OOP Videos We Shall Never See On DVD (probably)....

[TheDope]

This is in response to a comment made by Shadow about the tape of The Boogens I recently acquired. 

Mentioning as he did the fact that we will probably never see it come out on DVD got me to thinking about one of my favorite hobbies: finding OOP (Out-Of-Print) VHS movies that have not yet jumped the shark and made it onto DVD. 

Believe it or not, there are still quite a few notable titles that aren't available on anything other than the VHS tapes you usually find at yard sales, flea markets, boards such as these, what have you.

I have already DVD'd off several in my collection and then traded the originals away for others I've wanted and so on.  The main ones I have already in my collection are:

Babes In Toyland (1986, the Keanu Reeves/ Drew Barrymore made-for-TV musical)
Blood Beach
Cast a Deadly Spell
The Choirboys
City on Fire
Death Ship (yes, the very one reviewed on this site!)
Holocaust 2000 (the Kirk Douglas/Omen ripoff)
Jekyll & Hyde...Together Again
MegaForce
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn
Night Of Horror
Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny
Second Sight (you know - the one where Bronson Pinchot's a psychic detective?  No?  Okay...)
Space Mutiny
Time Walker
Wired

And I have still others yet on VHS that have not yet been preserved for (my) posterity as of yet:

Rad
Vibes
Teenage Frankenstein (yes, I was shocked, too)
Morgan Stewart's Coming Home
Surf II
Tricks of the Trade (a Markie Post/ Cindy Williams made-for-TV movie)
Video Rewind: The Rolling Stones' Great Video Hits

...and I'm sure I have some other's I'm totally forgetting, but you get the idea.

The thing is this: for every copy of Gigli and Alone in the Dark out there, there are a dozen or so movies that have never seen the light of day since they were first copied onto a VHS tape and sat with their bleached-out case covers in your local rental shop.  Myself, I like to go to MTC Europa Video to keep up on what titles are not yet part of the fold.

But I guess the thing about OOP videos is that they either have to be really really awful or really really special to not be found on disc.  Of course, I never thought I'd see the day where they'd have movies like Solarbabies, Rock 'N' Roll Nightmare, Nail Gun Massacre, Slugs or Manos: The Hands of Fate on DVD either, but there you go.

Sooo...are there any times you've been in your local Wally World, K-Mart or rental place and been totally floored by movies they don't have on DVD?

[Captain Tars Tarkas]

Space Mutiny

http://www.amazon.com/Space-Mutiny-Norman-Anstey/dp/B000TESV6M

Not that anyone would know since they did ZERO fanfare on the internet, and don't even have a picture from the movie on the cover so casual MST3K fans would recognize it in any distinct way.

[KYGOTC]

Galaxy of Terror hasnt made it to dvd yet, unfortunately.

[Doc Daneeka]

The only ones I can never see someone putting to DVD for some camp, cult following reason are Dance of the Dwarfs... and Phantasm 2 R1

Also, I dunno if this was counted as ever IN print, but I'd personally like to see Andrew Gunny put that Maleorvs film he liked so much to DVD since no one else has a reason to

[Jack]

There are usually DVD bootlegs of Galaxy of Terror on Ebay.  Supposedly they're pretty good quality.  I agree about Vibes, I've got it on VHS and started copying it onto DVD, but decided the quality of my tape (recorded off TV long ago) was just too crummy.  And the original VHS tape is pretty expensive.

My additions:

• The Rollerblade trilogy (or maybe there were four off these, I dunno).
• Alien Cargo - Sci-Fi original (?) about a couple in hibernation on a long range space cargo ship.  They wake up and find out they're way out in the middle of nowhere, the two people who were supposed to be running things are missing, they're just screwed.
• Dead Weekend - awful movie with a really hot babe in it.
• Sleeping Dogs - silly sci-fi thing about some bad guys trying to raise hell with a spaceship
• Moonbase - people at a sanitary landfill - on the moon - are attacked by some escaped prison inmates.
• Moontrap - Bruce Campbell and Chekov fight giant robots on the moon.

