They've put out some good stuff but their releases are suspect. In interviews they claimed to have spent thousands (even millions!) on remastering titles regardless of the fact that said films have already been released in their country of origin or like there cartoon sets like HE-MAN and SHE-RA, these were just ports of the British releases.
They also claimed to have spent over a million dollars remastering the original ULTRAMAN show which was entangled in a legal battle between the Thai company Chaiyo and original owners Tsuburaya. BCI claimed to have the rights to the show but they did not. Tsuburaya wanted to work with them but they didn't want to deal with them as they got the prints from Chaiyo (who had no legal claim to the show and have recently lost their court battle to Tsuburaya over this) for a, no doubt, much smaller sum. Upon seeing the shows, they have obviously not been remastered and the box claims that the episodes revert to Japanese because these bits were never dubbed into English is another lie as I have many of these tapes and they contain the scenes in English. Chaiyo simply didn't have complete English tracks for the shows as they did not legally own the show to begin with and nor did BCI.
There recent Naschy release are questionable too as these have already been released overseas sans subtitles. Granted, when these were remastered, it is possible that they remastered all other cuts for the various markets (as Celestial did with their Shaw Brothers movies) before BCI acquired them. Either way, I'm glad many of these are coming out, but they've been caught telling too many stories for me to believe they've totally abandoned their pirate ways. They do make lots of revenue from their PRIDE FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIPS DVDs though and I'm sure they had to have paid for those. Of all the Naschy's, MUMMY'S REVENGE and NIGHT OF THE HOWLING BEAST needs to come out. I heard BEAST WITH THE MAGIC SWORD (one of Naschy's Spain/Japan co-prod) is possibly coming out.
HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE is already out in a beautiful release from Anolis.
