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You have very eclectic taste in films!! That Mission: Impossible package is really nice. I remember watching the seasons with Landau and Bain but haven't see them in decades. I need to think about choosing a soundbar or some sort of sound system. That Vizio may be what I need. Happy New Year!

Hi Steven, One of my fav movies in "Raiders of the lost Ark" & still my fav in the series, never seen that movie "The Good, the bad & the ugly" 🤔🤣looks good though, giallo movies i got to be in the right mood for but "The Bird with the crystal plumage" is one of my favourites in the sub genre, love Tomas Milian & he was a total beast in "Almost human" I almost pulled the trigger on that set of "Waterloo" but its a movie i"ve never seen before, we do have "Cemetery without crosses" on our next episode on the Westerns For Life Podcast, i like the movie but do prefer others over it, Sergio Leone would be my fav director without a doubt !!!

Hi Steven, Hoping you"ve had a great Christmas, Radiance is a upcoming label that i respect their work but i tend to pick & choose my titles that i want, that"s a impressive box set of the tv series "Mission Impossible" a series that i can"t recall watching on a regular basis on UK tv & i"ve also got myself a soundbar set which i"m looking forward to getting fully set up, i messaged you the other day in regards to your package my friend, speak soon.

Hey, I like your man cave set-up! The fridge is a cool idea. I remember years ago when I started using a spare bedroom as an upstairs TV room/retreat, I considered getting a mini fridge so I wouldn't have to keep running up and down the stairs. But as the room started to evolve into a movie room, there was no room for it. Nowadays the room is so completely full, there's no extra room for anything! Your Christmas decorations are all very nice. Is your man cave a spare bedroom, or is it a basement room? I may decide to make a change and use a downstairs bedroom instead. But I'm so lazy, it may never happen. Merry Christmas!!

Great video! Thanks so much for joining in and thank for the shoutout!! You have some interesting responses here. I must admit I'm not nearly as familiar with foreign films as you are, so there are many titles I really can't comment on. I like your choices for favorite film and favorite script. Wages of Fear is an amazing movie. Francesco Rosi is a director I haven't heard of, but he sounds intriguing. As for your long movie choices, I'm not a huge fan of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, and I still haven't watched my copy of The Leopard. Your choice of North By Northwest surprised me a little, but I can see your point. On the Waterfront is a great film, but I can't call it a favorite. I'll watch it again someday. Kiss Me Kate is a wonderful choice to cure a bad day. I love Scorsese's early work much more than his recent work, although there are still some of his films I haven't seen. I'm afraid I'm not a fan of Tarantino, but I do think he's shown a lot of creativity. The one film of his that I still own is Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Thanks again for doing the quiz!

Enjoyable video, you've given me a lot of films I want to watch. Gonna start getting westerns as my knowledge of them isn't good and rated the ones I have seen. Fantastic taste in films, thank you on the tag. Gonna try and get a response done, when I get a chance

Loads of great choices there, especially some fascinating euro movies. Bob's Vintage Movies also chose Wages Of Fear as best script (I chose Back To The Future). I'm really interested to track down Cemetery Without Crosses. Toshiro Mifune in Yojimbo is a perfect choice for protagonist. North By Northwest is my 5th favourite film of all time, so you lose 1 point for that one 😂. Great stuff though 👍

This was one of my favourite first watches earlier in the year. A superb film. Well worth giving this film more praise. I've not seen the upgraded version, so hope to pick it up at some point. 👍

Stephen that's Rachel I just subscribed and saw your beautiful tribute to Robert's Birthday that"s wonderful how you give amazing details about his best performance, to me also it's my favourite western even if I discovered him through Star Black when I was very young thank you so much

Hi Stephen, I never do the spag fest ☹️as I’ve never joined the Spaghetti western database even though I do use the site 😎. I should join the forum with you guys, it’s a decent 70’s spaghetti western & somewhat of a different themed movie but enjoyable as I’ve always enjoyed anything that Tomas Milian is in, “Four of the Apocalypse” isn’t a stone cold classic in the sub genre in my opinion like previous movies. Worth watching indeed, excellent job on this video.

