I am starting to wonder if the makers of Dylan Dog: Dead of Night really wanted this movie to be a success. First it got a very limited release, something like 750 theaters across the country total, compare that with the number of theaters that showed Thor and The Green Lantern. It showed in only one theater in my area and as much as I wanted to see it, I wasn’t willing to travel fifty miles for a movie. Apparently most everyone else felt the same way because it bombed bigger than star Brandon Routh’s Superman Returns
And now after only a couple of months it is out on Blu-Ray, and I was excited again to get the chance to see it. I just got back from Best Buy without it. Oh they have it, for $24.99. A little pricey for a movie that didn’t do that well in general release, so the expectations for a huge sell out on home media seems unlikely, but I was considering snapping it up anyway.
Then I flipped the case over and saw that there were no extras. No commentary track, no making of featurette, no deleted scenes, heck not even the trailer, nothing. I’m not a miser but I’m not a spend thrift either , and $24.99 seems a bit much for just the movie. Instead I came home with The Wild Bunch for $7.88 and I got 3 documentaries, deleted scenes, commentary track plus the original director’s cut of the film.
I’m sure in a month or two I may pick up a copy once the price has dropped to a more reasonable one for the product, if it is still around by then.
Which brings me back to my original question. Did the film company not want their movie to succeed? From where I am sitting, the answer seems to be an emphatic NO.
