid nineties or late nineties, I can't remember.

I know I went to see him very early on when he was starting the label, and he was asking questions about what films we should put out and that kind of stuff, and that made me think that, hey, look there might be something here, you know, maybe this is something that we could do.

Yes, and I've had we had the TV stuff and in me were doing some some TV stuff.

Whi's probably parallel to that, or maybe slightly before that.

But you know where we discovered there was a late night slots on UK TV on Channel four and that you know, you could play these strange films and you could put documentaries and short films and things on.

And that was what we started to zero and I think that was really the roots of the of the of the video label because when we were buying stuff for you know, for screening on TV, because they give us a budget, and then we could go and you know, try and then do deals with all these people who owned these strange films.

We would pick up the video rights as well for the UK.

This was all the UK at the time, and so you would you would the TV show would pay for the acquiring the rights and then we would put the video out on vhs.

There all vhs at the time, so it was a kind of an added little bonus.

Yeah, and we used to do some mail order stuff and so on.

I mean it was difficult to get these things into shops, but we used to do mail order stuff and people would write strange letters asking can we do you know where this?

Are you going to release this film?

Have you heard of this film?

You know?

You we still get Yeah, I hope we do it in many in many kinds, I know, a little bit more now.

In many cases I didn't I didn't know what these films were, you know, and there wasn't really there weren't really that many places you could look these things up.

And certainly when I was a young kid and I started getting interested in these kinds of films, there wasn't really there would course no Internet, and there was no there were no books.

As I said before, there were no books were adult with this kind of stuff.

It was very kind of underground.

I mean, I was aware that these films would comm sure, you know, it's been made by maybe the B unit of a of a major film producer, but you know, they were they were sort of underground in that kind of sense.

It was commercial underground, you know.

And that was the kind of stuff that I kind of liked.

Because the other films are being talked about by everybody.

You'd be seeing them reviewed in the newspapers, you see them reviewed on television.

I kind of liked the idea there were these crazy people making these little films that were shown in cinemas rather like the one I mentioned, you know, the one of the third run cinema that used to go to and maybe there was something there something there of interest, you know, and then of course you know you discovered people like Rollin Franco of course, who's some of whose films I actually managed to see in London and I didn't know what they were, but you know, it was kind of very random, but it all sort of comes together and you you know, you see something warming and there.

And there was a couple of books.

I should be, I should be, I should be, Uh, I should be honest about it.

There were a couple of books Dave Pierry.

Does that name mean anything to you?

Sure does.

He was a UK writer and he did a couple of books.

He did one on the Vampire which was really quite interesting and quite useful, and that had and that had something about Rollin in it and lots of pictures from his from his from his book, from his film.

Is that the Seal of Dracula book.

No, The Seal of Dracula was before that.

I called Barry Patterson, who is Australia, of course, and in my book is a real hero of this kind of stuff, and I think completely forgotten about.

I don't even know if he's still alive.

And uh, yeah, he did.

He did a book about vampire as he said, the Seal of Dracula, and he was the first place I think that I saw covered things from the Philippines st out with Latin America and all that kind of stuff.

And there there was a film there the which he which he which we were later released called The Sads with Red Teeth the Taddy Gouge.

I can't remember what.

I can't remember what we called it when we released it on video, but for Rede, yeah, and that was a film that you know, I wanted to when I saw the thing in Barry's book and I was like, wow, this sounds amazing and he and I think he mentioned that it was, you know, it was similar to Vian films years and years and years decades before.

I actually made to fight that film and find out who earned the rights to it, and we released it.

It was not a double bill, wasn't it with with a with a kind of Mondo documentary type thing.

And I can remember, and I was and I really loved the film.

I still do, but I can remember he got the worst reviews we've ever had.

It really did actually actually got people from writing into it's in the same maybe this was online at the time.

I think on the IMDb.

In those days, you could post your little messages, couldn't you.

I think they took that away.

And somebody complained about the film and I said, I have to tell you, this is my favorite probably with all the films were released.

And he said, if you release another film like this, I'm not going to buy anything more off you.

I mean, I hope that person, if that person is listening, I absolutely appreciate what he said.

And I'm not being you know, not being rude or whatever, not not insulting you.

But we've all got different tastes, and I mean, it happens.

It's still happening.

I mean old as I am, you know.

I mean these horrible Sexy Vampire, which we released a couple of years ago that got similar kind of terror reviews and also a film that I love.

Yeah.

So someone just mentioned the other day it was I think it's their least favorite Manda Macapra.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

You know that's people's right to do that, you know, to to like things and to rank things, and that's it.

But for me personally, I mean, you know, I wouldn't have released the film we didn't think it was full in love with it.

And you know, I kind of if there's if these songs have have worlds, the world of horrible Sexy Vampire is one I would love to live in, if that makes If that makes sense.

It does.

I mean, it's it's a really it has the special atmosphere that it feels almost cozy.

You just kind of want to wrap yourself around, you know, get yourself wrapped up in the film itself.

I really like that one.

And Teeth.

So you do want to go to that castle, wouln't you where the strange vampire lives and you want to kind of sit down and talk to it.

Must your problem, mate, Let's sort it out.

Go to that weird what wine bar thing where all those girls work, you know, go and talk this thing through.

You know.

Yeah, take this quite personally.

I suppose these kinds of things, and I accept that.

You know, a lot of these films are pretty silly if you would look at the board scheme of things.

But hopefully they've all got something, and they've all got something as far as we're concerned, I don't think we've ever put out.

And it's actually I can think of a couple examples that I won't mention, but I don't think we've ever put out things just because we thought they would make money.

I obviously, yeah, obviously you want to make some money.

You know, you want to survive and to carry on doing more of it.

But you know, it's you've got to be selective.

You've got to you've got to go for what you like.

