It would be cool to see some pics of the EVIL DEAD “Book of the Dead” editions.
I have ‘em here, but you guys are so talented taking those pics that I guess they’ll look much better that way.
OK, how can we refuse a question like that? Evil Dead editions coming right up!
But first, here is the Hong Kong R3 release of “Royal Tramp” and “Royal Tramp II”.
Nothing special, right? You take the banner off and you open the magnetic case. Simple as that:
But when you take the Amaray out, it contains both movies. So what makes up for the rest of this space?
Why is the whole package so thick?
Took me a while to figure this one out!
And only when I laid it on the table none-too-gently did the solution suddenly make itself apparent. Look for the difference between the picture below and the picture above…
A hidden hinge! Seriously, unless you move the box in the exact right direction it’s damn hard to find. It seems easy once you know it but the package is remarkably sturdy. Anyway, there is a hidden compartment.
It contains only a seemingly empty notebook, but completely in line with the movies a few pages have a sutra printed on them. Closer inspection reveals it’s actually a bit of dialogue taken from the movie.
All in all a clever package and cheap too, given that you get two Stephen Chow movies in a nice keepsake box.
Yeah I didn’t get that case at first either, but it is pretty cool! As for The Game, I only watched about 30 minutes of it and feel asleep (it was late), but it seems more like a vehicle for Shin Ha Kyun to be awesome than a good movie, if you know what I mean.
This is yet another version of the leather set of National Treasure, this is from a Swiss website:
http://www.1advd.ch/Default.asp?idlnk=5299775 This may contain only the second film, will keep you posted.
From what I understand, the discs in the Danish set fit into the pages themselves. I’ve already pre-ordered this set from http://www.dvd.se (although the postage costs on this are a bit much!!)
dvd.se is a Swedish site, I checked on laserdisken.dk, the site I use for Danish films, and it wasn’t there. I sure didn’t like the first National treasure so it would be hard to justify this purchase but that packaging is just so damn cool.
From what I understand, the discs in the Danish set fit into the pages themselves. I’ve already pre-ordered this set from http://www.dvd.se (although the postage costs on this are a bit much!!)
dvd.se is a Swedish site, I checked on laserdisken.dk, the site I use for Danish films, and it wasn’t there. I sure didn’t like the first National treasure so it would be hard to justify this purchase but that packaging is just so damn cool.
The Evil Dead “Book of the Dead” editions.
“Evil Dead 2” will be coming shortly, once I got my sound effects straightened out a bit.
But first, here it is: the first “Evil Dead”, Book of the Dead Edition! Bought cheap in the UK (a feat which I unfortunately couldn’t repeat with “Evil Dead II”, as the ED-II BotD-edition couldn’t be released in Britain because of rights issues)
Taking the spectacularly ugly packaging out of the plain ugly packaging. And it stinks! The smell needs to be experienced to be believed…
Extras hidden inside: a booklet on all ownable editions of Evil Dead released EVER, and an unrelated movie starring Bruce Campbell.
The “Evil Dead” disc is hidden in the inside-back cover.
As I said in the post for “Evil Dead” (found here) I wasn’t able to score “Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn” Book of the Dead edition in the UK, because the distributing rights for that movie are tied up (unlike Evil Dead 1).
But, glory be to regionfree DVD-players, what’s to stop me from importing?
So with joy here is the US “Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn” Book of the Dead edition!
Out of its tight jacket:
Revealing its disgusting innards, including the film itself on the inside-back cover:
But you’ll agree the sheer shock value of the first “Evil Dead” Book of the Dead Edition has been somewhat diminished. I mean, this is more or less what we expected it to look like, and the beige teeth and eyeball make it look more cartoonish and less real, if anything.
That is Evil Dead 1 on the left, and 2 on the right:
But this packaging has a final ace up its sleeve: press the eyeball and it screams!
That’s one hell of a gimmick, and one that hasn’t gone unnoticed in my household!
My three-years-old son proves that with great packaging comes a great early taste of movies:
Blockbuster starting today is offering this Indiana Jones treat; yet its only the case and not the dvd’s; and its only available in the USA and one can’t buy this on-line ($49.99):
