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I was thinking about it tonight as I browsed some things, and discovered a few new and future releases.  This year Starcrash is coming to a restored DVD and Blu-ray version, which is something I have been wishing for for many years.  Also out, or soon to be out, on DVD:

Galaxy of Terror
Forbidden World
Death Race 2000
All of the old school Gamera movies in widescreen versions with both language tracks in some cases
Message from Space
Metalstorm:  The Destruction of Jared-Syn!
A new release of the Slumber Party Massacre series
Five Element Ninja
And the restored Shaw Brother's films continue to be released

Now, if I could add some to my wish list:

The Green Slime
Terrorvision
The Arena
Sorceress (please Shout! Factory, please)
Rollerblade
Demon Wind
Moontrap
Caltiki
Radioactive Dreams
Yor!  The Hunter from the Future

Come to think of it, last year from around summer on, was also very good to us for b-movies and bad movies on DVD.

Roger Corman has been releasing his old movies under the "Cult Classics" (or somesuch) name.  DEATH RACE and ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL have already been released, probably some others I missed.  I bet DVD special editions are following.

The Gamera movies are also coming out in shiny new editions from Shout! Factory.

Let us not (as if we could) forget the release of the immortal Nukie on DVD.  :buggedout: :twirl: :tongueout:

I am still highly p****d off at NuMetro Home Entertainment for not using my liner notes.  :hatred:

Tell them that the fans of Nukie in the US refuse to go to all the trouble to buy the SA release because of that.
No one will treat Trevor that way!

 :teddyr: Consider yourself karma'd +1 for those nice words.  :thumbup:

This is what the powers-that-be rejected:



Along with the David Winters / Neal Sundstrom directed Space Mutiny, Nukie is a famous South African film of the 1980’s. Famous, yes but for all the wrong reasons unfortunately. Both the former and the latter productions were made ~ in the horrible terminology of the South African 1980’s ~ for ‘the international market’ and failed, both here and overseas. Nukie ~ an obvious take-off of the Steven Spielberg film ET The Extraterrestrial ~ deals with two aliens, Nukie and Miko who are at first visible as two stars that crash-land to earth and later, in a physical form described by one critic as “looking like a shaved Oscar The Grouch dipped in chocolate” and another as “the only baboon ugly enough to frighten his own kind” which pushes their resemblance to ET a lot closer.

Ostensibly a children’s film ~ indeed, it was praised at a children’s film festival in the late 1980s ~ Nukie is the story of two lost alien brothers whose spaceships crash land on different continents (one in America and the other in Africa) and their search to find each other all the while communicating through their minds. Nukie befriends ~ or tries to befriend ~ various animals en route to locating his brother and, while dodging the attentions of a drunken White Hunter, makes a connection with two young African boys who attempt to help Nukie in getting home.

Are you talking region 3 releases (which I own a bunch of), or just American region 1 releases of the existing Celestial versions?  I ask because I thought Celestial had stopped putting them out, which made me sad.  I'd be glad to hear they're doing more.   :smile:

I was pretty blown away when I noticed that Galaxy of Terror and Forbidden World were coming out on Blu ray.  Unfortunately Shout Factory isn't doing anything that would make them worth buying on Blu ray, at least judging by what they did with Death Race 2000.  Hi-Def digest gives the picture quality a 2.5/5 and the audio quality a 1.5/5. Judging by their comments they were extremely generous to give the picture quality the rating they did.  Guess I'll save $7 and just get the DVD's.  I see Flash Gordon is out on Blu ray as well, I'll definitely be picking that up.

I bought a DVD-R of STARCRASH from Cinema de Bizarre a few months ago.  Great trash.  CALTIKI is also available on DVD-R from several online sources, but I haven't bought that one yet.  I bought DEATH RACE 2000 the last time it was released.  I assume the version coming out this year will have more extras?

 

the arena is on tv alot. the action channel that no one watches

B movies are getting a release here too ! :smile:

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And then there's the Roger Corman stuff !

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And there's lots more of that too...

STARCRASH! I actually saw that in the movie theatre when it came out (yes I'm that old). I was a young lad and a friend of the family took me to see it. Believe it or not, this was actually paired in an double-feature with the 1978 remake ofInvasion of the Bodysnatchers.

I saw YOR: HUNTER FROM THE FUTURE in the theater (imagine my surprise / dismay).  I also saw METALSTORM in 3-D in the theater.  I remember when STAR CRASH was around, but I never got to the theater to see it.  On another note, MESSAGE FROM SPACE is in one of the Mill Creek 50 Movie Packs.