And I think and I think you know when, which is maybe connected to the question you asked half an hour ago, but maybe when you get to the point where you can't find anything anymore that gets you excited or that you love, that you fall in love with, that's the point where you say, I'm going to go and do something else, and we're I'm a long way away from there.

We are along my way from that thing.

It's tightly crossed here.

Yeah, I could.

Admit that's that's a really inspiring way to leave that at the end there.

It's it's something when you know everybody's of course, for gosh, we can probably say for the last like forty five years, people have been saying physical media is dead or dying.

And for somebody that's been doing this for decades to be able to say I'm nowhere near that point, that means so much to somebody like me.

I'd love to hear that, Oh thank.

You, that's that's nice to hear.

Yeah, I mean it's funny with a social media with us physical media, social media, physical math's funny as well, but physical media stuff.

And I've talked about this.

Jarity will probably remember this, you know when you know, back when when we would do it in the in the sort of ninety two thousands, there was anchor By, there was Image, there was a couple of you know, kind of big players, and why when they stopped doing it, particularly Image stopped doing these kinds of weird euro type films.

I can remember what it was saying to Andy, Well, that's it.

You know, we're last man's we're last men standing.

It's going to be you know, that's our world now.

And then of course, kind of like mushrooms springing up overnight, suddenly there's all these video labels and it's incredible.

And that's probably in the last what ten years, eight to ten years as.

It absolutely last year I think it was.

I did a check for the number of booty com video companies worldwide that have been active in quotes that have put out at least one or I think I tried to say at least two titles, but then the previous twelve calendar months and I just plane stopped counting at one hundred and fifty.

Oh god, No, that is That's scary, isn't it.

But that's worldwide, although of course most of them all want to release in the US eventually.

Anyway, of course, you've got.

To send me that list, and I'm going to hire in a Saddin to go around.

Don't include that in the in the.

Everybody who's listening, I don't mean it.

For legal reasons, he doesn't mean it, but also watch your back.

No, I mean for Mondo Micabre fans specifically that this is like the epitome of the home video stuff, because no matter what most of us, uh I say most of us, most of us that are loving what Monto Micabre does.

Pretty much every round of titles, there's at least one that we've never even heard of, let alone given ourselves the opportunity to see.

And it's companies like that that are most exciting.

We're not getting I don't know, you know, the the eighth release of The step Father from Mondo Micabre.

We're not seeing seven and cover art options a La InCor Bay of Evil Dead sitting in dest buy Dudemand and Micabreau, and it's it just feels special and different and obviously the historical table has been set for that by Pete Toombs.

So it's it's incredible that you're here to talk about it.

Well, I don't.

It's a pleasure.

I don't talk about it very often.

I mean I don't talk about with my wife.

You know, you know what we do?

Oh God, do we have to watch one of these?

Yes, we do.

But that's good.

I mean that's the way these people are different.

Yeah, well, I want my wife big time in the Korean stuff, you know, son, we have you know, we we have that in common.

Oh that's nice.

I'm not sure I realized that.

Now that's she's she's a big fan of the whaling.

Well something about that.

But yeah, I want you to be able to get some sleep tonight.

So let's share these these titles that people are gonna be able to be excited for coming from the sale.

So, Jared, you've been quiet, Why don't you tell us about the first title that was announced as part of our sleep.

Well, the first one announced was Devil's Nightmare, the sort of Belgian Italian sort of Gothic horror from early seventies.

I guess sah.

We of course released that on Blu Ray, I don't know, five six, seven years ago something like that, and I mean Pete can talk more about this.

But in the meantime since we had released it, the original camera negative was discovered.

I can't remember exactly what was used for the first Blu Ray, but it was not the original camera negative.

And given that, we thought, well, what the hey, it's sold fairly well for us, Well why not why not do a four K upgrade?

Which is so that's the first title is a UHD version of Devil's Nightmare, comes complete with a bunch of new extras too.

So if you have the old Blu Ray disc, it's not just upgrading the it's not just upgrading the video quality.

There's a bunch of new stuff, including an interview with Erica Blank, the Star.

The interviewed Erica, who's complete Will I get into trouble saying this is completely nuts?

I mean, I think she's we interviewed a twenty plus years ago, and she was such a character.

She comes off she comes off odd in those old for the interviews for the Old Eurotica TV series.

You did smoking a smoking a pipe, right, and she sort of said to us when she looked the pipe, said do you mind the one?

And I said no, I said no.

I thought, that's absolutely what I want to see.

And America Plains smoking a pipe.

She's fantastic.

And she's still active in the in the film but mostly in theater.

Does she still smoke?

I'm just kid, she's.

Still she did in this interview which somebody else did for us.

But she's he'll say it when you see the interview, she's she's kind of he's very much her own woman.

That's quite an interesting interview.

But so there's that one of the main things that we've got here.

We've got a couple of really interesting pieces.

Uh, We've got the profile of Daniel Emilfork, you know, the actor who plays the devil in the film.

And a friend of mine, Christophe Bier from Paris, did this, who knew Emil Thork and has made a film and done a book about him, a book I think anyway, and he did.

He did this kind of hour long presentation, all done in one take, I believe it or not, all about Emilfork and it's fantastic.

You learn an incredible amount about him and then.

There's distinctive faces in all of European cinema.

Yeah, you never no, you.

Never forget it.

I even going back back years and years news, I would probably be watching films and I'd see him come up and I, oh, it's that guy, you know, But you never really knew any more about him other than he was that guy.

And thanks to Christophe, now you know, and when you've seen that, you will know an awful lot about him.

And the other thing is we've got the director of The Devil's Nightmare is nominally he was a guy called Jean prison May Jean Brismy, who was a teacher at a film school in Canes in Brussels, Sorry, and he won an award at Cairn with a short film called Mister Plateau, which is about it's kind of a documentary educational thing.

