DVD release!


I have read there is a planned DVD release of this from Redemption/Salvation films in the UK, so a print must have been found, so that's very good news.

http://salvfilm.valuehost.co.uk/index2.html

The bad news is that it will probably have one of those stupid "blood-covered woman with her breasts hanging out" covers that Redemption think it's a good idea to put on everything they release. She'll probably have a school uniform on in this one, no doubt.

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I don't know what all this nonsense has been about in regards to "no prints availible." I have one sitting on my bookshelf about six feet away from me as I type this!

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Wow, perhaps you could loan it to the NFT! They were apparently unable to find one when they wanted to screen it.

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I'm sure they must have found out by now that they aren't THAT hard to come by, at least in America... I got my copy in a bargain bin at an independent video store for $5.

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Ah, if you mean video, yes I have heard that there are copies around. I was talking about a print on celluloid film for showing in the cinema. That is what the NFT were looking for.

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If Redemption are releasing it I presume they have been able to track down a celluloid print. I doubt they would get away with a DVD which is sourced directly from the NTSC tape released in the 80s (although I have a copy and it's a decent enough picture for VHS). Due to the rarity of the movie I wouldn't be suprised if they print they use may not be up to the highest standards, but to have it on DVD will be great. I would put up with a scratchy old print if that is all they have got!

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With all that we can do with computers nowadays, though, would it be so hard to restore an old VHS print to modern DVD standards? I have a VHS copy, as I stated in another thread (or maybe earlier in this one?) and aside from a single scene where the lighting inexplicably turns orange (which may be a production gaff, I don't know), it's pretty crisp.

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One year later and no DVD. So much for that, I suppose.

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I guess the movie is public domain now. I'm seeing bootleg DVD-Rs all over ebay, no doubt sourced from the VHS. I opted for the old video release instead - at least that way I more or less knew what kind of quality I was in for - and it was fairly sharp for an ex-rental. But something tells me the movie wasn't rented very often anway.

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If it makes you feel any better about a DVD-R, I know for a fact that an old VHS copy of mine is the source for a large portion of them; I traded it to a fella for some DVDs and he proceeded to burn it to a DVD-R and flood the market. The reason I say this should make you feel better is that my VHS copy, save for one scene, was in pristine condition, so the transfer ended up excellent. (Even that one scene might actually be intact; the only thing wrong with it is that the color warps funnily so that it looks like a picture with jacked up contrast in photoshop. It only lasts for the duration of that one scene; so it might be the way the movie was meant to look. If that's the case, there is at least one "strand" of DVD-Rs out there with a pristine transfer).

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The DVD is coming out in Nov 2007, its R2 PAL. It is listed up at AmazonUK so hopefully it will come out and be the special edition Savation promised.

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What, no US release? Lying bastards! I e-mailed them last summer and they told me there would be an R1 and R2 release!!

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Don't hold your breath for a UK DVD release. Amazon.uk listed both this and original co-feature 'Goodbye Gemini' months ago and the latter - due for an earlier release - is now 'currently unavailable'. The BBFC has no record of either film being submitted for a home video release. Sad to say, I don't think these films are going to appear any time soon.

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Back to the black market, then. Just as well. I'm often opposed to cult movies getting commercial DVD releases. Many, if not all, of the people who worked on the movie and would normally profit from it are dead, and the money will all go to some company who doesn't even have any real love for the movie; they just saw a business opportunity and exploited it. Cult films such as this were embraced by a niche; they should remain with that niche, not yanked out and commercialized by the same market that drove it underground in the first place.

If a cult film is going to be re-released, it should be done by people involved or people who care. It isn't impossible. The "The Candy Snatchers" crew did it a year or so ago, and I whole heartedly support that release. With Girly, though, it'd just be another notch in some company's belt that doesn't even appreciate the uniqueness of those notches.

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I'll buy this if it ever gets an official DVD release....

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I bought a DVD of it on eBay a few years back - the seller was obviously knocking them out, because he was always there, offering them on "Buy It Now".

It did indeed have a "come hither" picture of a sexy schoolgirl type (bearing very little resemblance to Girly) on the DVD label.




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But sings on:
All things remain in God.

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Every DVD in circulation is now a bootleg. Redemption/Salvation films have repeatedly renegged on their promises to release it; they'd promised it to be on DVD as early as Summer of 2006, and intermittently update it every few months. Now, they've just plain stopped bothering to pretend to care.

One of the crew members of the movie actually got in contact with R/S, informing them that he was still friends with Brian Comport, the writer, and that he wanted to help them put out a "special edition" DVD complete with extras an interviews; he even indicated that if Comport got on board, Freddie Francis, the film's director, could be encouraged to record a commentary track. R/S had no interest, saying that it was going to be a "bargain DVD." The crew member was pretty ticked; sometime afterwards, Freddie Francis died, torpedoing any hopes of a track.

I've never ordered from R/S, and after their treatment of Girly, doubt I ever will. It's a shame that films rights can be so easily obtained by people who don't give a damn. The rights to this gem, and countless others, belong in the hands of people who honestly love them.

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I'm watching this for the first time right now (at the number 5 humpty dumpty chase scene). God! This flick is a riot! One of the best I've seen in a long time.

Oh yeah. Reason for coming here is this...

Some new company called Scorpion Releasing is giving this the DVD treatment it deserves in the future. You can find the title on DVD aficiando. Great news everybody!!



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375 with pics!

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DVD Aficiando deleted the entry; hope it wasn't just miscommunication and/or wishful thinking.

No matter what, "Salvation" blew the opportunity to have a real director's commentary track. Freddie Francis was still alive and well when they first announced their plans, and someone from NFT offered to put Salvation in touch with him. Salvation refused, stating they were only putting up a bare-bones release. In the interim, Francis passed away. From what I understand he was still cognizant in his final years and still interested in participating in film events, so the chances that he'd have recorded the track were pretty high. In the hands of another company-- one that wouldn't have squandered the opportunity only to apparently end up selling the rights to someone else-- we could've had something great.

Hey, Salvation: Thanks for robbing us, you bastards.

EDIT: I just refreshed my memory over at Francis' IMDB Page; he died in March of 2007. Meaning that Salvation was promising Girly as early as the end of 2005 (as there was back-and-forth for a while on trying to get them in touch with Francis). Meaning it's taken almost five years for them.

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DVDBeaver review: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews49/girly.htm

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Thanks eccom2002

What we see as spectacle is in fact a ceremony

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I realise that this post is 10 years old..but this film is now available as 1280x720p BluRay.

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