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Blu-ray release by Universal in the U.S and also France too, same date!

posted 10 years ago by MovieMatters
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I know a couple who are going from London to Japan later this year & I was going to ask them to bring back the blu from there but no need now! The U.S release has just, this very day been announced for September the 2nd! Also in France but almost twice the price so the U.S release will be the one. Now, if it's not in the full colour then ask for a refund! If that's what it will take to get Universal to publish the original colour version then so be it.

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Dracula-Blu-ray/37095/

[–] Doom 10 years ago

Outstanding.

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Wait a minute... who am I here?

[–] KatharineFanatic 10 years ago

Don't bother thinking that if you don't buy it, the studio will go through the process of restoring a B-movie we're lucky to get on Blu Ray in the first place with a brand new edition. Last of the Mohicans fans have been begging the studio for years for a non-director's cut Blu Ray. That movie is twice as well known, twice as acclaimed, and twice as popular, and they haven't gotten their wish. It's not likely Universal will listen to Dracula fans. I imagine they're just using the remaster from the 90's and HD scaling it. :(

[–] MovieMatters 10 years ago

Yes, they could well be Katherine. I know that the Japan blu which came out last year is the low colour version that's been on DVD for over a decade & repackaged a few times. But the HD transfer is apparently very good so at least it will be an improvement on the DVD even if the full colour print isn't released.

[–] TheGuyWithTheFeet 10 years ago

A B-movie? What?

How is Dracula a B-movie? And how is the title Dracula less well-known than Last of the Mohicans? Dracula shows up in 140+ adaptations of the character. He is iconic. Make a Halloween decoration with a guy in a cape and a widow's peak and everyone immediately know it's Dracula. The character of Dracula is no longer just a character in a book. It's now part of the fabric of Western pop culture.

Meanwhile, Last of the Mohicans is something you read in high school English class.

[–] MovieMatters 10 years ago

You've commented on the wrong thread- this is all about the forthcoming blu-ray.

[–] TheGuyWithTheFeet 10 years ago

I was responding to this message on the thread.

Don't bother thinking that if you don't buy it, the studio will go through the process of restoring a B-movie we're lucky to get on Blu Ray in the first place with a brand new edition. Last of the Mohicans fans have been begging the studio for years for a non-director's cut Blu Ray. That movie is twice as well known, twice as acclaimed, and twice as popular, and they haven't gotten their wish. It's not likely Universal will listen to Dracula fans. I imagine they're just using the remaster from the 90's and HD scaling it.

Sorry. IMDB's nesting feature makes it impossible to keep chronology in a discussion going. I always just respond to the last one. I should have quoted.

My fault.

[–] KatharineFanatic 10 years ago

Anything that doesn't have A-list actors in it is, unfortunately, a B-movie. Laurence Olivier is the only A-list actor involved, and he's not the main draw.

Dracula, himself, is iconic, but sadly, this movie is not. It has a small (but always growing) loyal band of fans, but outside that circle is not that well known. Unlike LotM, it is NEVER shown in history class, therefore one has to be either a fan of Dracula or one of the cast members to discover it. (I discovered it through Langella!)

My point is... they remastered this movie back in 2004 for the DVD release. Since they are porting the extras from that release over to the Blu-Ray, it is unlikely they are doing a new remaster, and not likely that they will consider re-releasing a full-color version down the line simply because some people refuse to buy the color-saturated version. I also have a bad feeling the colorized version no longer exists, which is sad, because I never got to see it.

[–] PrometheusTree64 10 years ago

This film's esteem has changed. In the '80s it became one of the biggest "horror" rentals of the decade, but after that it's seemed to disappear.

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Non-sequiturs are delicious.

[–] KatharineFanatic 10 years ago

Got mine and watched it.

Still desaturated, color-wise, but the image is brighter than the DVD and has nice attention to detail.

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