Really interesting as I don't know a lot about westerns so good to get some information, good video matey

Fantastic Spaghetti Western !. One of my favorites ;)

Good commentaries on both films. Although I haven't seen either of them, the titles are familiar. And I think I've seen a trailer for the Fulci film. I admit I tend to avoid Fulci because I've heard so much about his love of violence and gore. But the Barbara Shelley film sounds like something I would like. I considered getting a region free player, but so far haven't done it. Maybe at some point in the future, I'll change my mind. Take care!

Thanks for talking about Crypt of the Vampire, a film that took me quite a while to appreciate. It used to play on TV back in the 1970s under the title Terror In the Crypt in a cut version that didn't make a lot of sense. And the copy I used to have from Sinister Cinema was pretty bad in quality. The Severin remastered version finally gave me a chance to see it in excellent condition and see its many good points. It has all the ambience of a typical Italian Gothic horror movie, but, really, there isn't much happening, so it turns out to be as much a character study and a mystery as much as anything. The presence of Christopher Lee in such a setting, and yet playing a decent, somewhat weak character, is sort of disorienting. But he gives a really good performance. The film can justifiably be called slow, but I think the long wait for action is worth it. The second film you discuss is totally new to me, but it sounds like it's worth seeing. I love The Wurdulak segment in Black Sabbath!!

Hey, thank you so much for the tag and for the nice shout out!! This is certainly a topic and an actress I can enjoy hearing about and talking about. I enjoyed your comments very much, and I appreciate your giving some love to the amazing Barbara. I will definitely accept your tag and do a video response. I'm having a little webcam trouble right now, so I will try and get a video posted as soon as I can. Take care and thanks again!!

You should check out the original Fright Night, it's an 80's classic and one of my favorite movies. Some of those gems you recommended are hard to find here in Canada.

All sorts of useful info, thanks. It would be really appreciated if you can do a comparison of different bluray prints among these & other various releases that you have.

As an English speaking person I had no idea WTF the titles were & had to guess from the pictures. One of the most irritating things about on-line spaghetti western fans is their often 'arrogant petty purity' with film titles in the original language. In this case are they even the original titles! That fact (of lingo fanaticism) is possibly the biggest hurdle for newcomers to the SWMDB site, other than the cliquey nature of the forum. Instead of it being a place to quickly research & cross check films it is a laborious slog of hunting & translating. The perverse arrogance of the 'lingo fanatics' is so ludicrous that there are numerous poseurs who think an Italian language track is the most authentic (even when the film was made with no specific single nationality), yet ignore the fact that the film is set in AMERICA with American signs, names, & intended locations. Even more risible than the 'lingo fanatics' is the fact that so many of the commentators on the forum have almost no sense of humour at all . Lets see how many of them get triggered about this insight?!

Congrats on picking up your first 4K player. That edition of The Psychic looks awesome.

Congrats on your purchase. You sound excited. Thanks for the review. That being said, I simply don't have a desire to watch any movies these days. They are too unrealistic, overpriced and lack in talent. Seems like I've seen them all, even the ones that haven't been filmed yet. $200 for a DVD player? I'm surprised they cost that much anymore. Didn't think people still used disc's for movies? I don't think I know anyone with a DVD player. I thought most people downloaded their movies, whether legal or illegal and then transferred them to flash drive, the cloud, or something like that. Hollywood lost my interest years ago. 6000 cameras trained on one scene so that if things look screwy with one cam, there's 5999 more angles to look at. Actors dont really have to be actors anymore. They only have to remember 5 words per scene, then the cam jiggles around so the viewer can't see just how ignorantly unskilled they are. Yet people pay to keep them all filthy rich while they distort childrens brains. Happy watching

4K UHD is the way to go today in 2024

Who tf cares ?!? Podcasts, horse-hockey reviewers, 'my faves' . . . Who tf cares ?!?

Awesome response video. I used to do a similar series. Private Crimes looks interesting, I will have to keep an eye out for that title. Have a great rest of your weekend my friend.

Heya Stephen. Thank you for the shoutout !. I think you will quite like What Have They Done To Your Daughter. Massimo brilliantly blends the giallo and the poliziotteschi genre together, just like Sergio Martino did in The Suspicious Death Of A Minor. I hope you will end up liking The House That Screamed. I still have to pick up Borsalino myself. Cheers and take care bud.

Hey, thanks so much for the nice shout out! And I'm glad to see you join in on this project. The House That Screamed is an excellent horror film. I'd never seen it until I picked up the Arrow release a few years ago, and I was really surprised. It's loaded with atmosphere and has some good scares, but it's not overdone with violence. I hope you like it. The rest of the titles you show here are ones I'm not familiar with. Private Crimes looks like something I would like. Thanks again!

