I own and highly recomend the following Indicator titles: Cold Heart of Fear(very highly recomended), Grey lady down, Someone to Watch Over me, The Border, Prey, Satan's slave, Age of Consent , Castle Keep, Odessa File, Blue Collar, The Stone Killer, Torture Garden, Hardcore, the New Centurions,
My only one from that label is Columbia Pictures' 1979 classic The China Syndrome (w/Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon and Michael Douglas), and not only was the film one of the best I ever did see, but Indicator's release was very well done as well (packed with plenty of entertaining and informative bonuses, besides the picture itself).
I love Indicator! The Slaughter set is outstanding. I've got the Redemption releases on the Rollin films and I'm satisfied with them since I'm not all that into that style of horror. I noticed the Santo set and the Mexico Macabre set there and they're great.
PI has easily become my favorite label. I would love to see a set of box sets for the Rialto Krimi films. They are a personal favorite and have been pretty much ignored so far.
Even though I have all the Harryhausen films on Blu-Ray from other labels (Sony, Warner and Twilight), I’d love to have those Harryhausen box sets. I’m hope for 4K Harryhausen someday soon.
The Michael J. Murphy box set is so cool. A lot of the movies aren't what most people would call "good", but its a really amazing box set in that you the entirety of an obscure auteur's ~40 year career all together with a huge trove of bonus features. Its rare you get a set that lets you watch someone's whole artistic development and honestly I thought I a lot of the entertainment from watching through the films was that I got to basically watch Murphy learn to make movies
Hi Heath! Huge fan of Indicator and am looking forward to your forthcoming interview. As they have released a treasure trove of Columbia titles I’m hoping a boxed set of the “Matt Helm” films-with all the patented Indicator bells and whistles-might be in the works. I’m thinking they cannot comment on future releases, but please feel free to put a flea in their ear for such a swingin’ set to see the light of day. (Thank you!)
Those Matt Helm movies actually have a region free UK Blu-ray set, but they're bare bones. I only bring it up because someone else may have snatched up the license for those. I have the set and it's good, but it could have been so much more.
@@CerealAtMidnight Thanks, Heath. I have the set you mention as well (from Mediumrare Entertainment) and, yes, it is a far cry from what I’d like to see produced for ICE’s most swingin’ secret agent.
I`m from the UK ,i would like you ta ask someone from Indicator if they could possibly get the rights for Hitchcock movies on Bluray such as Rebecca, Notorious, Spellbound, Foreign Correspondent,Stage Fright or The Paradine Case, none of these has had a UK bluray release.
Great video (and channel) Heath. I love Indicator and have a ton of their releases. Their Hammer box-sets alone are jewels in my collection but the sheer range of all their stuff and the incredible care that goes into each and every release is truly astounding. It would be great to see you interview John Morrissey from Powerhouse/Indicator, he seems a very affable guy from the couple of email communications I have had with him over the past few years. If you do manage to talk to him, I'd love to know what, if anything, is happening with the 1979 John Badham-directed 'Dracula' which I understood to be "in the works'" from Indicator for several years now. I hope it is still happening but if you have the opportunity to ask him (or anyone from the company) about this, I would be enormously grateful. In any case, I shall definitely be purchasing their Tod Slaughter box-set as soon as funds permit, it is really up my alley. Looks amazing. Keep up all your great work, we appreciate you! Greetings from London, UK Matt
Thank you, Indicator, for releasing some of the Santo movies! Fingers crossed for more to come. I also see that they are releasing movies in the Mexican horror genre. I'd love to see 'El libro de piedra' by Carlos Enrique Taboada get a release.
I remembered they released some Mexican movies from El Santo and some other horror films so i decided to check them out again and boy I was glad!! They are doing 3 more releases for mexican wrestling movies, one from no other than El Santo! that im sure to grab. Their quality is really good and i hope they keep doing these releases :)
I just notice there are two versions of their release, one is labeled US. Any idea if there is a difference between them? If all their releases are region free, what is the reason behind this two versions?
Not all of their releases are region free. Lots of them are Region B locked. With those dual-region releases, the US and UK labels may simply be to match the packaging expectations for reach region, just like what Arrow does by putting slightly different J-cards or wraparounds on the packaging.
