Strange Days is what I refer to as a movie straight out of the Black Mirror universe together with perhaps “Her” and some other titles that follow the same tech horror that made Black Mirror such a great show.
Ken Russell's The Devils comes to mind first. Awesome film if you've never seen it, with great performances by Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave. Also, Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures and Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark are hard to find unless you're willing to pay $40-$50 plus for a Blu-ray. Which you should because both of those movies are fantastic.
I loved Near Dark - stars 2 of my favorite actors, Lance Henriksen and Jenette Goldstein - both showed up multiple times in hugely popular films of the era...
@@stratobungle Definitely. And a big reason for them being in it, and Bill Paxton, was because Bigelow was dating James Cameron at the time. You can actually see a marquee showing Aliens in the background of a scene in Near Dark
Sadly enough, I found The Devils on a prominent porno streaming site, lol. Interestingly enough, it looked great and was, as far as I know, completely uncut.
Heavenly Creatures was great and weird. It used to come on cable all the time when I was a teen. I remember that and The Dirty Girl (about a German girl who looks into her town's past, nothing sexual), making me think I'd get in trouble if my parents saw the title and nothing else.
Kevin Smith's 'Dogma' disappeared after it's initial release. Unless you bought a copy around that time, it's become impossible to find due to Weinstein owning the rights and refusing to sell them and that's a shame - I'm glad I got my copy when I did, but I'd like to see it restored. Such a great movie!
It's available on UA-cam now. I bought my DVD copy from the Asia Pacific area and just changed all the settings to American English in the DVD settings.
THANK YOU for putting 'Strange Days' in your list, it is magnificent, one of my favourite movies of all time. I watch it every 12-18 months and it blows my mind (as it does to people in the movie) every single time. I coinsider it the most underrated movie EVER. (oh, and I have it on DVD).
#1 Cocoon (1985) #2 Strange Days (1995) #3 Showtime (2002) #4 Crossroads (2002) #5 Dawn of the Dead (1978) #6 Looking for Mr Goodbar (1977) #7 Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) #8 The Blood of Heroes (1989) #9 John Woo's Hong Kong Films #10 The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
Strange Days was definitely an interesting noirish thriller with a cool backdrop of chaos for the protagonists to navigate and an even cooler soundtrack. Juliet Lewis was so cool! And Angela Bassett kicked ass. But I think the reason for Strange Days not being super loved was the bizarre, frightening and brutal nature of the crimes that were being investigated. I actually had it on DVD but was only able to watch it once.
As someone who saw it in the theaters it came out so close to the time frame it was depicting it made it hard to imagine how technology would change much in just a few years. But we all enjoyed it from the group that went and saw it. If the time gap was bigger it wouldn't have been as hard a sell. But I'm glad I have it on dvd and watch it every few years just to fall in love with Juliette Lewis again.
Look up the other movies that were in Theaters around the same time Strange Days was released. It was up against some significantly better known and better marketed movies that were still playing in theaters; include Se7en, Now and Then, Dangerous Minds, To Wong Foo, Batman Forever, Braveheart, Apollo 13, Pocahontas. Heck, even Showgirls was doing better in the Theaters just because of its negative notoriety.
Kevin Smith's Dogma is one of the better known examples of this. There were a bunch of Fox movies that were licensed to Anchor Bay for blu-ray release that have all gone extinct, like Airheads, Nine Months and Folks! Sometimes they show up on Hulu to stream but they're never available for digital purchase and out of print on disc. Two others that are out of print on DVD with no blu-ray or digital to speak of are Faithful with Cher, Chazz Palminteri and Ryan O'Neal, as well as The Distinguished Gentleman with Eddie Murphy.
I love all of those movies you mentioned, came out in my teenage years and they all hold a special place for me. ExistenZ especially just blew me away.
Strange days is one of my favorite movies. The concept, the dialogues, the production design, the cast and the acting! Lenny bringing his legless buddy at the club a recording of a guy jogging at the beach is heartbreaking. Many more, sure, but this is the most memorable.
Watcher in the Woods is another legitimately creepy live-action Disney horror film from the 80's that I have wanted to own for years. It only ever received one DVD release in the mid 2000's. I don't have Disney + (or any streaming services), but I would assume it is also not available on the service just like Something Wicked This Way Comes, of which I do own the DVD and will never sell.
About 15 years ago we found a 2 pack of Watcher in the Woods (with the unedited ending) and Something Wicked This Way Comes and I count ourselves blessed for having bought them. Now I just need a copy of Lady in White and the Devil and Max Devlin.
As I pointed out in your Cocoon video rights issues can be extraordinarily complex for media not conceived at the time of the original release. I used to work for Sony and sometimes it's impossible to re-release a film while meeting a budget that fits in with the likely revenue. Much of it is down to music clearance but in other cases it's down to rights retention where the originator never sold the rights beyond theatrical release. In non-English markets some voice actors never signed away their voice performance for new media and the cost of recasting is too much. In other cases the distribution rights belong to companies that no longer exist but there was no reversionary clause so companies are afraid to release in case there is legal action if a release is successful. In other cases actors, writers or directors retain reserved rights. It's a minefield.
Rights issue is definitely a pain in the ass when it comes to films. To go along with your "media not conceived at the time" mention, another film I can think of is the movie Rad (1986). At the time it was released, VHS and then shortly Laserdisc were the only media formats that were out, to which Rad was released onto. However, when it came to DVD release, there was none. It was held up mostly due to rights issues, as they never took into account DVD and Blu-Ray coming to be, so for years, the only way to have a physical release on a modern format was a bootleg DVD made using a rip of the Laserdisc. Eventually, it found it's way onto streaming for a couple of years before it finally got a Blu-Ray. Mill Creek Entertainment also released a Blu-Ray steelbook of the movie in March 2021 and serves as #46 Mondo X steelbook collaboration with some totally rad artwork. And, there is currently a 4K Blu-Ray soon to be released of it also.
It is like the TV series WKRP: In Cincinnati. The rights for much of the real music played on the show ran out in a few years, so they couldn't even show it in re-runs on TV. At least until they edited out the music or replaced it with soundalike songs. I recall an episode with a Pink Floyd song and heard that it would have cost them way to much to get the rights to put it on DVD. They did have a DVD release, but with a fair bit of the original music edited out.
I hope they are working this out in modern contracts and license agreements. Too many movies and video games get stuck in limbo because of this lack of foresight. It is frustrating. They need to work on perpetuity licensing agreements with built in pay structures for however the current rights holder is. If that cannot be determined, then it gets set in an account until it is found or a reasonable time passes. If you don’t uphold your rights and let them lapse between owners to the point that many years pass, your loss. Don’t want to sign off on your song being in this movie from this point on? Your song isn’t in the movie to begin with. Same with actors. You are giving this performance in this movie, no matter the medium or restoration/upscale, from this point forward, or find another movie. Same with video games.
Thank you for your easily digestible explanation. I’m not a true movie nerd so I’ve often wondered how the boilerplate “legal rights” company line works. Cheers Mate!
One recent film that has gotten lost over the years is the 1996 movie Shine. It was the movie that put Geoffrey Rush on the map, at least in the US; he won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role, and the film received a whole slew of Oscar nominations. It did receive a DVD release in the 2000s but has never been released on Blu-ray in the US, nor is it available to stream (at least on Amazon or Netflix, it could be available somewhere else). It has been released on Blu-ray in Australia, including a very, very recent release earlier this year, but Australia is in a different region than we are, Region B instead of our Region A. I have a feeling that the music rights are behind this, as while the classical compositions used in the film (Chopin, Rachmaninoff, etc.) are in the public domain, David Helfgott's performances of those works are not.
It's insane that Diane Keaton was in "Goodbar" and "Annie Hall" in the same year. Completely different characters/stories and she could have won the Academy Award for EITHER role.
A low-quality copy of this film has been available at Certain Online Sources for a while. Somewhere, someone has a better copy of this film. I hope they get around to making it available.
Kind of sad... same with the "Our Gang" comedies or so I heard. One thing to be against racist portrayals but they ARE part of history and they were the attitudes being promoted then.. that is true of ALL content in some sense... to obliterate the memory and the other creativity in these products is wrong. The truth is the truth and there are ways to cut against the harmful stuff.. but don't wipe the history clean and leave out the actors, singers and storytellers too.
Keep your DVDs period. No government, or private corporation should have a stranglehold on the information you get to see, including art. This digital only future, where you own nothing, that these companies are pushing for is dangerous on so many different levels. Keep your physical media, be it DVD's, CD's, Vynils, books, magazines, etc...
Ruthles People. That dark comedy with Danny De Vito, Bette Midler, Judge Reynhold and Helen Slater. Down and out in Beverly Hills. Richard Dreyfuss and Nick Nolte.
Freaked (1993) starring Alex Winter, Randy Quaid, Bobcat Goldthwait, Mr. T, and even Keanu Reeves in an uncredited role as Ortiz the Dog Boy. Impossible to find or stream (legally) unless you want to pay for the original DVD or vhs release. It's a hoot though. The best way to describe it is take the movie Freaks (1932) and put it in a blender with Basket Case 2, The Naked Gun, and South Park.
Strand Releasing just put out a bluray and 4k of The Doom Generation remasted by Gregg Araki in 4k......and Nowhere is going to be coming out soon as well :-)
I love most of Gregg Araki’s films, especially Nowhere and The Doom Generation. I have Nowhere on Laserdisc and I’m glad to hear that it will finally be coming to DVD.
So I am a Brit and I have a Blu Ray of Strange Days. Not Sure if only Europe got a version but yeah it does exist. Excellent film, superb 90's soundtrack. One of those films that definitely captures the mood and sound of the times very well.
