REVENGE OF THE CREATURE on 3-D Blu-ray!

REVENGE OF THE CREATURE is newly restored and coming to 3-D Blu-ray on August 28, 2018: 4K scans of the original 35mm negatives by NBCUniversal and stereoscopic alignment by 3-D Film Archive!

For more information on the restoration and rare Creature memorabilia from the Archive, please visit: Revenge of the Creature - 3dfilmarchive

The Complete Legacy Collection: Creature From the Black Lagoon: Complete Legacy Collection

 

My favorite of all the 3 Creature films----not sure why, but its a fun, silly film and even better in 3D!

 

No individual release? So I'm going to be forced to have the first movie twice, in 2 boxed sets? Bummer, if so.

 

Our 3-D restoration of REVENGE OF THE CREATURE will premiere in New York at the Film Forum on August 31 with an introduction by some Archive guy.

Don't miss it!

Film Forum · CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON & REVENGE OF THE CREATURE

 

Bob did you know there is currently a tribute to 3D show at the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art right now? It's new. I plan on going!

 

Bob, I assume THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON remains unchanged from its previous release?

Thanks.

 

Pre-ordered, by the way! Excellent 3-D news and I've never seen the third 2-D installment in the series.

 

Yes, they are using quite a bit of footage in the exhibit from our Flicker Alley Blu-ray release, 3-D RARITIES.

Yes, the same transfer. We offered to correct the mistakes but they weren't interested.

 

You'll have your Revenge in two weeks!

Revenge of the Creature - 3dfilmarchive

 

Watched this when I was a kid because Clint Eastwood was in it (for about 2 minutes).

 

I got mine today. Yay! Only skipped around, but it looks nice. One disappointing thing, the new disc isn't a true blu-ray 3-D formatted disc. When you choose the 3-D option, you get a side by side image and have to set your TV to 3-D sbs. I'd have preferred a real frame sequential blu-ray 3-D that my TV would recognize automatically. Seems a shame to throw away that much resolution*, but as I said before, the image looks pretty good. Bob and Greg Kintz do top notch work.

* I read an article that seemed to indicate that side by side on blu-ray might be done with no loss of resolution, but I wasn't sure. As I've said, the image looks good.

 

Which is better? Revenge? or Black Lagoon?

 

The Revenge disc is a major dissappoinment. Really soft video quality and the 3D version is defective (split screen playback). This has to be a defective disc from Universal. The other two films look great. Universal needs to correct this issue with a corrected replacement disc.

 

I think they were just cheap and went for the side by side over the real 3-D blu-ray authoring. If it was a mistake, I’d take a replacement disc.

 

Bob may well comment here, but he's already spoken briefly on the matter at hometheaterforums.com:

"The resolution of our 4K restoration has been severely compromised with the decision to cram two movies onto one disc and release it in a non-standard 3-D format.

There are no words..."



This really blows. I do think it looks "okay", but it's more like good DVD resolution than full 1080p.

 

I've let Universal know that I think it should be redone.

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Bill Hunt at the Digital Bits on the REVENGE OF THE CREATURE Blu-ray debacle: Schindler’s List 25th anniversary screenings, Zatoichi (1989) BD MIA, Revenge of the Creature Blu-ray 3D problem & more

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Why are there occasional flat scenes in vintage 3-D movies and why does REVENGE OF THE CREATURE rank at the top of that list?

This new page on our website will answer your questions!

Flat Scenes in 3-D Movies - 3dfilmarchive

 

We have just received this official statement:

STATEMENT RE: UNIVERSAL PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT’S REVENGE OF THE CREATURE 3D BLU-RAY REPLACEMENT PROGRAM

September 5, 2018

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE) has identified a manufacturing issue which may affect the presentation of the 3D Blu-ray offering of the film Revenge of the Creature, released on August 28 , 2018 as part of the Universal Classic Monsters: Complete 30-Film Collection and the Creature From the Black Lagoon Complete Legacy Collection. The issue is isolated to this particular film and does not affect any other discs in the collections. UPHE’s goal is to always deliver the best possible product to its consumers. To that end, a replacement program is being established to ensure that those who have purchased either collection have the opportunity to receive a corrected Blu-ray disc featuring the 3D version of Revenge of the Creature and 2D version of The Creature Walks Among Us, should they encounter the issue. To receive an updated disc, please email [email protected].

 

This one and "Tarantula" Clint was the jet fighter pilot who bombed the creature.

 

Don't forget his work on FRANCIS IN THE NAVY.

I alerted them to this issue and Universal was on it by late Tuesday afternoon. That being said, it's a HUGE company with many departments involved plus you had the long holiday weekend.

There was never any doubt they would correct the mistake. I was in constant contact, sometimes on an hourly basis. The lack of patience was understandable but frustrating. People were expecting answers/results within a day or two and that was totally unrealistic.

I'll admit, the only time I saw red was when people began randomly calling the authoring facility and reporting wrong information. That spread more rumors and made my work even harder.

As an outside contractor, I was not paid or compensated for any work done on this title after we delivered the restored masters last fall. That includes our website with the detailed documentation (Revenge of the Creature - 3dfilmarchive ) and my public posts on the matter. You should have read some of the snarky letters that I received as if we had anything to do with this authoring debacle. I'm a very patient guy but the last nine days have been hell.

In conclusion: Universal moved at lightning speed to address and correct this issue. They deserve credit for moving so quickly.

 

Good News!

 

I got my replacement set and the 3-D works as it should (my TV recognizes it as a 3-D blu-ray, no need to manually set up 3-D viewing), but I still think the image is somewhat soft.