{"id":8619,"date":"2013-08-08T00:53:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T21:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=8619"},"modified":"2022-04-24T22:06:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T22:06:47","slug":"solomon-kane-2009-finally-available-in-usa-on-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/08\/08\/solomon-kane-2009-finally-available-in-usa-on-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"Solomon Kane (2009) finally available in USA on DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cool, I just heard that Solomon Kane<\/em> is finally out on DVD<\/a> in the USA. I’ve no idea what delayed this fine 2009 movie, or stopped it getting to the cinemas in the USA. I can only imagine that there was perhaps some spurious legal challenge by a copyright troll, going on behind the scenes?<\/p>\n

Thanks to Lovecraft is Missing<\/a> for the new review of the DVD. I saw the movie way back in 2010 in the UK, and enjoyed it. I thought it was a fine and respectful evocation of R.E. Howard’s Puritan hero, beautifully designed and lit, and well acted with good period accents. The flaws were not very many, but were annoying: two jarring jumps in the plot during the first third, as if the makers hadn’t filmed quite enough material to bridge the gap; many lost opportunities to visually foreshadow the distinctive look of the main bad-guy (for instance via having his minions wear his face as crude tattoos or scrawl it on walls etc); and the ending is a little too “Mines of Moria cave-troll battle” (in a cheesy kind of way, in that it resembles LoTR<\/em> far too strongly). <\/p>\n

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The plan was apparently that Solomon Kane<\/em> would have been the first of a trilogy. Africa was mooted as being the next stop. But Puritan New England, and a slight blending with the historical back-story of Lovecraft’s Mythos, would have seemed a much better choice. Anyway, due to the bizarre and unexplained four-year hiatus in actually getting this movie to a U.S. audience, it doesn’t seem we’ll get to see the next two movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cool, I just heard that Solomon Kane is finally out on DVD in the USA. I’ve no idea what delayed …<\/p>\n

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