The Mafu Cage

The Mafu Cage


Starring:Grant, Kane, Geer, Olson
Studio: Legacy Entertainment
Product Type: DVD
The Mafu Cage
Average customer rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars
  • terrible transfer of a good movie (OOP VHS are better)
  • Defective Disc- Item Should Be Recalled
 The Mafu Cage
Starring: Massimo Girotti , Carol Kane , James Olson , Susan Strasberg , and Natalie Delon
Director: Karen Arthur
Manufacturer: Legacy Entertainment
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00077BOII
Release Date: 2005-03-01

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars terrible transfer of a good movie (OOP VHS are better).......2005-04-11

My rating refers to the DVD, not to the movie itself.

I own one of the out of print videocassettes of this movie, which I really enjoyed (I'll post a review on the IMDb). One of my favorite horror movies directed by a woman.

I hoped this DVD would be an upgrade. Unfortunately, it's a bad transfer with no extras.  Even my 1989 Magnum Entertainment VHS of it is better.  For example, just looking at the opening shots of the movie, a dark kite-shaped African hanging has white markings on it in the VHS; in the DVD it is pretty much completely black.  When Carol Kane first comes into shot on the VHS, we see her long red hair hanging down off a hammock.  On the DVD, her hair and the background are so dark you can't tell the color or even differentiate the two much.  The DVD does have the apparently original title "The Mafu Cage," while the VHS has just "The Cage."  Even the box art for the VHS is better.  But for people who don't want to shell out for a used copy of the VHS ($10.99-$79.95 on Amazon zShops), I guess the DVD will have to do for now.  Karen Arthur and her cinematographer John Bailey can't be happy though.

1 out of 5 stars Defective Disc- Item Should Be Recalled.......2005-04-04

First of all, let me say that "The Mafu Cage" is a very enjoyable odd movie and it deserves to be on DVD- but DO NOT BUY THIS DISC!!! It was obviously copied from a VHS tape and, although the first 40 minutes is fine, after that the picture starts jumping- through the rest of the movie! Thus, making it unwatchable. Someone working at the DVD company needed to adjust the tracking while it was being burned onto DVD- but obviously NO ONE AT THE COMPANY was paying any attention to it, and after they were done, no one bothered to check to see it it was alright.
I bought 3 copies of this DVD (because the movie's so good and I thought it was maybe only deffective on one copy) and I've tried it on several different DVD players and they all have the same problem.
Hopefully, this version of the DVD will soon be discontiniued and it will soon be rereleased in a watchable version inwhich the picture doesn't jump.

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