This is an excellent film, and a testament to Mario Bava's ability to create a near masterpiece with a low budget. He was one of the few directors who knew how to use color cinematography as if it were black & white. I haven't seen all of his films, and I haven't necessarily loved all the ones I have seen. But I think his other color classics are Black Sabbath and Kill Baby, Kill. Blood and Black Lace is also amazing to look at. The scene in Terror in Space where the two astronauts explore the ancient spaceship with the giant is absolutely one of THE best sequences in all of science fiction cinema. There is simply nothing else like it. I first had the Planet of the Vampires release on VHS, then bought the Midnight Movies release, and now I have the Blu-ray from Kino-Lorber, which is really beautiful I've heard very good things about the Italian version. The AIP title Planet of the Vampires is very catchy, but also misleading, as the film has nothing at all to do with vampires!! Great video!

Hey Stephen, sorry to hear you have had some bad health mate!! Hopefully after this, it will get you back to full health and I enjoyed seeing your neighbourhood (looks really nice and quiet 👍) take care my friend and good health buddy 🤩🤩🤩👍👍👍

Hope you continue to recover well.

Heya Stephen. Very cool video !. I think it's great that you write reviews as well :). Keep it up because you always have great inside and points of view. Don't worry about taking a bit longer. I will await your package with excitement. I will probably do more podcasts from september onward because i still have a lot of great ideas. And you are welcome to appear again ofcourse ;). Cheers bud.

Good review! Not many people covering this set, let alone just this movie on RUclips. I'm mainly interested in this movie so it's hard to pull the trigger for $78 even on sale haha.

Hey buddy. Thank you for the shoutout !. I hope you enjoy the movies. We'll keep in touch ;).

Hi Steve! I'm glad you've received the package safe and sound. I still need to grab a copy of Django Shoots First myself someday. That's a very nice edition of Planet of the Vampires. I picked up the Radiance release recently and saw the Italian cut last week. It's a fun movie. You can clearly see that Ridley Scott was inspired by it when he made Alien and Prometheus. Looking forward to see what you are going to send me, buddy. Take care!

Hey bud. I think i will pick up Danza Macabre Volume 2 this month ;). Cheers.

It's all because of Karma, you know? It's Karma in Sanskrit, it's God's grace in English. etc. etc. in other Languages under the Sun. Everything depends on it. If it's A Good Karma, regardless of ANY NEGATIVE REASONS OR FACTORS, the person having that Karma, SHALL FLOURISH. However, it's not so with respect to Shri Timothy Dalton .....

Hi Steven, I too have been collecting these editions for my spaghetti western collection, & like yourself need the last few, i"m super excited that the next release is "The Five man army" which is a very good spaghetti western & do hope for more releases on this line, i"m hearing they going up to 15 editions but i do hope for more, "Death rides a horse" is a personal fav of mine & would be in my top 10 all time Italian westerns. What i do like abut these releases is that some of these movies are released on the blu ray format for the first time, so Plaion Pictures are giving them a nice special collectors l treatment release.

Great Haul Stephen. I have The Road To Fort Alamo as well but i still have to see it. And yes, there was a problem with the transfer i believe. Goodbye And Amen was a really good film and an interesting "take" by Damiano on a political thriller. That release of The Psychic is a great edition. I have it as well. Great picture quality and Severin put soo much special features on there. By the way: I don't know if you are aware but Umbrella Entertainment is releasing A Lizard In A Woman's Skin, which i already pre-ordered. Savage Guns is my favorite western box from Arrow so far and i think you are gonna love Four Of The Apocalypse. The violence is not really straight up in your face. I still have to get Danza Macabre 2 though. I have volume one which is a great box set. You can still get it i believe. Cheers.

The Indiana Jones is a huge childhood icon of mine as well and The Good, The Bad & The Ugly is still one of my favorite westerns of all time. Great stuff !

The Indiana Jones trilogy, The Wizard of Oz, King Kong, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly are all great films! Perfect movies for becoming a film buff.

Great video! I have recently watched le samourai for the first time and really enjoyed it, I'm trying to get into french cinema and I definitely want to watch more of Melville films great collection by the way! And sub to your channel