Sorry to sound like a Millenial Andy Rooney, but why don’t DVDs do cool things like Isolated Music Tracks anymore? To the relief of all, the format upgrades for Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice have continued to carry the Elfman/Belafonte torch, and you can project the movie on your 85” QED screen with no dialogue or SFX. Or you can take it a step further, like I did, and put Burton’s Expressionism fetish in a context closer to its source. Silver-toned B&W gives Lydia extra Goth bonafides, and the bureaucratic Other-side looks Kafka-esque in a subtle shade of chromium oxide blue-green. Pour a glass of beetle beverage and enjoy.

My collection of films on Blu-ray as of March 2021. The number did grow from last time, but not exponentially– sometimes you purge before you binge buy.

More watermarked indications of those distributors that put out the good stuff can be spied in the left-hand corner… but you may have to use the pause button.

Link to listed films: blu-ray.com/community/collection.php?u=232921

But tech has leapt forward, and windowboxed 240p is a cave drawing. Using Blu-Ray sources and a 1080 output, I brought the original edit into the future (or is it past?)– better to see the wriggling bugs underneath the surface, my pretties. It’s a nearly frame-by-frame Gus Van Santing, with one or two contemporaneous surprises.

So give it the glad hand!

First shot, last shot. Now in a higher dose for late nights.

Original Cut

My collection of films on Blu-ray as of March 2020 (that will hardly remain static). When Cap’n Trips is keeping you indoors, the binging begins.

Including watermarked shout-outs to a couple of those kickass distributors who put out the primo discs and sets. I will put some Arrow Video in my life soon, I promise.

Link to listed films: blu-ray.com/community/collection.php?u=232921

This film needs an enema!

Die yuppie scum.