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I am sure that eventually we all will see at least one horror movie we like that is almost impossible to find available to own. I know I got one that is like that and the only copy I have even found of it is too cost prohibitive to buy. So what are your horror favorites that are hard to impossible to find. Who knows, maybe someone can help you find it thru this thread at a reasonable price.

The biggest one for me that I would list is Eyes of Fire (1983). It's the cured forrest tale set in colonial America which I found very creepy. The problem is that I have always had problems finding it even to rent. I recently found it for sale but the price is about $140 US. So while I think it's a great film, going to have to be on my list of unobtainable for now.

Bikini Carwash Company...on DVD

ya know, you can probobly find ANY movie you could EVER want on one of the hundreds of tourent sites that are all over the web if your willing to look. (And if you have a dvd burner, unlike me.)

Cellar Dweller on DVD  :bluesad:

Quatermass and the Pit - $85 for a used DVD at Amazon, $28 for used VHS. 
The Keep
Rawhead Rex - $65 for a used DVD

I got it for about $6 from Tesco  :smile:

Killer Klowns...£12.00 - HMV
Frankenhooker...£5.44 - Ebay

Really? i found both of those quite easily.

A couple on my "wish there were DVDs" list:

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
The Bermuda Depths
Killdozer
The Green Slime
Moontrap

I would like to find INVASION of the SAUCERMEN and ATTACK of the CRAB MONSTERS on anything!
I'm fortunate to have Peter Jackson's Michigan made DEMON LOVER(1977) aka the DEVIL MASTER...which is a real rarity.It's nearly immpossible to find on anything anywhere!

It's not horror but good luck finding pervirella.

I think you probably know this but Quatermass and the Pit is also known as Five Million Years to Earth, and is readily available.

Monster A Go-Go is pretty hard to come by now that Something Weird has stopped releasing the movie on DVD.  You still find copies of it on EBay, however, going for at least 60 bucks.  I'm just lucky to have gotten my copy for 26.  But if we want a really hard movie to find, the Japanese film verison of The Drifting Classroom is pretty tricky to come by.  Then again, that movie is pretty questionable when it comes to being actually scary...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja83ZtUupLU

They're not horror movies, but I wish a settlement could be made to release Twice Upon a Time to dvd; it's a wonderful movie. Also, I'd like to see Peter Greenaway's Drowning By Numbers get a Region 1 dvd release; I saw it back in the early '90s and was impressed with the cinematography enough that I'd like to see it again.

They may be referring to the BBC 3 hour version.

I was lucky enough to obtain a "GALAXY OF TERROR" vhs from a pal, but from whati understand there isnt a dvd for it. OOOO! And the Japanese SPIDERMAN series from the 70s! I had to bootleg that one!

Some of these aren't even available on DVD

Midnight Hour (goes for about $130 used on Amazon)
Blue Monkey
Snowbeast
Monster Shark
Blood Beach
Shakma (typically goes anywhere from $70-$100 for a used DVD; besides that, the availability on this movie seems very wonky.  I've been wanting to get a copy of this for a good while, and it seems like none of the online stores ever have any in stock, though it's not listed as being "out of print.")
Porno Holocaust
Attack of the Beast Creatures
The Supernaturals

I have SNOWBEAST (1977) on a double featue dvd with  STANLEY . It's on of those cheapie Dollar Store video things.

SNOWBEAST is also on at least 2 of the Mill Creek 50 movie packs.

Don't be Afraid of the Dark is one of the best TV horror movies.

I have the Killdozer comic book from Marvel Comics.

Ohhh, God! I too know the horrors of looking for The Midnight Hour! (Lucky once I got a crummy bootleg, I realized it wasn't as good as some said!)

And Shakma? HA!!! You lazy, greedy-ass DVD-producing bastards! You make about, what? 25 copies of Shakma only 2 years ago and I got like the first one! I feel for you, Joe, but I managed to kick the "OOP" system there!

