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The Welcome to the Pure Cinema Podcast. How you doing now, Rick? I'm doing good. I was very thrilled at how our Hitchcock episode was received.

That felt good, and that was a lot of fun putting together.

Yeah, that was, I knew we were both very proud of that one and excited about how people seem to be digging it, and hopefully they're watching some Hitchcock.

But this week we're doing something a little different, but it's going to be something that we do on a semi-regular basis, and that's look at a specific company that puts out

Blu-rays.

Who are we talking about this week, Eric?

Well, we had tossed up a bunch of the companies. We were deciding which one to focus on first.

And it turned out, I go to horror trivia every month, have since we started at Jump Cut Cafe many years ago, probably three or four years ago.

And it just so happened that it's the Scream Factory fifth anniversary since they began.

And they're going to be hosting or co-hosting

the trivia, and they're going to be asking questions.

All the questions of the night are going to be solely about Screen Factory titles, and all the

prizes are going to be Screen Factory.

And for anyone who's into horror, they know that this has always been called the Criterion of

horror, which is pretty cool.

You know, I think very much suits the quality of their releases.

I agree.

What do you think about how a company like that relates to collecting in general?

I mean, I think they are the kind of companies that are keeping physical media alive, you know, the quality, level of quality of extras, supplemental material, image quality, alternative artwork on covers that you can, you know, reversible sides.

Do they do the numbered spines?

I can't know. No, they don't I to be honest I don't I don't I like numbered spines but I also hate numbered spines because then the OCD part of me wants

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