I used to own a second-hand electronic store, in my area (Replay Entertainment). And I thought, "that's weird" when that title came up on this list, because of that store. At any given time, I had 5-10 copies of that movie on DVD. Of course, this was the late '00s, so it goes to show: things change.
I have it on a hard drive, but I also have it on a dvd, which I think I had to get from the UK, because here in Germany the only version was overdubbed.
@@rolmodel12. We're in the middle of a kind of mass extinction event in the intellectual property world. What should have been a golden age of access has become sort of like the end of Fahrenheit 451 where the people gather in the forest and keep the memories of the banned & burned books alive in their heads.. in this case those who can manage pirated copies on their home servers & store their physical media become repositories for content!
@melamineflorentine8134 very well said, and an apt analogy! On the one hand, it is sad. It makes me long for those days in our past. But, on the other hand, we should be grateful for what we have experienced. Kind of like the "better to love and lost, than never loved at all."
I live in the UK and have Strange Days on Bluray, one of my fave films. Also have Day of the Dead on Bluray & Cocoon on DVD. The US is very lucky though because there are hundreds of films on Bluray in the US that have never been released on DVD or Bluray in the UK.
I can definitely respect this list. Strange Days I wanted in my collection for years. The only way I can do it is to have it on a hard drive and watch it like that and put it on a CD. I would love a Blu-Ray Version of it. Also Dogma and the series millennium is hard to find.
I lucked out on my copy of Strange Days, found it in the dollar bin at the local used books/CD's/DVD's store. That sucker came home with me sooooooo fast. Definitely an underappreciated movie
I bought Millenium not too long after it came out on DVD. I bought it the first time I saw it on sale because I refuse to pay launch price on 99% of titles. I bought other TV series that were shitcanned, usually after only one season: Space Above And Beyond, Invasion, Surface, American Gothic, Jericho, Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me. I was pissed when I found out Dead Like Me had been released in 1080p for streaming, but there was no Blu-Ray release. So I just have my DVD copy. But at least I have a copy. There was a series on the WB network called Jack & Jill that ran for two seasons before getting shitcanned. Because it used music it would cost too much to release it on disc(and I assume streaming too?). I would love to have it on Blu-Ray but would happily settle for a DVD copy....
The Chase staring Charlie Sheen and Kristy Swanson, with Henry Rollins as the cop chasing them. The part where Anthony Kiedis and Flea go vigilante and try to take them out is great!
Studio Canal (Euro) finally put out a Blu and it's actually really good PQ & AQ, as did Anolis (Ger) with similar results. Also, yep, Apocolypto FINALL got a NA release.
With physical media on the way out, keep ALL your Blu-Rays and DVD's. It's just a matter of time until digital media purchased will be removed from your libraries. Physical media is yours, nobody can take it from you.
I actually went through this with Strange Days recently. I wanted to watch it, but at the time, it wasn't available to stream anywhere. I had to buy an old DVD off of Amazon. Glad to know that it's now on Max.
Something Wicked This Way Comes is pretty much the perfect intro to horror for kids. The book is wonderful, and I'm really glad to say I've got my DVD! (I think it's older than that copy, iirc it's in a gold box, totally different art.) Along these lines - I thought I lost my DVD of Urban Legend and spent six months swinging from pissed to sulking that it would cost $50 on eBay to replace. Lucky for me, I kept the box and found the DVD bunking with another horror movie 😅
I dont know if Something Wicked This Way Comes is a movie I've completely never heard of or one of those movies I saw as a kid but completely forgot about and watching it will trigger a bunch of old memories. Either way it looks decent and dark and made during that weird live action era of disney that I loved so much as a kid so I'm definitely gonna check it out, thanks for tuning me on to it!
The Heartbreak Kid, along with the 1975 version of The Stepford Wives and Sleuth, is being held hostage by Bristol-Meyers-Squibb, who retained the rights from their investment in the defunct studio that made them. It's unlikely that we will ever see any of those films on Blu-Ray. You can also forget about ever seeing Blu-Rays of vintage drive-in flicks like I Was a Teenage Frankenstein and I Was a Teenage Werewolf. Susan Hart, the widow of AIP co-founder James Nicolson, owns the rights to those and a few other titles, and she wants a ridiculous amount of money for them.
Looking For Mr Goodbar is currently streaming in HD on Paramount + in the UK. Watched it a few months ago and also have a copy saved to my TiVo box when was shown on TV a few years ago,
Just for fun, here's my Top 10 for movies that I can't find in Australia (and I really want to watch or re-watch): 1. The Gift (2000) 2. The Skulls (2000) 3. Basketball Diaries (1995) 4. Silkwood (1983) 5. Manhunter (1986) 6. The Sure Thing (1985) 7. Bad Dreams (1988) 8. Less Than Zero (1987) 9. Rapid Fire (1992) 10. The Fall (2006)
Wasn't The Gift released by Imprint in Australia? Which made it really expensive in the UK! I have a DVD which cost me £1.50 second hand, so I'll stick with that!
You know one that always bugged me? The Love Bug from 1997 starring Bruce Campbell, it's not on Disney+ and it was never released on dvd or blu ray, only the original VHS, it's a shame too since it's fun and has the return of Dean Jones to the series
When I saw the Disney logo I was thinking Songs of the South. Baskett won an honorary Oscar for his role. Id LOVE a restored copy ov this film, and Black Cauldron directors cut, before I die.
Finally saw "Something Wicked this way Comes" and you are right it is a very good movie. Kind of eerie in a way most movies of the genre would dream to be.
Strange Days has been my #1 favorite movie since 1999, when I discovered it first. I had a 4:3 projection TV then so didn't mind a non-anamorphic R1 DVD. Later upgraded it to anamorphic Australian DVD, and then bought over the years 3 different German Blu-ray releases with new transfers.
@@whssy the 2015 '20th anniversary', only it no longer comes in a slipcase with the original 'stacked 3 heads' poster art, and the image Amazon has is wrong.
Kevin Smith’s “Dogma” is not available on any streaming platform and never airs on tv. It did get a Blu-ray release but people are t willing to part with it for much less than $80. Great flick.
I never got to see the video about Cocoon, but I will say, I have that Blu-ray and am thankful for that. I got it way back in 2011… I also have Dogma (got it new in 2012 at a Fry’s electronics for 8.99) Looking for Mr. Goodbar is strangely available here on UA-cam, and Something Wicked This Way Comes is available if you’re a Disney Movie Club member but that’s kinda niche these days… I completely agree that this to me is baffling that they can’t even license some of these titles out - it’s frustrating to no end that collectors often get the shaft and I hope that someday this just isn’t a thing anymore. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you very much for this interesting and timely subject. Would love if this became the first of a series of discussions on more films that fall into this category! 😎
Harrison Ford in The Mosquito Coast is another one of those rare hard to find movies along with the Denzel Washington and John Lithgow psychological 1991 thriller Riccochet, which I can't Find anywhere.😅
"Gleaming the Cube" an 80s skateboard movie with Christian Slater. Sure it's not the best movie but I used to love it back in the day cuz it had most of the Bones Brigade in it like Tony Hawk , Lance Mountain and Rodney Mullen in it. Very hard to find.
I would definitely love to see “Star 80” get a blu-ray release one day. I watched it back when it was on HBO Max earlier this year and it aired on TCM a few months ago but despite that, it has never been released on blu-ray. It’s only been released on DVD on one of those crappy paper cases. “Star 80” definitely deserves a blu-ray release.
Yeah, I also wish it would come out on Blu-ray and even better in 4K. I do have it in HD in my iTunes library but this great film deserves an HD physical release.
I’ve recently wanted to rewatch Fright Night 2 and was surprised that… I cannot find it on physical. Another I’ve been trying to find for awhile is the Val Kilmer movie Real Genius. Friend of mine has been trying to get a copy of The Jerky Boys for years, we rewatched it on streaming a couple years ago but it’s impossible to find on physical which is a shame. Very surprised about all of these because excellent movies.
I've been wanting to rewatch Fright Night 2 for ages! I saw it as a teen and loved it. I'd like to know if my tastes have changed radically or if it really is underrated.
Fright Night 2 is on UA-cam in HD. Rumor has it there are free sites you can download full movies from UA-cam as .mp4 that play perfectly on you bluray player. So I've heard.
@@richardvillafana8111 Yeah, those were the days.... eff the head.... Critical Bill.... Salton Sea had poo bear, and bobby ocean.. ua-cam.com/video/TO16f6OCCcI/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared ua-cam.com/video/d7W3foXyHAg/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared So wrong they were right.... 🕊️
@@richardvillafana8111 💯 my friend, I'm getting my replies blocked I sent ya some choice clips from the film, but alas they are blocked by the devil's at YT..... 🕊️
Light Of Day with Michael J Fox and Joan Jett, needs a high def release. The only DVDs available are imports/bootlegs. Prime Video has it available on streaming but the transfer looks like a VHS copy.
Salute of the Jugger is definitely a hidden gem, I have the extended version but it's a more of a VHS rip. Some other movies I would like to see is America 3000, Panic Room and Hong Kong versions of Jackie Chan movies like Police Story 4: First Strike and Rumble in the Bronx which is hard to find. There are also series and miniseries gems that's never released in HD like Jack of All Trades, Xena: Warrior Princess, the miniseries Merlin starring Sam Neill, Arabian Nights and Odyssey starring Armand Asante.
I've been fortunate enough to find both John Woo's "Hard-boiled" and "The Killer" on blu-ray along with a Twilight Time blu-ray release of "Rapid Fire" starring the late Brandon Lee. People who didn't realise what they had decided to trade these titles in at my local movie resale store. As an avid film collector myself I couldn't pass these up.
I'm reminded of the actor Warwick Davis lamenting the removal of the streaming series "Willow" being removed from Disney Plus shortly after it's release. He said it hurts his soul to know that nobody will ever know the art him and thousands of other's created, and worked so hard on. I've never seen the streaming show, because I'm sick of these media conglomerates, "re-imagining" childhood favourites, but respect the artists behind the show. This whole situation is made even more awful because the series was removed to save a few bucks on royalties and taxes, in a time of awful Disney business decisions.
Don't care it was terrible it deserves to be wiped from history. It completely shit all over the original movie and was part of this never ending BS woke movement ruining films and media.
200 Cigarettes! Great, underrated comedy with a cast that was in top form. Apparently it did so badly in theaters that the studio had all but denied its existence, granting it a single DVD release and not allowing it to stream anywhere.
Pacific Heights and Jacob's Ladder were two great movies that took me a long time and more money than I'd hope to track down in a physical copy. To my knowledge, neither was available on streaming the last time I checked.
I'm almost positive that Jacob's Ladder was recently on Tubi. And not the stupid remake. I KNOW I saw it on one of the sites recently and I'm damn near certain it was Tubi. It's not there NOW as I just checked but recently it was somewhere streaming. I only have NF Tubi and MAX so it was definitely one of them.
Pacific Heights was on either Starz or Showtime recently but Jacob's Ladder used to show up on one of the cable channels during October and Halloween but it's been a while since I've come across it
The Beatles “Let It Be” film has never had a DVD or Blu Ray release. It had a very short-lived videotape release in the early 1980s but has been out of print since. While Peter Jackson produced an 8-hour film from the sessions, it is missing several of the full-song performances from the original film. There were rumors that the Let It Be film would be reissued alongside Peter Jackson’s film, but it never came to be. Therefore it appears this will continue to elude us, perhaps for many years to come.
truly an unbelievable outcome. I sensed trouble when the spoken of re-release in conjunction with the release of "Beatles Get Back" never seemed to be nailed down. Then the disappointment when it still ended up not happening.
I'm a veteran movie collector, and I own 950 movies. And I have Cocoon on DVD. It wasn't very hard to find where I live. So, I found it at a thirft store and slammed my money on my first copy! 📽📀
@@TheGodmasterX Some people like myself have over 2000+. I bought many of mine at garage sales and FB post collections. But awesome you snagged Cocoon, never came across it yet. I've spent years burning them to digital and now in storage.
@@TheGodmasterX Chill buddy, he was just being sarcastically humorous. BTW, my collection sits at 4K+ Blus and dvds and my mental sanity has been questioned by a LOT of folks, including friends. No harm intended, none taken. :)
Walt Disney;s Song Of The South (1946) can be included on the list. The full-length film has been released in its entirety on VHS and LaserDisc in various European and Asian countries. In the United Kingdom, it was released on PAL VHS between 1982 and 2000. In Japan, it appeared on NTSC VHS and LaserDisc in 1985, 1990 and 1992, with Japanese subtitles during songs. (Under Japanese copyright law, the film is now in the public domain.)
Funny enough, I bought two different DVD editions of Dawn Of The Dead, and I bought the Dragon Dynasty prints of The Killer and Hard Boiled before the Harvey Weinstein trial. I never imagined they'd be rarities.
Local used bookstore has great collection of blu-ray and DVDs, all for $3. Just got Sling Blade on blu-ray there a few months ago. I hit that place every weekend and walk out with a large stack of movies.
"The Keep" is damn near impossible to find. Great book that was made int a decent movie but the rights are a mess due to the "Tangerine Dream" soundtrack.
Little Darlings is a film that isn’t legally available on DVD or bluray. Again…it’s a music rights issue. Sometime earlier this year though, it was announced it may be seeing a bluray release next year! The Midnight Hour is another classic that got a DVD release (which now goes for good money), but hasnt had a bluray release. As for Dawn of the Dead, the original bluray from Anchor Bay might be OOP, but it can be found for a decent price. I’ve got it on VHS (multiple different releases), laserdisc (again, multiple releases), bluray (same thing), BETA, and the incredible 4K release from Second Sight. Long live physical media!
Movies that i love but hard to find: *Returno A Aztlan. Dvd are rare. Never came out on bluray. *Erendira, ikikunari, released on dvd. Never on bluray.
My personal list of titles not yet available on blu-ray: Bringing Out the Dead (1999) High Society (1956) In America (2002) Panic Room (2002) Titan A.E. (2000) Map of the Human Heart (1992) Le Notti Bianche (1957) Ryans Daughter (1970) The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) A Prairie Home Companion (2006) A Canterbury Tale (1944) Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Thanks! I have Cocoon on Region 2 DVD and purchased a Region 2 player just for it! Also, my wife loves "Bugsy Malone", also only available on Region 2.
I found some pretty obscure films from CEX in the past, but most of them were worthless, but Dark City was another decent find, from another used media store, but some seem to be only available in certain regions in PAL at least, like Australia, or Germany.
One movie I have now that appears to be very rare is the "Filmmaker's Signature Series" Blu-ray of The French Connection. I think ever since the streaming versions were edited, this has been tough to get. There was another earlier Blu-ray as well but the mastering isn't as good as the FSS one. I remember buying that for like $13 when it came out.
Dead or Alive, a 2006 action film based on a fighting video game is extremely hard to find in Blu-ray. The movie was widely panned, and low Blu-ray sales must have made it go OOP before many copies could end up in circulation.
I love DOA! Got the DVD and Blu-ray. Such a fun movie. Didn't know it was hard to find. Once I finally get a film on physical media I, naturally, stop looking for it.
@@dorailroad4285 yes, but the title is a line from Shakespeare's Macbeth, I find it interesting when someone takes a line from one medium and uses it for the basis for something in a different medium... Metallica has The Call of Ktulu (Cthulhu) which is just the name of a story from HP Lovecraft and For Whom The Bell Tolls which is the name of an Earnest Hemingway book but they also have a song call "The Thing That Should Not Be" which is a line from a story called "They're Shadow Over Innsmouth" by HP Lovecraft...
I'd like to see 11 Harrowhouse with Charles Grodin and Candace Bergen. It was good fun, a comedy heist movie from the early 70s. I never see it anywhere. This makes me feel my years I saw all these movies in the theatre with the exception of Crossroads.
I had THE toughest time trying to get a DVD of "The Comeback" with Robert DeNiro & Morgan Freeman since the movie was never released anywhere in the U.S. ! I finally had to buy a foreign DVD.
@@JoBloOriginals It was never released to any theater or any streaming service that I know of. I checked! I finally had to buy a copy off of Ebay from Australia!
I have Strange Days. It was pretty easy to find on Ebay. Another movie that stars Strange Days actor the late Tom Sizemore is Watch It! released in 1993. I cannot find it anywhere online or on dvd.
101 Dalmatians with Glenn Close and Jeff Daniels. I've been looking everywhere but can't find a region 1 copy. I even called the Disney movie club and they didn't have it. 😢
I lucked out big time with Strange Days, I had it on VHS for years and was able to find a copy on DVD on facebook marketplace a few years back. I paid $6 for it including shipping. I also lucked out with a few of John Woo's Hong Kong films on DVD, I was able to pick a few up not long ago.
I saw Salute Of The Jugger in a test screening in LA. It was a great post-apocalyptic film and really great vehicle for Rutger Hauer. I later saw Blood of Heroes; it's horrible hack job of the movie. I have never been able to get a copy of Salute Of The Jugger, so I don't know if it's the same cut of the movie that I saw. Test screenings was a mixed bag, but a lot of fun. In most cases the extended cuts were way better than the theatrical release.
I have Looking for Mr. Goodbar on DVD. Looked forever and found it on Amazon a few years ago. Another hard one to find is "Bug" with Bradford Dillman. A real cult classic. I also have the DVD but almost impossible to find now.
Am I the only person who 'took sail on the high seas' and found each and every one of these films, in HD, as he was listing them off? You could say that I found them in a ̶y̶i̶f̶y̶ jiffy.
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He could and should have done the list with more rare films, however Looking for Mr Goodbar has never been released on DVD/Blu-ray/4K yet (though it will probably get a release in 2024), and The Heartbreak Kid isn't in HD and likely never will be, and its 20+ years old DVD is long out of print.
@@boltzmannbrayn 'Looking for Mr. Goodbar' was done in HD at some point, because it's readily available in 1080p. But you are correct about 'The Heartbreak Kid'; I was only able to locate 720p HDTV (but it seems to be intact, with no logos, and uncensored).
The Fall (2006 film) It’s GORGEOUS! They shot it in 24 countries over the course of four years. And now you can’t find it streaming or on DVD anywhere. The AV club said it was the best movie that was released in 2008. It’s so sad…. The Fall is a 2006 adventure fantasy film directed and co-written by Tarsem and starring Lee Pace, Catinca Untaru, and Justine Waddell.
Kevin Smiths Dogma is impossible to find. There was a DVD release in the early 2000s but because of the controversial religious subject matter and some rights issues with the Weinsteins, it's tied up from being released on Blu ray.
It's not impossible to find. It did have a Blu-ray and DVD release. The thing is people don't want to pay $60 for a DVD of that and $100+ for a BD. The reason it hasn't gone on digital or had a repress is because Harvey Weinstein owns the rights and hasn't negotiated them since he went to prison.
Yeah, I'm glad I own one of those DVD copies. Not sure if it helped that I'm from Sweden, where few people have any religious affiliation at all and even fewer give a rat's ass about any supposed controversy with religious connotations.
@@erikthompson619 The subject matter is not the reason the movie went out of print. It's because Harvey Weinstein owns the distribution rights completely 100%. He has not accepted any offers Kevin Smith has made to buy the rights.
First of all, is the anime, Angel’s Egg. If you or anyone can ever track down a copy on VHS, DVD, BluRay or whatever, by all means please let me know. It’s an absolute masterpiece that has been lost to obscurity. I was hoping they’d rerelease it, as they just had a screening in NYC during an exhibition honoring the work of the artist behind the animation style of the film. (He also did all of those handrawn illustrations for the booklets in the old Final Fantasy games) The Basketball Diaries is the film adaptation of Jim Caroll’s book with a young Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg as well as a few other young actors before they got their big starts. I own it on VHS, because some movies I own from the 90’s just never translated as well to dvd. (The Crow is one such example) In the case of The Basketball Diaries, it’s got an amazing soundtrack. However, after years of owning it on VHS, I finally found a used copy on DVD, and discovered a huge problem with the sound mixing. You see the way it was originally shot was to have music playing in the foreground while the characters spoke and yelled in barely audible words because these particular scenes were more about setting the tone then providing any kind of compelling dialogue. But in the DVD copy, it’s like the person doing the sound mixing from one format to the other didn’t understand what the original was going for. He does the opposite and has the vocals in the foreground while the music plays softly in the background where you can barely hear it. It’s jarring, it’s awkward, and it’s just bad sound mixing that ruins the whole effect of the movie. Especially the scenes that were set to songs. Unfortunately this movie went out of print on DVD and I doubt they’ll be making anymore anytime soon. I’m just glad I still have a copy on VHS…
Looking for Mr. Goodbar is not only hard to find now, it was hard to find within a few years of release. HBO used to do an occasional run of it in the 80's ,usually at 3 a.m.. It was really weird. It was maybe Diane Keaton's best role and a real gritty depiction of the time. A great movie ..if you can find it.
Looking for Mr. Goodbar has been cleared for release recently and it will be released by a boutique blu-ray label in the future, it's speculated that Vinegar Syndrome is doing it.
Pink Floyd The Wall directed by Alan Parker is great example of a movie that never was available on Blu-ray, only in DVD, Laserdic, VHS, Betamax, but it still difficult to get a DVD or Laserdisc or VHS or Betamax of that movie. The Man Who Saw Tomorrow starring Orson Welles was only available in Betamax and VHS, but never was available in Laserdisc, DVD and Blu-ray.
I had to go to either Germany or Australia (online) to get a Blu-ray copy of Strange Days. But I'm glad that I went through the trouble. It's a movie that's more than worth owning physically and the Blu-ray copy I have looks beautiful. The fact that it can't be found here in the US as a 4K re-release is criminal.
I have a large DVD collection that includes numerous films that you can't find anywhere anymore and I intend to hold onto it. One in my collection is mentioned here; "Something Wicked This Way Comes", a pretty good little horror film. Unfortunately though, another trend is for studios not to spend the money to produce a physical copy of a film or series on any format any longer. You may be able to "own" a digital copy but that's all. The third season of The Orville is one example I recently encountered. People love or hate The Orville, I happen to love it and have the first two seasons on DVD, I grabbed them as soon as they came available. But it doesn't look like the people at Disney, who let's face it, are pretty much asshats these days anyway, are going to release a DVD or Blu-ray version of season three.
I got a few of these stored on video file. Y'all know how expensive the DVD of Deathstalker 2 (aka THE GREATEST FILM OF ALL TIME) is? I'm just glad to have that stored in my flashdrive too
I'm SO glad somebody else agknowledged the issue with 'Something Wicked This Way Comes', another Disney cult-classic that deserves more attention! I can't even find a decent copy on eBay! (BTW, it's the same way with 'The Watcher in the Woods') I still can't believe they have 'The Black Cauldron' on Disney+, but not that one! =\
I think I just lucked out. This video prompted me to go to Ebay and I snagged a copy of Something Wicked This Way Comes on Blu-ray for $30. Every other option was alot more expensive.
@@Gunsight-One I guess you must be; I noticed that too. You must've have been the lucky one who bought it before I could! XD (I didn't have a lot extra after Christmas. Watta ya gonna do?) Seriously though, I'm glad someone else cares about that movie. Hope you enjoy it! =)
@@BuckarooBanzai84 I'm kinda stoked. I havent watched that movie since the good old VHS days, but I wore that tape out. I imagine the dark nature of the movie gives Disney cold feet when it comes to promoting it.
Strange Days is such an underrated movie! The premise is something I'm sure would change our entire world. I'll be looking for it now. 😃
Strange Days is amazing, and has such a great high concept.
@@DrewTrox there's so much that could be experienced for people that wouldn't otherwise get to. Endless possibilities
Strange Days is what I refer to as a movie straight out of the Black Mirror universe together with perhaps “Her” and some other titles that follow the same tech horror that made Black Mirror such a great show.
@@maujo2009 1995 was a good year for that. Strange Days, Virtuosity, Johnny Mnemonic, and Ghost in the Shell! I've got a new movie marathon to watch.
We've invented every flavor of chewing gum. What's left to do?
Ken Russell's The Devils comes to mind first. Awesome film if you've never seen it, with great performances by Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave.
Also, Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures and Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark are hard to find unless you're willing to pay $40-$50 plus for a Blu-ray. Which you should because both of those movies are fantastic.
I loved Near Dark - stars 2 of my favorite actors, Lance Henriksen and Jenette Goldstein - both showed up multiple times in hugely popular films of the era...
@@stratobungle Definitely. And a big reason for them being in it, and Bill Paxton, was because Bigelow was dating James Cameron at the time. You can actually see a marquee showing Aliens in the background of a scene in Near Dark
@@johng6565 Near Dark is a amazing Vampire Movie. Only thing that kept it from making a ton of money it came out the same time The Lost Boys did.
Sadly enough, I found The Devils on a prominent porno streaming site, lol. Interestingly enough, it looked great and was, as far as I know, completely uncut.
Heavenly Creatures was great and weird. It used to come on cable all the time when I was a teen. I remember that and The Dirty Girl (about a German girl who looks into her town's past, nothing sexual), making me think I'd get in trouble if my parents saw the title and nothing else.
Kevin Smith's 'Dogma' disappeared after it's initial release. Unless you bought a copy around that time, it's become impossible to find due to Weinstein owning the rights and refusing to sell them and that's a shame - I'm glad I got my copy when I did, but I'd like to see it restored. Such a great movie!
VHS
I found a used DVD on Thiftbooks over the summer.
I got mine
Maybe in America, but not in Europe. Starting price on ebay: 1€
It's available on UA-cam now. I bought my DVD copy from the Asia Pacific area and just changed all the settings to American English in the DVD settings.
THANK YOU for putting 'Strange Days' in your list, it is magnificent, one of my favourite movies of all time. I watch it every 12-18 months and it blows my mind (as it does to people in the movie) every single time. I coinsider it the most underrated movie EVER. (oh, and I have it on DVD).
#1 Cocoon (1985)
#2 Strange Days (1995)
#3 Showtime (2002)
#4 Crossroads (2002)
#5 Dawn of the Dead (1978)
#6 Looking for Mr Goodbar (1977)
#7 Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
#8 The Blood of Heroes (1989)
#9 John Woo's Hong Kong Films
#10 The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
the older heartbreak kid movie ;) (not ben stiller version)
@@Dan_d00d Updated. Cheers 👍
Is this for people that don’t know how to push play and watch the video?
@@SonnyGTA If you're one of those people then yes.
I was just thinking of Blood of Hero’s. Knew someone that stayed in the same hotel with Rutger in Australia when he was shooting this ⭐️
Strange Days was definitely an interesting noirish thriller with a cool backdrop of chaos for the protagonists to navigate and an even cooler soundtrack. Juliet Lewis was so cool! And Angela Bassett kicked ass. But I think the reason for Strange Days not being super loved was the bizarre, frightening and brutal nature of the crimes that were being investigated. I actually had it on DVD but was only able to watch it once.
I can't understand how "Strange Days" didn't go over better than it did.
Phenomenal film.
Bad marketing with really bad trailers but the movie is awesome.
As someone who saw it in the theaters it came out so close to the time frame it was depicting it made it hard to imagine how technology would change much in just a few years. But we all enjoyed it from the group that went and saw it. If the time gap was bigger it wouldn't have been as hard a sell. But I'm glad I have it on dvd and watch it every few years just to fall in love with Juliette Lewis again.
@@LordRae that pesky fourth dimension
Look up the other movies that were in Theaters around the same time Strange Days was released. It was up against some significantly better known and better marketed movies that were still playing in theaters; include Se7en, Now and Then, Dangerous Minds, To Wong Foo, Batman Forever, Braveheart, Apollo 13, Pocahontas. Heck, even Showgirls was doing better in the Theaters just because of its negative notoriety.
It was probably ahead of it's time. I bet it would go over really well if made today.
That Strange Days soundtrack will blow your mind. Juliette Lewis turns out to be an AMAZING rock singer. The whole finale and its score is powerfull.
Her band, Juliet & The Licks have put out some great music...
I can hardly wait... ;) amazing soundtrack overall, so many great artists
Score uses Deep Forest tracks, but it's an overall excellent and eclectic mix, including Skunk Anansie, Diatribe, Tricky, and Lords of Acid!
Terrific film, saw it back in 1995 in theaters and loved it.
@@JnEricsonx Me too
Kevin Smith's Dogma is one of the better known examples of this.
There were a bunch of Fox movies that were licensed to Anchor Bay for blu-ray release that have all gone extinct, like Airheads, Nine Months and Folks! Sometimes they show up on Hulu to stream but they're never available for digital purchase and out of print on disc.
Two others that are out of print on DVD with no blu-ray or digital to speak of are Faithful with Cher, Chazz Palminteri and Ryan O'Neal, as well as The Distinguished Gentleman with Eddie Murphy.
