.
Yes! Yes!Yes!Yes!Yes!Yes!Yes!Yes!Yes!Yes!Yes!
More when I can think a little more coherently (and I’m not about to walk out the front door).
Okay, where was I? Ah, yes: it has just been announced that Warners will FINALLY be releasing The Green Slime. The good news—hell, great news is that it will be anamorphic widescreen; the bad news is, it’s through the Archive Collection.
Given how long many of us having been hanging out for this, it may seem ungrateful to pick this moment to complain, but – I am finding myself increasingly annoyed with the implication that while fans of other sorts of films need proper releases, it’s okay to make horror and science fiction fans put up with overpriced DVD-Rs. And they know how badly we want this: it’s priced five dollars higher than its fellow releases, Antonio Margheriti’s The Wild, Wild Planet and War Of The Planets, which will also be anamorphic widescreen. All three will be “out in time for Halloween”.
And yes, of course I’ll be buying them all. Sigh.
.
.
.
.
.
#1 by El Santo on September 22, 2010 - 9:57 pm
Quote
I wonder if they’ll do Planet on the Prowl and The Snow Devils, too, later on? I get asked about where to buy the Gamma I movies almost as often as I get asked where to buy In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro, and it’ll be nice to have something useful to tell people for a change.
#2 by Blake on September 23, 2010 - 5:21 am
Quote
People actively ask you where to buy “In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro”? Words fail me. That’s one movie I regret not renting from the mom n’ pops video store back in the day.
#3 by El Santo on September 23, 2010 - 7:04 am
Quote
“People actively ask you where to buy ‘In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro’?”
Yup. About once every two months, on average. I can’t figure it out, either.
#4 by The Rev. on September 23, 2010 - 11:40 am
Quote
I haven’t seen it, but the couple of reveiws I’ve read of ITSOK convince me I’m not missing anything. Despite my established insanity, I am still compelled to ask: are these people out of their minds?? What about your words convinces them they must see it? Maybe it’s that admiteddly-nice poster?
This thread reminds me that I have the first two Gamma I movies on my DVR (love you, TCM!) I should really get around to watching those…
I bet Ken’s doing a little dance down in Kentucky right about now re: TGS on DVD. With any luck, someone’s taping it to download, because I bet it is pure awesome.
#5 by Blake on September 23, 2010 - 11:44 am
Quote
ITSOK is one of those movies I’d watch just to be able to tell people proudly that I’ve seen a movie about a group people being menaced by an army of baboons (the actual quality of the film notwithstanding).
#6 by El Santo on September 23, 2010 - 1:11 pm
Quote
My favorite was the guy in Malta who wanted to know where he could score a copy. Man, I wouldn’t know what to tell somebody in Malta about where to buy a pack of cigarettes, let alone out-of-print VHS tapes of crummy 80’s animal-attack movies!
#7 by lyzard on September 23, 2010 - 4:33 pm
Quote
As I recall, for me it was that I mused in a review that I really needed to see ITSOK, which provoked Santo to a cry of, “For God’s sake, why!?” (Kind of a silly question, given who he was talking to.)
I found a copy of ITSOK at my beloved old video store – which, remarkably enough, still *is* 50% a video store. If I’d known then what I know now, I’d’ve pirated it and made my fortune.