The more I'm seeing of the packaging, the more I'm liking it. Thanks so much for the links, Cousin_Barnabas.
As for using the hoDS poster, as much as I love it, I'm sort of glad they're not using it on the packaging because it gives away that Carolyn gets staked. But then, too much of the hoDS promotional materials gave away too much IMHO. And that poster has been being used for a while now for the Amazon Instant Video because I've been seeing it come up in DS searches since around sometime in May.
One thing about the NoDS packaging that's interesting is that the billing on the back seems to be a mixture of the opening credits and the poster credits. The film has:
Starring David Selby
Also Starring Grayson Hall
Lara Parker, John Karlen, Nancy Barrett, James Storm, Thayer David, Christopher Pennock, Diana Millay
And Introducing Kate Jackson as Tracy
(as opposed to the film's closing credits which are:
David Selby, Grayson Hall, Kate Jackson, Lara Parker, John Karlen, Nancy Barrett, James Storm, Thayer David, Christopher Pennock, Diana Millay, ...)
whereas the posters have:
Starring David Selby
Also Starring Grayson Hall - With John Karlen - Nancy Barrett - Lara Parker
but the packaging has:
Starring
David Selby Also Starring
Grayson Hall With
John Karlen Nancy Barrett Lara Parker James Storm Thayer David Christopher Pennock Diana Millay And Introducing
Kate Jackson as Tracy
Also, I don't think I've ever seen that photo of Nancy Barrett as Claire that positioned next to Collinwood - or the one of David Selby and Lara Parker as Charles and Angelique with his face buried in her neck. And after all these years it's great to see something new (or at least new to me).