Jean Rollin and Jess Franco have both been labelled as 'dangerous' filmmakers by the authorities simply for daring to make movies depicting female nudity 'peaceful' and 'artistic.' They both have remarked that the world we live in general was a lot more peaceful back when authorities weren't punishing people just for looking at a nude woman. Today the stigma is demonized and out of control.
Great to hear Tod Slaughter and the Ormonds are being put out there for an affordable price. To me the Ormonds were sort of like the Sasquatch of Schlock cinema. I only knew they existed because of mentions in Michael Weldon's publication Psychotronic. Maybe I'll get to actually see some of their work now.
The Todd Slaughter set is one of the few that I jumped on and snapped up like a puma on carrion, because I am a huge Sweeney Todd fan (performed, locally, in the Sondheim musical, most well before the Burton movie), enough so to have sought out and read the original Penny Dreadful, A String of Pearl's. Had the DVD (possibly the same one you had, I think the Alpha Video DVD) and it's great to replace it with the Indicator set, not the least of which because of the extras. Indicator is great; I look forward to someday having a Region Free player so I can get some of the Region B sets.
Hey, Heath. I'm a big fan of Indicator, particularly their classic Hollywood and UK releases. Which brings me to the question I'd love for you to ask: Is Indicator planning to release more '60s-70s classics in the near future? Aside from the upcoming Impossible Object and The Man Who Had Power of Women (both of which were due on 1/29), it seems like their focus has gradually shifted to obscurities and horror. Also, what the heck happened with Ishtar?!? ;-) Thanks. Keep up the great work--
I didn't realize until you showed it that the Ormond set contains "If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?". That's become a cult classic. (There are excerpts from it Diane Keaton's documentary "Heaven".) I also didn't know the Ormonds made other religious films. I just ordered it. Thanks for letting me know!
I’ve seen the indicator packaging for years, but didn’t really know anything about the company or any of the movies they released. It wasn’t until they announced snapshot on 4K/Blu Ray that I considered getting something from them. The 1st time I saw snapshot was probably close to a decade ago on TCM.
The Ormond religious films are nuts! They're simultaneously sinister and hilarious, narrated by this creepy preacher who stares into the camera. There's a great scene at the end of one of them where he tries to save this young woman's soul in church- she'd been been doing the devil's dance with some heathen who thinks church is kid stuff. It's been awhile since I've watched them, but I think the ones I watched were Footmen, Burning Hell, and Grim Reaper. It's a cool set and I have yet to dig into the other ones.
Thanks for the vid, I really hate that I missed out on that Sinbad and Ray harryhausen box sets. I had to order the Sinbads individually but they do look great. I may try out the shiver of the vampires but I know it’s gonna be awful and I’ll catch Hell from my wife 😂 oh well live and never learn is what I say
Each film in the Ormond boxset begins with a disclaimer th😢at original elements were lost in a 2010 flood. If you interview them, can you ask them about that? I don’t think water alone would instantly destroy negatives or prints. Bill Morrison has made docs about recovering films that were underwater for decades. Exactly how were the Ormond films lost to that flood? Did the flood wash them away into a river? How specifically did they become “lost”?
The Ormond set is one of my favorite releases from last year. I would say that their pre-Christian films were more "drive-in" than "exploitation" or "grindhouse". I haven't watched all of the films in the set, but I think UNTAMED MISTRESS is the only one with nudity, and that's stock footage of naked natives. The country western / southern films could be played on Sunday mornings on the Nashville network. The crazed PLEASE DON'T TOUCH ME, with Lash LaRue as a psychiatrist covers a racy subject at the time, but in a very tame way. Plus Vikki Caron!!! THE EXOTIC ONES is the most exploitative, and the best, film in the set. Actually, some of their Christian films have more exploitative elements than their earlier drive-in productions.
I'm loving their 4K releases of euro-trash horror. I've picked up Black Magic Rites and Shiver of the Vampires, gonna be getting Fascination next. I'm hoping they release some Jess Franco!
You can't beat a bit of Jean Rollin. His films don't make too much sense, but always look cool. "Le frisson des vampires" is a personal fave. Arty stuff for sure, which won't be to everybody's taste. Rollin, along with Jesús Franco and José Ramón Larraz, are probably the "Big Three" when it comes to 70's/80"s Euro-horror/(s)exploitation films.
Heath, I literally just found out about Powerhouse/Indicator this past weekend because of their upcoming May release of all eight Whistler films from the '40's, which I've already pre-ordered. Wondering if you have seen/watched any of the other Columbia or Universal noir sets they've released and what you thought of them. I love the Kino noir sets and am interested in the Columbia/Universal sets, even though they're region B.