Yeah, there's the TV show from 1958 and the movie from 1967.  I was talking about the movie.  I see there is a Canadian release of the DVD available on Ebay for a much more reasonable price.  Hmmm, sounds like the movie, might have to give it a try.

I have a copy...£4!  :teddyr:

Total Git  :wink:

Not a movie, but Boris Karloff's Thriller! series is notoriously MIA on DVD. A few episodes were released on VHS by Universal, but if you want the complete set of this excellent horror series on DVD you have to enter the Gray Market Zone.

Same thing for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. This series was really more than just an hour-long version of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, it tended to lean much more toward pure horror rather than mystery. It also had many original scores by Bernard Herrmann,  who even rearranged the theme for a massive bassoon ensemble.  :smile:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxJUhgubWYc&feature=PlayList&p=F42BFD4DE33305D8&playnext=1&index=49

The horror!  The horror! :buggedout:

There are a few other Made-for-TV films that are great, but not as great as DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK and those are available... terrific sad thriller JIM HUTTON and WILLIAM DEMAREST (not to mention KIM DARBY  :lookingup:).  Very fondly remembered.

How many copies do you want?
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=pervirella (http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=pervirella)

A film I wish they would release on DVD is Jaws of Satan (originally titled King Cobra). Sure you can find a DVD named King Cobra on Amazon but it's a different film. The only thing Amazon has listed is used VHS of the film for about $60.

I would love an original VHS of Black Devil Doll From Hell. I saw a rare theatre screening of the Chester Novell Turner masterpiece and now will do pretty much anything to get my hands on it. It's so raw, so skanky, so deviant that to own would be to covet, and to covet anything is a sign of pleasure.

Now you owe me your soul ....

http://rustedrare.com/oddities.html
 (http://rustedrare.com/oddities.html)

I would love a copy (even on VHS) of Pete Walker's House Of The Long Shadows. RC once found a copy of this film on Ebay and told me about it but I don't have a credit card, so I couldn't buy it.

That's a great find, but it's not an original VHS. There are only 400 of those slimy tapes floating around this island earth and most probably got dumped in the trash when the mom and pop video shops that carried them went out of business oh so many years ago. HOWEVER, that site did turn me on to some of Orson Welles' later films, including a tv show about Salvador Dali that I am very interested in getting. So, mucho kudos to you, good sir. While you may be no true devil, you imitate one very nicely.

You can use a debit card.

You might (I say might 'cause I can never get this to work! :smile:) be able to download it for free here: http://www.cultrararevideos.com/forgottenflixh.html

Not a horror, but I really want Ratboy (1986) to come out on DVD, the VHS copies are very scarce. I haven't seen it in nearly 15 years.  :bluesad:

I've learned it helps a great deal to read the 'How to download movies from this site' instructions.
A hint: Right click on the DOWNLOAD NOW link. Right click.  :smile:

You mean there should be TWO buttons on my mouse?!!?

Crazy, ain't it?

Though not hard to find technically, since it can be got on ebay (which I have had bad luck with in the past so still refuse to deal through), I am STILL having a devil of a time getting hold of a copy of Demon Cop, a horrid little piece of tripe I was turned on to by good friend 3Beerman.

And why is Demon Cop such a necessity?

Because....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB6uk1ROb_k

...that's why.

Highway To Hell (1992)

Really? I bought mine almost a decade ago on VHS at Wal-Mart for $3.00.

Someone said something about Monster a go-go-- I can't believe people will pay $60.00 for it non MST3k, it's really not very entertaining. I found it really boring.

If you want to watch some of the films mentined above and more,check out this site   http://horrorclassics.lefora.com/forum/

Another one, not really horror: "Damnation Alley"...when the hell is it coming out on DVD??

You'd be surprised.  While quite a few obscure movies end up being torrented, many are not - and even those that have been, it's often a past tense thing, as the limited interest in hard-to-find films means the torrents often die quick. 

