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This week Savant goes nuts reviewing Warners' new Village of the Damned & Children of the Damned double bill. It was a good opportunity to spout about another of the many classic genre thrillers I'm most fond of.
Just received an exciting flyer from Home Vision Entertainment. This October they'll be releasing the five-picture Yakuza bloodbath saga The Yakuza Papers, the series that begins with the special screening favorite Battles Without Honor And Humanity. They're from Kinji Fukasaku, and will be hotly awaited. There's a special boxed set that contains a disc with a load of extras as well.
Everyone knows about the Star Wars original trilogy finally coming out on DVD this fall. In keeping with George Lucas' innovative attitude toward classic films, Fox is bringing out the minor (ve-e-ry minor) thriller The Alligator People on September 7. A reliably mendacious non-studio source has confirmed that the B&W horror film will not only be in enhanced CinemaScope for the first time, it will also make extensive use of Computer Generated Graphic enhancement to fix a few problems that have dogged, or more accurately, reptiled the film since 1959.
Masters of CGI not yet born when the film was made have been working for months to create a vast army of 50,000 Alligator People. An unnamed and unquestionably dubious source was quoted as saying "The movie was always called The Alligator People, even though there was only one Alligator Person in it. By using modern technology, we are finally able to realize Roy Del Ruth's original vision."
The magic of CGI will also allow the inclusion of The Alligator Fighter Steve Irwin as an Our Town- like narrator and commentator on the spooky proceedings down in the swamp. And, yes, Lon Chaney's hook will now be able to morph into a variety of Ninja weapons, and he'll engage in a series of Matrix-like fights with the Alligator People. His famous line "I'LL KILL YOU, ALLIGATOR MAN, JUST LIKE ANY FOUR-LEGGED GATOR!" will once again be heard across the land.
DVD Savant accepts no responsibility for this reporting outrage. :) Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at August 07, 2004 06:11 PM