But I'd never seen it, but I saw some bits of it when we did the original release of this film, and I was always wanted to get can we get hold of that documentary of that film Mister Plateau, And the fact that's going to be on the on the disc as well, and it's really terrific.

I mean, it is like one of those educational things and maybe they played in schools, but it's got this real, weird, surreal, you know, kind of approach to it.

The way it's done, I think I think people are going to be They're going to enjoy that a lot amazing.

And am I remembering right this one, the the Blu ray release was not from the o CN and now the four K is from the OCEN, right.

That's right, yeah, we we couldn't they couldn't get the access to the it was taken that Jared mentioned that it was taken from.

I think it was an Into negative that was habits missing and wasn't in a very good condition.

I mean, truth to tell, the original legs was not in very good condition.

But it looks pretty I was just checking some subtitles and this afternoon, and I think, you know, it looks really good, you know, so it's definitely a worthy upgrade.

Like with all of these things, you know, they nothing's ever that, nothing's that's that old, and film is ever perfect, is it?

Because you know, this film is quite a it's quite a delicate medium, isn't it.

Yeah?

Then I think it looks really good.

Well, all that to say, it's not just an upgrade to the to the video quality that all these new extras, but also it is a hefty upgrade to the video quality.

It's not that the Blu Ray looked awful.

But by the time this disc gets in people's hands, I just looked it up, it will have been just about seven years since the red case of that Blu ray was released, and so it's a lot of stuff has happened since then, and to be able to put this on an oce end, this will look quite a bit better, guaranteed.

I cannot wait to see this scan.

Yeah it does, Yeah, yeah it should.

It should look it should look It's a very kind of visually striking movie anyway, So yes, it's something that will benefit from this sort of upright.

Well, speaking of a visually breaking and things about losing your heads, Uh, let's take a trip to Mystics and Bali and uh the double feature of that and Queen of Black Magic coming on Blu Ray for the first time.

These these films have to have a long journey in Pete's history.

I assume, yeah, I mean, yeah, I can't remember how I first saw these, I mean both of them, Mystics and Bali was on Japanese VHS, wasn't it mm hmm and yeah, And Queen of Black Magic was released in the States.

Wasn't it was called something?

It was?

It called Queen Black Magic Terror.

I think so, you know, because at the time, you know, there was in the nineties, there was this kind of underground you know, tape exchanging kind of thing that were we all know about and part and came from I suppose to an extent.

So I think I saw which was Flying Head, and I think I asked somebody, I said, we've got any more Flying Head films?

And they said, oh yeah, Mystic Simpala.

You got to see that.

So that, I think was how that one came about, because it was it was not available in the UK.

And uh, of course it's it's kind of a long story with that one.

Because when we were when we did our TV show in the nineties on the nineties or two thousands, I can't remember, on UK TV Channel four.

We are one of the ones we pitched was doing a thing about Indonesian fantastical films, and in fact that documentary has been has been on at least one of our discs, possibly too, possibly more than two.

Yeah, yeah, it's it's a good and and so, you know, due to the TV money, we were able to go out to Indonesia, to Jakata and actually talk to the you know, to Rack to Rappi films and so Rayah and so on, who were the producers of these these of these movies.

And that's how we I mean, Andrew, who was one of the original founders of Wonder m Camera was very keen on getting those films you know, were treated as well as we possibly could.

So he twisted my arm.

And I'm really glad he did.

Now, I'm really glad he did.

He twisted my arm.

So actually get them to ship the negative or both negatives Queen of Black Magic and Mystics and Bali over to the UK, and we were able to oversee the scanning of them.

In fact, Missticks and Bali we did twice.

It was originally they had their rapidly had all their materials in storage in Hong Kong.

And the first scan of Mystics in Bali or a bit a bit of Talley seeing I suppose that was done in Hong Kong.

And when when it.

When we got it, we didn't like it, didn't think it was very good.

So we actually paid to have the negative ship to the UK.

Was very very expensive because you know, there's insurance involved and so because obviously you don't want it to go missing.

And the same with Queen of Black Magic.

You know, we had that done in London.

I remember going and sitting with the grader, you know, to get the you know, to get it, to get it looking good.

And those are subsequent to that.

I think those negatives of those which we did return, I have to say that those negatives seem to have vanished.

And certainly with the Mystic Simbali, I mean we you know, that's all that exists to that is there is our HD copy which was done all those years ago.

But it looks amazing.

Actually, I mean to give you a kind of an idea when when we when we released the Warrior trilogy, the Warrior that you know, they the first film was taken off another another transfer that was done at the same time in the same lab and it looked way better than the one that we were sent to us by the by the company with the rights.

So you know, I'm fairly I'm fairly pleased with those.

I'm pleased.

At the time, I thought it's crazy, you know, shipping these bringing these because we were releasing these things on DVD, you know, right, bring these things in.

She's paying all the money to do.

That's the point, you.

Know, they and they were not at HD at the time.

They just can't that's the thing.

Yeah, that's an important point.

Yeah, because the lab you know, I can remember saying to them, it's twenty five years ago or twenty years ago.

They say, oh, you know, we'll do these on HD.

And I was like, why, you know, we're ad to put on DVD, you know, and they said, oh, well, you know, we're sent up to do this was this is what they said.

They said, we're sent up to do everything on HD now, so you may as well have it anyway and you can release it and whatever you want, you know.

And I'm really glad that we did that now because that's how we can release these two films and they do look super Actually.

I imagine they do extras for these.

With double feature, you're still keeping lots of extras on the disc.

We've got interview with the writer director, We've got audio commentary by David.

Oh, nope, I'm written for the next one.

I'm getting out myself.

Sorry.

Sorry.

Introductions to both films by Joco Anwar, which fans of modern Indonesian horror will recognize that name because he is everywhere seemingly lately.

Love seeing his stuff.

