To All a Goodnight DVD...Any News?

[WesRay]

I've been wanting to see this early 80's slasher for the longest time (those who know me...Luna...know I'm a total 80's slasher nut [img]smile.gif[/img] ).

Does anyone know what company/studio owns this film for DVD distribution? Has any company like Blue Underground or Anchor Bay picked up the rights, or did the rights revert to a bigger studio, as with what happened to Last House?

I would love to see this hit DVD sometime this year.

Any thoughts? Have you heard any rumblings of a DVD release, Mr. Hess?

[LunA359]

My videotape says Media Home Entertainment, Wes. I guess that doesn't really have anything to do with who might, at some point, release it on dvd, unless you in all your wisdom [img]wink.gif[/img] know who their parent company (or some such) is.

[WesRay]

Nope. I don't know who the parent company would be now. I assume it went back to the producers after Media Home Entertainment went under.

I know that the first few Nightmare on Elm Street movies were released on VHS by Media, but the rights reverted back to New Line Cinema after a while. The same might be true for To All A Goodnight. I'll keep digging though.

On a related note, I finally got to see To All a Goodnight (thanks, LunA [img]wink.gif[/img] ). I liked it, although I'd like to see a cleaned up print on DVD sometime. Much like Media's original Nightmare on Elm Street VHS, the picture on To All a Goodnight looked very dark. Some scenes, I couldn't even tell what was going on, it was so dark. So it cries out for a restored print to make its way to DVD, either via Anchor Bay, Elite, Shriek Show, or Blue Underground.

Hopefully someone will rescue this neat little slasher from home video obscurity.

[Tard]

From the little I've heard about the movie, was under the impression the original negatives were that dark, so a 'restored' DVD would only be a sharper view of the same darkness.

[WesRay]

Hmmm. I'm not sure. My first experience with this movie was only here recently. I do know that the original Nightmare on Elm Street VHS by Media is considerably darker than the restored VHS version by Elite (New Line's DVD is sort of in-between). Not sure how remastering the original negative of To All a Goodnight would affect the brightness, though it gets pretty dark during some scenes.

[JundtHeald]

Yeah I have that video by Media too and it's almost impossible at times to see anything!