Quatermass

I noticed that for sale once before a couple of months ago. I haven't seen it, but the company that released it, BLAX, has a lot of hard to find stuff. It seems like they are very poor quality though. Look at the disclaimer under this release of Abby, (an Exorcist rip off - the Blaxorcist?)
http://www.hkflix.com/xq/asp/filmID....qx/details.htm
It says
"URGENT NOTE: The picture quality of this DVD is basically terrible. It was seemingly taken from a bad VHS print and has print damage, fading around the edges, tracking squiggles along the bottom, and overall blurry VHS quality. The sound isn't so hot either. We are not accepting returns on this DVD."


Here's a list of their other blaxploitation titles. It says they are a US distributor, so they somehow must have acquired some rights to these films, meaning they are not bootlegs, but they apparently didn't do any kind remastering. I haven't seen them for sale anywhere else.
http://www.hkflix.com/xq/asp/search..../qx/titles.htm

Joe Molotov

Everything that I've heard about Blax Films says that their stuff, including Coonskin, is all bootlegged from VHS tapes.

man*machine

All of those are bootlegs - some of those films are owned by major studios.

salamander2

hope they go away, like Jef Films!!!

exharrison

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ode=imdb-adbox

chileorgullo

High Strung released by Summa Video starring steve oedekerk, and a VERY small appearance by Jim Carrey will not be released.

I reccomend this.

JerryKILL

I'm on a Fritz Lang retrospective, and had to buy the following films on VHS. I'm region free and could not find them anywhere after extensive searching...

You and Me (1938)
The Return of Frank James (1940)
Ministry of Fear (1944)
The Woman in the Window (1945)
American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950)
While the City Sleeps (1956)
Beyond A Reasonable Doubt (1956)

The remainder of the Lang filmography I was able to find on DVD, albeit a few were only available outside Region 1.

steelpotato

New Adventures of Snow White...

rw2516

I bet Return of Frank James, Woman in the Window, American Guerrilla in the Phillipines, While the City Sleeps and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt get a dvd release eventually. Both Fox and WB still appear to be dedicated to releasing classic catalog titles.

murphy_wmm

I really don't get why Disney doesn't just license out "Song of the South" to Anchor Bay, or Criterion or something...

DVD Giant

Hulk Hogan and Zues star in...."NO HOLDS BARRED!"

Greg613

Those are bootlegs, and can be found for a lot cheaper on ebay.

Joe Molotov

Most of my remaining VHS collection are cheesy Sword & Sorcery and Post-Apocalyptic stuff from the early 80's. Most of it is probably too obscure for a DVD release if it hasn't got one already, and I doubt I'd rebuy many of them even if they did get one. My collection looks something like:

Last of the Warriors
Knights
Iron Warrior
Invincible Barbarian
Ironmaster
Phoenix the Warrior
Dungeon Master
Beastmaster 2
The Blade Master
The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak
Manic Warriors
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II
and etc.

Plus my beloved copies of Wizard and Howard the Duck, of course.

Nick Danger

Alejandro Jodorowsky:
El Topo
The Magic Mountain

djskyler

These are the VHS tapes I'm holding on to due to no DVD release:

Abbott & Costello Meet Captain Kidd (poor film elements ~ recently restored)
It Ain't Hay (MCA, lost film elements)
The 30-Foot Bride of Candy Rock (Columbia)
Rio Rita (MGM)
Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (MGM)
Lost in a Harem (MGM)
Jungle Woman (MCA)
Jungle Captive (MCA)
Captive Wild Woman (MCA)
Pufnstuf (MCA)
Hey There, It's Yogi Bear (music rights issues)
Drive-In (1976)

There are other Universal Horror titles (like the Inner Sanctum series) but I hear there are more box-sets coming.

Albert71292

"Foolin' Around" (1980)
"Scavenger Hunt" (1979)

Scott Weinberg

It Came from Hollywood (1982) and Terror in the Aisles (1984) will most likely never see the light of day because of rights issues, but Paramount was pretty close to releasing the former title a few years back before they yanked it off the schedule. Darnit. The DVD cover is still up at Amazon, too. :f

On R1 I'd also love to see Scavenger Hunt (1979), Student Bodies (1981), Death Ship (1980), Alligator (1980), and of course: The Monster Squad (1987) and Night of the Creeps (1986). I hear a From Beyond (1986) director's cut is in the works, so there's one I can scratch off the list. I also want a 2-disc special edition of Solarbabies (1986), because it's freaking hilarious.

As far as "important" movies go ... where the HELL is The Incredible Shrinking Man already??

Hammer99

It came out in R2 this year.

Drexl

I'm starting to give up hope that Beer will ever be released on DVD. I guess it may have to be VHS if I want to whip out my Norbecker.

salamander2

It's coming out http://www.dvdempire.com/Exec/v4_ite...archID=4939343

Drexl

I got excited when I saw that recently, but Amazon's listing indicates something totally different from the 1985 film:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...qid=1147047760

I would love it if DVDEmpire's listing is correct and Amazon's is wrong, but I don't think that's the case.

darkhawk

Alot of these you can find on dvd now

project86

Neat?

gdstudent

The only movie that hasn’t been released on DVD that I really want is Rover Dangerfield. They really need to release it on DVD soon. I don’t see why they never have.

SI78

Recently, my dad asked me to track down a movie called 'Cold Turkey'. It's a Norman Lear movie that appears to only be available on VHS.

Personally, there are some cheesy Disney Channel movies from my youth that I adore for sentimental reasons, and I'm hanging on to the VHS releases because there's no way they'll get a DVD release. These include 'Lots Of Luck', 'Child Of Glass', 'Ollie Hopnoodles Haven Of Bliss' and the 'Not Quite Human' trilogy.