Has anyone picked up the new triple feature of Larry Cohen's It's Alive series?

Is it in widescreen??
Does it carry over the commentaries that he did for the original releases??

Thinking about adding to my list for the DDD 20% sale (coming on 11/10 so I've heard).

Cheers.

I think it's safe to assume these are the same discs as before with widescreen prints and Larry Cohen commentaries on all three films.

That's what I assumed, but I've noticed that some of the other 3x features drop SE features or are foolscreen only :angry: when the original releases offered widescreen/foolscreen.

I guess since the Alive triology only came out in widescreen that we could count on them being in widescreen, but I was curious about the commentaries.

On a non-horror note: the Randolph Scott titles are foolscreen, but I could find no info about what the OAR of those titles were. I'd be mad if they were cinemascope films and foolscreened.

Of course, the packaging could be wrong......that's happened before.

PS... My mart had everyone of the triple feature titles EXCEPT the It's Alive trilogy :(

What other triple-features are there? I've only heard about the IT'S ALIVE set.

Are these 2- or 3-disc sets? If all three films are on one disc, then they may well not have the extra audio tracks.

( was initially excited by these until I found out about the fullscreen only versions of some of them.

I havent bought any yet, but my understanding from looking at the back of the discs at the mart is that one is a single sided disc and the other is a double sided one.

Lethal Weapon (1-3) 1.85:1 widescreen (why not a quad feature??)

Lassie 3x (Son of Lassie, Courage of Lassie, and Lassie come home) feature (fullscreen but I think that this is correct for the films)

2 sets of John Wayne and Randolph Scott collections (The Wayne stuff should be fullscreen (I think), but I"m unsure about the Scott films)
Wayne:
Big Stampede, The (1932) / Ride Him, Cowboy (1932) / Haunted Gold (1932)
Telegraph Trail, The (1933) / Somewhere in Sonora (1933) / Man from Monterey, The (1933)

Scott:
Fort Worth (1951) / Colt .45 (1950) / Tall Man Riding (1955)
Man Behind the Gun, The (1953) / Thunder Over the Plains (1953) / Riding Shotgun (1954)

Others (mostly non-horror - sorry ;) ):
15 Minutes (2001) / Thirteen Days (2000) / Frequency (2000) - Triple Feature

Alaska (1996) / Amazing Panda Adventure, The (1995) / Born to Be Wild (1995) - Triple Feature

Fire Down Below (1997) / Out for Justice (1991) / On Deadly Ground (1994)

Free Willy Triple Feature

Harum Scarum (1965) / Speedway (1968) / Trouble with Girls (and How to Get Into It), The (1969)

Hellbound (1994) / Hitman, The (1991) / Forced Vengeance (1982)

Honkytonk Man (1982) / Pink Cadillac (1989) / City Heat (1984)

Island of Dr. Moreau, The - Unrated Director's Cut (1996) / Dark City (1998) / Hidden, The (Original Theatrical Version) (1987) - Lots of SE stuff missing on Dark City

Man Apart, A (2003) / Boiler Room (2000) / Knockaround Guys (2001)

National Velvet (1944) / Black Beauty (1994) / Story of Seabiscuit, The (1949)

Objective, Burma! (1945) / Never So Few (1959) / Go for Broke! (1951)

Perfect Murder, A (1998) / Murder by Numbers (2002) / Murder in the First (1995)

Poison Ivy (1992) / Poison Ivy 2: Lily (1996) / Poison Ivy: The New Seduction (1997)

Singles (1992) / Home Fries (1998) / Mickey Blue Eyes (1999)

Stroker Ace (Full Screen) (1983) / Hooper - Extended Television Version (Full Screen) (1978) / Sharky's Machine (Full Screen) (1981)

Hey, where'd you hear that HOOPER was the extended-tv version? I remember watching it back in its 3-hour slot back in the day, and I do recall several sequences I have enjoyed till this day that I was disconcerted to learn were not in the theatrical version when I finally saw that. Does it say extended on the packaging itself? The original dvd was the theatrical...if this is so, it is quite a pleasant surprise, fullscreen or no...

Well, that's what was on www.dvdaf.com. Unsure about the validity of that statement ;). I just used the site to compile the list. My guess that it's the 99 minute version that's already on DVD.

BTW, for those horror minded (winky coming up), I was in Big Lots and they had the Free Willy 3x for $3.00! (Willy 1 -widescreen, Willy 2 - widescreen, and Willy 3 - foolscreen ?!?!). It has a featurette and Michael Jackson music video (that counts as horror right?) ;).

