Álex de la Iglesia’s Accion Mutante and 800 Bullets due for UK Dvd release

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1. zombeaner 11/23/2007 @ 1:47pm

   Accion Mutante can’t be any worse a DVD than the US bootleg.  I haven’t seen the Spanish SE, but I’ll buy this one.

2. Kurt Halfyard 11/23/2007 @ 2:19pm

   I so did not like 800 Bullets.  I really should see Accion Mutante though…

3. san ku kai 11/23/2007 @ 2:52pm

   I currently have the dutch dvd version of Accion Mutante, which has a bloody awfull picture quality (and I believe the spanish disc isn’t much better).

   So I do hope that they will give the print a good re-mastering on this UK dvd release.
   For that other Álex de la Iglesia classic ‘El Dia de la Bestia’ (Day of the Beast) I had to turn to a (rather good) german release…

4. TorontoScreenShots 11/23/2007 @ 2:54pm

   Accion Mutante is long overdue, but where’s the R1 release? It seems a shame that this guy’s films are so hard to see in decent editions. At least Tartan released El Crimen Ferpecto (except under the boring title “The Perfect Crime”, spoiling the pun entirely).

5. Caterpillar 11/23/2007 @ 3:33pm

   Kurt, I loathed 800 BULLETS as well. Easily the worst film of his that I have seen. I’d buy a decent DVD of ACCION MUTANTE in a second but I’ll wait until I see some screenshots. I also need to know if this will be uncut because the old UK VHS was censored.

6. CAB 11/23/2007 @ 4:34pm

   Steer clear of the available R1 A.M. DVD - Quality is VHS Bootleg at best, both the visual and audio.

7. Kurt Halfyard 11/23/2007 @ 4:54pm

   Tartan’s Ferpect Crime (I refuse to call it by the vanilla title Tartan slapped on it) R1 DVD is smashingly good.  Well worth a buy.  It’s a solid, solid film too.

8. zombeaner 11/23/2007 @ 5:51pm

   The R1 is a bootleg, and a terrible one at that.  Same place that bootlegged Meet The Feebles.  I can’t wait for this!

9. Arch Stanton 11/23/2007 @ 6:12pm

   Very cool, my VHS of MUTANTE gave out over ten years ago and I haven’t seen the film since.

10. Swarez 11/24/2007 @ 3:43am

    Cheers for Accion Mutante! Jeers for 800 bullets.
    I have a good Spanish DVD of El Dia De La Bestia, with subtitles but there are extras on it that are sadly not subtitled.

11. Caterpillar 11/24/2007 @ 8:14am

    I’d also love a definitive DVD for my favorite film from de la Iglesia, PERDITA DURANGO. Not just my favorite film from him but one of my favorite films, period. So far the German DVD wins for best picture quality but the Spanish DVD has a number of extras I’d really love to see subtitled, especially the audio commentary, of course. The R1 is missing several minutes of material and is therefore utterly useless but I understand it’s right’s issues (film clips and music used in the picture) that messed that one up so badly so who knows if it can ever be resolved.

12. oldnik 11/25/2007 @ 12:17pm

    While arthouse darling Almodover gets box sets a plenty and you can pick up his work as easy as breathing, genre hopping Álex de la Iglesia gets treated appallingly bad, classics Accion Mutante and my personal fave El Dia de la Bestia are as rare as rocking horse shit on UK. time for some one to pull thier finger out and do him and us justice.

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