We've got video essay Monsters, Movies and Myth by Jake Gallo, extended two hour version of Mystic Simbali and this, Jared, you can expand on this.

This is from like a German VCD cut or something, right, No, I mean.

This is like the original Indonesian cut of the film.

I'm at the source, I guess, not the cut.

Yeah, yeah, so it's I'm actually I don't know about the German thing.

I believe it was like out as just a a v c D maybe from Indonesia itself, and that was maybe the maybe or VHS it was.

That was the only way to see it for a long time.

This longer cut and for I still haven't seen it yet, but from what I understand, I think it's just dialogue scenes.

There's not really much more like gore or wild witchcraft stuff.

Pete has spent many hours looking at he might be able to talk a bit more about that.

But from that's what I understand, and it is from what I'm saying, I think we've just taken the HD master and just put in inserts from the v c D or VHS source that we were using for this.

That's right, Yeah, but you know matched up, you know, so it's not too jarring, and it's actually really does add something to the film.

I mean, it turns it into a different film.

Actually, it's very interesting.

Here's a lot of context for the and there's a there's a sort of subplot which was kind of visible in the in the shorter version of the film, the export version, but it's never really explained.

You just have this young woman who turns up every now and then and has a conversation with the main guy.

But that that's now much clearer in the long version.

And it's uh and it's in Indonesian, you know, And and I had the subtitle.

Although we have to give thanks Tom from the Indonesian Fan Project who helped us so much on this one.

Yeah, he's helped us out with a bunch of different projects.

Yeah, absolutely, yeah, absolutely central.

I mean I knew this to our version existed, but we had problems finding a decent version.

I think actually with this one was put together with two different VCDs and a and a and a VHS version, so it looks okay, it's very watchable, you know.

And I've watched it, like you know, as you were saying, dozens of time, the last of the subs, so you know, so yeah, so that's good.

And getting Jocko and there was great.

I mean, I'm really really grateful for him doing that.

It's funny how we met actually because again it was make myself sound so old, because again this was many many years ago.

I was at a film festival in Italy and and and he was he was a guest.

You know, I don't think I even knew particularly who he was then, and he was talking about it was being interviewed by these kind of serious film critics about in a sort of forum about the Indonesian films, and he said something I don't remember exactly, if you said something like, oh, if you really want to have an Innersian popular cinema, you should have a look at this.

And he held up the couple of things that we'd was.

He he said, this is Monda Macabreau from from the and when when the thing had finished and he walked away, you know, to go off, and I stopped him.

I said, oh, hi, jokay, I'm Pete Toombed for guys these videos you were holding out And he was like, oh wow, amazing.

And you know we've been we've kind of kept in touch of a since.

But that was a real coincidence, you know, the way these things happened.

But he really helps to bring those films alive and to get a notion of how it was for people in Indonesia watching these films, you know, how they consumed those movies, because I think that's a very different thing for us, you know, watching these films, the kind of exotic aspects of it what probably attracts us, and obviously that would have been very different to people who grew up in in Indonesia within that culture.

You know, their their appreciation of those films and what they meant to them.

In fact, I think his story of you know, going and tracking down these films when he was a kid, he's pretty similar I think to what I was saying about, you know, going to this Sleepit cinema and seeing these third on films, obscure films.

We didn't know what they were.

You know, that's a similar kind of thing, and he and he mentioned some of that in his introductions, which is nice.

That's awesome.

Uh So now the one that I was getting ahead of myself on one that I have had a couple of different people bring up to me that they are most excited about.

So far.

Out of the titles that have been announced, we've got Island of the Doomed a ka Island of the Dead a ka Man of Hydra.

Probably there's a few more, I think.

Yeah, coming to Blu Ray for the first time, and this sounds so great.

Uh Pete tell us about the manager of Hydra and White, Tim Monto mccabro.

Title what it is, isn't it if he wants you?

You know?

But I I kind of this, This is a this is a it's a real spin off.

Really, this this kind of thing.

I was aware of the film, but I got into I got into that with by me the director mel Wells, the writer director of that film.

Again God, here we go again.

And many years ago there was a he was aut of Horror Festival in Manchester, which is the north of England, and he, uh, I don't think I've been in touch with him before.

We had a sort of connection because we did a thing about Michael Reeves, you know, The Witch find a general guy, and Mel was Mel knew him and was in his first film, She Beast.

I think he plays two roles in actually, so I kind of knew that there was a connection between some stuff we've done and Mel Wells.

But the main reason I wanted to talk to Mel was that I can't.

And again, this is a tangent, and I'll cut this one down.

There's a guy called Lord Buckley.

I don't know.

Do you know who Lord Buckley was?

Does that mean anything?

He was He was an American.

He was a kind of a stand that you could corner stand up comedian.

He was a performer who started in the thirties, I think, and died some time in the sixties.

And he has this kind of if you look him out, we'll finding Lord Buckley.

And he's to do these monologues, these amazing crazy monologues.

The nas was one of his, the Gassa and all this stuff, and he had this kind of beating it.

It was, you know, he was he dressed like a you know, a colonel in the Bengal answers or something over the pitt Helm and stuff.

And he had this big mustache and he did this booming kind of English kind of voice that though he was American I think, and I latched onto him at a very early stage.

I mean, I went a long story and we haven't got time to talk about it, but I always had it at the back of my mind that the Lord Buckley story that you know, the film about it would be great, and and I kind of you know, gathering information about it and trying to put together a proposal for a you know, for a film.

I mean, sadly, the person that we wanted to play him was was Robin Who's the comedian who died some years ago, Robin Williams, because apparently he he he could do Melwell.

He could do them the Richard Buckley monologues, you know, kind of in the in the voice of and with all the gestures and things.

Yeah.

So so anyway, so so I was collecting stuff about Melwell.

