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Just when you thought westerns were ‘deader than a beaver hat,’ the Warner Archive Collection comes out with a big one: the WAC’s first 4K Ultra HD release will be the John Ford/John Wayne classic The Searchers, newly remastered and fresh from screenings where it was blown up to 70mm.

The release date is December 17; the official press release is here, Pilgrim. It’s offered in a 4K/BD combo or as just a Blu-ray. For people pre-ordering at Movie Zyng, I’m told this:

“Movie Zyng is offering a pre-order special that you can also share with your audience. The code DUKE used at checkout will yield a 10% discount on the 4k title when ordered by November 30th.”

CineSavant usually doesn’t go for sales promotions, but Allied Vaughn tells us this is partly a George Feltenstein product, and we don’t pass up an opportunity to tub-thump for George.

Aw, who am I fooling?  It’s naked self-interest:  if The Searchers sells well in 4K, The Wild Bunch would be a natural to follow.

Madness! Madness!

Halloween is over, but if you’re a masochist looking to wallow in the pain and dread of this last week, we have the nightmare site for you, ready and waiting.

I tell ya, Hieronymous Bosch is back, and H.P. Lovecraft’s Got Him!

It’s six minutes of impossibly macabre and disturbing ‘horror tableaux’ from the VAPE. His creations are B&W AI-generated mind-warpers that seem to be pulled from our darker subconscious. We previously linked to a pair of VAPE shudder-samplers. Some of the earlier nasty visions appear to be reprised in this laugh-a-minute picnic appalling cavalcade of horror.

We’ve chosen to reproduce a couple of the least brain-damaging images. The link IF YOU DARE is

Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson