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Black Friday (Wicked Vision Collector's Edition #??) (BD+DVD Mediabook) [Germany]


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Release: 2021

Link (Wicked Shop): ???

Price: ???€

Limited: ???
 

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And with this announcement I've finally caught up bringing you all the news, Wicked has shared so far. For this one Wicked is going further back into history, than they usually go:

 

BLACK FRIDAY is a 1940s horror movie by Arthur Lubin, and is counted towards the "Universal Classic Monsters" (classic horror tales evolving around Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, The Mummy, etc., that in the 1940s would even start to cross over, making the Universal Classic Monsters that started in 1925 the very first Cinematic Universe in film history - take that, Marvel :D ). It tells the story of a "failed" brain transplantation which leads the protagonist to get a split personality, not unlike Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde - however (possibly to licensing reasons) they have different names (Professor George Kingsley and Red Cannon).

This was Screenwriter Curt Siodmaks first attempt on a brain transplantation/mixed/split personallity movies, which he would revisit in DONOVAN'S BRAIN (1953) and HAUSER'S MEMORY (1970). For a Universal Classic Monster it is rather untypical and not all lists list this entry as one of the movies, even though it has the typical Universal Monsters actors Boris Karloff (Frankenstein), Bela Lugosi (Dracula) and Anne Nagel (from The Invisible Woman).

 

While with most of the other announcement there was also a #Mediabook hashtag, this one does not have one - and while for some entries the missing #Mediabook hashtag did not make much sense (as those where clear continuations of series that started in a Mediabook), with this release this could be intentional, even though it is also tagged als Blu-ray and DVD release. Besides it is also tagged as Classic, and the only other classic from that era that Wicked Vision released was THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME, which was the first black and white movie they ever released and also their first keep case release in Scanavo package. But don't be fooled - it was still a really strong, bonus packed 2-disc release that actually came with a 52 paged booklet (however with dual language). I've presented that release on my Instagram account I started but never kept up with :Dbut here you go, if you've missed that release. It could be, that we can expect something similar for this release. But as it could also just be a sign of negligence, I'll open it in the Mediabook section, just because 90% of Wicked's releases are actually Mediabooks.

 

Wicked promises a comprehensive special edition with a video featurette, audio commentaries (yes in plural) and an extensive booklet.

 

 

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