Holy Sh*t Play have killed off HKL's website! ;-)

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 29 Jan 2008, 10:20

Shingster wrote:
HungFist wrote:And what was your (DVD Times) name? Because I'm still going like is that Shing, yes, no, what the fuck was his name?
My DVDTimes name is my actual name: Matt Shingleton. Can't say i'm that productive, so you might not have come across many of my reviews.

That's what I was suspecting actually.

And that's makes you one of the two dvdtimes reviewers I do know

Shingster · Post by **Shingster** » 29 Jan 2008, 10:41

HungFist wrote:That's what I was suspecting actually.

And that's makes you one of the two dvdtimes reviewers I do know

I assume the other one is either Kev Gilvear or John White? They're usually the ones to cover the Japanese expoitation releases.

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 29 Jan 2008, 11:01

I was referring to John, but now that you mention it I do know Kev by name also. I can't remember what he has reviewed, but I do recall you calling him a big pervert

Ivan, can you tell more about the Prodigal Son audio? Is it just a few minor additions and not any Fortune Star kind of terror?

chenlung · Post by **chenlung** » 29 Jan 2008, 12:33

Fortune Star terrorists

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Na, 'Prodigal' merely has a few fire enhancements

.

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 29 Jan 2008, 13:09

Yeah, in Prodigal all you can hear is some slight additions to crowd and fire scenes. Very slight you wonder why they bothered

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 29 Jan 2008, 14:47

chenlung wrote:Anyway, HKL has a dodgy title card and an altered original trailer (audio in it has yells from the English version).

I don't care about the trailer TBH and I'm not gonna rebuy just for the title card (which AFAIK is also altered - differently - on the Fox); if the HKL audio has been tampered with, well, that's a different story.

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 29 Jan 2008, 15:09

The Fox has the original slimy green title card - Media Asia for some reason had a problem with them, see Mr. Vampire - but it's got an "AKA Spooky Encounters" tacked on ala the old HK DVDs. The HKL DVD is Chinese/English and plain white but it just says Encounters Of The Spooky Kind. Stick with HKL

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 29 Jan 2008, 16:46

Ivan Drago wrote:Yeah, in Prodigal all you can hear is some slight additions to crowd and fire scenes. Very slight you wonder why they bothered

chenlung wrote: Na, 'Prodigal' merely has a few fire enhancements .

Ah, good. I've got that on order.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 24 Mar 2008, 23:45

Contender re-issues start

http://www.sendit.com/video/item/7001000143026

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 25 Mar 2008, 01:39

Thanks Salty.

Cool cover art, otherwise it looks awful. A low price means they can give us shit!

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 18 Apr 2008, 17:00

Old I know, but I only just stumbled across it.

Looks like Contender's label wasn't quite dead yet, this past January they put out a reportedly fairly decent 2-discer of Shutter. Obviously just a remake cash-in release, but a release none the same.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 18 Apr 2008, 17:16

An odd post given your opinion it's pointless posting old news.

I believe Shutter was HKLs/PAs last release. I hear it's quite a good film.

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 18 Apr 2008, 23:09

Shutter scared the hell out of me! I expect they might still do the odd Asian film but not under the labels

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 19 Apr 2008, 21:52

hasn't this just come out?

http://www.sendit.com/video/item/7001000134088

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 19 Apr 2008, 22:24

What awful cover art.

A (yet another) Hollywood remake recently came out.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 20 Apr 2008, 10:05

That cover art is terrible.
I didn't realise there was a Hollywood remake for a sec, I thought it was a different film.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 20 Apr 2008, 18:50

According to IMDB it's a remake.

Ricochan38 · Post by **Ricochan38** » 22 Apr 2008, 08:48

shutter remake
the eye remake
one missed call remake
ju on remake
dark water remake

THEY ALL STINK !!!

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 22 Apr 2008, 16:28

I didn't realise they remade Shutter too

The Ring Remake is mostly a turd too. It's well made but has none of the power of the original. Save for some dumb CGI deer Ring 2 is much better.

They all seem to take the basic idea of the original but completely forget to copy the execution. Which is crucial to these films.

Ricochan38 · Post by **Ricochan38** » 24 Apr 2008, 08:06

the shutter remake is the worst of all, you should read the reviews...and the sad thing is that the director in an interview admitted that he didnt even know the original was a thai movie....that alone should be enough to shoot the bastard.

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 02 Jun 2008, 13:54

Today I recived from Amazon Marketplace the HKL DVD of Prison On Fire II. This was only avaliable as part of HKL's magazine range. Picture is anamorphic widesceen and a Media Asia transfer, with Cantonese 5.1 audio. Only skimmed it, because I want to try and find HKL's DVD of the first film, also one of the magazine titles only

Besides these two titles, and Heroic Trio, does anyone know of any other films that HKL only released with the magazine?

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 02 Jun 2008, 14:45

Enter the Dragon, I think, was the only other one.

No idea which version?

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 02 Jun 2008, 15:12

Markgway wrote:Enter the Dragon, I think, was the only other one.

No idea which version?

EtD, WTF?! That's a Warner film.

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 02 Jun 2008, 15:46

They did release that. Theatrical cut but no nunchuks apparently

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 02 Jun 2008, 15:48

Heroic Trio was another one I think.