I don't have any of the Columbia noir sets. Many (but not all) of those films have USA releases from other companies, and I've seen a lot of the movies.
I had no idea Ron Ormond's films had been collected into a box set! Will have to pick that up. "If Footmen Tire You" is a classic of overwrought, right wing Christian Communist obsessed regional absurdism. Have always wanted to see his other films.
I don't know about you, but to me, those "religious" movies look just as salacious as the "exploitation" ones, if I base it on the titles and movie posters alone.
Definitely salacious, and I'd say perfectly in line with the kind of fear-mongering and "scare the Hell out of them" tactics that I find incredibly cringey and ineffective.
If you show mature physical media for adult-only audiences to make less money by separating the g to pg13 stuff you could show the nudity. I don't make money on my shows so I limit the mature media to 18 and up to make r rated and beyond.
That Todd Slaughter box set was my favorite box set of last year. all the films were great!
Indicator is unmatched in box sets & supplemental materials that make collecting fun and exciting! Happy discoveries everyone!
I own and highly recomend the following Indicator titles: Cold Heart of Fear(very highly recomended), Grey lady down, Someone to Watch Over me, The Border, Prey, Satan's slave, Age of Consent , Castle Keep, Odessa File, Blue Collar, The Stone Killer, Torture Garden, Hardcore, the New Centurions,
I loved the Jean Rollins films they put out last year. I'm so happy those films are getting the 4k treatment.
The Jean Rollins 4ks look great!
My only one from that label is Columbia Pictures' 1979 classic The China Syndrome (w/Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon and Michael Douglas), and not only was the film one of the best I ever did see, but Indicator's release was very well done as well (packed with plenty of entertaining and informative bonuses, besides the picture itself).
Awesome video once again Heath! Thanks! God bless and stay safe!
I love Indicator! The Slaughter set is outstanding. I've got the Redemption releases on the Rollin films and I'm satisfied with them since I'm not all that into that style of horror. I noticed the Santo set and the Mexico Macabre set there and they're great.
PI has easily become my favorite label. I would love to see a set of box sets for the Rialto Krimi films. They are a personal favorite and have been pretty much ignored so far.
The Slaughter box and Rollin 4K’s have been fantastic. Looking forward to Patrick and Snapshot too
I have a couple of Indicator releases and they're top notch I'm very pleased with them. Good showing and cool video Heath!👉🙂👈
Even though I have all the Harryhausen films on Blu-Ray from other labels (Sony, Warner and Twilight), I’d love to have those Harryhausen box sets. I’m hope for 4K Harryhausen someday soon.
The Michael J. Murphy box set is so cool. A lot of the movies aren't what most people would call "good", but its a really amazing box set in that you the entirety of an obscure auteur's ~40 year career all together with a huge trove of bonus features. Its rare you get a set that lets you watch someone's whole artistic development and honestly I thought I a lot of the entertainment from watching through the films was that I got to basically watch Murphy learn to make movies
Great video Heath! Thank you!
Hi Heath! Huge fan of Indicator and am looking forward to your forthcoming interview. As they have released a treasure trove of Columbia titles I’m hoping a boxed set of the “Matt Helm” films-with all the patented Indicator bells and whistles-might be in the works. I’m thinking they cannot comment on future releases, but please feel free to put a flea in their ear for such a swingin’ set to see the light of day. (Thank you!)
Those Matt Helm movies actually have a region free UK Blu-ray set, but they're bare bones. I only bring it up because someone else may have snatched up the license for those. I have the set and it's good, but it could have been so much more.
@@CerealAtMidnight Thanks, Heath. I have the set you mention as well (from Mediumrare Entertainment) and, yes, it is a far cry from what I’d like to see produced for ICE’s most swingin’ secret agent.
I`m from the UK ,i would like you ta ask someone from Indicator if they could possibly get the rights for Hitchcock movies on Bluray such as Rebecca, Notorious, Spellbound, Foreign Correspondent,Stage Fright or The Paradine Case, none of these has had a UK bluray release.
Yes! I was waiting for your channel to go over the Ormond family films! the kind of box set I never thought would exist...
