Tim Lucas

Yeah.

Most of these people are not Tim Lucas.

Most of these people are not Adrian Martin.

Most of these people are not somebody like Daniel Kramer that will...

Yeah, I should.

I'm sure Tim Lucas talks about this extensively in his Mario Bava book.

He's on the set.

Of course he is.

I'll tell you what.

You do your bit, and I'll look up the plot, all right?

So Steve's going to tell you the plot in a minute because I've not prepped the plot for this, but the disc includes the film in a 4K restoration of the long-lost original camera negative by Severin Films and audio commentary by historians Nathaniel Thompson and Troy Howarth, a new interview portrait of the director featuring lots of greats, audio interview with actress Harriet Midden, a visual essay by Tim Lucas, Steve, a feature on a composer as well.

What's the plot, Steve?

But what else he wanted the most? Steve got the one he wanted.

I think originally Tim Lucas was going to do one, but then he got too busy and he backed out.

So there was going to be another episode that was going to have two commentaries.

And Howard was going to do one by himself, but that also kind of fell through.

Lucas, yeah.

Tim Lucas, I'm sorry, not Tom Weavers.

Good luck with that one.

Oh, yeah.

You can basically pretty easily access almost everything that Mario Bava ever directed, one of my favorite directors.

And when I first moved to LA in the early 90s and started to work for the Cinematheque, one of the first... big retrospectives I organized was Mario Bava with the help of Joe Dante and Tim Lucas and the late Alan Upchurch.

And at that time, it was impossible to see maybe like two or three of Bava's films you could watch on like fourth generation gray market, you know, videos.

And now...

Well, also

Tim Lucas for certain type of films also.

Um, But whenever I pick a war film, it's always going to be offered to Stephen J. Rubin and Steve Mitchell first.

If I pick a film noir, it's always going to be offered to, in the old days when Eddie Muller used to do it, we would ask Muller, but Imogen Sarah Smith and, you know, and others would get first dibs before we offered it to everybody else, you know.

Steven, promote some stuff.

Uh, I've got, um, a number of things that have just come out from Hammer UK, uh, on 4K, uh, Blu-ray, including, uh, Tim Lucas and I contributed bonus features to X the Unknown-

Mm-hmm

... which just showed up in via, uh, DHL Express Delivery this past week.

Maybe somebody'll Frankenstein the two together and make something else.

I always, when it comes to Bava, I trust whatever Tim Lucas says.

Tim Lucas, who publ- He and his, uh, late wife, Donna, published Video Watchdog, one of the best movie magazines out there, and, and also published a book on Mario Bava that's just one of the greatest books ever devoted to a, an art, a cinema artist.

And he was of the opinion that, yeah, Rabid Dogs, the original released version, is superior, although it ha- it, it is rough around the edges.

So whatever.