FIRECRACKER (aka Naked Fist, 1981), TNT JACKSON (1974) and TOO HOT TO HANDLE (1977), all made in the Philippines. I'm looking forward to this release A LOT as FIRECRACKER and TNT JACKSON are highly entertaining and FIRECRACKER has never been released on DVD before (TNT has an awful public domain DVD which come out short when you compare it to my old Danish VHS!!). I've got them all on VHS but needless to say (with Shout Factory's rep. for using fabulous prints) this release is bound to smoke my old tapes!
FIRECRACKER is Cirio H. Santiago's remake of his own TNT JACKSON, and he even remade the damn film AGAIN in 1992 as ANGELFIST. It would have been fun if SHOUT! Factory had chosen to include all three versions and put TOO HOT TO HANDLE on another release (ANGELFIST, however, is available on fairly good DVD from New Horizons). Two more US-Filipino films are slated for release from SHOUT!: SAVAGE! (1973) and FLY ME (1973)
WOW! I didn't know this was coming out (according to Shout factory site release date is 25.10.). Hopefully they have good prints for Firecracker and TNT. Thanks for the heads up!
ReplyDeleteI'm told the print for TNT looks great and I would assume the other two films are gonna look great as well. I wrote about all the Filipino films that SHOUT are putting out here.
ReplyDelete- The DEPTHS/DEMONS DVD is already out and the picture quality on that one is great! (and it has a great trailer for FIRECRACKER but no one has uploaded it anywhere yet).
Oh, and in that old post I quoted Cliff Mac (of the Label) for saying this on Dvdmaniacs: "I just watched our new transfer of FIRECRACKER.... WOW... it looks beautiful...."
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