Strange Days is one of the most underrated Sci Fi of the 90s alongside Dark City, Event Horizons, Gattaca, Existenz, Thirteenth Floor, etc
All of these deserve a criterion release
I love all of those movies you mentioned, came out in my teenage years and they all hold a special place for me. ExistenZ especially just blew me away.
Thirteenth floor is the second most expensive bkuray i bought
Strange days is one of my favorite movies. The concept, the dialogues, the production design, the cast and the acting!
Lenny bringing his legless buddy at the club a recording of a guy jogging at the beach is heartbreaking. Many more, sure, but this is the most memorable.
Lucky enough to have both Strange Days and Dark City on DVD. Both so under rated
Watcher in the Woods is another legitimately creepy live-action Disney horror film from the 80's that I have wanted to own for years. It only ever received one DVD release in the mid 2000's. I don't have Disney + (or any streaming services), but I would assume it is also not available on the service just like Something Wicked This Way Comes, of which I do own the DVD and will never sell.
Watcher in the Woods has a strange story behind the ending. Go look it up.
About 15 years ago we found a 2 pack of Watcher in the Woods (with the unedited ending) and Something Wicked This Way Comes and I count ourselves blessed for having bought them. Now I just need a copy of Lady in White and the Devil and Max Devlin.
As I pointed out in your Cocoon video rights issues can be extraordinarily complex for media not conceived at the time of the original release. I used to work for Sony and sometimes it's impossible to re-release a film while meeting a budget that fits in with the likely revenue. Much of it is down to music clearance but in other cases it's down to rights retention where the originator never sold the rights beyond theatrical release. In non-English markets some voice actors never signed away their voice performance for new media and the cost of recasting is too much. In other cases the distribution rights belong to companies that no longer exist but there was no reversionary clause so companies are afraid to release in case there is legal action if a release is successful. In other cases actors, writers or directors retain reserved rights. It's a minefield.
Rights issue is definitely a pain in the ass when it comes to films. To go along with your "media not conceived at the time" mention, another film I can think of is the movie Rad (1986). At the time it was released, VHS and then shortly Laserdisc were the only media formats that were out, to which Rad was released onto. However, when it came to DVD release, there was none. It was held up mostly due to rights issues, as they never took into account DVD and Blu-Ray coming to be, so for years, the only way to have a physical release on a modern format was a bootleg DVD made using a rip of the Laserdisc. Eventually, it found it's way onto streaming for a couple of years before it finally got a Blu-Ray. Mill Creek Entertainment also released a Blu-Ray steelbook of the movie in March 2021 and serves as #46 Mondo X steelbook collaboration with some totally rad artwork. And, there is currently a 4K Blu-Ray soon to be released of it also.
It is like the TV series WKRP: In Cincinnati. The rights for much of the real music played on the show ran out in a few years, so they couldn't even show it in re-runs on TV. At least until they edited out the music or replaced it with soundalike songs. I recall an episode with a Pink Floyd song and heard that it would have cost them way to much to get the rights to put it on DVD. They did have a DVD release, but with a fair bit of the original music edited out.
Yeah I still remember that was the reason Shout Cancelled the Werewolf TV series on DVD.
I hope they are working this out in modern contracts and license agreements. Too many movies and video games get stuck in limbo because of this lack of foresight. It is frustrating. They need to work on perpetuity licensing agreements with built in pay structures for however the current rights holder is. If that cannot be determined, then it gets set in an account until it is found or a reasonable time passes. If you don’t uphold your rights and let them lapse between owners to the point that many years pass, your loss. Don’t want to sign off on your song being in this movie from this point on? Your song isn’t in the movie to begin with. Same with actors. You are giving this performance in this movie, no matter the medium or restoration/upscale, from this point forward, or find another movie. Same with video games.
Thank you for your easily digestible explanation. I’m not a true movie nerd so I’ve often wondered how the boilerplate “legal rights” company line works. Cheers Mate!
One recent film that has gotten lost over the years is the 1996 movie Shine. It was the movie that put Geoffrey Rush on the map, at least in the US; he won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role, and the film received a whole slew of Oscar nominations. It did receive a DVD release in the 2000s but has never been released on Blu-ray in the US, nor is it available to stream (at least on Amazon or Netflix, it could be available somewhere else). It has been released on Blu-ray in Australia, including a very, very recent release earlier this year, but Australia is in a different region than we are, Region B instead of our Region A. I have a feeling that the music rights are behind this, as while the classical compositions used in the film (Chopin, Rachmaninoff, etc.) are in the public domain, David Helfgott's performances of those works are not.
I feel that way about Silkwood. Where is it?
It's insane that Diane Keaton was in "Goodbar" and "Annie Hall" in the same year. Completely different characters/stories and she could have won the Academy Award for EITHER role.
annie hall is great, but I hav`nt seen goodbar , i will watch it later tonight !
@@StuWrightWell he spoiled the ending
One movie that is so rare to find (at least in the US) is Disney's 'Song Of The South' (made by Walt Disney himself)...
I think that's now considered racist so not likely to find it.
A low-quality copy of this film has been available at Certain Online Sources for a while.
Somewhere, someone has a better copy of this film. I hope they get around to making it available.
Kind of sad... same with the "Our Gang" comedies or so I heard. One thing to be against racist portrayals but they ARE part of history and they were the attitudes being promoted then.. that is true of ALL content in some sense... to obliterate the memory and the other creativity in these products is wrong. The truth is the truth and there are ways to cut against the harmful stuff.. but don't wipe the history clean and leave out the actors, singers and storytellers too.
Yeah I wonder why
Keep your DVDs period. No government, or private corporation should have a stranglehold on the information you get to see, including art. This digital only future, where you own nothing, that these companies are pushing for is dangerous on so many different levels. Keep your physical media, be it DVD's, CD's, Vynils, books, magazines, etc...
Ruthles People. That dark comedy with Danny De Vito, Bette Midler, Judge Reynhold and Helen Slater.
Down and out in Beverly Hills. Richard Dreyfuss and Nick Nolte.
Got it!💕
@TheRocco96, i remember seeing Ruthless People, on vhs, at our local video rental store, all the time, as a kid.
Freaked (1993) starring Alex Winter, Randy Quaid, Bobcat Goldthwait, Mr. T, and even Keanu Reeves in an uncredited role as Ortiz the Dog Boy. Impossible to find or stream (legally) unless you want to pay for the original DVD or vhs release. It's a hoot though. The best way to describe it is take the movie Freaks (1932) and put it in a blender with Basket Case 2, The Naked Gun, and South Park.
As of this moment, there's 3 brand new copies on Australia's eBay. 9 sold, it says. I'm tempted.
I still have the 2005 2-disc Anchor Bay DVD edition of Freaked, with Criterion-level extras. Definitely a from-my-cold-dead-hands situation.
@anthonyhoffmann get it! If you like weird 90s immature humor it's a must see.
'Strange Days' is a hidden gem 😊
High Spirits staring Steve Guttenberg has always been hard to find.
Strange Days is an absolute gem, another would be "The Doom Generation"...very very odd but great piece of 90`s movie making...
I have doom generation on dvd because I loved it so much as a kid. Underrated movie, apparently it’s part of a trilogy though.
Strand Releasing just put out a bluray and 4k of The Doom Generation remasted by Gregg Araki in 4k......and Nowhere is going to be coming out soon as well :-)
I love most of Gregg Araki’s films, especially Nowhere and The Doom Generation. I have Nowhere on Laserdisc and I’m glad to hear that it will finally be coming to DVD.
@@thelordofhellaz that's awesome! i have TDG on DVD, and Nowhere on a bootleg DVD. i will totally snatch an official copy of Nowhere.
the uncut 'doom generation' is finally out, on streaming at least. sounds like it made it to bluray too? sweet.
So I am a Brit and I have a Blu Ray of Strange Days. Not Sure if only Europe got a version but yeah it does exist. Excellent film, superb 90's soundtrack. One of those films that definitely captures the mood and sound of the times very well.
I have Strange Days on DVD actually. Got it from a second hand DVD shop. Under rated film.
I used to own a second-hand electronic store, in my area (Replay Entertainment). And I thought, "that's weird" when that title came up on this list, because of that store. At any given time, I had 5-10 copies of that movie on DVD. Of course, this was the late '00s, so it goes to show: things change.
I have it too
I have it on a hard drive, but I also have it on a dvd, which I think I had to get from the UK, because here in Germany the only version was overdubbed.
@@rolmodel12. We're in the middle of a kind of mass extinction event in the intellectual property world. What should have been a golden age of access has become sort of like the end of Fahrenheit 451 where the people gather in the forest and keep the memories of the banned & burned books alive in their heads.. in this case those who can manage pirated copies on their home servers & store their physical media become repositories for content!
@melamineflorentine8134 very well said, and an apt analogy!
On the one hand, it is sad. It makes me long for those days in our past. But, on the other hand, we should be grateful for what we have experienced. Kind of like the "better to love and lost, than never loved at all."
I live in the UK and have Strange Days on Bluray, one of my fave films. Also have Day of the Dead on Bluray & Cocoon on DVD. The US is very lucky though because there are hundreds of films on Bluray in the US that have never been released on DVD or Bluray in the UK.
I can definitely respect this list. Strange Days I wanted in my collection for years. The only way I can do it is to have it on a hard drive and watch it like that and put it on a CD. I would love a Blu-Ray Version of it. Also Dogma and the series millennium is hard to find.
There is a German 20th Anniversary edition uncut blu-ray, there was also a UK blu-ray but don't bother with that as it is the cut version.
i have Strange Days in dvd, also toys, colors and more oop movies if u wanna exchange
I lucked out on my copy of Strange Days, found it in the dollar bin at the local used books/CD's/DVD's store. That sucker came home with me sooooooo fast. Definitely an underappreciated movie
If you live in the UK there is a blu-ray version of it I have it.
