Doctor Butcher MD - 33rd anniversary restored edit

[tranzor]

Most people are aware of the film under its normal title of Zombie Holocaust. However for the US, the Aquarius film company edited the film down a bit, tacked on a new intro from a completely unrelated film (tales to rip your heart out) and gave it a new soundtrack with music from killdozer and some other films.

Zombie Holocaust has had a number of dvd releases , but the US cut of Doctor Butcher still has not had any dvd release.

This preservation will be just that-- to restore (as best as possible) the Doctor butcher cut of the film. This would entail using the vhs audio and possible intro (I need to double check to see if the tales to rip footage given as a bonus on the zombie holocaust disc is worse quality than my vhs tape), bring out the sharpness and reducing the noise of the dvd source that is going to be used as well as ditching the interlaced pic and bringing it back to a progressive film rate (and of course keeping it anamorphic). Also possibly minor color correction as well

--enjoy

 

[reave]

Killdozer, the band?

 

[tranzor]

hah no killdozer was 1970's Tv movie about an alien lifeform possessing a bulldozer:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071717/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

 

[Frantic Canadian]

hah no killdozer was 1970's Tv movie about an alien lifeform possessing a bulldozer:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071717/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

You can see the movie on YouTube for free.

It's one of those "So bad it's good" movies.

 

[dario light]

the japanese laserdisc has the full doctor butcher md cut !!!!

 

[tranzor]

the japanese laserdisc has the full doctor butcher md cut !!!!

I am aware of the Japanese laserdisc but it would have burned in Japanese subs (and unsure if they are fully below the actual letterboxing or sort of in the picture, if the info on the lddb.com site is correct with the disc specs), optical censoring (if any) and due to age or type of pressing may or may not have laser rot issue If I could even find that disc at all.

Like I said the US cut HAS NEVER had a dvd version and obviously the dvd sources for Zombie Holocaust are going to be a hell of a lot better looking than the Japanese laserdisc would. Though I do check occasionally to see if it shows up anywhere and for a somewhat reasonable price (for the collector in me that would not mind owning it). I do have the German Zombie Holocaust SE laser that was released a number of years ago towards the demise of the format itself

thinking about finally starting this by the weekend

 

[dario light]

an austrian 3 dvd set of zombie holocaust has the doctor butcher md cut !!!! http://www.dvduncut.com/product_info.php?info=p9471_doctor-butcher-m-d---uncut--limited-999.html

 

[tranzor]

an austrian 3 dvd set of zombie holocaust has the doctor butcher md cut !!!! http://www.dvduncut.com/product_info.php?info=p9471_doctor-butcher-m-d---uncut--limited-999.html

Hi Dario,
let me give you the correct info about that disc since I own it (#921/999). It is not a 3 disc set but a single disc. Despite the Doctor Butcher cover (and why I had bought it from DTM a few years back) it is just another version of Zombie holocaust with the ZH title screen as well as soundtrack. The difference though between this and some of the other 2 and 3 disc German/Austrian editions is that this one features an English dubbing in addition to the German one (but still uses the original zombie holocaust music score, not the Doc D soundtrack)

I appreciate you looking around but yeah I was a bit let down once that disc arrived and I played it only to see it was another Zombie holocaust disc using the Doctor Butcher cover

 

[tranzor]

the japanese laserdisc has the full doctor butcher md cut !!!!

Japanese laserdisc has now been acquired, once it gets here I can start--

 

[tranzor]

Japanese laser has arrived, dying to see if the Folkes intro is in a true scope or just matted--

 

[tranzor]

Very interesting to see that the Japanese laserdisc had the Roy Fumkes intro in regular full screen and once the film actually starts it switches to wide. In some sense it makes my job a little easier

 

[tranzor]

project on the back burner but not forgotten