No, it's not my handiwork but I did help get them produced. 

The Blue Underground Region A Blu-Ray of Sergio Corbucci's Django (1966) arrived on Friday and I was able to watch it over the weekend.  This could be one of the best HD remasters of an older film I have seen on the Blu-Ray format.  Film grain has not been removed and the image has a high amount of depth.  The screenshots over at DVD Beaver say it all, specially when compared to the DVD.  This is a must own Blu-Ray.

I am pleased to find that another one of my past fan DVD projects will be rendered obsolete as the German label Camera Obscura have announced that they will be releasing the giallo Tropic of Cancer on DVD later this year.  It would be good if the artwork for the DVD is as good as the one Sutekh produced for my fan DVD (pictured below). 

Promo for the forthcoming Optimum DVD release of Lizard in a Woman's Skin (Lucio Fulci, 1971).  From what I have read online it looks to be a winner.

The American DVD label Code Red have announced that they are releasing the underrated giallo The Dead Are Alive, more commonly known as The Etruscan Kills Again, in July.  This is a welcome surprise given that Code Red's releases have been intermittent at best.  Previously only available as a grey market DVD release from Eurovista which had murky picture quality, print damage, missing footage and an authoring error, a German DVD release eventually surfaced as part of the Bryan Edgar Wallace collection.  This DVD had beautiful picture quality but sadly no English language track.  It was this DVD that I used as the video source for a fan DVD project, adding English audio from the Dutch VHS release.  It will be interesting to see how this release matches up with the German DVD (and my fan DVD).  Needless to say, I will be buying this one as soon as it is released.  Let's hope that Code Red decide to get Alex Cord to recount his memories of working on the film in a DVD featurette.  Maybe they can also get round to finally issuing their long planned DVD release of the backwoods horror gem Rituals (Peter Carter, 1977).

Source: Lovelockandload

Nope, not one of mine, this shirt is from the Rabbit in Red Lounge.  They specialise in made to order shirts using full colour prints taken from original poster artwork.  I had my reservations about the quality of print but it appears to be very high.  You can have your chosen print be digitally worn.  There are three levels of grubbiness you can  request, I opted for the lightest level of wear.  The choice of prints is endless.  All of the well known cult horror films are available as well as little known obscurities.  The cult film fan could waste a lot of money here.  After a long deliberation I decided to opt for the New York Ripper design.  This was the first imported VHS video I purchased back in the mid-nineties.  This Scandinavian release of the film on the Professional Cine Media label used artwork taken from the original Italian poster.  I have always liked this poster design and thought it would be a suitable choice.  The only problem is that the size I ordered is just slightly too big for me; I should have ordered a small instead of a medium.  I might order the Zombie Flesh Eaters design which uses the excellent artwork taken from the British quad poster a bit later in the year.  Once thing to be aware of is that it can take a while for your order to be fulfilled as the shirts are made to order. 

So, Spreadshirt pulled my Suspiria design as it was a potential copyright infringement.  As far as I am aware, film titles are not subject to copyright unless they are part of a series, such as the Harry Potter films.  I am quite disappointed as I was very pleased with the design and it the white text looked very striking against the black t-shirt background.  Never mind, perhaps I can get it printed elsewhere.  Any recommendations?

Here is my latest design.  I produced a fan DVD of The Killer Reserved Nine Seats (aka L'assassino ha riservato nove poltrone, Guiseppe Benati, 1974) a while back and thought it would be cool to design a shirt to accompany the fan DVD.  I have also just finished writing a draft chapter of my PhD that focuses on the production of this fan DVD so the shirt serves as a suitable ending to my obsession with this film.  I thought that adding the nine seats below the the text was a tad corny but it has come out quite nicely.  This will my last shirt until I sell eight more shirts.  Then Spreadshirt will allow me to upload five more designs.  I have just finished a design for a Death Laid an Egg (aka La Morte ha Fatto l'Uovo, Giulio Questi, 1968) shirt and I am looking forward to adding it to my Spreadshirt shop.

Summer must be on its way as several of my recent posts have been about Euro-Cult inspired T-Shirts.  Actually, it has more to do with my doctoral research but it is nice to think that Summer is finally on the way.

On Friday I received The Bird With The Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento, 1969) T-Shirt I ordered from Ellen over at www.giallo-tshirts.com.  I love the design and the print quality is very high.  The yellow (giallo!) bag it arrived in was a nice touch too.  Check out the site for the other great designs.  I look forward to Ellen's next design.

I have added a few new designs to my T-Shirt store. 

One of the chapters of my PhD thesis investigates t-shirt production in the Euro-Cult cinema fan community.  Having being inspired by Jonny's excellent T-Shirt designs over at the lovelockandload and the more unusual designs over at Giallo T-Shirts I have opened my own Spreadshirt shop in order to better understand the production process.   With some help from Jonny, I produced my first design: the logo for Dario Argento's Profondo Rosso (1975).  I have always wanted a T-Shirt inspired by this film and not having ever come across a decent one I decide to design my own.  I ordered the T-Shirt from Spreadshirt on Thursday and it arrived today.  I have ordered from Spreadshirt before and have always been impressed with their quality.  I chose to use the flock print method with gives the lettering a felt effect.  Though the design is somewhat basic it looks better than I had hoped.  If anyone reading this would like one you can order it through my Spreadshirt shop.  If all goes well, I will be uploading some more Euro-Cult inspired designs over the coming weeks.