What’s up with Cheezy Flicks?
The Monster and the Ape DVD release from Cheezy Flicks has been nothing but a publicity nightmare for the company. If you go to Amazon it had two release dates, the first one shows feed back that people that bought it only got the first disc of a two disc release. The second release date saw the DVD go immediately into back order before anyone had even ordered it, with no idea when it will be in stock, if ever (which was my experience at Barnes and Noble). People who have bought it directly from the company have complained online about the discs being scratched and damaged, somee to point of being unable to play and having to be sent back for replacement copies. And if that weren’t bad enough dvdtalk.com did a review of the release this past weekend and it was a harsh critique of the DVD’s audio and video presentation, the term muddy came up a few times. This is sad as the company was finally getting good at putting out serial DVD’s. While King of the Rocketmen and Jesse James Rides Again had some issues, mostly in footage getting repeated and in the case of Jesse James some odd picture quality in the later chapters (there was kind of a wavy film over it), but there next two releases G-men vs. the Black Dragon and Zomibies of the Stratosphere were great, Zombies was an extremely sharp print. Unfortunately just when the company seemed to get rolling, The Monster and the Ape fiasco has set them back an incalculable amount with serial fans. It’s great that they were trying to branch out by offering titles not readily available, but maybe they should stick to Republic offerings from now on.
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