So when we saw that he was in this uh, you know, this festival in Manchester, phone in the mart and said, can we come an interview mel Well's and they said absolutely, he'd be pleased to see you, uh, and indeed he was, and he was a lovely guy.

And we talked about the first question.

I'll give you an illustration of the and this is in the interview.

It's on the disc.

The first question was because I knew he'd worked a lot in in the in in Spain and in Italy in particular, and was was dubbing films into into English.

You know, That's my first question was that you American guy, how did you come to being in Europe?

And his answer went on for about forty minutes, all of fantastic, interesting and funny stories.

You know, almost it's sort of almost possible to believe some of what he said that I know it was true, you know.

Weirdly, we didn't really talking about these films.

Island of the Doomed is mentioned, but very much in passing, because you know, we were chasing something else, you know.

But when I, and this was twenty years ago.

He's been dead for that long, I think.

So when I when I when we were putting out this film, I thought, hey, I got this mel Well's interview.

You know, I can't remember what something he must say something about Island of the Doom and indeed he does.

But you know, basically it's it's a presentation of who this crazy guy was.

And he talks a lot about his you know, working with Richard Buckley and you know, working on Italian films and stuff, and it's a great story.

It's like, if you're into, if you're interested in to know what that kind of world of popular cinema was like in the in the nineteen late fifties and through the sixties, there's a hell of a lot in that interview that will give you, you know, stuff that's that will interest you.

The fact that it's not about the Island of the doom is there that he does mention the film and he and he gives a kind of a and he uses it as part of an illustration of what he likes, why he likes horror movies, and why you wanted to make horror movies.

So, you know, it is so but yeah, it just came up, you know, I know, The Doomed.

I think Jared we talked about it quite some while ago, didn't we.

Yeah, we've been talking about it for a while.

It's just it's on it's on a list of available films from a from a from a licenser that we've worked with a lot, so it's come up a lot and we keep going, oh, yeah, we should do that one, and just luckily no one else snapped it up to do it, maybe because there's there's not there doesn't really seem to be a negative for that one either, so we had to you know, you know, use thirty five millimeter materials, but print materials.

But but yeah, something we talked about for a long time, and it's I'm pleased with the reaction to it.

There's been a few people who are like, literally like this is the Holy Grail.

It seems to be.

It's older guys.

It's like guys in their fifties and sixties who have been watching this stuff.

Right for this for a long time.

Yeah, that seemed to be really really excited.

But there are people who are really excited about it, which is great.

It is a fun film.

It's it's i mean obviously getting you know, I've watched it again hundreds of times because you know, sinking up the audio and Spanish subtitles and stuff, you know, but it really, you know, once you get into it, it's a lot of fun and it's it's really nicely shot and it looks great from our from the materials that we had.

I think it's it's polished that really nicely.

The colors are really really vivid.

It's it's it says on the Princess technical but apparently I'm told that it was not.

Actually it was just the materials were produced by technicallor they it wasn't produced in the three strip Technicolor style, you know.

But colors are really really bright and stuff, and it's it's it's a lot of fun.

And there's some interesting documentaries on there.

There's a there's one about George Martin, the you know, who's the main male lead in it, and then one about all the other kind of horror or fantastical films that were produced in that in that same area, that same part of Spain, which which again is something probably you know a lot of not a lot of people know about, so you know, it gives a little bit more context to it.

Not only that, I mean would go well with that box that that's and it is putting out later this year just for more Spanish culture of film.

It'd be an interesting double for somebody.

With the rest of this disc there is a commentary from David Flint as well.

That's why Yeah, and.

Uh uh anything else on a man Eater of Hydra, Island of the Doomed, Island of the Dead.

Look at the list.

Well, we've got the trailer and that's the original trailer, which I'd never seen before.

And the original trailer is is in like one eight five, isn't it.

Where's the film that we're putting out?

It's definitely two thirty five scope scope.

I think somebody asked me that and I wasn't one hundred percent.

It's two thirty five or two thirty whatever.

You know, it's properse widescreen scope.

But it looks great because obviously i'd seen this is a film.

It's only exactly as you said, it's only everready been out in very you know, poor quality copy, and you know people review them.

Another one would come out because just considerably PD I think though it isn't and they'd say, oh, well, you know, this isn't perfect, but it's better than the last one that came out.

Well, I think this one is is really really is really really good and kicks all those and detached.

Just seeing it in the in the in that widescreen format makes such a lot of difference, opens it out and everything, and yeah, what else could you say?

You know, it's why why?

I don't know why the trailer is one eighty five and the film is it's two thirty five.

I mean, I guess, you know, maybe in those days when they trailers was played in cinemas, they before you know, the main features.

Maybe it was just cheaper to perrect process a film like that.

I don't know, I don't know idea, but the film is definitely in proper widescreen.

Good uh, and that means we've got too left to cover.

One was just announced as of today's recording, one that I think think a lot of people have been wanting an HG upgrade.

Four excited for this one.

Jared tell us about Oswong.

Oswang or if you're if you were shopping in a Best Buy in America, you would see it and go ass Wang.

With that specific twin.

Yeah, well looks great, ass Wang.

Isn't that the way?

Isn't that how you're supposed to sign?

Yeah?

I think the cover actually has it's Yeah, there's a little pronunciation.

Awesome.

Yeah great.

Uh, it's really neat to have this one back out.

Uh.

This is an old school for the all the really old school Monda Micabro fans.

This was on DVD.

This was maybe a first year of Mondo micabre in the US release maybe or first or second year.

This one goes.

This one goes way back.

September of two thousand and three.

Wow oh wow.

Yeah, so yeah, twenty two years and it's been out of print for a long time.

So uh and you know, honestly, it's not one that I get asked about a ton, but I do get asked about it.

So it's really cool to have it come back home and be able to do it.

And we've got a new four K scan from the original sixteen millimeter negative, so it's very exciting.