Great video (and channel) Heath. I love Indicator and have a ton of their releases. Their Hammer box-sets alone are jewels in my collection but the sheer range of all their stuff and the incredible care that goes into each and every release is truly astounding. It would be great to see you interview John Morrissey from Powerhouse/Indicator, he seems a very affable guy from the couple of email communications I have had with him over the past few years. If you do manage to talk to him, I'd love to know what, if anything, is happening with the 1979 John Badham-directed 'Dracula' which I understood to be "in the works'" from Indicator for several years now. I hope it is still happening but if you have the opportunity to ask him (or anyone from the company) about this, I would be enormously grateful. In any case, I shall definitely be purchasing their Tod Slaughter box-set as soon as funds permit, it is really up my alley. Looks amazing.
Keep up all your great work, we appreciate you!
Greetings from London, UK
Matt
So happy you are covering Indicator!
Thank you, Indicator, for releasing some of the Santo movies! Fingers crossed for more to come. I also see that they are releasing movies in the Mexican horror genre. I'd love to see 'El libro de piedra' by Carlos Enrique Taboada get a release.
I remembered they released some Mexican movies from El Santo and some other horror films so i decided to check them out again and boy I was glad!! They are doing 3 more releases for mexican wrestling movies, one from no other than El Santo! that im sure to grab. Their quality is really good and i hope they keep doing these releases :)
I just notice there are two versions of their release, one is labeled US. Any idea if there is a difference between them? If all their releases are region free, what is the reason behind this two versions?
Not all of their releases are region free. Lots of them are Region B locked. With those dual-region releases, the US and UK labels may simply be to match the packaging expectations for reach region, just like what Arrow does by putting slightly different J-cards or wraparounds on the packaging.
@@CerealAtMidnight thanks Heath!!
I like the boxsets but they take up huge amounts of shelf space.
Indicator, with their Harryhausen box sets, made me convert to Blu ray! Heath, ask them for more Santo and mexican stuff! Greetings from Sweden!
Jean Rollin and Jess Franco have both been labelled as 'dangerous' filmmakers by the authorities simply for daring to make movies depicting female nudity 'peaceful' and 'artistic.' They both have remarked that the world we live in general was a lot more peaceful back when authorities weren't punishing people just for looking at a nude woman. Today the stigma is demonized and out of control.
Great to hear Tod Slaughter and the Ormonds are being put out there for an affordable price. To me the Ormonds were sort of like the Sasquatch of Schlock cinema. I only knew they existed because of mentions in Michael Weldon's publication Psychotronic. Maybe I'll get to actually see some of their work now.
Thanks for another great video Heath
The Todd Slaughter set is one of the few that I jumped on and snapped up like a puma on carrion, because I am a huge Sweeney Todd fan (performed, locally, in the Sondheim musical, most well before the Burton movie), enough so to have sought out and read the original Penny Dreadful, A String of Pearl's. Had the DVD (possibly the same one you had, I think the Alpha Video DVD) and it's great to replace it with the Indicator set, not the least of which because of the extras. Indicator is great; I look forward to someday having a Region Free player so I can get some of the Region B sets.
I love the musical and I have the soundtrack on vinyl. "Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd!"
The only Indicator title is own is Depalma’s Body Double.
Hey, Heath. I'm a big fan of Indicator, particularly their classic Hollywood and UK releases. Which brings me to the question I'd love for you to ask: Is Indicator planning to release more '60s-70s classics in the near future? Aside from the upcoming Impossible Object and The Man Who Had Power of Women (both of which were due on 1/29), it seems like their focus has gradually shifted to obscurities and horror. Also, what the heck happened with Ishtar?!? ;-) Thanks. Keep up the great work--
I didn't realize until you showed it that the Ormond set contains "If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?". That's become a cult classic. (There are excerpts from it Diane Keaton's documentary "Heaven".) I also didn't know the Ormonds made other religious films. I just ordered it. Thanks for letting me know!
I’ve seen the indicator packaging for years, but didn’t really know anything about the company or any of the movies they released. It wasn’t until they announced snapshot on 4K/Blu Ray that I considered getting something from them. The 1st time I saw snapshot was probably close to a decade ago on TCM.
I love Indicator. My first was NIGHT OF THE DEMON/CURSE OF THE DEMON. It is a fantastic disc.
I was just thinking a box set of Peter Cushing’s work would be amazing
the passenger/w jack nicholson is my favorite indicator release.
