Why the restoration of worship films is a public service, according to legendary horror director, Joe Dante (exclusive)

There is a calm but disturbing shift that occurs in the broadcasting era – which threatens not only entertainment but its inheritance as a whole. Films and the entire series are eliminated, sometimes years of making, from the platforms overnight. Not because they are controversial or because they “failed”, but because studios can delete them to get a tax break or any other reason they provide to justify it. That’s it. One executive decision and something screaming or hundreds of people poured themselves … disappears.

What makes this worse is that sometimes these titles have not been released on Blu-Ray or DVD or even providing them for download. They lived exclusively on a servant – and now they don’t live anywhere. There is no ribbon hiding in the video rental store. There is no disk for the sale of the garage. Just silence, just as it was not present at all. It is a dark reminder of the extent of the fragility of the media when it is only present in the cloud. When you don’t have what you see, someone else gets to decide if he is present tomorrow. And if you are interested in keeping strange, bold and abnormal stories – The type that used to find a new life like custodians – This must frighten hell from you.

Fortunately, there is a savior in the form of home media companies interested in restoring, preserving and distributing cinema. Even on the eve of informal films It is likely to be aware of the collection of standardsBut some of the greatest guardians are those who specialize in qualitative cinema, such as the sub -brand of worship and horror at the Shout factory, Screaming factory. To celebrate the thirteenth anniversary of this year, Scream Factory held an event in Los Angeles that includes offers for “Piranha” by Joe Dante and the global revenue for the new restoration of 4K for George A. Romero “Day of Dead”. I was honored enough to talk to Dante about his relationship with the company that re -distributed and distributed his films such as “Piranha”, “The Burbs” and “Explorers”, and called what they do in Scream Factory By preserving physical media alive “Public service.”

I met Joe Dante in front of the Vidiots video store in Los Angeles, California, on the right of “non -flowing” film shelf, which can only be seen if you can get a material version of it. Scream Factory had a backbone at the back, as she sold copies of its latest versions, and of course DANTE. He told me: “You should remember these boutique stickers, as you call them, they are the people who eat things that will not run Criterion.” “Although (standard) has made some strange exceptions over the years, there are many fixed films that were used to only on Slinister Cinema.”

For those who are not aware, the evil cinema (which Dante highly recommends) is an online catalog of B movies, driving, horror, exploitation, science fiction and Schlock cinema, with a wide range of titles that define the borders on the end. the site It looks exactly the same way it was when the Internet was still in its cradleBut this is definitely part of its magic.

“But these new groups, including Scream Factory, are not only returning these images from mystery, but also restoring them, and they offer us the best versions of these films.” “Many of us have seen these films in terrible publications or on all of the TV, with messages, scratches, and all this type of things, and now these things look primitive.”

Now, especially after the home video experience has evolved in sound and pictures, the presence of physical media restorations to suit the gift of gods. There is definitely a magic of crunchy quality of the elderly VHS tapes, but every movie deserves to be seen in the way it was always supposed to see.

Dante said: “The more they have a chance, they return to the closest as possible as the original negatives as possible, and these pictures never seem better,” Dante said. “Now that we have the ability at home to examine these things and make them look good or better than they were in the theater, such as” Piranha “now, it’s a general service.” After I saw the Scream Factory “Piranha”, DANTE does not exaggerate here. You didn’t see fatal fish dolls look very good.

But the improved image quality is not the only benefit of these versions of companies like Scream Factory. For example, The version of the version of “Piranha” Exciting because it includes the Restore of 2022 for the 4K scanning for the negative original camera, but it also features a new interview with DANTE specially made for the version, which is the audio comment track with Legendary Roger KormanComment Path with Dante and Jon Davison, “Make of” Mini-Doc, behind the scenes, Gloopers and Outtakes, a firm pictures and photo exhibition (including parts of creature/animated phil tippett), additional scenes of movie TVs, TV spots, and spots Multiple radio. The love of the movie is truly understanding, and with these versions, fans are given all the tools needed to do so.

The thirteenth anniversary, the screaming factory. Feel hordes everywhere (including a legend like Joe Dante) Thank you for your service.