As good as it is to finally have this on dvd, and with an audio commentary by David Schmoeller to boot, why did it have to be full-screen? Two out of the four movies on the All-Night Horror Marathon Vol. 2 set are widescreen, the other two are 4:3! Shout Factory surely know better than this. Were better elements not available or something?
shareIt's all down to what elements MGM makes available to them at the time. With some titles in the MGM library, there are 16:9 transfers available (often created for the MGM HD channel), but they haven't gotten around to re-transferring everything in their catalogue. Such is the case with the Empire and Cannon titles in their library. Creating a brand-new 16:9 transfer from original elements is quite expensive too, presumably outside of the kind of budget Shout allocates to a low-price 4-pack release like this.
Still, Catacombs looks okay on DVD given these constraints. It'd be nice to see it in hi-def one day, though.
it's such a shame that the MGM channel doesn't exist anymore? don't you agree? i used to watch movies on there that i hadn't seen before. i loved how it was a free unedited movie channel with hardly any commercials in HD.
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