For one example, try to find the Chinese ripoff of Zatoichi I bought from a grey market seller online for about $8.  I don't even know the damn film's title, as it's in Chinese!  Horrible quality, looks like it was cropped at least twice by different conversions.  It's interesting as a curiosity, and because the Chinese guy playing Zatoichi is actually quite good.  As a guess, I'd say the film was probably illegally made, without the proper rights to the character.  I'd like to see the rest, but have no idea where to find them.

http://www.geocities.com/snycentral/ChineseBlindSwordsman.htm (http://www.geocities.com/snycentral/ChineseBlindSwordsman.htm)

That has the titles.  I'm guessing the bottom one is the one I have, as there is a flying guillotine in it.

Riki-oh: Story of Riki

took us almost 7 weeks to get from Asia somewhere, and we paid $44 for it, and then watched it on my friends LCD projector hooked up to his region free DVD player in his laptop...totally worth it, but none of us can watch it these days due to him moving across the country. Great movie and I still have yet to find it for a "moderate" price (i.e. $20 or less)

Anybody and everybody looking for rare movies without paying outrageous prices for used VHS tapes, I have a disgustingly extensive collection of over 1000 VHS, DVDs, VCDs, LaserDiscs, etc. available for sale on DVD-Rs for recession rates. Just send me a PM with what title(s) you're looking for and I'll get back to anyone and everyone with availability.

I'm hoping Andrew doesn't take offense to this post. I'm not bootlegging new releases or stuff videotaped out of a guy's coat in the theater, just trying to help get fellow BMOF members in touch with their favorite OOP flicks with a small gratuity for my time and materials. I figure as long as I only offer out-of-print stuff it's win-win, right? :smile:

That depends.

What were your sources?

Video quality differs greatly between SP mode prerecords produced before the mid-80s to those made after as does the quality of LP/EP/QEP/SLP recordings.

Were any of your VHS source tapes recordings made off air/cable/sat TV?  If so on what equipment were they recorded?  What type of media?  Coax gives poorer quality signal than something recorded via an S-Video cable yet, if the recording machine was mono or a cheap no-name brand it may not matter.  Which brings us to. .

What was the equipment used to do the transfers?  How were these DVDRs authored? Do they come with artwork in amaray cases or just plain white sleeves?  Can I get some sprinkles on my chocolate ice cream?  And what's up with UFOs?  Are they real or what dude?

 :twirl:

 :bouncegiggle:

 :cheers:


Psst: Do you have any sleazy euro porn?  :wink:

Well KP, it's a mixed bag. Most of what I have that's OOP is either taken from a commercially pressed VHS (so quality there really varies from the quality of the manufacturers, prints the tapes were made from, etc.), a 2nd gen VHS copy (I did a lot of "rent, copy, return" in high school), a DVD-R picked up from various sources (quality also varies from "3rd gen VHS transfer crap" to "VHS transferred to PC and digitally manipulated"), or straight from foreign release commercial DVDs (see VHS description above).

For whatever commercial VHS copies I transfer myself, I use a mono-audio output VCR via the AV cables, though I'm currently looking into seeing if my mother-in-law will sell me her S-Video capable VCR. I record these to a Panasonic DVD writer in SP mode. Discs are mailed in plain white paper sleeves with no cost for shipping. I also have DVD cases and I can print up sleeve and disc art, but those cost extra (disc labels and printer ink ain't cheap). So, all in all, the quality varies from movie to movie. Any copies of Joe Spinell's The Undertaker I make will look like sh!t, but copies of Phantasm II are top notch.

As for sprinkles, they too cost extra, but like the frogurt they are also cursed so I wouldn't recommend them... And UFOs? I'd say wait until 2017 for your answer, but since the world ends in 2012 anyway, it doesn't really matter.  :tongueout:


Yes, but if anybody named "Joe Valentine" asks, you never heard of me. Looking for the German ET porn, right? :wink:

Doesn't that make the VHS tapes hard to play?   :twirl:



Foreign?  You have any of the Caligula, Messalina, Nerone et Poppea, Katrina the Naked Czarina, or Rasputin (Sandra Nova) movies?