I bought Millenium not too long after it came out on DVD. I bought it the first time I saw it on sale because I refuse to pay launch price on 99% of titles. I bought other TV series that were shitcanned, usually after only one season: Space Above And Beyond, Invasion, Surface, American Gothic, Jericho, Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me. I was pissed when I found out Dead Like Me had been released in 1080p for streaming, but there was no Blu-Ray release. So I just have my DVD copy. But at least I have a copy. There was a series on the WB network called Jack & Jill that ran for two seasons before getting shitcanned. Because it used music it would cost too much to release it on disc(and I assume streaming too?). I would love to have it on Blu-Ray but would happily settle for a DVD copy....
The Chase staring Charlie Sheen and Kristy Swanson, with Henry Rollins as the cop chasing them. The part where Anthony Kiedis and Flea go vigilante and try to take them out is great!
Near Dark is pretty hard to come across these days. For the longest time Apocalypto was too, but I think that finally got re-released.
Studio Canal (Euro) finally put out a Blu and it's actually really good PQ & AQ, as did Anolis (Ger) with similar results. Also, yep, Apocolypto FINALL got a NA release.
Love Near Dark. ❤
I have near dark on dvd
Year of the dragon, remember watching this on DVD years ago. Such a great movie
With physical media on the way out, keep ALL your Blu-Rays and DVD's. It's just a matter of time until digital media purchased will be removed from your libraries. Physical media is yours, nobody can take it from you.
Zapping your digital -purchases- rentals is already happening.
_And…it’s gone!_
@@k.chriscaldwell4141 Really! Everyone has to be their own mastering house nowadays!
I actually went through this with Strange Days recently. I wanted to watch it, but at the time, it wasn't available to stream anywhere. I had to buy an old DVD off of Amazon. Glad to know that it's now on Max.
Something Wicked This Way Comes is pretty much the perfect intro to horror for kids. The book is wonderful, and I'm really glad to say I've got my DVD! (I think it's older than that copy, iirc it's in a gold box, totally different art.)
Along these lines - I thought I lost my DVD of Urban Legend and spent six months swinging from pissed to sulking that it would cost $50 on eBay to replace. Lucky for me, I kept the box and found the DVD bunking with another horror movie 😅
I dont know if Something Wicked This Way Comes is a movie I've completely never heard of or one of those movies I saw as a kid but completely forgot about and watching it will trigger a bunch of old memories. Either way it looks decent and dark and made during that weird live action era of disney that I loved so much as a kid so I'm definitely gonna check it out, thanks for tuning me on to it!
Surely you ran across the Ray Bradbury story at some point?
@@solracer66 I've heard the title or that phrase before but never read it (that I remember at least)
The Heartbreak Kid, along with the 1975 version of The Stepford Wives and Sleuth, is being held hostage by Bristol-Meyers-Squibb, who retained the rights from their investment in the defunct studio that made them. It's unlikely that we will ever see any of those films on Blu-Ray.
You can also forget about ever seeing Blu-Rays of vintage drive-in flicks like I Was a Teenage Frankenstein and I Was a Teenage Werewolf. Susan Hart, the widow of AIP co-founder James Nicolson, owns the rights to those and a few other titles, and she wants a ridiculous amount of money for them.
OG Stepford Wives is on YT
Looking For Mr Goodbar is currently streaming in HD on Paramount + in the UK. Watched it a few months ago and also have a copy saved to my TiVo box when was shown on TV a few years ago,
Just for fun, here's my Top 10 for movies that I can't find in Australia (and I really want to watch or re-watch):
1. The Gift (2000)
2. The Skulls (2000)
3. Basketball Diaries (1995)
4. Silkwood (1983)
5. Manhunter (1986)
6. The Sure Thing (1985)
7. Bad Dreams (1988)
8. Less Than Zero (1987)
9. Rapid Fire (1992)
10. The Fall (2006)
Nice list! The Gift, Basketball Diaries, and Manhunter are all great flicks that are out there, but not super-easy to hunt down in the States, either.
Silkwood is on my list too. It was released in the US once but it has since gone out of print. And the prices for it on Ebay are not great.
Cheers from Spain! I'm holding my copy of Skulls, purchased from some random video store retiring some of their catalog, maybe 15 years or so ago :)
You can't find a copy of Less Than Zero? I have a copy I got a $3 bin in Wal-Mart probably 20 years ago... Jesus, I'm old...
Wasn't The Gift released by Imprint in Australia? Which made it really expensive in the UK! I have a DVD which cost me £1.50 second hand, so I'll stick with that!
You know one that always bugged me? The Love Bug from 1997 starring Bruce Campbell, it's not on Disney+ and it was never released on dvd or blu ray, only the original VHS, it's a shame too since it's fun and has the return of Dean Jones to the series
And of course, the GREAT Buddy Hackett !!! :)
When I saw the Disney logo I was thinking Songs of the South. Baskett won an honorary Oscar for his role. Id LOVE a restored copy ov this film, and Black Cauldron directors cut, before I die.
Something wicked this was comes is a real gem. A true buried treasure, one of my all time favorites
Good luck trying to find 'Barfly' with Micky Rourke and Faye Dunaway. An absolutely amazing film set in the gritty world of LA dive bars.
There's a great Australian BD release from Imprint, and a German one in mediabook.
I bought the Australian Imprint version recently. It cost me quite a bit to import, but it was worth it.@@LennyNero2019
Finally saw "Something Wicked this way Comes" and you are right it is a very good movie. Kind of eerie in a way most movies of the genre would dream to be.
Strange Days has been my #1 favorite movie since 1999, when I discovered it first. I had a 4:3 projection TV then so didn't mind a non-anamorphic R1 DVD. Later upgraded it to anamorphic Australian DVD, and then bought over the years 3 different German Blu-ray releases with new transfers.
Would be interested to know which of the German blu-rays is the best one.
@@whssy the 2015 '20th anniversary', only it no longer comes in a slipcase with the original 'stacked 3 heads' poster art, and the image Amazon has is wrong.
Thank you for this. People always wonder why I'm so obsessed with my video disc collection. Next time they ask me, I'll refer them to this
Yep I have a very large DVD collection I plan to hold on to them as long as I can.
It still breaks my heart. Thanks for the shout out Chris. At least they finally did one for Dragonslayer.
Kevin Smith’s “Dogma” is not available on any streaming platform and never airs on tv. It did get a Blu-ray release but people are t willing to part with it for much less than $80. Great flick.
I found Dogma on DVD at a vender mall for 80 cents recently. I was so psyched! lol
True!
🤫 u can watch it on a certain video app - nudge nudge wink wink 😉- points at search button in the corner
I found one at a flea market for $1 last summer. Love Dogma its so underrated.
In the UK, all but one were available on Amazon, when I checked directly after watching this, didn't even bother checking eBay
I never got to see the video about Cocoon, but I will say, I have that Blu-ray and am thankful for that. I got it way back in 2011… I also have Dogma (got it new in 2012 at a Fry’s electronics for 8.99)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar is strangely available here on UA-cam, and Something Wicked This Way Comes is available if you’re a Disney Movie Club member but that’s kinda niche these days…
I completely agree that this to me is baffling that they can’t even license some of these titles out - it’s frustrating to no end that collectors often get the shaft and I hope that someday this just isn’t a thing anymore. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you very much for this interesting and timely subject. Would love if this became the first of a series of discussions on more films that fall into this category! 😎
Harrison Ford in The Mosquito Coast is another one of those rare hard to find movies along with the Denzel Washington and John Lithgow psychological 1991 thriller Riccochet, which I can't Find anywhere.😅
The Mosquito Coast got an official German release on Blu-ray but that went out of print quite quickly.
Riccochet hasn't aged well IMO
The Mosquito Coast is available to buy digitally here on You Tube, i just bought and watched it a few nights back, it's great film. 👍
@@alistaircampbell The Mosquito Coast is a solid film indeed; the cast were awesome. Arguably Ford's finest dramatic role, better than Witness?
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It really hasn't. The opening park basketball game is its most competent sequence.
"Gleaming the Cube" an 80s skateboard movie with Christian Slater. Sure it's not the best movie but I used to love it back in the day cuz it had most of the Bones Brigade in it like Tony Hawk , Lance Mountain and Rodney Mullen in it. Very hard to find.
I would definitely love to see “Star 80” get a blu-ray release one day. I watched it back when it was on HBO Max earlier this year and it aired on TCM a few months ago but despite that, it has never been released on blu-ray. It’s only been released on DVD on one of those crappy paper cases. “Star 80” definitely deserves a blu-ray release.
Yeah, I also wish it would come out on Blu-ray and even better in 4K. I do have it in HD in my iTunes library but this great film deserves an HD physical release.
Would like to own that one too. It is one of the few Bob Fosse films that I haven't seen.
I’ve recently wanted to rewatch Fright Night 2 and was surprised that… I cannot find it on physical.
Another I’ve been trying to find for awhile is the Val Kilmer movie Real Genius.
Friend of mine has been trying to get a copy of The Jerky Boys for years, we rewatched it on streaming a couple years ago but it’s impossible to find on physical which is a shame.
Very surprised about all of these because excellent movies.
Realm Genius has a bunch of releases. Recently even on 4K.
I've been wanting to rewatch Fright Night 2 for ages! I saw it as a teen and loved it. I'd like to know if my tastes have changed radically or if it really is underrated.
Fright Night 2 is on UA-cam in HD. Rumor has it there are free sites you can download full movies from UA-cam as .mp4 that play perfectly on you bluray player. So I've heard.
Salton Sea and Things to Do in Denver when your Dead are quite hard to find..... Strange Days so awesome..... 🕊️
Imprint just released Things to do in Denver not too long ago. Was an immediate buy.
