Last Pick Ups Of 2023! Vinegar Syndrome, Scream Factory, Kino, Star Wars, And More!

[@entcave]

How about a room tour? I would really like to see how you store and watch. Even a collection video in pieces would be great where you slide out each title.

[@RichardDiaz]

That is definitely planned for this coming year. I wanted to do one this year but I am doing some changes to the room so it's a bit of a mess at the moment. Trust me, it looks way different behind the camera. lol But once the room is ready, or even partially ready, I will for sure make some videos on it.

[@goryjim1313]

Another great vid Richard, I was lucky enough to see Depeche Mode twice in Los Angeles and they put on a hell of a show. On December 13 2023 here in LA the city made it officially Depeche Mode day and Dave and Martin were here to pick up their plaque. There’s a video about it on KZbin. LA loves DM 😊

[@RichardDiaz]

Thank you so much! I am so jealous you got to see them twice. I did see that about Depeche Mode day. I love that! A cool thing to celebrate each year for us fans.

[@ericmoderni7164]

Happy New Year to you. And thank you for all the great videos. Eric

[@RichardDiaz]

Thank you so much Eric! I really appreciate that so much. Happy New Year!

[@MixologistMilo]

Happy new year and thanks for all the physical release coverage 👏✊

[@RichardDiaz]

Thank you so much! Hopefully a lot of great news for physical media is coming in 2024. Happy New Year!

[@jimtatro6550]

Happy New Year Richard! This week I picked up The Hunger, The World According to Garp and Grumpy Old Men/Grumpier Old Men (can’t buy horror all of the time).😂

[@RichardDiaz]

Happy New Year! All great ones. I agree, not everything can be horror. lol

[@pholly]

Happy New Year!

[@RichardDiaz]

Happy New Year! Sending you all the best for the year ahead!

[@daviddrevicky5516]

Happy New Year, Richard! Looking forward to another year of your great reviews. I enjoy every one of them. All the best to you!

[@RichardDiaz]

Thank you so much David! That really means a lot. I'll be making an "update" video on what I want to do this year with the channel. So much I have wanted to do and this is the year to make it all happen.

[@FernandoBolanos-jb8te]

Love Depeche Mode! Saw them in concert a couple months ago.

[@RichardDiaz]

Awesome! So jealous. I would love to see them in concert.

[@paulhalucha526]

Happy holidays Richard! I watched Scream Factory release of Silver Bullet with 9 year old grandson last night. He loved the movie - said “this is kind of awesome” to be precise - and the transfer is gorgeous. I picked up Dead Zone as well and will watch that over the next week. Take care!

[@RichardDiaz]

Happy Holidays Paul! I hope it was a really nice one. I love that you watched Silver Bullet with your grandson. And that he loved it as well. Having grown up watching it I love knowing the next generation will too.

[@TimHayes]

Excellent video RIchard! Depeche Mode is a cool band! I'm glad you got the Mandalorian on physical media disc! Also I'm glad you got The Black Room! The Black Room was one I had to get a bluray upgrade of since the only dvd release was sourced from a blurry vhs tape. Then that tape sourced dvd went out of print, so a bluray was much needed! I hope you get back to doing some Star Wars toy videos for your Star Wars channel very soon! I have 1 I plan on doing for my own channel sometime soon! :)

[@RichardDiaz]

Thank you so much Tim! I was happy to get The Black Room. The Blu-ray looks so nice. A far cry from the old versions. I definitely am getting back to doing some Star Wars videos. In fact, I just got in something kind of cool recently that I really want to make a video on for it. It's just bugging me since the room that I want to have everything set up in isn't ready yet and I don't like making videos just on my chair. Haha But if I have to for now I will. I don't like that channel being so dormant. I can't wait to see you new video on your channel!

[@donjaun540]

Great haul. Nice 👍😎

[@RichardDiaz]

Thank you so much!

[@backforblood3421]

Cool! I can't really comfortably type too much right now, so I'll maybe come back later and list things I've gotten pretty recently.

[@RichardDiaz]

I hope everything is ok. Or if you were just laying down or something. I'm hoping for that and you weren't hurt or anything.

[@backforblood3421]

@@RichardDiaz Well, thank you very much for your concern. It was just a matter of the equipment that was available at that moment and some kind of problem it was causing that I can't even really remember the specifics of.

