Just making a short list of films that I've had trouble getting an easy hold of. If anyone ever sees them pop up at the store or on netflix let me know. Thanks.
El Topo
Holy Mountain
El Vampiro
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
The Scavengers (1969)
Love Camp 7
Faster p***ycat Kill Kill
Super Vixens
Flesh Eaters (haven't seen it since mid-70's)
http://retroflicks.com/shop/store/00020.html
That were you can find Flesh Eaters
Holy Mountain and The Scavengers I found at neflick but The Scavengers one is 1959 instead of 1969.
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Like most any film, you can find Faster p***ycat Kill Kill and Super Vizens on Ebay as well as Amazon.
I'm thinking more in terms of local store and/or cheap on DVD. I think you might be seeing FLESH EATERS out at Best Buy sometime soon, but the rest seem out of reach for me as I won't spend much and won't use ebay for other reasons for now.
Netflix is good for me because its cheap and you have access to so many films. The HOLY MOUNTAIN that I'm thinking about is by the same director as EL TOPO.
Another film that has been elusive for me is Marlon Brando's THE NIGHTCOMERS.
Thanks for the input Rich and Scottie.
You can buy EL TOPO on VHS from an Amazon seller for $9.99 new: El Topo at Amazon Z-shops (http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/ts/exchange-glance/Y01Y0565538Y8381747/102-8123107-4904102)
You can also find it on DVD at eBay for not much more than that, or buy EL TOPO and HOLY MOUNTAIN as an import set on DVD for between $50-75.
I have LET SLEEPING CORPSES LIE on an Anchor Bay VHS. Alternative titles for this movie are DON'T OPEN THE WINDOW and THE LIVING DEAD AT THE MANCHESTER MORGUE
I may have FLESH EATERS on VHS. I will have to check on that.
How come NIGHT PORTER is not on that list? (:
I think I've seen a few of these at www.xploitedcinema.com .
Albeit, they're primarily into imports that may be incompatable with U.S. DVD players, But I have purchased a couple of Region 1 NTSC & Region 0 PAL DVDs that didn't require any modifications to my player.
The last time I checked, they had a page dedicated to the works of Alejandro Jodoroski, and I saw some of those Russ Meyer movies in their new arrivals section a couple of months ago. It's been a while since I last checked, but I think they have the option of browsing either alphabetically or by director.
Might be worth a look.
I am very much looking forward to the DVD of "Flesh Eaters." That film scared the heck out of me as a child. Nowdays, it just makes me scratch my head that creatures that feed on human flesh would be allergic to blood. Um...
I have the, IIRC, Anchor Bay DVD of "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie." Cool flick and I would recommend it to anyone who likes zombie films.
Both "El Topo" and "Faster p***ycat. Kill! Kill!" are two films that I eagerly await on DVD. Heck, I made sure to buy the Russ Meyer DVD of "Up" just to encourage more affordable DVD releases of other films.
Tangentially related to the topic, if you are looking for El Topo you *might* enjoy another Jodorowsky film called 'Santa Sangre'. I saw the preview for it back in 1990 when I saw 'Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down' in the cinema. It looked VERY weird, with a young boy with a massive eagle tattoo fresh and bloody on his chest, and his father saying, 'Now, you are just like your father!' or something, displaying his own tattoo.
My girlfriend at the time was eerily fascinated with that movie after seeing the preview, but I did see it until several years later. I thought it was strange, kind of boring, but if you like 'that kind of thing' 'then it would be pretty cool. Review of the Anchor Bay DVD is here:
http://www.horrorview.com/Sante%20Sangre%20DVD.htm
If they've released Santa Sangre, they might release El Topo as well.
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I doubt El Topo or Holy Mountain will be on netflix anytime soon.
In fact, I bought my copies off of Ebay. Bootleg copies, that is.
Jodrowsky has been fighting for years to get the rights to those movies.
I'm afraid he'll be dead before they ever are released officially.
SANTA SANGRE is a good strange film that I saw a few years back. I like those type films.
I'll put THE NIGHT PORTER on my list having heard of it, but never actually seeing it.
If the stories are true then either Jodorowsky or Allen Klein will have to die for those films to get a proper reissue, unfortunately. Klein holds the rights to them and the bad blood between the two goes back for decades. Supposedly Klein is holding onto them to cheat Jodorowsky of any acclaim or positive exposure that might come from a legit reissue or restoration. But he's rumored to be holding back the reissue of many old recordings he holds the rights to as well. Too bad, I'd like to see them someday, especially in non bootleg form.
I liked "Santa Sangre" as well, kind of a horror/exploitation cheapie crossed with psuedo magic realism. When I saw it I remember thinking it would actually work better if it had been made years earlier and had the kind of faded out and muted colors of the film stock of so many 70s genre flicks, since it reminded me of odd films from that time. At least it might have helped obscure what the "circus strongwoman" really was, those scenes were hard to take seriously even within the film.
Not meaning to hijack Scott's thread or anything, but if anybody can locate any copies(store or bootleg) of Todd Browning's "West of Zanzibar" or the Filipino movie "Moro Witch Doctor", you would be as unto Gods in my eyes.
Ditto on the 'do not mean to hijack', but if a decent DVD of "Attack of the Bee Girls" exists I'd love to know about it!
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> Ditto on the 'do not mean to hijack', but if a decent DVD of
> "Attack of the Bee Girls" exists I'd love to know about it!
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> ~Archivist~
It is available on DVD under its alternative name of GRAVEYARD TRAMPS.
I've been seeing Let Sleeping Corpses Lie on your to see list for like the past 3 years, it's definitely worth buying even believe me
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I have this one on an MGM double feature DVD. The two films are "Invasion of the Star Creatures" and "Invasion of the Bee Girls." The quality is decent. Not up to par with most DVDs, but better than my VHS I used to have. Also, it appears to be the original aspect ratio of 1.85:1. I have not seen the "Graveyard Tramps" DVD version, but it appears to be 1.33:1, along with being a Brentwood DVD. I would think the quality would be lower than the MGM one.
The Double Feature DVD on Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007R4T1M/badmoviesorg)
(That link does give me credit if you buy the movie. If you jump to Amazon.com and search for "Invasion of the Star Creatures" under DVD it will come right up.
Menard, Andrew, YOU ROCK!!!
Thank you!!!
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OMG! They have the Count Yorga double feature too!!! Bee Girls AND Yorga! aaaahhhh... (right now I'd have change my shorts if I was wearing 'em!)
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I'd like to add FROM HELL IT CAME about those living tree monsters and the Spaghetti Western FACE TO FACE.
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