One of the biggest draw backs for anyone outside of Germany trying to get into the Rialto Edgar Wallace Krimi series has always been the lack of English friendly versions of the films.
True, you could get the complete German box set either from Amazon UK or Amazon DE but only about 2/3 of the films there have English language subs or dubs so any new English friendly print deserves some praise and as it happens Creature with the Blue Hand, one of the two films in this new release, is a Rialto Wallace
I had previously reviewed the film here and posted a lobby card set here.
This Double Feature comes with a booklet and a series of extras:
- Creature with the Blue Hand full length commentary track
- Web of the Spider full length commentary track
- Second feature, 'The Bloody Dead (1987),' from Independent International Pictures with added scenes for the home video release
- Essays by Christopher Stewardson and Nick Clark
- All new documentary on Edgar Wallace Archival commentary by Samuel M. Sherman
- Original theatrical trailer from 35mm for Creature with the Blue Hand
- Reimagined trailer for Web of the Spider using restored elements
If this YouTube trailer is anything to go by the 4K scan is also excellent.
