WHAT IS THE BLUE MERMAID?

   When we sent the Mermaid in a Manhole/He Never Dies Double Feature DVD to be manufactured, we ran into a problem.  We didn't know about this until we received all of the DVD's from the manufacturer. They sent us a case of 180 DVD's without the packaging. We were a little confused about this so we called the manufacturer and asked them why the print run wasn't exact. They said the printer was short by 180 DVD covers.

   Well this wasn't good. I called the printer and asked what happened. They told us that when a large amount of DVD covers are printed usually there is an overage or an underage of prints. Since we didn't specify if they should go over the print run or under they just stopped it short creating a short by 180 covers which meant 180 DVD's shy of the original print run.

   We managed to talk the printer into running another 180 covers for the Mermaid in a Manhole/He Never Dies DVD for us. The printer complained a bit but managed to run us off 180 which he quickly shipped to us here at Unearthed Films.

   When we received them, we didn't think anything of it and figured we would build the DVD's later as we needed them. When we took a closer look. We noticed that the Mermaid and the Mermaid Logo was blue instead of the original green. The tint to the whole cover was a little different but the main difference was the color green was replaced with the color blue.

   We called the printer to ask why the color change and they said it happened due to the small print run. Since they didn't have one of the originals to make sure the color was right. They went with it.

   So there you go. I don't know if they will become collectable in the future but there is a good chance. With only 180 of them available that's a pretty low. Variant covers in the comic book industry are worth more then the regular covers since collectors would rather have the lower print run.

   Speaking of variant covers were working on the Flower of Flesh and Blood/Making of Guinea Pig Double Feature. The Flower DVD will have 2 maybe. Why do you ask. Well if you have noticed the Guinea Pig DVD's are available at almost every retail Internet website. Including Best Buy, Barnes and Nobles, Movies Unlimited, DVD Empire etc, etc. We are horror fans and we want to make the DVD cover to the Flower of Flesh and Blood truly disgusting. If we did release the cover the way we wanted to. It wouldn't be carried by the big retail chains. So were going to make 2 covers. One will be the painted cover available through all major retail Internet stores and the other will be available through the independent online retailers. Both will be kick ass but one will be painted like the 1st two and the other one. Well, you can see it below and judge for your self. We are waiting on the artwork for the retail version. When we have it we will post it here for you to see. Don't worry the artwork version will kick ass also.

 Green Mermaid Cover                       Blue Mermaid Cover 

   GORE VERSION                                      RETAIL VERSION

   If you bought one of the original Mermaid in a Manhole/He Never Dies Double Feature DVD's from us and would like a Blue one instead. Just ship us back the original with a check for $2.00 for shipping and we will ship you out one of the Blue Mermaids to you. We do apologize for this. We didn't know about it until today 10/13/02 or else we would have hooked you up. Thanks for being patient with us and thanks for helping us become one of the up and coming DVD labels on the market today.

                                                                            Stephen Biro

                                                                                  Unearthed Films