There's also Heroes of Telemark, a Kirk Douglas WWII movie set in Norway.  And of course The Keep, really cool supernatural WWII movie.  I'm hoping both of those eventually will get a DVD release. 

[Andrew]

Also, I dunno if this was counted as ever IN print, but I'd personally like to see Andrew Gunny put that Maleorvs film he liked so much to DVD since no one else has a reason to

Gary would have to do that, and I'm not sure he could (it was a student film).  He's talked about doing it before, but I that was years ago.

"Moontrap" is a movie that is tied up in legal hell from what I know. 

I have a Sci-Fi 6-pack that has that DVD release of "Space Mutiny" on it.  Haven't watched it yet, so I cannot say how good the transfer is.  I've run into a couple of DVDs that are just horrible.  The DVD version of "Prisoners of the Lost Universe" is even worse than about a third generation VHS copy.

[Kester Pelagius]

Space Mutiny

Believe it or not SPACE MUTINY is out on DVD from Echo Bridge.  I picked it up over the weekend at Best Buy and have a overview (w/ screen caps) of the disc up here.

[Doc Daneeka]

• The Rollerblade trilogy (or maybe there were four off these, I dunno).
• Alien Cargo - Sci-Fi original (?) about a couple in hibernation on a long range space cargo ship.  They wake up and find out they're way out in the middle of nowhere, the two people who were supposed to be running things are missing, they're just screwed.
• Dead Weekend - awful movie with a really hot babe in it.
• Sleeping Dogs - silly sci-fi thing about some bad guys trying to raise hell with a spaceship
• Moonbase - people at a sanitary landfill - on the moon - are attacked by some escaped prison inmates.
• Moontrap - Bruce Campbell and Chekov fight giant robots on the moon.

I nearly mentioned Moonbase until I saw it had an R2 release . I know Phantasm 2 also has a region 2 release, but that is more of an inside joke to us "phans"

And Gunny... Darnit! What about that guy on the comments section who watched it on Realplayer/wanted his life back?

[Kester Pelagius]

Galaxy of Terror hasnt made it to dvd yet, unfortunately.

Actually it's had two R2 releases.  One from the UK, which is in FS, and one from Italy, which was LBX.  Then again there's a megaton of movies that seem to purposefully NOT be given R1 release.  Like FORBIDDEN WORLD, which has similarly had at least two R2 releases, one out of Germany.  It's odd considering how some movies, like STARCRASH, have had multiple, if almost impossible to find, releases from "PD" labels yet these haven't.

Speaking of which most of the Rollerblade trilogy made it to DVD by way of Brentwood.  But if you really want it Google for "Max Hell Frog Warrior", the guy that directed/starred in that has a web site where he's selling DVDRs of the movies.  Just be warned the prices he's asking are insane.

[TheDope]

Space Mutiny

http://www.amazon.com/Space-Mutiny-Norman-Anstey/dp/B000TESV6M

Not that anyone would know since they did ZERO fanfare on the internet, and don't even have a picture from the movie on the cover so casual MST3K fans would recognize it in any distinct way.

Thunderation!!  Looks like somebody played Sun City!

The fact that somebody put that on DVD floors me in the same way as when I found out that Peter Jackson's Bad Taste was released on many multi-pack movie sets (from Mill Creek Entertainment, IIRC) as a public domain movie!   

[Kester Pelagius]

The following movies (edited from an old list) currently hvae no legit DVD in R1 AFAIK.  Note that titles with an "*" asterix by them indicate a "PD" release, meaning a DVD is available from shady labels offering video quality that's essentially a VHS to DVD transfer.  Titles with a {?) by them indicate movies whose current status I am unsure of.

