Ahem.
I found an early posting on that blog in which I listed 20 movies - irrespective of quality - that I very much wanted to see on DVD. They were...
The Uninvited*
The Monolith Monsters
The Day of the Triffids*
My Blood Runs Cold
Two on a Guillotine*
The Nanny
Berserk*
Let's Scare Jessica to Death
The Mephisto Waltz
The Possession of Joel Delany
The Other
Tales from the Crypt
The Vault of Horror**
The Monolith Monsters
The Day of the Triffids*
My Blood Runs Cold
Two on a Guillotine*
The Nanny
Berserk*
Let's Scare Jessica to Death
The Mephisto Waltz
The Possession of Joel Delany
The Other
Tales from the Crypt
The Vault of Horror**
The Manitou
Silent Scream
The Burning
Night of the Creeps
Paperhouse*
Santa Sangre*
Parents
Silent Scream
The Burning
Night of the Creeps
Paperhouse*
Santa Sangre*
Parents
Now, I'm guessing, gentle reader, that you can figure out what the asterisks mean. Those are movies that, four years later, remain unreleased in the DVD format (Region One). (The Vault of Horror gets a double asterisk - yes, it was released, but in an edited version - curses!) Fourteen out of the twenty are now (or soon) available, or a success rate of 70%.
That ain't too shabby.
I also went on to write a series of essays on more films that were DVD in absentia, and the Saul Bass-directed Phase IV was among those. Now, at the time I was inspired by the release of the giant rabbit picture Night of the Lepus to undertake the list, and I now find myself similarly inspired by the impending releases of Rituals and Silent Scream to do this again. I'll be writing some essays in the future about these and other AWOL films, but for now, let me offer up this list of cinematic holy grails (with either trailers or select scenes), and hope that 70% of these will be coming our way by 2013! (And watch for the full-length essays on these and many other MIA DVDs.)
So, out of this roll call (and there are a number of films I couldn't find trailers for), which would be on your wish list?
The Uninvited
The Mad Magician
The Quatermass Xperiment (The Creeping Unknown)
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
It Conquered the World
The Amazing Colossal Man
Curucu, Beast of the Amazon
The Cyclops
Invasion of the Saucer Men
The 27th Day
The Colossus of New York
The Brain Eaters
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Caltiki, The Immortal Monster
The Human Vapor
Burn Witch Burn (Night of the Eagle)
The Day of the Triffids
Diary of a Madman
These Are the Damned
Crack in the World
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
The Wild Wild Planet
Picture Mommy Dead
Queen of Blood
Island of Terror
Berserk
The Frozen Dead
Goke - Bodysnatcher from Hell
The Power
The Green Slime
House of Dark Shadows / Night of Dark Shadows
The Devils
Blood on Satan's Claw
Hands of the Ripper
Willard / Ben
Vampire Circus
Twins of Evil
Terror in the Wax Museum
Craze
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
The Incredible Melting Man
The Evil
Nightwing
Schizoid
Without Warning
The Awakening
New Year's Evil
Deadly Blessing
Galaxy of Terror
Night School
Blood Beach
Still of the Night
Deadly Eyes (Rats)
Humongous
The Boogens
Nightmares
Spasms
The Keep
Curtains
The Lift
The Kindred
The Offspring
Jack's Back
The Ambulance
6 comments:
Wow - it just goes to show how many deserving films are still not on DVD! Lots of great stuff here, although I'm totally surprised to see that Parents is already on DVD. I love that movie and had no idea it'd been released!
I just adore Parents, and wish that Bob Balaban had done a few more in the genre other than My Boyfriend's Back. And it's a shame that people will look at it now and just tsk tsk over the craziness in Quaid's real life...
http://www.amazon.com/Red-Carpet-Double-Feature-Parents/dp/B000C65YRQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1257913944&sr=8-1
PS - I had some serious nightmares over that arm coming out of the garbage disposal scene!
Excellent question.. what do I miss on DVD.. SCANNERS 2 would be fun, SANTA SANGRE and DAY OF THE BEAST are musts, and I would love to see TWINS OF EVIL as well. BAD RONALD just received treatment in the Warner Bros Archives, which I think is a genius releasing method. Will have to brain storm and get back to you with more missing titles!
This almost reads like a list of my favorite movies! The Evil, Deadly Blessing, Still of the Night, Burn witch burn, etc...
Here is some good news though...
The offspring is available on dvd under the title "From a whisper to a scream"...
http://www.amazon.com/Whisper-Scream-Vincent-Price/dp/B000A7LR96/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1258902686&sr=8-2
Yes! As soon as I clicked on that link and saw the artwork, I knew I had seen that before. (I recall it even made it to some theaters under that title.) Thanks, KT! It's winging its way to me even as we speak!
Isn't The Evil just a trip? Esp. when Victor Buono shows up as the Devil?
Speaking of Burn Witch...I gotta get my girdle in gear and write that review of Conjure Wife...I'm gonna use that to kick off a new feature - The Essential Bookshelf (as soon as I can come up with a catchier title than that!)
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