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We don’t yet have any specs or a release date, but the word is out that Mario Bava’s unmatched comic-book supervillain thriller  Danger: Diabolik is coming to 4K Ultra HD. The last round of releases for this title was in 2020, with Shout! Factory and [Imprint] giving us excellent remastered editions that got everything right — the correct dialogue, good color, properly mixed music. We were very happy. Hopefully the people who remaster this new 4K package won’t encounter any problems.

If it’s a winner, all that will be left for us fans of John Phillip Law and Marisa Mell is to find out how different the original Italian version might have been. Also, Kino announced back in February of ’23 that they had also acquired the  three recent Diabolik features made in Italy.  We wonder if those are still in the works…

Having been gainfully employed through the 1990s (those were the days…), a lot of TV shows I shoulda saw slipped by, including this one from 1991- 1992 … that I later learned employed directors Joe Dante and Bob Balaban.

It’s a Sci-fi horror show about creepy phenomena afoot in a neighborhood, and only two young friends have the ‘vision’ to see what’s a-happenin’. One fan described it as ‘The Outer Limits for kids.’  Dante directed five out of 19 episodes, including the opener; I see that actor John Astin participates, and Belinda Belaski and a 16-year-old Tobey Maguire do an episode or two as well. The leading player is Omri Katz, who we love in Joe Dante’s  Matinee, produced not long afterward.

The point is that the whole season of shows is now viewable online for free on Tubi … until some super remastered disc comes along, the quality looks pretty good to us.

Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson