(Jul 26, 2024, 16:48 pm)runrunbill Wrote: Hi Everyone,

I've just updated the folder with edits from January through March:

Code:

https://mega.nz/#P!AgAi3DLNHkNoG8xeMR5oPO-jpwK3YZDuwdkEs-sKW8APTNPAhf_9fTI4Qk3JrDs9TN2N4rN51X2i8YRYuc3ePNxXefnCei6-aG3Qv8D8Jf1Y8tYhURHR6g

PW:
joebobbriggs

Please note the episodes labeled with [Fixed Audio]. I'm not sure if it is with the source files or something with the "remastering" process, but these host segments had\have some bad audio issues. I did my best to makes these watchable.

The Alien episode of Monstervision has many of these issues as well, but I didn't have any alternate audio sources to assist with cleanup. I did the best that I could, but had to remove most of the studio laughter.

I hope that you enjoy.

Thanks,
RunRunBill

(Jul 27, 2024, 17:11 pm)norcal2001 Wrote:

(Jul 26, 2024, 16:48 pm)runrunbill Wrote: Hi Everyone,

I've just updated the folder with edits from January through March:

Code:

https://mega.nz/#P!AgAi3DLNHkNoG8xeMR5oPO-jpwK3YZDuwdkEs-sKW8APTNPAhf_9fTI4Qk3JrDs9TN2N4rN51X2i8YRYuc3ePNxXefnCei6-aG3Qv8D8Jf1Y8tYhURHR6g

PW:
joebobbriggs

Please note the episodes labeled with [Fixed Audio]. I'm not sure if it is with the source files or something with the "remastering" process, but these host segments had\have some bad audio issues. I did my best to makes these watchable.

The Alien episode of Monstervision has many of these issues as well, but I didn't have any alternate audio sources to assist with cleanup. I did the best that I could, but had to remove most of the studio laughter.

I hope that you enjoy.

Thanks,
RunRunBill

Thank you RunRunBill!!

(Aug 11, 2024, 11:58 am)latenet Wrote: Sheesh. I thought double-checking the listings would be a simple matter of comparing what had gone up to what I had on my external hard drive. Instead, within a couple hours I'd found a ridiculous number of gaps in my collection (mostly ones that had been improved over the years, including a lot of CryWolf23 versions that could have gone). I've just spent three days going through the entire set of listings to get myself up to date.

If I have the math right, the list of episodes that haven't had their host segments remastered now adds up to 63:

96-07-23
01 - The Neptune Factor
02 - Dark Universe

96-07-26
01 - Strays
02 - The Beast Within

96-08-02
01 - The People Under the Stairs
02 - Swamp Thing

96-08-09
01 - She
02 - Deathstalker - Unrestored Host Segments

96-11-15
02 - Tiger Claws

96-12-13
01 - The Lost Boys - Unrestored Host Segments

97-03-21
01 - Night of the Living Dead (1990)

97-05-09
Red Sonja

97-05-16
01 - The Beast Within

97-05-30
01 - The People Under the Stairs

97-06-14
01 - Razorback
02 - Zone Troopers

97-06-21
01 - The Exorcist
02 - The Exorcist II: The Heretic

97-07-19
01 - The Fly - Unrestored Host Segments
02 - The Warriors - Unrestored Host Segments

97-09-06
01 - Sleepstalker

97-10-25
Halloween II - Unrestored Host Segments

97-11-01
01 - Conan the Destroyer

97-11-08
01 - Twilight Zone: The Movie
02 - They Live

97-11-15
01 - Capricorn One - Unrestored Host Segments

97-11-22
01 - Four Days in November
02 - King Kong (1976)

97-11-29
01 - Leviathan
02 - Communion

97-12-06
01 - Clash of the Titans (1981)
02 - The Never Ending Story

97-12-20
01 - Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter- Unrestored Host Segments
02 - Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning

97-12-27
01 - Batteries Not Included
02 - Project X

98-01-10
01 - Carrie
02 - The Warriors

98-01-24
Black Sunday (1977)

98-01-31
01 - The Exorcist
02 - The Hand

98-02-14
01 - Excalibur
02 - Swamp Thing

98-02-21
01 - Maximum Overdrive
02 - Creepshow

98-02-28
01 - Immortal Combat
02 - Superbeast

98-03-07
01 - She (1965)
02 - She (1983)

98-03-14
The Seventh Sign
Look Who's Talking Too

98-03-21
01 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer
02 - Hammer

98-07-18
02 - The Serpent and the Rainbow

99-01-29
02 - Paper Lion

99-04-10
01 - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - Unrestored Host Segments
02 - The Outer Limits - Cold Hands, Warm Heart - Unrestored Host Segments
03 - The Outer Limits - I, Robot - Unrestored Host Segments

99-07-03
01 - High Plains Drifter
02 - The Long Riders

00-03-04
The Dead Zone - Unrestored Host Segments

00-05-06
Beetlejuice

00-06-03
Hercules and the Amazon Women - Unrestored Host Segments

Of those 63, 12 of them do have host segments, just ones that haven't been "fixed" by the Patreon project yet. And a quick glance at the posts there shows that at least two of them (the Outer Limits episodes) are now available. Things are moving right along. A decade ago I figured I'd never see most of these shows again; now I wouldn't be surprised if at 90% of them wind up becoming available (assuming that Shudder doesn't cancel The Last Drive-In for the next few years, keeping interest in Joe Bob high).

It may or may not be a great time to be alive, but it sure is a great time to be a Mutant. And as always, much thanks is due to RunRunBill.

Oh, and not to get preachy, but anyone who can afford five bucks or more a month might want to join the Patreon to keep the project alive.

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I was especially impressed with the Exorcist II restoration, by the way, for a reason that is so obscure that a lot of people might not care one way or the other.

[WARNING, SPOILERS AHEAD, FOR ANYONE WHO HASN'T MANAGED TO CATCH THE FILM IN THE 47 YEARS SINCE ITS RELEASE.]

When EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC was first released in 1977, the early reaction from audiences was... not good. The original ending had Father Lamont (Richard Burton) surviving the collapse of the townhouse, then walking off into a sunrise with Regan, implying that, I dunno, he was going to be some kind of spiritual guru for her or something. Not only was it silly, but the backdrop they were supposedly heading for showed no buildings anywhere nearby, and made it look like maybe that street was about ten stories above the surrounding city (yes, there was a long stairway beside the building, as seen in the first film, but it wasn't THAT freaking long).

Warner Bros. immediately yanked the film out of theaters and came up with a new ending that was, if not more plausible, at least more cryptic. Regan still survived the collapse of the house, but Father Lamont, who had been upstairs fighting her demonic doppelganger in her bed (yeah, it was weird) when the floor fell through, was left presumably dead. There was no more talky epilogue, and Regan just looked around, dazed in wonderment that her magic locust thingy had actually worked. Credits rolled, and the audience stumbled out almost as dazed, though not nearly as happy (the film still flopped at the box office, and critics trashed it).

The point being, the only ending that most people saw for several decades was the revised ending. When the movie went to VHS that was the ending that was used, and it was the same with the bare-bones DVD release many years later. It wasn't until the Blu ray release that someone finally restored the director's original, er, vision (John Boorman is a great director, but even geniuses have the occasional dud).

For that reason, when Monstervision showed EXORCIST II twice in 1997, they definitely would have been showing the revised ending (not the "Father Lamont lives" version); they wouldn't had access to the original cut. It was therefore very smart to have it used when the episode was recently restored (especially since the original ending isn't the version that is now the easy one to find).

Yeah, it's a nerd detail. But it's cool to see these episodes properly restored, even down to little details like that.

(Aug 24, 2024, 00:54 am)El Phantasmo Wrote: RunRunBill,

Do you have an internal list you're using that has all the restored files that have been released? Im trying to do some cleanup on TVDB.

Thanks,

(Aug 04, 2024, 12:36 pm)latenet Wrote: I was briefly confused by THREE FOR ONE and TOP MODEL, which are labeled as being from 1993-10-09. There were already two movies listed for that date, so I checked an online episode listing and saw that it was a simple typo; these two films aired on 1993-01-09. No great mystery, fortunately.