The weird 1970 George Montgomery movie Satan's Harvest is being released on DVD soon, as are Ivan Hall's Karate Olympia [Kill or Be Killed] and Kill & Kill Again.

Me write liner notes: yes please.  :wink:

Is Gamera vs viras ever going to come out?

You can find it here in the US under the alternate title DESTROY ALL PLANETS.

Blu-ray wins by default because it will always look better than DVD :)
Death Race 2000's picture and audio quality got a higher rating at blu-ray.com btw (3.5/5). Judging by the screen caps it really doesn't look all that bad. Here's a Blu-ray review for Galaxy of Terror: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film3/blu-ray_reviews51/galaxy_of_terror_blu-ray.htm

Shout! Factory's double feature DVD of "Gamera vs. Gyaos" and "Gamera vs. Viras" is due for release on 21 September.


I have a fair DVD-R of "Caltiki," but a nice DVD with some eye toward quality would be nice.    Also received the Shout! Factory "Death Race 2000" DVD.  It does have a lot of extras listed:

* New Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1) High-Definition Transfer From The Interpositive Film Element
* David On Death Race: Interview with David Carradine
* Audio Commentary With Roger Corman & Mary Woronov
* New Audio Commentary With Assistant Director Lewis Teague And Editor Tina Hirsh
* Playing The Game: Looking Back at Death Race 2000
* Ready To Wear: Interview with costume designer Jane Ruhm
* Designing Dystopia A detailed look at the design of the films now-legendary race cars, costumes and futuristic landscapes with members of the production, design and costume crew
* Start Your Engines: Interview with author Ib Melchior
* Killer Score: An all-new interview with composer Paul Chihara on the creation of the films eclectic score
* Leonard Maltin Interviews Roger Corman About Death Race 2000
* Theatrical Trailer
* Theatrical Trailer With Commentary By John Landis
* TV And Radio spots
* 12-Page Booklet
* New World Trailers


Region 1 DVD releases.  I hadn't heard that Celestial had put a hold on restoring and putting out the films.  Everything they have touched has turned out golden.  The quality of the "Five Element Ninjas" DVD is stunning.

Yeah, it's in large part because Shaw Studios actually has really good facilities.  Even though people think of them as cheap crappy films, the studio is huge and in its heyday had gigantic expensive sets, dubbing and sound studios, apartments for the talent to stay on - the whole nine yards, like Hollywood studios were in the Golden Age.  They also took better care of their prints than anyone else in Asia at the time, except possibly Japan.  But yeah, Celestial did a stunning job on the restorations too.  I just heard about a year ago that sales had started to flounder in the region 3 market, and they weren't going to be doing any more of them (and possibly might end production of existing DVDs as well). 

It might be worth mentioning here that they put out a HUGE chunk of the Shaw catalog in region 3 - I think more than half of the total sum.  And a number of the remaining films were in bad enough shape that they can't be recovered.

But if they're making money in region 1, I think the possibilities are good.

The Green Slime is out on DVD.  I rented it a long time ago when I was commuting to work.  Unless there is a special edition DVD coming out????

Later,

John

There is not a legitimate Region 1 (US, Canada) release that I know of.

I am not sure what happened.  I used to commute to Denver and watched movies on the laptop.  We got the Green Slime on DVD.  We got it from NetFlix, maybe it was a computlation DVD or a possible Bootleg DVD???  Oh well, I can't wait for it to come out on DVD.  Great movie.

Later,

John

Hi-Def Digest just reviewed Galaxy of Terror and gave it good marks (3.5/5) as well, so that's very good news  :teddyr:  Well, not good news for my wallet  :bouncegiggle:

My DVD arrived yesterday.  I watched some of the film last night to get a feel for the quality, and watched the featurette about making "Galaxy of Terror" that is included as an extra.  The making of is quite good, with a lot of the cast and crew talking about their experience.  Sid Haig had me laughing, because he has hard feelings over being forced to say the line, "I live and die by the CRYSTALS!"  Oh, and the blonde who gets her clothes sucked off by the giant worm is completely nuts.

I'd agree with Hi-Def Digest.  If you factor in that this is a high-quality transfer of an old low-budget movie, and not a restored version, I'd rate it even higher.

Attack of the Crab Monsters was supposed to be released on a double bill with It Conquered the World this month, but, alas, the release was canceled at the last minute.
Sigh.

As I understand it, "Attack of the Crab Monsters," "Not of this Earth" (1957), and "War of the Satellites" are due out from Shout! Factory in "early 2011."