@@Atmblack03 Thank you, 4k version full print?
Two excellent examples. Love them both, but especially Things to Do in Denver. It keeps my powder dry. Boat Drinks!!!
@@richardvillafana8111 Yeah, those were the days.... eff the head.... Critical Bill.... Salton Sea had poo bear, and bobby ocean..
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So wrong they were right.... 🕊️
@@richardvillafana8111 💯 my friend, I'm getting my replies blocked I sent ya some choice clips from the film, but alas they are blocked by the devil's at YT..... 🕊️
Light Of Day with Michael J Fox and Joan Jett, needs a high def release. The only DVDs available are imports/bootlegs. Prime Video has it available on streaming but the transfer looks like a VHS copy.
Salute of the Jugger is definitely a hidden gem, I have the extended version but it's a more of a VHS rip. Some other movies I would like to see is America 3000, Panic Room and Hong Kong versions of Jackie Chan movies like Police Story 4: First Strike and Rumble in the Bronx which is hard to find. There are also series and miniseries gems that's never released in HD like Jack of All Trades, Xena: Warrior Princess, the miniseries Merlin starring Sam Neill, Arabian Nights and Odyssey starring Armand Asante.
There is an Australian BluRay of the full movie. Unfortunately in America we only have a crappy cut DVD of the movie :-(
Odyssey is on YT
@@samanthab1923 yeah but it's just an A.I upscaled version from the standard definition version. It's not from the actual film source.
@@personatodo Really? Had no idea. Thanks
I've been fortunate enough to find both John Woo's "Hard-boiled" and "The Killer" on blu-ray along with a Twilight Time blu-ray release of "Rapid Fire" starring the late Brandon Lee. People who didn't realise what they had decided to trade these titles in at my local movie resale store. As an avid film collector myself I couldn't pass these up.
My library has a copy of The Killer. I'm surprised they haven't just given it away by now..
I'm reminded of the actor Warwick Davis lamenting the removal of the streaming series "Willow" being removed from Disney Plus shortly after it's release. He said it hurts his soul to know that nobody will ever know the art him and thousands of other's created, and worked so hard on. I've never seen the streaming show, because I'm sick of these media conglomerates, "re-imagining" childhood favourites, but respect the artists behind the show. This whole situation is made even more awful because the series was removed to save a few bucks on royalties and taxes, in a time of awful Disney business decisions.
I thought it was removed because it was a terrible remake.
Don't care it was terrible it deserves to be wiped from history. It completely shit all over the original movie and was part of this never ending BS woke movement ruining films and media.
Many people hated it...
It was a modern (as in Woke) remaking...
The stars of it were two teenage girls who were lesbians..
@@zakofrx No having lesbians doesn't make it modern it just makes it Woke left.
Davis should be thankful Disney removed it and ashamed of himself for even taking part in it.
200 Cigarettes! Great, underrated comedy with a cast that was in top form. Apparently it did so badly in theaters that the studio had all but denied its existence, granting it a single DVD release and not allowing it to stream anywhere.
We picked up a copy at a used book store not long ago. So happy to have tracked down a copy. Very underrated
It got a Blu-ray release a while back but the transfer is terrible.
Pacific Heights and Jacob's Ladder were two great movies that took me a long time and more money than I'd hope to track down in a physical copy. To my knowledge, neither was available on streaming the last time I checked.
Jacobs Ladder is one of my favorite movies. It's so surreal and nightmarish... probably Tim Robbins most seminal work.
I'm almost positive that Jacob's Ladder was recently on Tubi. And not the stupid remake. I KNOW I saw it on one of the sites recently and I'm damn near certain it was Tubi. It's not there NOW as I just checked but recently it was somewhere streaming. I only have NF Tubi and MAX so it was definitely one of them.
I used to be a landlord so Pacific Heights is not my cup of tea.
Jacob's Ladder is one of my all-time favorites!
Pacific Heights was on either Starz or Showtime recently but Jacob's Ladder used to show up on one of the cable channels during October and Halloween but it's been a while since I've come across it
The Beatles “Let It Be” film has never had a DVD or Blu Ray release. It had a very short-lived videotape release in the early 1980s but has been out of print since. While Peter Jackson produced an 8-hour film from the sessions, it is missing several of the full-song performances from the original film. There were rumors that the Let It Be film would be reissued alongside Peter Jackson’s film, but it never came to be. Therefore it appears this will continue to elude us, perhaps for many years to come.
truly an unbelievable outcome. I sensed trouble when the spoken of re-release in conjunction with the release of "Beatles Get Back" never seemed to be nailed down. Then the disappointment when it still ended up not happening.
I'm a veteran movie collector, and I own 950 movies. And I have Cocoon on DVD. It wasn't very hard to find where I live. So, I found it at a thirft store and slammed my money on my first copy! 📽📀
Only 950 movies? Amateur.
@@MrRobarino Hey, screw you, buddy! That wasn't very nice!
@@TheGodmasterX Some people like myself have over 2000+. I bought many of mine at garage sales and FB post collections. But awesome you snagged Cocoon, never came across it yet. I've spent years burning them to digital and now in storage.
@@TheGodmasterX Chill buddy, he was just being sarcastically humorous. BTW, my collection sits at 4K+ Blus and dvds and my mental sanity has been questioned by a LOT of folks, including friends. No harm intended, none taken. :)
Walt Disney;s Song Of The South (1946) can be included on the list. The full-length film has been released in its entirety on VHS and LaserDisc in various European and Asian countries. In the United Kingdom, it was released on PAL VHS between 1982 and 2000. In Japan, it appeared on NTSC VHS and LaserDisc in 1985, 1990 and 1992, with Japanese subtitles during songs. (Under Japanese copyright law, the film is now in the public domain.)
Funny enough, I bought two different DVD editions of Dawn Of The Dead, and I bought the Dragon Dynasty prints of The Killer and Hard Boiled before the Harvey Weinstein trial. I never imagined they'd be rarities.
Dogma, Sling Blade and The Brave Little Toaster are very hard to find anywhere.
Local used bookstore has great collection of blu-ray and DVDs, all for $3. Just got Sling Blade on blu-ray there a few months ago. I hit that place every weekend and walk out with a large stack of movies.
Been hoping for an uncut blu ray release of Peter Jackson‘s „Braindead / Dead Alive“ for years and beginning to more and more loose all hope.
A box set with Bad Taste, Braindead and Meet The Feebles would be cool.
I have dead/alive on dvd
"The Keep" is damn near impossible to find. Great book that was made int a decent movie but the rights are a mess due to the "Tangerine Dream" soundtrack.
Little Darlings is a film that isn’t legally available on DVD or bluray. Again…it’s a music rights issue. Sometime earlier this year though, it was announced it may be seeing a bluray release next year!
The Midnight Hour is another classic that got a DVD release (which now goes for good money), but hasnt had a bluray release.
As for Dawn of the Dead, the original bluray from Anchor Bay might be OOP, but it can be found for a decent price. I’ve got it on VHS (multiple different releases), laserdisc (again, multiple releases), bluray (same thing), BETA, and the incredible 4K release from Second Sight. Long live physical media!
Movies that i love but hard to find:
*Returno A Aztlan. Dvd are rare. Never came out on bluray.
*Erendira, ikikunari, released on dvd. Never on bluray.
My personal list of titles not yet available on blu-ray:
Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
High Society (1956)
In America (2002)
Panic Room (2002)
Titan A.E. (2000)
Map of the Human Heart (1992)
Le Notti Bianche (1957)
Ryans Daughter (1970)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Thanks! I have Cocoon on Region 2 DVD and purchased a Region 2 player just for it! Also, my wife loves "Bugsy Malone", also only available on Region 2.
I found some pretty obscure films from CEX in the past, but most of them were worthless, but Dark City was another decent find, from another used media store, but some seem to be only available in certain regions in PAL at least, like Australia, or Germany.
Recently found Dark City in the cardboard dvd case at Goodwill
@zu_1455 is that the 1998 alien erases minds 24 hours movie?
I’m in Australia and I bought Dark City on Blu maybe 7 or 8 years ago. Haven’t noticed it at the stores since, so it may have gone out of print.
@@croftmire is it better than the matrix
Dawn of the Dead got a Blu-ray release. I am looking at it right now. I bought it from Best Buy many years ago.
One movie I have now that appears to be very rare is the "Filmmaker's Signature Series" Blu-ray of The French Connection. I think ever since the streaming versions were edited, this has been tough to get. There was another earlier Blu-ray as well but the mastering isn't as good as the FSS one. I remember buying that for like $13 when it came out.
Dark Horse, the 1992 movie, isn’t on 📀 and it’s a shame!!! 30 years later, and it was still forgotten!!!
Dead or Alive, a 2006 action film based on a fighting video game is extremely hard to find in Blu-ray. The movie was widely panned, and low Blu-ray sales must have made it go OOP before many copies could end up in circulation.
I love DOA! Got the DVD and Blu-ray. Such a fun movie. Didn't know it was hard to find. Once I finally get a film on physical media I, naturally, stop looking for it.
I remember this movie and have it on DVD it came out at the same time as the Tekken and King of the Fighters movies.
@@stazoola3616 Agreed. It’s just dumb, mindless fun IMO
The movie is pretty good for what it is.
"Blood and concrete - a love story" with Billy Zane. A bizarre little gem that I miss dearly. 🙂
Fun Fact: "Something Wicked This Way Comes" is the title of a novel written by Ray Bradbury and is actually a line from Shakespeare's story Macbeth...
The Bradbury novel is what the movie is based on.