If it has an S-video jack then most definitely the way to go.  You'll see a significant improvement in picture quality over what a RCA hookup provides.  Plus, it'll probably be in stereo.  I don't think they made any S-VHS decks in mono.  Not that there's anything wrong with mono.  People live with mono all the time.   :wink:


 :cheers:


They made ET porn?  OH MY!

So, no dinosaur porn?

Yep, the infamous ET porno The Extra-Terrestrian. I think it was made in Germany and the copy I have is subbed in Portuguese. A friend was supposed to translate it for me so I could throw together some English subtitles, but then he had to go and spoil it all by doing something stupid like getting a job... Speaking of German porn, I also have a Supergirl parody porno that I'm pretty sure is called Supergirl: Tits of Steel.

As for dinosaur porn, other than the creepy internet video a friend sent to me about a woman being fingercuffed by a pair of men in nightmarish bug-eyed pterodactyl costumes, my experience with dino porn is pretty much nill. I'll see who can find what for me though! :cheers:

 :bouncegiggle:

I'm not sure of the title but once, when looking for information on the German TV series Space Patrol Orion (?), I stumbled on a DVD for something called Ficksternraumpstein (?), which seemed to be a porno SF parody.  Ah, those wacky Germans!


I stumbled on a page with clips for something like that once when looking for info on PLANET OF THE DINOSAURS!  I was like. .  :buggedout:  :question:

I'll bet it was a German porno too. LOL.

You really don't have to look to the Germans for SF pornos, there is an entire series of pornos called Sex Trek which is a parody of Star Trek made in the US. Also Cinamax has a softcore porn SF series it airs late at night. It's really bad. Think the episode I happen to see was about a guy who had an android replica of his wife made after she supposedly died in an accident or something. Only the android was sluttier. (Hey when it comes to Cinamax Softcore Porn, everyone in it is a slut to some degree.)

(http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6097/ohnoes.jpg)



Talk about forbidden science!

Actually it's kind of funny that Star Trek (Sex Trek), Star Wars (Sex Wars), and Flash Gordon (Flesh Gordon) have all gotten at least one "porno" flick parodying them yet, AFAIK, no one's filmed an porn parody for Buck Rogers.  I wonder why that is?

I think it's cause they haven't been able to get a vibrator to go "Twiggy! Twiggy! Twiggy!" without everyone on the set bursting out laughing.

I've seen it on Ebay for under $20 and also Amazon has it new for $21 and used for about $15.

Night of the Creeps. The one with BOTH endings intact.

(http://www.obscurehorror.com/nightofthecreeps4.jpg)

 :lookingup:
Is that directed by the genius that did RoboCop III

Me too, except mine is one of those multi-packs I picked up used from Amazon - something like 20 movies for $11 including shipping...  :smile:

NOT OF THIS EARTH (1957)!!!

Speak of the devil, NOTC comes to official DVD this October! Promising to be "packed with extras", it seems likely that at least one of those will be the alternate ending.

HUZZAH!!

According to AICN, the film will feature the "alternate" ending as the ending actually used on the disc!  The theatrical ending will be an extra. 

Looking forward to it.

RC, i've got a boot of attack of the crab monsters i'd be happy to send to you! PM me!

i guess you wanted the original jap language one? you can get the dubbed version on amazon for $20 region 1.


night of the creeps on dvd you say? in october you say? packed with special features you say?..................AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! (head explodes)

the only one I've had a lot of trouble finding is an Aussie slasher movie called Nightmare from 1980, but there's tons of rare movies really

(http://www.critcononline.com/images/rocktober%20blood%20vhs%20front2.jpg)

I've wanted this one for years.... :bluesad: