Frightenstein!

The rise and fall of my excitement starts when I read at frightenstein.com.

The Hilarious House of Frightenstein will officially be released on DVD on September 27, 2005.
Available in the US only, the release will begin with a single DVD with 4 of the 30-minute versions of the episodes. If successful, more will follow.

The DVD is being produced from 3/4″ tapes and I’m told the quality is fantastic.

The original music for the Wolfman segments WILL be intact.

That’s all I know officially for now. I’m promised a press release soon that I can post that will have all of the details.

Hopefully a Canadian company will follow suit…

The Hilarious House of Frightenstein @ Amazon

This show was a very important part of my childhood. The news that I will be able to watch these shows over again, and again, and again, tickles something deep inside.

I wonder if this guy’s segments will scare the living daylights out of me, like they did when I was 8.

Then the disappointment sets in. Oh Damn! I look at the Amazon.ca site for the DVD and it seems that this is not the original Canadian release of the show. The reviews sound DIRE!

The show was originally produced as a one-hour show, with no laugh track. This is how it was broadcast in Canada in the early 70’s. When it was later syndicated in the US, the episodes were cut to a half-hour and a laugh track was added. Unfortunately, the four episodes on this DVD were from the US syndication package.

And

Like the other reviewers I too am disappointed that there are only 4 episodes (how about a boxed set?) and what’s with the laugh track??? There was no laugh track when the show was first aired! It definitely takes away from the mood. Imagine “Frankenstein” with a laugh track! Also, the editing is a bit sloppy.

Who the fuck gets this shit wrong? Why is the world so fucked up? It can’t even get the DVD release of a kids show right, how do we expect to achieve world peace?