{"id":5473,"date":"2012-09-04T11:50:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T15:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=3426"},"modified":"2012-09-04T11:50:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T15:50:13","slug":"they%e2%80%99re-twins%e2%80%a6-of-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=5473","title":{"rendered":"They\u2019re Twins\u2026 of EVIL!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3428\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 237px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/TwinsOfEvil1971_Sp_poster_m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3428\" title=\"TwinsOfEvil1971_Sp_poster_m\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/TwinsOfEvil1971_Sp_poster_m-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los twins diablos evalles con maledictus Satanus!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Hammer horror catalogue  is currently going through its own resurgence after a prior wave hit DVD more  than 10 years ago, primarily via Anchor Bay, Columbia, Universal, Warner Bros,  MGM, and Paramount.<\/p>\n<p>As the bonus feature-length doc in Synapse\u2019s new <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/t2u\/4010_TwinsOfEvil1971.htm\">Twins of Evil<\/a><\/strong> [<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=5468\">M<\/a>] (1971) Blu-ray + DVD  combo set details, the Hammer movies were often pre-sold based on poster art \u2013 an old  strategy used by indie \/ exploitation producers who used lurid campaign art to get funds  for their as yet unproduced masterpieces.<\/p>\n<p>That explains why so many distributors \u2013 specifically in the  U.S.  \u2013 handled Hammer\u2019s movies, and why there never can be a single mega-set. The  closest one can find is  perhaps via Anchor   Bay U.K., whose special  features-friendly batch of roughly 21 DVD titles is still available in a big set on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/The-Ultimate-Hammer-Collection-Disc\/dp\/B000HN31KQ\/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1346615105&amp;sr=8-12\">Amazon.co.uk<\/a> for about 26 British Pounds. There\u2019s also the Warner titles, which have appeared  in both Region 1 boxed sets, and as part of the budget-priced TCM Greatest 4-film sets.<\/p>\n<p>As of 2011, Hammer  licensed a series of  restored  Region B HD  releases \u2013 among the current batch is <strong>Quatermass  and the Pit<\/strong>,<strong> Plague of the Zombies<\/strong>,<strong> The Reptile<\/strong>,<strong> Paranoiac<\/strong>, <strong>The Curse of  Frankenstein<\/strong>,<strong> Dracula: Prince of  Darkness<\/strong>, <strong>The Mummy\u2019s Shroud<\/strong>,<strong> The Devil Rides Out, <\/strong>and<strong> Rasputin: The Mad Monk<\/strong> \u2013 but if you  want them all, I\u2019d wait a year before they get down to 10 British Pounds, as  commonly happens on Amazon.uk after a title\u2019s been out for a year or two.<\/p>\n<p>Synapse\u2019s wave \u2013 which includes the underrated <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/v2z\/3733_VampireCircus1972.htm\">Vampire  Circus<\/a><\/strong> [<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=2216\">M<\/a>] (1972) \u2013 is for  the Region A market, but neither <strong>Circus <\/strong>nor <strong>Twins <\/strong>have appeared on HD as exclusive U.K. thus far. (I\u2019m just relishing the chance to see <strong>Hands of the Ripper<\/strong>, which is part of the late Hammer catalogue  Synapse is wisely exploiting on HD.)<\/p>\n<p>Coming next: why neither BR-3D, BR, DVD, nor Digital Copy formats can convince you to buy <strong>Piranha 3DD<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>,  Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com <\/strong>(  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/Main_Index_Page.htm\">Main Site<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php\">Mobile Site<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blu-ray review of Synapse&#8217;s swanky Twins of Evil (1971), the latest in the label&#8217;s HD Hammer horror series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1520,1521,1522,4212],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-1qh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}