L'invasion des piranhas de Antonio Margheriti (1978)

[Jérôme]

question technique, pourquoi le visuel n'apparaît pas dans la news ?
ça fait un peu fade, non ?

[Superwonderscope]

Problème technique en cours de résolution...

[Jérôme]

ok

[Superwonderscope]

Attention : le Blu Ray US présente une version cut de plusieurs secondes, sur les morts finales. Il s'agit de la version PG qui est sortie au cinéma et qu'MGM détient.

[Heinrich]

Il me semble que c'est la seule galette à proposer le film en widescreen !

[Jérôme]

Attention : le Blu Ray US présente une version cut de plusieurs secondes, sur les morts finales. Il s'agit de la version PG qui est sortie au cinéma et qu'MGM détient.

très joli mot de scorpion releasing sur sa page FB. respectueux et humble

it has recently come to my attention that the HD master used on our recent release of KILLER FISH is the PG rated theatrical U.S version, which omits a few seconds off of a death scene towards the end of the film. This is unfortunate in light of how much work went into bringing the film to Blu-ray as it. Some backstory of how that came to be…

Originally, the licensor supplied us with a full frame D2 master, which was to be used as the release. Knowing that this would not be acceptable to fans, I fought hard with them to have access to their film elements so that I could release this title in HD. They did not have them.

It turns out the film elements were with MGM. I went ahead and used their internegatives to do the HD master, (Note: their interpostive was missing the last 4 reels) as the fans will want to see this film in 16x9, and from a new HD master created from a pre-print film element. Then came the news after the blu-ray release that it was cut.

Apparently, the film was cut different for the U.S market, and somehow the old VHS (on Key Video) was the uncut version. I looked at my licensors’ D2 master and it was identical to the film elements supplied by MGM, so I have no idea if these uncut scenes even exist on film anymore. Frankly speaking, this is a film with a cult following that is devout, but small—and my pre-orders were surprisingly under what I had forecasted. I could discontinue this title and wait to see if these few seconds of footage will show up somewhere down the line but I’m afraid that will be a wasted effort at the end of the day—and would cost me more than the title’s budget could afford to support (New re-press, re-author, etc.)

Again, I fought hard to present this film to you folks in 16x9 and in HD, and I am disappointed that, despite my strategies to get it to be perfect, it turned out to be flawed somewhat. Lesson learned for the future: I will no longer pursue films that once had a longer cut, as it truly is impossible to find film elements. Major studios – such as MGM - simply do not save them anymore.

I hope you understand that I tried my best here and that you still find the release as a whole, a vast improvement – in PQ and AQ - over what was available before.

Thank you for your support.

[Superwonderscope]

Belle transparence de l'éditeur.

C'est pas comme cela partout concernant les éditeurs à noms d'animaux.