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Blue Underground DVD Transfer is Screwed Up!!!!!!


The BLUE UNDERGROUND dvd transfer for GHOST GALLEON is way too dark and everything is bathed in a fake "restoration" hazy blue "tint" effect, details of Templar face masks are also missing in darkness and shadow!!! WHY was this blue tint "hazy" effect employed???!!! It almost looks like some kind of a filter. Was it someone else's idea of "atmosphere"? Certainly not De Ossorio's!!! Just compare the way the same footage looks in the HORROR OF THE ZOMBIES trailer (in the supplements on the disc) and it's obvious that the film was NOT meant to look like this!!!!!!! It's also too DARK!!! They screwed up (not the first time, either)!!!!! Ugghhhh!!!!!

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I liked the way the film looks. No complaints here. At least not about the transfer anyway. The actual film on the other hand, well there is lots to complain about.

The first, second, and fourth films were all masterpieces, but this one was such a drop in quality from the other blind dead films What was de ossorio thinking?

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......Compare for example the way B.U.'s dvd of HORROR OF THE ZOMBIES looks to the SUPER VIDEO vhs tape transfer and you will see what Lustig/B.U. did to it, the dark scenes on the Galleon are covered in blue filter that was NEVER originally shot nor added in post-production by Amando De Ossorio!!!! He would roll over in his grave if he saw this! Additionally, the scenes aboard the Galleon are often WAY too dark, MUCH DETAIL is missing, zombie faces/make-ups obscured in darkness when they shouldn't be, were not originally shot and lit in that way, these discs are a godsend to exist but they should have been done RIGHT and were NOT, they were authored rather callously and disrespectfully. Lustig only cares about MONEY, this I know for an uncontested fact, having interacted and spoken with the man, I've spoken as well with many people that were ripped off by him, too!!!! The man's character leaves much to be desired and when you know it, then these discs and how poorly they were done and how messed up they are makes complete sense..........

You are way too "bend over" forgiving and accepting, I am sick of people who either work for them or don't know anything either obnoxiously defending or apologizing for all of these sleazy people and companies, BLUE UNDERGROUND not being the only one by any means..........

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C'mon man... it's not the best one of the series but it's not that bad.

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I agree. It was only when I watched the trailer that I realized how dark the movie was. Glad I'm not the only person to have noticed.

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You can't go by the trailer or old VHS... Sometimes they did not include day for night filtering. Low budget films like this one usually can't afford to shoot at night with a lot of lights, so they typically (especially back in the 70s) employed day for night filtering to achieve a night-time effect. Meaning they would shoot it during the day and make it look dark with a filter. Obviously this is what BU did for their DVD, which was probably taken from the negative. Since negatives don't have the filtering for those scenes, BU would have had to recreate it.

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