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Blue Underground unveils Blu-ray roadmap

The indie horror distributor Blue Underground has revealed its upcoming Blu-ray roadmap, following its decision in March to start Blu-ray support.

Blue Underground has now released their initial title line-up and the list includes 9 popular favorites from filmmakers such as Dario Argento, Ralph Bakashi and William Lustig.



The nine titles are 'The Final Countdown,' 'The Bird With The Crystal Plumage,' 'The Stendhal Syndrome,' 'Maniac (1980),' 'Vigilante (1983),' 'Fire & Ice,' 'Dead & Buried,' 'Two Evil Eyes,' and 'Uncle Sam: I Want You... Dead!'

The distributor also says all of titles will be on"BD-50 dual-layer discs with full 1080p encodes and DTS-HD Lossless Master Audio 7.1 Surround and/or Dolby TrueHD 7.1 Surround audio."

There was no word on street availability, pricing or bonus features as of yet.

Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 5 Jun 2008 0:55

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• 7 comments

• PetahG

  How come I have never heard of any of these movies?

  5.6.2008 12:53 #1

• eatsushi

  Dario Argento is considered the Italian version of Alfred Hitchcock - a real cult favorite.
  
  Ralph Bakshi is known for his 1978 animated adaptation of LOTR and the 1976 fantasy/scifi animation Wizards.
  
  I might get The Final Countdown - one of the better scifi/time travel films from the 80's.
  
  These guys seem to be excited by this news:
  
  http://forums.highdefdigest.com/showthread.php?t=56523

  5.6.2008 13:32 #2

• lynchGOP

  WHO CARES!!!!!!!!!
  
  Bollywood blows dog. Film quality/cinematography stinks. Poor, polluting, smelly country makes poor, polluting, smelly movies.
  
  BA BYE

  5.6.2008 16:55 #3

• lxfactor

  low budget films.. on high budget media.. = a new way to rob people.. lol jk. a new way to protect old media. =D

  5.6.2008 17:44 #4

• six60six

  hey dipshit, where does bollywood come into play here? are you that daft?
  
  good to see some hd argento coming out. too bad suspiria isn't on the list.

  5.6.2008 17:44 #5

• eatsushi

  Originally posted by six60six: hey dipshit, where does bollywood come into play here? are you that daft?
  
  good to see some hd argento coming out. too bad suspiria isn't on the list.Suspiria - Argento's masterpiece. Hopefully in their next list of releases.

  5.6.2008 17:48 #6

• Gnawnivek

  Well, i heard about Suspiria... hopefully it comes out on Blu-ray (i think i might have it on dvd or somewhere). Anyhow, as for the movies mentioned in the article, nope, never heard of them, but if there are good reviews, i'll watch them. I don't think any country is too stinky to make good movies. I do have issues with pollutions though :(

  6.6.2008 09:28 #7