This is essentially I mean, it's all the same extras.

I think that we're on the DVD.

I think, okay, I'm not sure if there's anything else, but it just advocates back out there.

There's a text.

There's a book of course.

Yeah written.

Yeah, so that's that's one of the extra things.

But it's yeah, a really intriguing little film.

Uh.

An American film, which you know, we don't do a ton of American stuff, but but it's an American film about like a Filipino myth, a Filipino vampirement so so it's it ties in well with overall branding and the feel of the film.

It's a Mondo Macapro film for.

Very much, so fun little gory movie.

Yeah no, uh, and that means we've got only one left in our slate.

Uh, Pete.

Since I don't even know what this one is yet, would you like to share what the fifth title being announced for the Halloween sale is.

Am I allowed to say this?

I think this will go out after I've got tomorrow Morningeled Jarretts.

He's given me a hard time, like say things that I'm not supposed to say.

You know, he's an absolute beast.

Why is he running his finger across his neck like that?

I think he's threatening.

Well, there you go.

You say you've got to protect me.

Here we're talking about inquisition, aren't we.

Yeah, Paul Nashy's inquisition.

It's a big one.

Uhd Yeah, yeah, I mean we have just went out again.

It's another one we had out before, but it was you know, it was okay the way I looked before, but it was I think it was grady and processed in a slightly strange way.

It looks much better now.

It looks very different now.

I mean it took me a while to get used to us, like, wow, it's just the same film.

Yeah, it's the same film, but you can actually see what's going on now you couldn't always before.

Yeah, it's definitely.

It was one that definitely needed, you know, needed revisiting, and and we've done that, and I mean there's we've got I think it's mostly we've got.

We got a couple of new interviews on that as well.

I mean there's an interview with surgeon Molina, who's justin to's son, Paul Nashy's son, and an interview with Loretta Tovah, who was an actress who was in you know, when you see the film, you'll know exactly she is.

She was in a lot of films around that time, sixties and seventies and possibly into the eighties.

I don't know her career that well, but that's pretty good to get that.

Obviously, an introduction by Paul Nashey, which was, you know, taken from her previous release.

You know, sadly he's he's no longer here.

Yeah, but you know, and in fact, Daniel and Giordano as well, who's also sadly not with us.

So you were good friends with Danielle, weren't you.

Yeah.

Yeah, we went and stayed with her and in Sicily and kept in touch with her over the years.

And yeah, I really liked her.

She was a nice woman.

Yeah, And this was and this was her favorite film of all the films she made.

I mean, this is the only one she said.

Well, she was actually directed properly because I think, you know, because she'd been like a miss Italy, you know, so she had that kind of look, and I think that's all they hired her for.

But she was really one of the most intelligent I'd almost said, one of the most intelligent women of it one of the most intelligent people I've met, and very very interesting person to spend time with.

But you know, none of that comes out.

I thought little of that comes out most of the films as you made, but I think with this one it does.

You know, you see her spirit and she certainly appreciated, you know, the way that Naw she directed the film and her and you know, he sometimes gets he did sometimes get this kind of thing about you know, he's always you know, get it's a bit like you know, Captain Kirk and Star Trekkers and he always gets the girl.

But you know, she she had no problem with that.

He was in the script and it was you know, part of the deal and the rest of it.

But she said he was really respectful and all the rest of it.

He wasn't going to kind of pinture assable time and stuff like that.

You know, that's relieving to hear.

I'm glad to hear that, because it's right.

That's the funny thing about Paul natthew movies is that you know, he's writing the script, sometimes directing the movie, and of course he always gets to make out with at least one of the few women in the movie, if not like three or four of the women in the movie.

It's could being the king it is.

You know, it's funny because Whmber.

We interviewed Paul a long time time ago and in Spain, and one of the questions was that I asked, was I don't know what this interview was for.

I can't remember, but one of the questions was can you talk about the female stars behind your film and films?

And he relished it and went, you know into great detail and his family, his son and his wife were there in the interview, you know, and listening to it, and there was no problem there at all, because you know, there was the new this is, this is you know, he's a he's a star, he's the male leader of the film, you know, and they love scenes and all the rest of it, and you know, that's part of the job.

And and I'm you know, I'm pretty sure.

And I had very different stories from down the elder about working in Turkey, for example, you know where she said it was she couldn't go out in the street because guys would come on and picture art and you know, doing all kinds of stuff.

And they never got that from from Paul.

So yeah, so they neither of them are around to defend themselves, so.

I have to yeah, yeah, And it's you know, honestly, like I'm glad we're doing And I don't know if some people will be like, oh, just another upgrade, but it's one that I personally think really needed it, and I think one of the most one of the things that I've been it's made me the most happy about working with Manta Micabroo.

It's been able to sort of increase the legacy of Paul Nashi by getting his films out there.

I find a lot of pleasure in his films and the films that just he starred in, the films that he wrote, the films that he directed.

He just has a very unique or had a very new unique sensibility, and I just am just couldn't be happier to kind of get his stuff out there and hopefully turn new people on.

And hopefully this new beautiful four K restoration will you know, help turn a few more heads towards Paul Nashiy's work.

Well, and just speaking from the outside looking in Paul Nashy stuff, I mean even the first release of Inquisition on Blue Fromando was eight and a half years ago now, and a lot of appreciation for Paul Nashiy has exploded really only in like the last four or five years.

There are a lot of people that were not around this stuff that could even be you know, privy to that film being released on Blu Ray in twenty seventeen, let alone actually appreciating you know, things like the Nashi Cast and Arrow and all these other companies that have put out some films with Paul Nashi involved.

Now there's like a catalog of items that people can go look through, many of them through Ond Macabre thankfully and appreciate some of those films.

And yeah, it's really neat that people can can discover on the highest quality possible Inquisition, which to me is one of the better ones.

