Release Name.: Rituals
Release Date.: 1977
Rip Date.....: April 17, 2006
Ripper.......: Bornagainst
Video Codec..: XVID
Video Bitrate: 881 kb/s
Audio Codec..: MP3
Audio Bitrate: 96 kb/s
Aspect Ratio.: Fullscreen Resolution...: 496 x 336
Avi Size.....: 698 MB
Subtitles....: None
IMDB.........:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076630/
Five doctors go on vacation deep in the Canadian wilderness.
After all but one pair of the party's shoes disappear, the
remaining shoed camper decides to hike out and go look for help.
Soon after he leaves, however, his four companions realizes that
something is very wrong when someone leaves a decapitated deer
head just outside their camp. Even though they still don't have their
shoes, they decide to follow their friend's trail out of the woods, but
their path is blocked by someone who doesn't want to see them leave
the forest alive.
This is a companion piece to VIDEO-MAN'S rip. His rip is superior quality
wise to this one, however this rip is of the UNCUT Canadian source. There
are a LOT of differences between these two versions.
The U.S. video release on the Embassy Home Entertainment label is cut and
uns only 89 minutes despite the 100 minute running time listed on the box.
The Canadian release on the Astral Video label is the uncut version with a true
running time of 99 minutes. The differences between the Canadian Astral and the
U.S. Embassy versions are as follows:
* When Harry (Hal Holbrook) wakes up and slides outside his tent to be
confronted with the severed head of his buddy mounted on a stick, the
Embassy version cuts and crops around this to avoid a good look at a very
creepy special effect.
* The "we have to kill him" scene is also much longer and more graphic in the Astral version.
* The ending is much more protracted and gruesome in the Astral version.
The burning scene goes on for a very long time and involves a lot of screaming,
and the killer's demise features a couple of extra gunshots.
* The climax in the Astral version also includes several extra shots of Harry in the cabin attempting to stop the massive bleeding from a severed artery.
* The Canadian video also has more dialog and extra footage in many different places (too numerous to mention here). The Canadian print is not letterboxed, however it displays considerably more image on the left and right sides of the frame, as well as the top. The U.S. Embassy video appears to be magnified.
* Also of note is the fact that the French Canadian release under the title, ILS ?TAIENT CINQ... is actually the same 89 minute print as the cut Embassy version despite the fact that it was released by Astral. Go figure...
Shoutouts to PiMPRiPPaZ, TheDeadLive,
a.b.m.horror, a.b.sleazemovies, Waterlily, Indigestibles,
Rotten, Ferox, Video-Man, Spawny, GoreE, Imagica,
DxaKrator and STR/HHAH, all the usenetters that post and
post,and anyone else that I like that I forgot.
Sickboy88 can suck my dick. Oh yeah...whiny usenet twats
who do nothing but complain....lick my dirty ass.
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