2020 Texas Gladiators
The Amorous Adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza (?)
And God Said to Cain
Ator, the Fighting Eagle*
Ator the Invincible
Attack of the Moors
Beast in Space (coming soon)
Behind Convent Walls (?)
The Bermuda Depths
The b***h
The Boob Tube
Caligula and Messalina
Caligula: The Untold Story*
Chained Heat (?)
Chatterbox (1977)
Cheerleaders' Wild Weekend
Cinderella (1977)
The Coming of Sin
The Curse (1987)
Death Race
Desert Warrior
Escape from Galaxy 3
Evil Of Dracula
Fabiola
Flesh and the Spur (?)
Forbidden World
Galaxy of Terror
Genesis II (Roddenberry PA)
Guns of the Black Witch (?)
His Name Was Holy Ghost (?)
The Humanoid
Inquisition (?)
Invasion of the Girl Snatchers
The Invisible Maniac
Iron Warrior (aka Ator 3)
Joy and the Pharaohs (?)
Jungle Girl and the Slaver
Jungle Goddess
Katarina the Naked Czarina
Katarina und ihre wilden Hengste (sequel to above)
Kilma, Queen of the Amazons (?)
Lady Frankenstein*
Lake Of Dracula (?)
Lana: Queen of the Amazons (?)
Last Bride of Salem
Legacy Of Dracula (?)
Liane, Jungle Goddess*
Mardi Gras Massacre (?)
Masque of the Red Death (1989) (?)
Mark of the Devil II
Messalina (1960)
Messalina, Messalina*
Mutant Action
Near Misses
Nightmare Weekend
Nocturna
Off the Wall (1983)
Old Enough
One Woman or Two
The Pirate of the Black Hawk (?)
Planet Earth (Roddenberry PA)
Programmed to Kill
p***y Talk
Pyrates
Quest for the Mighty Sword
Rebel Love
Red Heat (1985) (?)
The Seducers
Slave Girls of Sheba
Sorceress (1982)
Spermula
Starcrash*
Star Odyssey*
Strange New World (Roddenberry PA)
The Stud (?)
Thor and the Amazon Women*
The Terror Within II
Twins of Evil
Una sull'altra
Vampire Circus
Vampire Hookers (?)
Voyage to the End of the Universe
War of the Zombies
Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy
Web of the Spider*
Wheels of Fire
When Women Had Tails
When Women Lost Their Tails
The Wicked Lady
Women of Devil's Island
The World, the Flesh and the Devil (?)
The Young, the Evil & the Savage

[richjr37]

I must be the only peeved at Paramount for backing out on the R1 release of the 1976 'kids as gangsters' spoof "Bugsy Malone" that was announced over a year ago. I know there are German and Chinese DVD releases,but what of the USA?

I want it NOW!

[The Burgomaster]

How about:

* WILLARD (original)
* BEN
* PUPPET ON A CHAIN
* THE DOBERMAN GANG (and various sequels and rip-offs)
* THE BLOOD EATERS
* BEYOND THE DOOR (European copies are sometimes available on Ebay)
* VIGILANTE FORCE
* WHITE LINE FEVER
* MARK OF THE DEVIL, PART II

[hellbilly]

Mark Of Cain (1985) - Overlooked slasher from Canada.
Night School (1981) - Slasher starring Rachel Ward.
Necropolis (1987) - Guilty pleasure I used to watch back to back with Neon Maniacs 
Fatal Attraction a.k.a. Head On (1980) - Another obscure/great Canadian flick.
Terminal Choice (1985) - Fun "hi-tech" hospital-thriller.
Dark Of The Night a.k.a. Mr. Wrong (1985) - Excellent haunted-car horror.
White Of The Eye (1987) - Long overdue ...

[Doc Daneeka]

How about:

* WILLARD (original)
* BEN

I would say these (the former anyhow) have at least a ghost of a chance of coming out on DVD considering the fact that Amazon has had a listing for a Willard '70 DVD "Not yet released" for about a few months http://www.amazon.com/Willard-Bruce-Davison/dp/B00005JM2S/ref=pd_bbs_4?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1205351655&sr=8-4