@@dorailroad4285 yes, but the title is a line from Shakespeare's Macbeth, I find it interesting when someone takes a line from one medium and uses it for the basis for something in a different medium... Metallica has The Call of Ktulu (Cthulhu) which is just the name of a story from HP Lovecraft and For Whom The Bell Tolls which is the name of an Earnest Hemingway book but they also have a song call "The Thing That Should Not Be" which is a line from a story called "They're Shadow Over Innsmouth" by HP Lovecraft...
I'd like to see 11 Harrowhouse with Charles Grodin and Candace Bergen. It was good fun, a comedy heist movie from the early 70s. I never see it anywhere. This makes me feel my years I saw all these movies in the theatre with the exception of Crossroads.
I had THE toughest time trying to get a DVD of "The Comeback" with Robert DeNiro & Morgan Freeman since the movie was never released anywhere in the U.S. ! I finally had to buy a foreign DVD.
Did it ever get officially released in the US?
@@JoBloOriginals It was never released to any theater or any streaming service that I know of. I checked! I finally had to buy a copy off of Ebay from Australia!
I’ve been waiting for a reissue of To Each His Own for many years. I think there was one dvd release over 20 years ago but nothing since.
I have Strange Days. It was pretty easy to find on Ebay.
Another movie that stars Strange Days actor the late Tom Sizemore is Watch It! released in 1993. I cannot find it anywhere online or on dvd.
101 Dalmatians with Glenn Close and Jeff Daniels. I've been looking everywhere but can't find a region 1 copy. I even called the Disney movie club and they didn't have it. 😢
I lucked out big time with Strange Days, I had it on VHS for years and was able to find a copy on DVD on facebook marketplace a few years back. I paid $6 for it including shipping. I also lucked out with a few of John Woo's Hong Kong films on DVD, I was able to pick a few up not long ago.
I saw Salute Of The Jugger in a test screening in LA. It was a great post-apocalyptic film and really great vehicle for Rutger Hauer. I later saw Blood of Heroes; it's horrible hack job of the movie. I have never been able to get a copy of Salute Of The Jugger, so I don't know if it's the same cut of the movie that I saw. Test screenings was a mixed bag, but a lot of fun. In most cases the extended cuts were way better than the theatrical release.
Don't forget "the 13th warrior".
I have Looking for Mr. Goodbar on DVD. Looked forever and found it on Amazon a few years ago. Another hard one to find is "Bug" with Bradford Dillman. A real cult classic. I also have the DVD but almost impossible to find now.
Am I the only person who 'took sail on the high seas' and found each and every one of these films, in HD, as he was listing them off? You could say that I found them in a ̶y̶i̶f̶y̶ jiffy.
Ahaaaaaaaaaaar me scurvey mateys! Seriously though; please tell me how/where on keyboard you make the line run through text? i.e. ̶y̶i̶f̶y̶ [copy/pasted here lol]
He could and should have done the list with more rare films, however Looking for Mr Goodbar has never been released on DVD/Blu-ray/4K yet (though it will probably get a release in 2024), and The Heartbreak Kid isn't in HD and likely never will be, and its 20+ years old DVD is long out of print.
@@boltzmannbrayn 'Looking for Mr. Goodbar' was done in HD at some point, because it's readily available in 1080p. But you are correct about 'The Heartbreak Kid'; I was only able to locate 720p HDTV (but it seems to be intact, with no logos, and uncensored).
The Time Guardian (unsuccessful '80s Aussie sci-fi film - Carrie Fisher was in it) hasn’t seem to be released on DVD.
Strange Days is criminally underrated
The Fall (2006 film) It’s GORGEOUS! They shot it in 24 countries over the course of four years. And now you can’t find it streaming or on DVD anywhere. The AV club said it was the best movie that was released in 2008. It’s so sad….
The Fall is a 2006 adventure fantasy film directed and co-written by Tarsem and starring Lee Pace, Catinca Untaru, and Justine Waddell.
Kevin Smiths Dogma is impossible to find. There was a DVD release in the early 2000s but because of the controversial religious subject matter and some rights issues with the Weinsteins, it's tied up from being released on Blu ray.
It's not impossible to find. It did have a Blu-ray and DVD release. The thing is people don't want to pay $60 for a DVD of that and $100+ for a BD. The reason it hasn't gone on digital or had a repress is because Harvey Weinstein owns the rights and hasn't negotiated them since he went to prison.
Yeah, I'm glad I own one of those DVD copies. Not sure if it helped that I'm from Sweden, where few people have any religious affiliation at all and even fewer give a rat's ass about any supposed controversy with religious connotations.
@@erikthompson619 The subject matter is not the reason the movie went out of print. It's because Harvey Weinstein owns the distribution rights completely 100%. He has not accepted any offers Kevin Smith has made to buy the rights.
I have Dogma on blu ray that I found for 5 bucks
First of all, is the anime, Angel’s Egg. If you or anyone can ever track down a copy on VHS, DVD, BluRay or whatever, by all means please let me know. It’s an absolute masterpiece that has been lost to obscurity. I was hoping they’d rerelease it, as they just had a screening in NYC during an exhibition honoring the work of the artist behind the animation style of the film. (He also did all of those handrawn illustrations for the booklets in the old Final Fantasy games)
The Basketball Diaries is the film adaptation of Jim Caroll’s book with a young Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg as well as a few other young actors before they got their big starts. I own it on VHS, because some movies I own from the 90’s just never translated as well to dvd. (The Crow is one such example)
In the case of The Basketball Diaries, it’s got an amazing soundtrack. However, after years of owning it on VHS, I finally found a used copy on DVD, and discovered a huge problem with the sound mixing. You see the way it was originally shot was to have music playing in the foreground while the characters spoke and yelled in barely audible words because these particular scenes were more about setting the tone then providing any kind of compelling dialogue. But in the DVD copy, it’s like the person doing the sound mixing from one format to the other didn’t understand what the original was going for. He does the opposite and has the vocals in the foreground while the music plays softly in the background where you can barely hear it. It’s jarring, it’s awkward, and it’s just bad sound mixing that ruins the whole effect of the movie. Especially the scenes that were set to songs.
Unfortunately this movie went out of print on DVD and I doubt they’ll be making anymore anytime soon. I’m just glad I still have a copy on VHS…
Great mention of Angel's Egg. That's an incredible movie and it's also been on my list of movies I would love to see on bluray or 4k.
Looking for Mr. Goodbar is not only hard to find now, it was hard to find within a few years of release.
HBO used to do an occasional run of it in the 80's ,usually at 3 a.m.. It was really weird. It was maybe Diane Keaton's best role and a real gritty depiction of the time.
A great movie ..if you can find it.
Looking for Mr. Goodbar has been cleared for release recently and it will be released by a boutique blu-ray label in the future, it's speculated that Vinegar Syndrome is doing it.
There are multiple copies of it in both VHS and DVD on eBay. They aren't that expensive either. I'm not really sure what's so hard about finding it.
@@stinkasscat DVDs of LFMG are bootlegs though, it hasn't had an official and legal disc release.
@@boltzmannbrayn thank you, I didn't know that!
Midnight Hour, very hard to find in physical form
Pink Floyd The Wall directed by Alan Parker is great example of a movie that never was available on Blu-ray, only in DVD, Laserdic, VHS, Betamax, but it still difficult to get a DVD or Laserdisc or VHS or Betamax of that movie.
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow starring Orson Welles was only available in Betamax and VHS, but never was available in Laserdisc, DVD and Blu-ray.
I work in a second-hand music and movie store in Copenhagen, and the region 2 The Wall DVD is one we see quite often. It also is a steady seller.
I had to go to either Germany or Australia (online) to get a Blu-ray copy of Strange Days. But I'm glad that I went through the trouble. It's a movie that's more than worth owning physically and the Blu-ray copy I have looks beautiful. The fact that it can't be found here in the US as a 4K re-release is criminal.
I have a large DVD collection that includes numerous films that you can't find anywhere anymore and I intend to hold onto it. One in my collection is mentioned here; "Something Wicked This Way Comes", a pretty good little horror film.
Unfortunately though, another trend is for studios not to spend the money to produce a physical copy of a film or series on any format any longer. You may be able to "own" a digital copy but that's all. The third season of The Orville is one example I recently encountered. People love or hate The Orville, I happen to love it and have the first two seasons on DVD, I grabbed them as soon as they came available. But it doesn't look like the people at Disney, who let's face it, are pretty much asshats these days anyway, are going to release a DVD or Blu-ray version of season three.
Agree. Disney as a company has been consumed by short-sighted greed.
I got a few of these stored on video file. Y'all know how expensive the DVD of Deathstalker 2 (aka THE GREATEST FILM OF ALL TIME) is? I'm just glad to have that stored in my flashdrive too
I'm SO glad somebody else agknowledged the issue with 'Something Wicked This Way Comes', another Disney cult-classic that deserves more attention! I can't even find a decent copy on eBay! (BTW, it's the same way with 'The Watcher in the Woods') I still can't believe they have 'The Black Cauldron' on Disney+, but not that one! =\
Not to mention Black Cauldron is 4K on Disney+
@@thegroove14 Another good point! =)
I think I just lucked out. This video prompted me to go to Ebay and I snagged a copy of Something Wicked This Way Comes on Blu-ray for $30. Every other option was alot more expensive.
@@Gunsight-One I guess you must be; I noticed that too. You must've have been the lucky one who bought it before I could! XD (I didn't have a lot extra after Christmas. Watta ya gonna do?) Seriously though, I'm glad someone else cares about that movie. Hope you enjoy it! =)
@@BuckarooBanzai84 I'm kinda stoked. I havent watched that movie since the good old VHS days, but I wore that tape out. I imagine the dark nature of the movie gives Disney cold feet when it comes to promoting it.
a charity shop up the road from my house had a copy of Cocoon on DVD for sale £1 a couple of weeks ago.