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Boris: Are they still selling Necromancy ? I don't see it listed on the Code Red website .
Pulp Novelties: Welcome to the weird, wonderful, and temperamental world of CODE RED. I doubt very much NECROMANCY has permanently sold out on a run of a 1000. I did notice that there have been some complaints on Blu-ray.com about Necromancy not containing the nudity put in the revised version known as THE WITCHING. Sometimes a little friction is all it takes for Bill (Code Red's owner) to yank a title, and both Bill and his buyers are good for generating friction among themselves. So, when there has been a sufficient amount of time and groveling, I'm guessing you'll have another shot.
John: There is some nudity shot in 1972 that is not in NECRO but in WITCHING, whether that would have been part of a R rated NECRO, no one knows.
Simply put, what Code Red released does not have content that would have gotten an R in 1972 in my eyes. Releasing it with the 2 ratings on it was asking for someone to ask WTF?...This time he asked for trouble by advertising a never seen R version of a PG film, and the Blu ray opens with a PG rating!
Pulp novelties: For those care, Bill, owner of CODE RED is faining offense that some Blu-ray.com members questioned weather or not the BD represented the PG or R cut. So outraged was he by this, he decided to yank what was left of his inventory, never to sell it again!
Essentially the same "tantrums and swoons" hi-jinks that are common practice with CR. I can never tell if it's all an act, or he's just trying to crate a aura of rarity around his own product, but it sure is tiresome if all you want to do is buy a movie.
From the Criterion Forum:
Domino: Code Red have done it again, pulling Necromancy's Blu-ray from their store after a user on the Blu-ray Forum shows evidence of optical censoring in one shot (though plenty of nudity in other scenes)
Camilla: Did the owner of code red just decide one day to be vocal and crazy? or is it because he was already somewhat unstable and coupled with less than desirable sales of his product he decided to just take it out on everyone?
Domino: I don't know, but he just threatened to murder a poster on the Blu-Ray forum
Interesting fact: Bert I. Gordon, director of NECROMANCY, was born in Kenosha WI, in 1922, seven years after Welles.
