Physical media may be considered a niche market nowadays, but if you’re part of that niche, life is rich (or at least you’ll need to be…). There is no shortage of great editions available in different formats. Most of my Pretty Packaging ‘finds’ are from Europe and Asia, with Korea, France and Germany having built a reputation for crazy edition ‘pimping’. Recently I added Australia to the list, as distributors like Umbrella and Imprint are releasing some crazy fantastic editions lately. Case in point: Imprint’s Cross Replica Limited Edition 4K-UHD/Blu-ray Combo release of Michael Mann’s World War 2 fantasy horror The Keep. The film itself is a star-studded oddity, the butchered remains of a 3-hour epic which Mann finished as writer-director. But he disowned it…
