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Title: Fake widescreen!
Review: While this 2003 version is better color corrected and clearer than the full screen 1999 dvd release, it is just hacked off the top and bottom. (same studio too "omega") Like so many hammer films, they take all the trouble to clean up the image, but then put black masking over it and sell it as "wide screen". A big waste. All modern wide tv's have a zoom feature that allows you to watch 4x3 video in 16x9 if you wish. The only way to see all the nice tidbits (especialy actress wardrobe malfunctions etc) is to view a full screen version. (dvd releases that are especialy bad about this are; "1 million years bc" with Raquel Welch, and "Vampire lovers" with Madeline Smith. 2 good releases are, "embrace of the vampire" (alyssa milano) and "Two Moon Junction" (sherilyn fenn). They have both versions on the disk. Though like I said, black masking is worse than useless. The up shot is that there is still no good dvd release of this little gem of a movie. Too bad.
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