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The Vinegar Syndrome disc boutique once again makes Eurohorror news. A few weeks back we reported on its upcoming restored and extended cut of the Saul Bass Sci-fi item Phase IV, and their 4K release of The Horrible Dr. Hichcock just shipped.

While we’re pondering the best way to review Hichcock a second time, the company has announced new a Blu-ray remaster, of the ‘exotic’ Italian horror offering L’ultima preda del vampiro, known to us in a dubbed and slightly censored U.S. version as The Playgirls and the Vampire.

This time out Vinegar Syndrome gives us an excellent little short subject about the care they take to revamp films like Playgirls for disc. My friends that deal with film give an approving thumbs-up to the promo. It’s well-produced, accurate and (cough) educational, with many close-up images of film elements as viewed on an editor’s workbench. VS’s archivist Oscar Becher is a good host, too. The link:

Winding through ‘The Playgirls and the Vampire.’ 

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This Variety news regarding Tim Burton and Gillian Flynn is fairly self-explanatory:

A New ‘Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman’ Remake In the Works.The first question is, is the monster success of Barbie the inspiration for this?  How can one put a feminist spin on the tale of Nancy Archer?  The culture long ago declared the original Attack to be some kind of schlock parody, although we cherish it as grass-roots drive-in exploitation. Making it into something idologically relevant — if that’s even the aim — will be a challenge.

And how soon do directors Jim Wynorski and Christopher Guest start squawking?  Both have already made direct Attack remakes, after all.

Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson