Night of the Demon region 2 DVD release with extras

[Redstar]

My hopes were raised when I read on the Play.com website that "Night of the Demon" was due for imminent release on DVD...but on closer reading it was a 1980 US film about "bigfoot" not the classic Dana Andrews 1957 version.

I have it on tape but has this brilliant thriller ever been released on DVD?

[DB7]

name='Redstar']My hopes were raised when I read on the Play.com website that "Night of the Demon" was due for imminent release on DVD...but on closer reading it was a 1980 US film about "bigfoot" not the classic Dana Andrews 1957 version.

I have it on tape but has this brilliant thriller ever been released on DVD?

Yep, I got a Jap import. It contains both edits (Night and Curse).



Great film.

[bertie]

Region 1 copies (ie both edits) currently for sale on Amazon.co.uk by Amazon Marketplace sellers.

[Santonix]

name='DB7']Yep, I got a Jap import. It contains both edits (Night and Curse).



Great film.

Got mine the same way. It has both "Night" and "Curse." It's been digitally remastered in widescreen and with Dolby sound. It's excellent.

[dukdriver]

I got a version on DVD on ebay, no extras but quite watchable, watched it again this morning as it happens. Can anyone tell me the make and model of the convertible Peggy Cummins drives in the film by any chance?

Bob

[Nick Dando]

Sunbeam Alpine if my memory serves me right.



Nick

[dukdriver]

Thanks Nick, that's the one.

Bob

[JamesM]

from DD Home Entertainment apparantly

[DB7]

Great news for those who haven't already got it, but also good that a new audience will get the chance to discover this little treasure.



Wonder if Curse will be included?

[batman]

name='DB7']Great news for those who haven't already got it,

That includes me .... I can't wait !!!!!

[Fred Scuttle]

Is this definitely available? Can't find any link to it....

[JamesM]

DVD Pacific - Buy New DVD Movies, HD DVD and Blu-Ray discs



Current version £8.99

[Fred Scuttle]

name='JamesM']DVD Pacific - Buy New DVD Movies, HD DVD and Blu-Ray discs



Current version £8.99

Thanks, but are you sure that's a region 2 release?

[Steve Crook]

name='Fred Scuttle']Thanks, but are you sure that's a region 2 release?

It doesn't give any region coding information on that page.

DVD Pacific usually do titles for Australasia, which is region 4. But they might be doing it as "region 0" (i.e. no region encoding). Email them and ask



Steve

[Aaryk Noctivagus]

name='Steve Crook']...which is region 4...

At least Region 4 would be PAL... so no NTSC-PAL stutter if it is R4.



The cover looks exactly the same as the Region 1 release though... I too wish they had region info on that site.



And the text on that site says...

This DVD presents, for the first time in the US, the fully restored 95 minute version as seen by British audiences...

Which does suggest its the R1 NTSC release on that site.

[John Hodson]

name='Steve Crook']It doesn't give any region coding information on that page.

DVD Pacific usually do titles for Australasia, which is region 4. But they might be doing it as "region 0" (i.e. no region encoding). Email them and ask



Steve

No, DVD Pacific sell *only* R1 American (not Canadian) sourced discs; it is definitely NTSC R1, and, being Columbia / Sony, it is RCE protected (though most multi-region DVD players ignore this anyway).



It's a very nice 1.66:1 anamorphic transfer, but I'd hang on for a few weeks and see what DDHE come up with - one of the rumours from a poster at DVD Times says it may include the 1979 ITV production of MR James 'Casting The Runes'.

[Aaryk Noctivagus]

I can't wait. I tried to, but I cannot. I've just ordered the Region 1 NTSC.



I'll replace it with the PAL when it comes out... but we wants it... we needs it... it is our precioussssssss.



Ooops... I just turned Gollum for a moment then

[John Hodson]

Ah, superb - glad to see some confirmation. Many thanks.

[Aaryk Noctivagus]

I don't regret ordering the Region 1... but I'll replace it with the Region 2 when it is released... that 15 minute short will help make it worthwhile... irradication of the hated PAL-NTSC stutter (is that becoming my catch-phrase???) will be another reason.



I just couldn't wait until the Autumn... and remember, releases often get postponed.

[Joenoir]

Apparently Casting the Runes is being allowed out on it own 27 August, ahead of being a part of the Night of the Demon package released on 17 September.