Having dug out my old VCR and hooked it back up I decided to take a quick trip down my old charity shop to peruse their dwindling stock of tapes and came back with these at £1.00 each.
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Great pick-up regarding Eyes of Fire, JK. A gem of a film.

Preordered this lovely looking steelbook from zavvi

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picked up the cassette soundtrack for guardians of the galaxy £8 , hmv exclusive in uk. Going for for around £30 on ebay

Two blu-ray pick-ups in town as a St Nicholas present to myself:

John Carpenter double bill (German Blu) of Ghosts of Mars and Starman

and 22 Jump Street (well somebody has to buy it I suppose).

The blu's fantastic. :nod:

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There isn't one. It hasn't even made the leap to DVD yet (unless you count the full screen grey market Thai release... which I don't!)

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I was going to go into rant mode regarding the number of films which have had 78 different disc releases during the last ten years, whereas something such as this, as you rightly say, is languishing in the doldrums probably never to see the light of day.

Then i decided against it. ;)

Rights issues/lack of decent materials will no doubt be the reason, as is the case with a lot of these obscure cult titles sadly. They're not big money-makers either what with so few people having heard of them, let alone liking them enough to purchase a copy.

Personally, I'd love an official DVD release of Eyes of Fire though.

Zane from the forum linked to this Blu on sale for £7 so i picked it up. I like the Vipco release and lets be honest that release looks like poo so this will be like a first viewing. :)

It's a great release, not even slightly annoyed it ended up less than half the price I paid for it nearly a year ago.... :)

I know what you mean Rik, to be honest i haven't seen it drop in price at all so when Black Friday came around and Zane pointed this out it was a no brainer for me.

Things like this never bothered the vhs companies.

I know it's a different world and not for the better nowadays, when it comes to what gets released. :(

All too true unfortunately.

Couldn't agree with you more! As much as I like various labels, (MOC, Arrow
and Shameless) they always seem to be re-releasing earlier releases. 'Metropolis' is the latest one from Eureka, nice steelbook but I'm not falling for it! Shamless did it with the Deodato pictures, putting them in a single collection with some new artwork. I'd rather not double dip unless its a upgrade to Blu and a massive improvement I'm not going to triple dip to the same format! Thousands of lesser known movies out there just waiting to see the light of day! Just seen Eyes of Fire. Although not great I did enjoy it and would certainly buy an upgraded version.

Car boot this morning (I don't usually do these...too early/cold). More VHS goodies

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The Dracula set, although a little beat up on the back is complete with novel but is missing the pin :sad:
The Jurassic box I originally had but gave it away to my nephew when I bought the DVD.

That Jurassic Park case looks amazing. :eek:

Trouble is, most non-cult fans stream their films, sales of hard copies are plummeting. Perhaps films like this might appear on some streaming site but for how long? Not enough hits to warrant it being there and it'll vanish. Perhaps i'm a luddite (in fact i most definitely am. ) but I suspect streaming may eventually drive the final nail into the coffin of retro releases.
Sadly given the expense of releasing stuff, a dwindling market for sales so a lot of companies are playing it safe and going for major releases.
Scorpion have taken some chances and the stuff they have taken chances on seems to sell poorly. I would mention code red but lets be honest, bill olsen seems to prefer poor sales so he can have a moan.

Still.....

My desire to remain poor shows no signs of stopping, went on marketplace this morning....

Exorcist box set is currently £20 fr4om supermart USA, just hope they ship it as the swine cancelled TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT twice on me, The Jimmy Wang Yu collection is a little under £13 at time of typing.

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I don't think it will. As long as there is a market for physical media (and I believe there will be) then it will survive in one form or another. It may go the same way as vinyl with a few key companies self-releasing in limited quantities - it's already starting to go that way what with companies like Code Red, Scorpion, and Twilight Time adhering to this model where niche cult titles are concerned.

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nice little release , but why is there a trailer for zombie holocaust when another label is releasing it.

Definitely. The response to 88 Films crowdfunding campaign shows there's definitely a positive correlation between fans of physical media and cult fandom.

The increasing sales of vinyl are showing that people, and indeed younger people, want something to show for their monies spent.

Perhaps not thousands of lp's, discs etc like we have but something to keep and go back to.

I hope i'm wrong, but I would point out that most of the enthusiastic fan response tends to be for well know titles such as Zombie holocaust. I wonder what sort of response eyes of fire would garner?

I've no doubt that at least the major 'nasties' and suchlike will continue to have some level of support but given the poor sales on scorpions back catalogue less well known titles may continue to be ignored.


My only suggestion to try and turn this situation around would be some kind of dedicated cult movie screening site that could in some way promote these kinds of films and give them some level of exposure. Otherwise I suspect some films may simply disappear.

No horror for me, but I picked up David Simon's Generation Kill in cex for £4. I loved The Wire and The Corner, hopefully this is as good.

I also popped in Poundland and they had Downfall in there, snapped that up as well as The Town and Doug Liman's Go.

The thing is it doesn't have to have a bells and whistles blu-ray release :faint:

Just release a reasonable copy on dvd, put it on a linked four pack like Shout do for example. Even on demand like the Archive collections.

Network release tons of obscure British films as an example. All with lovely transfers. I bet some only sell 100 copies at most. Selling for £6.99, it's a price worth a blind buy. That may well be the answer, sell at a price that's worth a gamble.

I would imagine the original camera negative for Eyes of Fire doesn't exist and, if there is material, a DVD release will satisfy demand – it's bound to be a massive improvement over VHS!

I'd dearly love William Friedkin's Rampage to be released on DVD in the UK or US (why it's only been released in Poland is a mystery) and would be stunned if the materials weren't available to make it possible even in a barebones release, although a special edition-type DVD with new interviews or commentary would be even better.

As you said, it's going to be much better than these films are available on DVD with no extras than not at all, so they shouldn't cost the earth to make or buy, whether online or in HMV, or both.

The back of the case.
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Hard black plastic complete with a booklet inside:)

That's lovely! Wish I could get it in my collection someday.

I suspect my opinions may be jaded from encounters with film fans who genuinely had no clue what my eraserhead t-shirt was about and don't bother buying anything and preferring to stream and download. I go to a tuesday night table top RPG/wargaming club and there's a whole bunch of the younger members who are like that.

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Round 2 today

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£2 on the car boot this morning.

50p in Cash Generator. Reversible cover.....with the exact same on the reverse. Very weird.

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So what side did you opt for?:lol:

I'm going to switch it every month :lol:

Forgot to post this yesterday, which I'm about to start watching as in the mood for some funny and uplifting. Don't what it is just not in the mood for horror at the moment

I've noticed that on some of the prism discs have that. Strange.

I've got that same set and can strongly recommend 'Armageddon' (or Redline as also known, if still no more explanatory), an excellent Rutger Hauer film in a grim futuristic setting.

My Redline review.

Not watched the other three yet.

Since the Stagefright blu was put together Exposure have joined up with 88films for Zombie Holocaust and Burial Ground blu's. At least that's how I understand it.

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Last purchase of my trip I can't believe I have waited this long to pick up a blu ray of this and I still don't have a blu ray of Texas chainsaw. The shame