New Japanese Phantasm Box Set Comes With Coscarelli Letter

February sees the release of a new international Phantasm Blu-ray set, this time from Japan. Dubbed the "Perfect Box," it contains all five Phantasm films and a slew of bonus features. (I'm not entirely sure what those features are since I haven't been able to find an English press release for the set.) Among the exclusives in this release is a personal letter (pictured below) from series creator Don Coscarelli in English. The "Perfect Box" also comes with six nifty postcard prints of the films' intriguing Japanese artwork, which you can also see below. Click any of the poster artworks below to see them larger.

You can buy this set from Amazon Japan, but you'll need to be able to navigate their website, which is in all Japanese, in order to purchase it. Maybe a browser translator could help?

Prototype Pics of Incredible Phantasm R2 Blu-ray Set

Last September, I wrote about an incredible French Blu-ray set that was coming from premium distributor ESC Distribution. They still haven't announced an exact street date, but they have since shared pictures of a painted prototype. As you can see below, the release will come with a fantastic bust of the Tall Man holding a sphere. The discs themselves will be housed in the space beneath the figure. The release is rumored to drop sometime in the next few months.

ESC Distribution has teased that their set will pack a ton of bonus features as well as a new 200-page book written by Marc Toulec. ESC is also reporting that this incredible release will be "limited to 300 certified and numbered copies." And here we thought Well Go and Arrow's 10,000 run Blu-ray sets were scant!

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