[@FernandoPina]

Harry belly is strange for sure hahahaha. Awesome video dude !!

[@RichardDiaz]

Hahaha Isn't it? Such a weird cover. But the disc itself is great so I will look past the belly cover. lol And thank you!

[@HECTORMONTALVO-le9cn]

I still haven't received The Toxic Avenger 4K or The Convent!😭 Awesome haul good showing and cool video Richard!👉🙂👈

[@RichardDiaz]

Thank you Hector! I hope you get those soon. The Convent just started shipping I think last week so the holidays are slowing everything down. Fingers crossed you get them and can start the year with some great things to watch.

[@HECTORMONTALVO-le9cn]

@RichardDiaz I hope so too. But I order through a record shop called Needledrop so maybe that could add weeks to the arrival. I pre-ordered some 4Ks from Severin on Black Friday too. We'll see.🤔

[@HypeIsHereMedia]

Happy New Year Richard! November was an expensive month, and with VinSyn Subscriber week coming up, I am locked in. May have to go back and get a few you have here, big Depeche Mode fan, didn't know about that release, so thank you!

[@RichardDiaz]

Happy New Year! The Depeche Mode disc is really cool. It was great seeing some of the videos again. A few of them I haven't seen in a while. I am trying to prep to do the VS subscription next week. It is going to be pricey so I need some slow months going forward. lol

[@07foxmulder]

I was a little disappointed with the JFK packaging. Was hoping for something a little nicer than a case with three separate discs.

[@RichardDiaz]

I would have liked a little more to it too. Maybe something more in line with the Arrow sets for these deluxe versions would be nice.

[@alfonsoagren414]

Got the VS titles in my monthly package. Love The whole artwork and look of The Prophecy boxset! Exiztenz is one of few David Cronenberg movies I have never seen. Which is weird since I adore and love his work! Love this set and will watch it asap! The Lost Picture set…WOOOW! I still have not seen any but it is such an impressive release! Did you get the alternative slip for Fatal Games? It was the secret 1st of april item of this year. The slip looks like a Nintendo cartridge package and has the logo ”Vinsyndo” on it. Vety funny. Costed $6. The Black Room I never saw before but since Linnea Quigley has a role I am gonna! She is so cool! D.A.R.Y.L. Is new to me but I seem to like this kind of movies from the 80’s and 90’s! The VSU packaging is insanly cool and are more pieces of art. Must get The Dead Zone! Three ressons: David Cronenberg, Stephen Kkng Nd Christopher Walken! Cheers and a very happy new year 2024 for you! Have a wonderful day and see you on the other side of the new year!

[@RichardDiaz]

Happy New Year Alfonso! Cheers to you! I hope you liked Existenz. It was really ahead of its time with the way it handled gaming and virtual reality and everything. I feel it plays better today than it did when it came out. I did not get the Fatal Games alternate slipcover! That sounds so cool!

[@backforblood3421]

Alright. This is better. Thank you very much for making me aware of the existence of that Depeche Mode Blu-ray set! I've gotten a few things for myself at least fairly recently. There's the Child's Play Arrow 4K/Blu-ray set, unfortunately with mismatched artwork (by around 1/8th of an inch) between the lid of the box and the base. I have also gotten the AGFA Blu-ray of the Zodiac Killer movie from the '70s, which would seemingly be of a genre that I don't usually watch, that being true crime turned into an exploitative horror movie, but if you know the backstory, you know that's essentially the opposite of the reality of the movie and why it was made. In addition to that, I got the 4K of The Death Of Superman, which is a story I remember getting the gray graphic novel of from a sort of more out of the way Walmart store over 30 years ago as a child. I also got the Kino Lorber 4K of the movie Killer's Kiss, the making of which apparently involved Stanley Kubrick playing more behind the scenes roles than the number of characters that Peter Sellers played in Dr. Strangelove. I also finally got the Carlito's Way 4K Arrow Video set, specifically the version with the new artwork. I also got the book Bronson's Loose!: The Making Of The Death Wish Films. Lastly, I had the "VSCRAPS" package come in yesterday. That's all I can remember right now or readily access anything to jog my memory about.

