Thanks for your feedback and dedication! Glad you could watch the DVD but I hope you can manage to see the Blu-ray one day.
waxman wrote:I received the blu ray disks of Silent Trigger and the Defender last week. I tried a Sony and a Toshiba region A players and both of the players did not play either of the disks. None of the buttons work during the region mismatch screen. I believe the trick one of the Blu-ray.com members said works only for a certain bland of players? I did some further research online and found that Samsung players might work this way. I will have to try some other brand players and see whether any of those work.
Sorry to hear that, I sent your feedback and asked the guy who told me if he could help...
waxman wrote:I can tell that the DVD quality is so much better than the highland bootleg (which I believe to be a rip off of a French version).
Yeah it was blent of the French DVD and a 4/3 version of the main title sequence (since the French replaced it the initial VFX of the credit fonts)
waxman wrote:I also enjoyed the Altieri's interview a lot. Most of the interview content was already covered in Jox's excellent liner notes but it was fun to know some other bits of interesting info behind the production (such as the scripted-but-never-shot riverside battle flashback).
Thanks. What Sergio Altieri forgot to mention, is that the omitted riverside battle flashback was kind of replacing (or the other way around rather) the "no man's land road massacre", that became a crucial part of the film but was not in the script (but easier to produce and shoot since it's not on water).
Unlike some other recently released special editions of other Dolph movies, this does not have interview with Dolph (I wonder Subkultur never approached him?).
I did put them in touch and they were supposed to interview Mulcahy as well but for some reason lost contact with both of them who were busy at the time and unfortunately Subkultur already had a deadline and couldn't wait longer. It was fortunate that I could hook them up with Sergio Altieri, whom it had taken me quite some research and wit to track down to interview him myself a few years back...