This is one of a number of standalone Blu-Ray sets, drawing from the huge quantity of source material built up during my 35mm Movie Scans Blu-Ray Box-Set project. This involved renting and buying theatrical prints, trailers & cinema snipes from collectors, and getting them scanned. The Scanner uses professional equipment to scan each frame on each reel to a 4K/5K digital image, and each reels' optical audio strip to a digital sound file. I grade and encode this transfer to give a 1080p 24fps digital recreation of each source print.

This set contains a standalone 35mm theatrical feature scan of Bad Taste in both open-matte & 16:9 cropped versions, along with 35mm trailers & snipes, plus extras. As of writing, Bad Taste has no official Blu-Ray or 4K release anywhere in the world.

Why watch a 35mm scan over a retail Blu-Ray version? The biggest draw for me is the overall experience of seeing a warts & all 35mm print, over a impeccably perfect and overly sanitised restored digital version. In addition, there is usually a wider un-cropped picture, no modern colour correction, and the original mono or stereo audio mixes. A genuine theatrical experience.

Print scanning is an expensive & time consuming business. It costs a minimum of $600/£510, ranging past $1000+/£840+ per feature depending on length, and around $45/£38 per trailer, to rent & scan in 4K or 5K resolution, and even that is fans' mates rates. The quality of the print, or popularity of the film doesn't come in to it. It costs the same to scan a big Hollywood film as it does an obscure title which few would be interested in, and the same to scan a pristine print as an unwatchable degraded one. You can see a gallery of screenshots from each feature below. Bad Taste was shown in the BBC2 1995 Forbidden Weekend just shortly after it was released on VHS in the UK in 1993. I taped it, and the preceding documentary (the only section of the weekend I recorded myself at the time) and watched it a good few times over the years. Later I binned that recording when I replaced it with the retail VHS tape, then the DVD, but there was a little bit I was sure I remembered from the TV showing that I've never seen in any version since. It's when they're all getting ready to storm the alien house, you see Ozzy filing down the tips on his bullets. I adamantly remember Frank asking him what he was doing, he replied that the bullets create more damage that way, and I could see why this would have been removed, but I'd never found anyone else who remembers it.

Well it turns out that the version of Bad Taste broadcast in 1995, was identical to the later retail VHS & DVD versions, with no additional footage, nor was it in the documentary. Just to be sure, I bought a copy of the UK Polygram 1993 VHS release (0872443) as that was the retail VHS release I later bought, and again that was the same. Looks like I was mistaken. The most likely explanation is that I asked someone about it, and that is what they said, but it's strange how your memory plays tricks? The set is supplied in a Amaray clear double Blu-Ray case, with a laser-printed reversible cover & printed disc artwork. All the discs are region free single layer Verbatim BD-Rs. Disc 1 has both standard & high definition content, with menus, in UK PAL format. Disc 2 is in NTSC format, playing at 24fps 1080p in English language, and just plays from start to finish. No menus, alternate audio tracks, or additional subtitles. If you're interested in any of my fanmade projects, you can contact me via email at info@bookofthedead.ws, or through the Rob's Nostalgia Projects Facebook page. Check out & 'like' that Facebook page to see the latest in-progress updates to any current projects, and check out my Wants List to see if you can assist me with any future projects or upgrades.