[@RichardDiaz]

Wow! An amazing haul there! The Depeche Mode disc is worth picking up. Loved rewatching some of those videos again. A few I still see on MTV Classic (the only MTV channel that actually shows videos lol) but some I hadn't seen in years. That Zodiac movies is wild. I do know the backstory and it is really fascinating. I don't even know if there has been another movie made quite like it. Is the Death Of Superman an animated film? I really need to pick up that Bronson book. I think I mentioned it awhile back but earlier in 2023 I rewatched all of the Death Wish films. I love them.

[@backforblood3421]

@@RichardDiaz Thank you! Yes, The Death Of Superman is animated. That's very cool about the Death Wish movies. I'm ashamed to say I haven't watched either the Kino 4K of the original yet or the Vinegar Syndrome 4K of Death Wish 2. I am glad I was able to get the slipcover for the latter. I very nearly didn't.

[@Barot8]

Thank you Richard. I got a few Kino Lorber titles. After Dark My Sweet, Violent City, Armageddon the Alain Delon film. Nothing too exciting. I know there are a few others somewhere. I did like the early Mandalorian via streaming. Very Wolf and Cub inspired. That third season kind of killed the show. Indiana Jones is kind of a giant stinker disappointment. I do want to get the new JFK edition. The longer cut is good and it's a big difference. Still a great movie. One of the JFK discs has a sort of looking back with the new information that's been released. The Dead Zone is very good. I haven't picked that up yet. I have it on bluray somewhere. Daryl is a good movie. I didn't get the 4k VS. It was a little too pricey for me. I did see it when it came out. I seem to remember a baseball game scene. I haven't seen any of the VS titles other than Daryl and maybe Fatal Games long ago. I have seen all three of the Prophecy films. I still need to rewatch Existenz. I liked Videodrome better and had really high expectations for Existenz. I was more than a bit disappointed. I hope you have an excellent Happy New Years! Enjoy the weather!

[@RichardDiaz]

Thank you so much as always! I hope you have a really great New Years! There is a baseball scene in Daryl where he is doing really well until his buddy Turtle tells him it's ok to not be so perfect which then turns bad for the game. lol I had a similar reaction to eXistenZ when I first saw it. I thought it was good but not great. Then I saw it a second time a year or so after that and I loved it and have loved it ever since. Definitely a film worth giving a second chance to at some point.

[@Barot8]

@@RichardDiaz I'll eventually have to pick up Daryl and eXistenZ. I've seen eXistensZ about three times. There are a lot of ideas I do like in it. It has to be about 20 years since I've seen Daryl. lol

[@donjaun540]

I hope you get to watch these movies like The Covenant and Existence and give us a brief summary of the movie. 👍😎

[@RichardDiaz]

Existenz is great. It was David Cronenerg using virtual reality like gaming to tell a story that blurs the line between an artificial game world and reality. It was made in the late 90's and way ahead of its time. Totally worth seeing if you haven't. I still need to rewatch The Convent since it has been a few years but I remember it being super fun.

[@donjaun540]

@@RichardDiaz Nice. Thank you 👍

[@waynevia6976]

Happy New Year richard. I just got Young Guns 4K great disc. Songwriter with kris krostopherson i misspelled his last name and willie Nelson great movie and music. Texas chainsaw 2 4k from vinegar syndrome it looks so razor sharp. Only bad thing is deleted scenes still look awful i guess those scenes are lost forever. I do want to get the theatrical cut of the warriors from arrow video. Have a great night richard.

[@RichardDiaz]

Happy New Year Wayne! I hope it's a great one for you. You picked up some nice ones! Good to know on Young Guns. I still need to get that one. I agree on TCM 2. An amazing release. I still need to get The Warriors too. I almost ordered it the other day but I am waiting for one of my cards to roll over before I do.

[@stevenburgess2856]

I never knew that Depeche Mode were that popular in the US.

[@RichardDiaz]

Very popular. While maybe not as popular here as other bands from the 80's and 90's they have a huge following and basically everyone knows them. Even my mom. lol

[@stevenburgess2856]

@@RichardDiaz I grew up with their music, first heard them in the early 80's

[@bachtuna]

Damn this guy is rich!

[@RichardDiaz]

Only in name only. lol