Has anyone picked this up yet and can comment on status - print quality cut/uncut? It was released on 28 Feb.

thanks

Not sure about the German disc ( news to me ) but there is a new Italian DVD from NoShame that might be the uncut / continental version. It was being discussed over at Latarnia but I don't feel I got a definitve answer after reading their thread.

more on the noshame release here:
http://dvdfreak.bloudil.cz/freak.php?p=blo...thevampire&dz=0

The review is unclear if it's the Continental version, it has 2 minutes of inserts but it's not clear if these two minutes are 'the ' footage we all want.
The grabs showing the extreme zoom boxing on the Dark Sky DVD are pretty interesting though.

Review of German DVD ( in German only )
http://www.dvd-forum.at/19991/dvd_review_detail.htm
I translated it and it makes no mention of the Continental footage and the image is not great.
Run Time fo the Italian NoShame DVD : 83:41
Run Time of the German release DVD : 82:26

This would seem to indicate the NoShame release has the extra footage and the German DVD is the standard edit ala Dark Sky.

Thanks John - interesting that the image of Karl and the girl on the operating table is much clearer indicating a different source for this section. Possibly the DD Video UK DVD print which has a 45s extract from this sequence (although missing the rest of it and missing some earlier footage present on the Dark Sky DVD).

The German disk can be bought from Amazon.de.

I've now got the German DVD. Its not uncut but is a slightly different cut to the other releases.

The film largely looks to be a copy of the Dark Sky print since it has the same odd boxed pre-credits scene (the DD release has this in the same ratio as the rest of the film). It also has the same version of the lab scene at 30m odd as the Dark Skies print. It also has the same commentary.

However, it then inserts the DD Video truncated version of the "Continental" scene at about 35m, a scene missing entirely from the Dark Skies print.

So, someone has obviously done their homework here to some extent and if you adjusted for timings it would be about 40s longer than the Dark Sky print.