The Ormond religious films are nuts! They're simultaneously sinister and hilarious, narrated by this creepy preacher who stares into the camera. There's a great scene at the end of one of them where he tries to save this young woman's soul in church- she'd been been doing the devil's dance with some heathen who thinks church is kid stuff. It's been awhile since I've watched them, but I think the ones I watched were Footmen, Burning Hell, and Grim Reaper. It's a cool set and I have yet to dig into the other ones.
Great video Heath!
So... were the elements being damaged in a flood a sign from the Big Guy that maybe they read him wrong in their approach to His word..? 🤔
Thanks for the vid, I really hate that I missed out on that Sinbad and Ray harryhausen box sets. I had to order the Sinbads individually but they do look great. I may try out the shiver of the vampires but I know it’s gonna be awful and I’ll catch Hell from my wife 😂 oh well live and never learn is what I say
In your interview, can you ask if they will be releasing more Jean Rollin films like 'Requiem for a Vampire'?
Each film in the Ormond boxset begins with a disclaimer th😢at original elements were lost in a 2010 flood. If you interview them, can you ask them about that? I don’t think water alone would instantly destroy negatives or prints. Bill Morrison has made docs about recovering films that were underwater for decades. Exactly how were the Ormond films lost to that flood? Did the flood wash them away into a river? How specifically did they become “lost”?
Love ya dude!
My lens can't show a close-up of the video cover without cutting my head in my UA-cam show. You must have a special lens.
The Ormond set is one of my favorite releases from last year. I would say that their pre-Christian films were more "drive-in" than "exploitation" or "grindhouse". I haven't watched all of the films in the set, but I think UNTAMED MISTRESS is the only one with nudity, and that's stock footage of naked natives. The country western / southern films could be played on Sunday mornings on the Nashville network. The crazed PLEASE DON'T TOUCH ME, with Lash LaRue as a psychiatrist covers a racy subject at the time, but in a very tame way. Plus Vikki Caron!!! THE EXOTIC ONES is the most exploitative, and the best, film in the set. Actually, some of their Christian films have more exploitative elements than their earlier drive-in productions.
I'm loving their 4K releases of euro-trash horror. I've picked up Black Magic Rites and Shiver of the Vampires, gonna be getting Fascination next. I'm hoping they release some Jess Franco!
You can't beat a bit of Jean Rollin. His films don't make too much sense, but always look cool. "Le frisson des vampires" is a personal fave. Arty stuff for sure, which won't be to everybody's taste. Rollin, along with Jesús Franco and José Ramón Larraz, are probably the "Big Three" when it comes to 70's/80"s Euro-horror/(s)exploitation films.
Heath, I literally just found out about Powerhouse/Indicator this past weekend because of their upcoming May release of all eight Whistler films from the '40's, which I've already pre-ordered. Wondering if you have seen/watched any of the other Columbia or Universal noir sets they've released and what you thought of them. I love the Kino noir sets and am interested in the Columbia/Universal sets, even though they're region B.
I don't have any of the Columbia noir sets. Many (but not all) of those films have USA releases from other companies, and I've seen a lot of the movies.
@@CerealAtMidnight Thanks so much, Heath!!!!
I want to ask if indicator will continue to release mexican movies as they have been doing until now.
How much do you pay for storage of the rest of your physical media? Have a show to show us your storage area.
Oh, I see what you do.
Any more Hammer titles
What's your favorite cereal?
I had no idea Ron Ormond's films had been collected into a box set! Will have to pick that up. "If Footmen Tire You" is a classic of overwrought, right wing Christian Communist obsessed regional absurdism. Have always wanted to see his other films.
Tod Slaughter makes Nicholas Cage look like Keanu Reeves.
Question for Indicator: Any plans for a future 4K Sinbad set ?
Thanks Chuck
I am an ex-Christian ex-catholic.
I don't know about you, but to me, those "religious" movies look just as salacious as the "exploitation" ones, if I base it on the titles and movie posters alone.
Definitely salacious, and I'd say perfectly in line with the kind of fear-mongering and "scare the Hell out of them" tactics that I find incredibly cringey and ineffective.
Imagen church exploitation. I can’t even think about what that would look like
There's a low-hanging joke there, but I won't make it.
If you show mature physical media for adult-only audiences to make less money by separating the g to pg13 stuff you could show the nudity. I don't make money on my shows so I limit the mature media to 18 and up to make r rated and beyond.
Their sets always look great, but they never have anything of interest to me.