Yeah.

I think Inquisition was one of If it wasn't the first, then it probably wasn't.

It was one of the first Nashi movies on Blu ray.

It sort of started a brief sort of new Nashi aissance.

Yeah, that sort of took old and there were a few things, but then we've sort of kept the torch alive through through the years, especially doing films that he directed which are sort of very underrepresented.

Presented a lot of The trench Men's Garden, which we which we did some years ago, which which he rated is his best film.

Hasn't didn't particularly hasn't sold, is it.

I mean, it's okay, but it hasn't to run out of the door.

Yeah, No, not really, And you know, and that's the case with some of them, but I think I agree it.

So I think that's one of his best movies.

I think that and Devil Incarnate AKA, that's those are two of his absolute best movies, and I think just two great movies period, Even if you aren't into that sort of the you know, quote unquote cheesy euro horror stuff, those are quality films and he should have been proud of them because they're great.

Yeah, he's amazing.

Yeah, there's a there's a broad range of stuff, isn't there with with with with nash.

I remember the one that surprised me most because I had seen it on VHS is The Beast of the Magic Sword.

When we did that, you know, because that really, you know, kind of that's pretty epic film, isn't there those big battle scenes and stuff.

You know, it was very very impressed that he that he got that together.

And and there's a kind of a mystery isn't there about this Japanese connections with with Nashi?

And I've never really, I don't think I've talked to his son about him, maybe because he was very young at the time.

And I've tried my best to find out, you know, from people, how how exactly did it happen?

How did a Okay, Paul Nashy he had success in America and so on, and in in in Europe, But how did he come to make this connection in Japan?

You know?

And they and and he was hired to do a documentary about the Big Museum in Madrid.

Put this is not intended to put it put him down in any sense, but he wouldn't necessarily be the first person you'd think of to do that.

Yeah.

I just wondered if his films weren't the sort of popular at some point in Japan, maybe in the very early days of video or something.

I don't know.

That's a that is a good question, But I'm glad.

It happened because here's some of these Japanese funded films.

Are some of the best ones he made, don't I?

Yeah, it was a Human Beasts?

Is that another one of those that happens.

Yeah, a couple of Japanese actors in it and maybe some maybe it was maybe a few scenes filmed in Japan as well.

Yeah, I can't remember, but yeah, probably yea.

So those the new titles, uh, Jared?

How about the actual sale aspect?

What are the details here?

How long are we looking at?

What's the sale discounts?

How much are you going to charge for shipping to people in Tanzania?

All the details of people are doing to know, we have a huge audience base.

Oh now, it's just a huge audience and Canada and the UK and Scandinavia and that's those are the only countries we really shifted.

But uh yeah, don't expect too big of a I am going to discount some of the shipping just because that is something that I mean, we're we'll probably you know, I'll lose a little bit of money on that, actually, but I think it's worthwhile.

And it's just one of those things where it's just so expensive to ship overseas, so it seems like a nice thing to like cut that down a little bit.

Now.

I am not going to it's not going to be mind blowingly low shipping rates or anything, but but it will be cheaper than it usually is.

And then when things come back, they're probably it will be more expensive.

I'm sorry to say.

It's just it's hugely, hugely expensive to ship anything.

It's get more and more expensive to ship in the US.

Uh so, you know so, but there will be there'll be some discounts, probably a bigger discount for domestic domestically, just because it's a bit more affordably less.

Ye, But and even then it's it's not going to be much, but it'll be something, and then pretty much everything will be discounted on the sale.

We'll have some newer retail editions up on the site for the first time, including including two titles from the now out of print Bollywood horror box set, Gerana Mandir and Firana.

Those will be yeah, yeah, well, I mean we started with those for a reason.

Yeah, so those will be up on the site.

Those will be not a huge amount off, but they'll be I mean, usually we have the retail Blu rays for like twenty bucks, so they'll be a couple of bucks knocked off on that eighteen dollars or something, and a couple of other things.

The punishment will be on the cafe.

Flesh four k will be up on the site for the first time.

Those were all recent releases, so those will all be a little bit cheaper, and then as you know, older releases will become more cheaper, and a bunch of them will be at least fifty percent off the MSRP, so stuff around fifteen dollars a month or so for some of the older stuff, and even some cheaper for some of the things that maybe don't sell super well, just to you know, try and move them.

And then also some of the limited editions that we still have in stock.

I'm gonna knock a few bucks off of those.

Any of those that people are you know, holding off on not purchased yet, you know, it's a good chance i'll knock a couple of bucks off even.

Man, that's one that I think more people should definitely be seen.

So has that not sold out yet?

I don't know.

I've still got I've still got quite.

I mean it's sold okay, I mean it's sold all right, and I think I think the retail edition is out and has probably started selling okay.

But it's one that I think more people should see.

And maybe it's something because it's more of like a sex comedy thing sort of almost, although it's more than that.

Maybe some people are just hesitant because they just don't think it's going to be fun, but they're raw.

Yeah, it's a lot of fun.

Both of the movies are.

Both of the movies are fun and you should just make a long night of it, watch both of them back to back.

Yeah, it's they're they're both really fun.

It's not the the story doesn't continue so much in the second one, as it is retold in a very weird way.

But it's it's it's worthwhile too.

It's a worthwhile experience to see them both.

And good good extras on that disc as well, you know, the Peans piece and the fantastic interview with Eva.

Yeah, one of the best interview is very interesting person.

Uh yeah, I thought that was a really really neat extra to have on there.

As far as I know, no one's ever interviewed her for any of the other things.

I mean, I guess the only really cult item that she's really she really ever did was Tenebray, And I don't know I've ever been interviewed for her work in Tenebra, even though she has a small but important part in that movie.

Yeah, no, I think you're right, you know, but she's terrific.

And and then there's a piece on the Gita as well, the long analysis of the Jesus career.

