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SHINE ON


I want to thank you for pub- lishing Eric Somer’s fascinating essay on THE SHINING [VW 178]. Kubrick’s film is the GATES OF HEAVEN of horror films: opaque, endlessly interpretable, and emi- nently rewatchable. Somer does an admirable job navigating this decidedly complex film (and its equally complex source material), pointing out things I hadn’t no- ticed, making me rethink things I had, and, most impressively, adding new insight. Top notch! Eric Hoffman Vernon CT


You’re quite welcome—and it was our pleasure to present it!


Clemens Scheitz writes a letter in Werner Herzog’s STROSZEK.


THE PREMATURE ARTICLE


What a marvelous treat VW 179 is! Due to an unfortunate (but all too common) problem with London’s underground, I was able to read your entire article on the Vincent Price Blu-rays on my way home!


There was one error, which I blush to point out, but Scream Factory’s THE VINCENT PRICE COLLECTION is not the only source for THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH on Blu-ray. Koch Media released both it and THE HAUNTED PALACE on Blu-ray in Germany a couple of years ago. MASQUE was issued as a two- disc edition—one for the film, one for the “Bonusmaterial.” This in- cludes AN EVENING OF EDGAR ALLAN POE as well as some other items, and is especially beneficial to those of us with Region 2 Blu-ray players in the UK.


Unfortunately, of the “Bonus-material,” the interview with the actor who did the German dubbing for Price doesn’t have English subtitles, as that would be fasci- nating. Neither does the Super 8 version, which looks about as bad as every Super 8 I ever burned a hole in back in the 1970s. The Super 8 and the interview with the voice actor reveal the German version’s title to have been Satanas, Das Schloss der Blutigen Bestie (“Satan, the Castle of the Bloody Beast”), which makes MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH sound positively anemic!


From your description of the other Blu-ray releases, I can’t tell if this is a unique extra or not,


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