Your Collections: Anchor Bay/Starz

[Pete]

I've got:

Jess Franco collection
Jess Franco Collection 2
Norman Warren Coffin
Mario Bava vol 1
Bone
Hills Have Eyes 2 disc
Hills Have Eyes 2
Dead & Buried
Stage Fright R1
Hell of the Living Dead / Rats R1
Suspiria 2 disc
Tombs of the Blind Dead / Return of the Blind Dead R1
Day of the Dead 2 disc R1
Eugene
The Beast Must Die
Dr Terrors House of Horrors
House by the Cemetery R1
Scanners box
Hellraiser Cube
Macarbre R1

And i had but got rid of:
Box of the Banned
Box of the Banned 2
Box of Blood
Blind Dead collection
Maniac
Trilogy of the Dead
Q- The Winged Serpent
Mountain of the Cannibal God / Cannibal Man R1
Cut & Run R1
Sadisterotica
Kiss Me Monster

[Daemonia]

Here's what I have:

Anchor Bay/Starz UK
Nosferatu - The Vampyre
Alligator/Alligator 2
The Unnamable/The Unnamable Returns
Nightmare City
Tigon Box
Amicus Box
Norman J. Warren Box
Pete Walker Box
Werewolf Shadow
Eugenie
Justine
Army of Darkness
The Evil Dead
The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue
Near Dark
The Hills Have Eyes
Children of the Corn Box
Phantasm Box
Hellraiser Box
Masters of Horror Vol 1 Series 1
The Crazies
Halloween (2-disc set)

Anchor Bay/Starz US
10th Victim
The Vampire Happening
Demons of the Mind
And Soon the Darkness
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
Straight On Till Morning
Fear in the Night
The Man Who Haunted Himself
Curse of the Devil
City of the Living Dead
The Black Cat
Phenomena
Tenebrae
Opera
Do You Like Hitchcock?
The Card Player
Demons
Demons 2
Abominable
The Antichrist
C.H.U.D.
The Church
Circus of Horrors/Theatre of Death
Mountain of the Cannibal God/Cannibal Man
Macabre
A Blade in the Dark
Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde
The Reptile
The Mummy's Shroud
The Abominable Snowman
The Giallo Collection
The Ilsa Collection
The Mirror Mirror Collection
Class of 1984
Day of the Dead 2: Contagium
Dawn of the Dead Ultimate Edition
Day of the Dead SE
Escape 2000
The Evil Dead (fullframe version)
Flowers in the Attic
Halloween 4 Divimax
Halloween 5 Divimax
Fright
Hell of the Living Dead/ Rats - Night of Terror
The Cat O'Nine Tails
Four of the Apocalypse
Keoma
Texas, Adios
A Bullet for the General
House by the Cemetery
Manhattan Baby
The Initiation/Mountaintop Motel Massacre
The Locals
Madman
Maniac
Night of the Demons
Witchboard
Possession/Shock
Race With the Devil
Sleepaway Camp Box
Return of the Killer Tomatoes/Return to Horror High
Society/Spontaneous Combustion
The Beyond
Inferno
Mario Bava Set 1 & 2
Vice Squad
Vigilante
Visiting Hours
Zoltan - Hound of Dracula
Trauma
Companeros
Beast With a Gun
Hitch Hike
Autopsy
Delirium
StageFright
Torso
Deep Red
Season of the Witch/There's Always Vanilla
Cut and Run

[vipco]

I never looked at Anchor Bay as a label were i'd buy a release just because it was on AB, the way I would with VIPCO or Shameless ,
Due to the sheer volume they released and the numerous complete collections boxed together I never really viewed them as a cult company.
A lot of the films I bought I did'nt realise till I got home and examined the box that they were AB releases.
They did release some cracking titles though.

[cloud]

Well Vips myself and Daemonia were/are members of the old Anchor Bay forum that's now Cult Movie Forums so it's no coincidence we have such a large amount of their releases. But yeah Anchor Bay were brilliant, since Starz bought them they've become more interested in crap like WAGS WORKOUT and MR. MOTIVATOR than cult horror titles. The only thing they seem to release nowadays is Evil Dead and Halloween reissues though they do have a Jason Voorhees documentary lined up for next year I believe.

Looking through my collection I see a lot that I really treasure such as the Pete Walker / Norman J. Warren / Tigon / Amicus coffin sets. AB really were the bollocks back in the day and their UK forum used to be in my opinion the best online forum around. I have very fond memories of the place and enjoyed my 2.5 years there before they closed it down .

[vipco]

Why did Starz move away from the Cult movie releases to concentrate on other genres when it was quite clear that AB had taken the cult titles into the mainstream , while smaller companies like VIPCO were often fighting for shelf space at the major retailers.

Was it an image thing.?
Please forgive my ignorance on the matter.

[cloud]

Well Anchor Bay throughout 2006 barely released a single horror DVD, their time was really 2005 and before and from 2007 to now their horror discs have been fleeting. I remember hearing that "the well had run dry" (utter bollocks I might add) and that horror discs weren't selling as well as something like an Eddie Murphy stand up comedy or a fitness disc. It wasn't a surprise when Anchor Bay/Starz decided to scrap the forum because the new owners were clearly not horror fans. I had found out a few weeks in advance that it was closing and was absolutely gutted.

I do think the sheer volume of horror films released by Shameless, Code Red, Dark Sky, Subversive, Synapse, Shriek Show, Optimum and Severin etc has shown that perhaps Anchor Bay could have continued to break even with horror releases. They obviously disagree though and funnily enough AB's sister company Blue Underground ain't doing an awful lot now but reissue older films in different packaging.

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

I find myself replacing a few AB versions with BU duplicates etc....

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Give us pics as well.....

[bedorca]

Originally Posted by reaper72

I find myself replacing a few AB versions with BU duplicates etc....

Ditto Mr Reaps

And I have replaced BU titles with Shameless

[cloud]

You don't ask for much, Scotland. Alright then when I find a spare half an hour I'll take a photo. I just need to find them all though at the moment that's impossible as some were boxed up and sent to my dad's house and others are in Mexico.