Yeah, who's someone of endless fascination for anyone who's been looking at this stuff for years, I don't know how you couldn't be fascinated by her and the films that she was in, right, And.

Yeah, that's somebody else that I've been carrying around for a long time, this notion that, you know, if you're gonna, you know, if somebody should make a film due to Wilson, I.

Mean they should.

I have had that same thought, you.

Know, maybe maybe we get maybe going to meeting the rue Paul.

Yeah, I'm serious.

I think I have seen that her name popping up in some more academic kind of pieces and so on on cinema, so people starting to notice.

I mean I've interviewed quite a number of people that worked with her, and they all have that same which Eva says, actually the interview, you know, there's something mysterious about her.

You know, there's a whole area of the unknown around Ajita, and that is intriguing, isn't it.

It is there.

Yeah, there does seem to be still some mystery about a lot about her background and how she even came to be in the industry.

It's there's a story yet to be told for sure.

Right I Am.

That's what I get for shifting my body.

Sales starts this Thursday.

Everything should be live then at nine am Pacific standard.

Twelve noon Eastern.

Google what time that is where you live?

Don't yeah, don't I don't know what time it is and Sydney, I'm sorry, someone will ask inevitably just google it.

But yeah, at nine am Pacific time, that's you know, when I'm getting out of bed.

So that's when I'll just click live and don't be afraid.

Tomorrow I will be turning off the big cartel.

We'll go into maintenance mode.

So no one freak out if you if you listen to this podcast and it's still down when you go, uh, it will be up at nine nine am sharp my time, so you know, and that's I have tons of work to do.

I'm it's a very busy day for me tomorrow.

I have tons of tons of stuff to set up and fix tomorrow.

So uh so let me have that time.

Nobody write annoying emails asking me stupid questions.

SI, No, no one asks stupid questions.

We don't need to just outright line to people.

There's a stupid questions asking question.

How long the sale running for?

So it'll run through the third So Monday the third will be the last full day.

And at some point on the fourth, after I wake up and wipe the sleep from my eyes, I'll turn it off again and the site the big cartel will go into maintenance mode again for a few days until I sort of square up everything and then it'll be back up.

And then yeah, and then I think the week after, probably the week after the sale, I will begin doing the fulfillment of sale only orders.

And that means just stuff that doesn't have a pre order in it, So if it's in stock at that time, that that fulfillment will begin at that time quite roughly a week after, maybe a little bit earlier, just depends on what else, what else is going on.

And please just and I ask that people just give me some time.

These are complicated mail outs doing the sale stuff because every order different, so I can't do stuff in bold, so it's just it's very much just doing like one at a time, so and that that just takes that just takes time.

So at least, you know, give me two three weeks to get all that stuff out.

And and it should be noted that this is starting in the holiday season, so already mail is going to be It's possible anyway, mail is going to be a little bit slower for everywhere, including domestic as well as international.

So so just give a little bit more leeway for that, and then.

It's also going to be hard to maneuver with all of the employees in the warehouse that you're working around for this.

Yeah.

Yeah, like I just keep bumping into it all the time.

Me me be all by my loans.

Although shout out to my wife Erica, who does help out to she she she packs orders to although mostly with the pre order mail outs because I'll just give her like a like a single title to do you know, two or three pages of so.

So basically the sale has been basically just just going to be me fulfilling.

And then I should also mention that the pre orders now cross your fingers, everybody, everybody here, everybody in this little chat also cross your fingers and your toes uh will be We'll start that fulfillment in January.

That's one we're shooting for now.

We've had obviously some trouble the last couple of years, and have we've gotten some shit for it, and maybe it's been deserved, although some of it I don't think it was quite deserved.

But we I mean, we have to fess up.

Its stuff was turned in late, but things are are moving on schedule right now.

Unless Pete has you know, peek and off air telling me if there's something any sort of disasters that have come up that might delay things, but uh, my limbs are sailed.

Yeah yeah, so uh yeah, So January should be hopefully like second second, third week of January, probably running a little bit into February.

And then the good news is that we should have a couple of really cool releases right for the New year in February, going on sale in February, probably shipping in March.

So and I think I know where they are, Yeah, I think so.

Yeah, a Black Matt I we can say, because we've already soft announced one of the Black Magic with Buddha is what we're shooting for.

But we're still in a lot of We're still in producing a lot of extras, and I think a few things are still being worked out with with the HD masters of both cuts of the film.

There's going to be two.

Cuts US four K.

Yeah, and I guess I guess that's we can go ahead and say that I think we are going to do UHD Yeah, and it should be out with another sort of long time passion project of pets, but maybe we'll hold off on talking about that one for just now.

We should.

Yeah, well, this is I think a really great slate, especially for people that are either new to Mona Micabreo and have never seen any of the older releases, or love these and able to get the best releases that these films will likely ever have.

Pretty great time to check out some old catalog titles.

Pretty great time in general for physical media, and one of the main reasons is Monta micabre So thank you both.

Yeah, that's how I put bread on the table, so I'm happy I can at least keep doing it for a little.

While longsting bread.

Yeah right, yeah on my yacht.

Yeah, just the New York you just thought.

Yeah, yeah, I've got another one, just just sitting.

But all right, well, Pete, thank you again for hanging out with us today.

I know this is a rare commodity, and I'm grateful that we could be graced with your presence.

And I do mean that it sounds sort of condescending, but truly like it's wonderful to hear from one of the godfathers of this stuff.

For many people, it's you know, a handful of people, and Pete Toombs is absolutely in the conversation for that.

Oh, I'm blushing.

Thank you for your for your kind words, and for your help and everything.

I mean, really appreciate it.

We are happy to everybody.

Obviously, share this with your friends, share this with anybody that's interested in Monto Micabre and until the next episode, stay safe.

We'll see then.

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