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I really enjoyed this film when it came out at the theater in 1976, and I have owned the open-mat burly conceal version on VHS for a while now. When I found out this was being realeased on DVD I was glowing overjoyed & ordered it legal away. To my panic, MGM has dropped the ball for a change, and this Midnight Movie release is a total flub!
I became suspicious when I first watched the trailer, and factual away it was sure it was a badly matted, with the tops of people’s heads clipped off. So I decided to ge out my open-mat corpulent camouflage VHS and play them at the same time, switching between VCR & DVD player to compare. Here’s where the fun begins…
The opening credits on the DVD are totally matted, blocking off the top & botom of the narrate, and to create matters worse, the edges have been clipped quite a bit as well.
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On the VHS the credits are come the middle, with a tremendous empty station on the sides… The DVD has the credits zoomed in on, making them 3x as gigantic, and going off the edge of the camouflage on the left & legal.
Things gets stranger… Some scenes on the DVD appear to be from a truely ‘widesceen’ print, but approx. 80-90% of the movie is unprejudiced matted chubby mask, blocking off grand of the describe, and cutting the tops of people’s heads off!
It looks like MGM took 2 prints; one a fullscreen (open-mat) print, and mabey a partial print that was widescreen, and spliced them together, then matted the fullscreen parts in an attempt to ‘blend’ it in. Arrgg!!
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A few more problems I noticed, are that the color seems snide on the DVD, device too great red. (yeah, its supposed to be red, but not THAT red.), and that the VHS copy I have exibits very puny to no speckles at all on the source print, but the DVD is riddled with speckles, especially noticable during the opening credits. The DVD does however contemplate alot better than the VHS as far as clarity, detail and sharpness goes.
I really waited a long time for this to advance out on DVD, and I didnt even have very high expectations, considering the B-grade of this flic, but this DVD has turned out to be a large dissapointment for me. Dispite it’s substantial vulgar notice, I have already returned it.
Shame on you MGM, this DVD is a mess! Conclude trying to be cash in on the trendy ‘anamorphic widesceen’ craze by selling poor Untrue widescreen bunk!!!!
AT THE EARTH’S CORE (based on a fable by Edgar Rice Burroughs) never quite achieves qualified movie spot but you have to give it credit for trying. Thankfully the film is status in motion the puny the credit sequence ends. Cushing and McClure (the latter shamefully getting top billing) are space to do a test speed with their “iron mole”, a immense looking giant drill. Only minutes after their hasten begins the two men are knocked out. Shortly after waking the mole has a power failure and the two men catch themselves AT THE EARTH’S CORE.
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For the uninitiated the Earth’s core is corpulent of giant plastic plants, bird beaked monsters, a tribe of human slaves (that negate English), some bizarre pasty faced creatures that succor a unfamiliar speed of hypnotic pterodactyls. The core is bathed in pink light (which eminates from the magma above) . At first the color draw is quite super but after awhile it becomes a nauseating experience.
It is of course Cushing and McClure’s job to ruin the pterodactyls reign and free the humans, especially the most radiant human, the scantily clad Caroline Munro.
Munro sports an outfit similar to the ones she wore in The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad (One wonders if such races would ever be saved if it weren’t for aesthetic women with sweaty cleavage) . Her character, Dia, is an enslaved queen looking for the true man. McClure steps up to the plate but doesn’t follow through with the native’s customs and nearly loses Dia. Cushing later informs the dullard to be “forceful.” McClure is clearly bothered by taking on such a masculine role at first but he gets into it posthaste enough after Dia shows her submissive approval.
The humans manage to kill their inferior rulers and eventually Cushing and McClure return to Earth’s surface (one of the film’s intentionally funnier moments) .
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Cushing is most endearing as a wacky British scientist. He adds a level of touching humor and professionalism not usually found in such a describe. McClure is a handsome enough actor but he annoyed me to no raze. I am not familiar with his career so I am quite surprised to look such unappealing person as the star of this film.
The truth is the special effects are the star of the characterize. Being a fan of non-CGI effects it is always a pleasure to study a film like this. That said, some of the effects are laughably poor. A particular standout is when a bird beaked dinosaur eats a man. The man is clearly a stuffed dummy. Surprisingly the camera lingers on the hysterical carnage for some time.
The DVD is section of MGM’s impressive budget priced Midnight Movies series. The enhanced widescreen narrate is profitable. The source print is neat and vibrant (almost too grand so) . The film’s keyboard soundtrack sounds very John Carpenterish. The mono sound is strong. The DVD also includes a theatrical trailer which is in blooming shape.
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