The IT'S ALIVE trio is worth picking up. I've got it right here. The first disc has the first film, plus the Cohen commentary and trailers for all three; the second disc has on Side A IT LIVES AGAIN, Cohen commentary, and the film's trailer; Side B has ISLAND OF THE ALIVE, with Cohen commentary and the film's trailer. All are 1:85.1 and 16:9-enhanced. Snap it up.

Excellent! It's mine!

BTW, the DDD 20% sale has begun!!!!! $7 and change for the Alive Trilogy with the discount. :D

That's a weird triple feature.

Is this a "time" themed series ... or the "past-their-prime leading men" series?

Because LETHAL WEAPON 4 really, really SUCKS!

It was one of five discs that came free with my first DVD player purchase a long time ago. There were some nice action sequences but the rest of it was basically the director letting the camera run while letting various characters spout off improved, incomprehensible banter (the family scenes were awful). I haven't watched it since and don't even remember if I still have it.

I actually like LETHAL WEAPON 4, but I liked it a lot better before I discovered that Donner's big action setpiece was--no doubt about it--stolen straight from DARK BREED, which probably cost 1/50 of LW4.

I got the DVD free too, with my first DVD player, an RCA. Let's see...I also got SIX DAYS SEVEN NIGHTS, STARGATE, LOST IN SPACE and STEPMOM. It's been almost a decade, and I still haven't taken the plastic wrap off of STEPMOM.

What a waste!

I hear that DVD makes a good frisbee or coaster...

Those are the exact titles I got too. I got them with a Toshiba DVD player. I wonder if it was something to do with the brand or if the participating studios knew that no one would buy those.

I'm not a Stargate fan (I like Holger Gross' production design and Lindenlaub's photography but I'm not one of those anthro grads who loves every film that has something anthropological in it except for maybe NOMADS) but I remember the double-sided DVD for a single feature being rather annoying since the format was supposed to be superior to laserdisc. SIX DAYS SEVEN NIGHTS and LOST IN SPACE are somewhere around here (I don't think I ever finished watching either). I actually found someone who liked STEPMOM so I gave it to them (I hated the movie just from the TV spots so I never opened it).

I kinda liked SIX DAYS SEVEN NIGHTS, but I might be alone. I saw LOST IN SPACE theatrically and see no need to ever revisit it. I gave away STARGATE.

I can't believe a Mobius thread that started with Larry Cohen's monster babies has turned into a discussion about SIX DAYS SEVEN NIGHTS and STEPMOM. :)

For the record, I paid--yes, paid--to see STEPMOM, in a theater. And I would not return a penny of this long-ago investment in 125m of my life. It's Chris Columbus to the hilt, to the max, to the very zenith of his Chris Columbusness. It is the best singing-into-hairbrushes movie ever made.

[It may have been the first singing-into-hairbrushes movie ever made. But twas not the last. You know, where the characters pick up hairbrushes and warble Motown into them as the months fly by in a happy montage. I think even co-star Ed Harris uses a hairbrush mic. And he doesn't even have any hair. ]

I can see numerous copies of STEPMOM being DHL-ed to me...

Wow. Ed Harris just lost a lot of cool points in my book! B)

Out of a compulsion to keep this going:

I sold off SIX DAYS SEVEN NIGHTS and STARGATE.

I'm pretty sure STEPMOM disappeared into some back corner somewhere and I never bothered to seek it out to sell it off.

I held onto LOST IN SPACE simply because way back when it seemed like it would be a cool disc to show off the DVD format with. Haven't put it into the player in years. I also remember a tv listing for it in Entertainment Weekly for a showing on TBS or something that simply said "For everyone who didn't get it free with their DVD player."

And LETHAL WEAPON 4 is better than LETHAL WEAPON 3. I always liked it and it's nice to have the deleted scenes from the earlier movies on there.

Twisted, innit? ;)

I too recall getting that beginner pack and Stepmom and Six Days Seven Nights never came out of the the shrinkwrap. I think I gave them away as Christmas gifts or sold them.

Oh the horror......

BTW, just got confirmation that my Monster Baby triple feature is in the mail. Huzzah!

I got in before they increased the price too, so I saved an extra 20 cents plus the 20%.....priceless :P

Is the classic trailer for It's Alive included? The one with the voiceover and the crib?

No, it's a full-length theatrical trailer. I always thought the one you mentioned was a TV spot or teaser, which would've been nice to have have.

Damn. I've been trolling for that puppy for ages and haven't been able to find it. That thing has to be laying around somewhere...

You'd think that something like YouTube or iFilm would have it. Sigh.

You can see a few boring stills and the poster for the IT'S ALIVE remake here:

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/10342

I believe that ISLAND OF THE ALIVE was made specifically for the home video market, so the fullscreen version might be closer to Larry Cohen's intentions. In any case, I understand that the DVD includes two early scenes that were missing from the original US VHS release (though they were always in the UK video).