What are your top 10 most wanted Blu-rays?

[SWBL5252]

Amazing Spiderman live action tv show starring Nicholas Hammond

[TrekStar]

I think Bonanza and the Original Hawaii Five-O would be sweet on Blu-ray, the scenery alone would look cool,
Charlie's Angels, Love Boat, Fantasy Island and the Waltons.

[Blue Meanie]

No reason it can't be released here instead of going thru making sure I have the right player and then getting it imported. Disney owns Marvel now and has owned the cartoons for a while. 4 out of 5 characters are movie Avengers, if Namor is the sticking point leave him out.

With what Disney is doing to the Marvel Universe...it may be a very long time before you see them here in the states. Look at it this way, what was the 1st cartoon series they released when Disney acquired Marvel : Marvel Action Hour Iron Man. That should tell you right there that they have no immediate or future plans on EVER releasing the Marvel Cartoons from the 60's. Again, just my opinion.

[Hedji]

One of the best things to happen in Blu-ray recently is the smallish label called Twilight Time.

Twilight Time is nice. I have their Fright Night release.

I'm quite partial to the smaller labels. Scream Factory is churning out great releases. Arrow, Severin, Code Red, Scorpion, and Kino Lorber are all great boutique labels. Scream Factory has gotten into the small run limited edition game recently. In fact, my copy of Star Wars ripoff Message From Space arrived just today!

[thunderbolt]

Mr. Sardonicus--jeez I love that one.

A Bill Castle box set would be very welcome here.

[PNGwynne]

Mr. Sardonicus--jeez I love that one.

[enyawd72]

Oh uh, the bug is biting you!

LOL...that bug bit me a looong time ago. I think my Blu-ray collection is up around 300 or so.

[SKotK]

One of the best things to happen in Blu-ray recently is the smallish label called Twilight Time. The 1975 Rollerball movie was near the top of my list for Blu-ray for years, and it just wasn't happening. Come to find out, this company I'd never heard of called Twilight Time had released it in 2015, and I'd never heard about it. The trouble is, they only release limited runs of 3000 copies, and they're only available directly from Twilight Time online or through Amazon...so by the time I heard about it, it was already long gone except on the secondary market. Luckily they've done a rare second run on that one now.

So this is kind of a new concept in Blu-ray releases: limited edition runs, turning what was formerly a mass-market cheaply and easily available thing into a more expensive (30 bucks each from their website), limited-run collectible that sells out fast. The good part of that is that they're doing a whole bunch of films that have been out-of-print or never released on Blu-ray, many of which the studios apparently would have no interest in otherwise. I've already picked up 1984 (the 1984 John Hurt one, with 2 versions of the film) and Mississippi Burning during a sale they had, and I'm very happy with them.

Along with the on-demand studio archive releases that Warner and others have been doing, this bodes well for seeing the release of a lot of films that have been neglected for ages.

--SKot

[Hedji]

Oh uh, the bug is biting you!

[enyawd72]

^Agreed! Thanks for the heads up on Kingdom of the Spiders!

I just ordered Madhouse with Vincent Price, Mr. Sardonicus, 13 Ghosts, The Boy Who Cried Werewolf, Bad Moon, and The Fog.

[Hedji]

Black Hole may come out. My fear is that it will be an Exclusive to the Disney Movie Club. Why there's no Black Hole ride at the Disney parks is beyond me. The film actually has the perfect ride template built in... People mover, Robots in the Cygnus Garden, target practice, Meteor that almost hits the riders, and then dark ride into the Black Hole itself. (But I digress)

There's so many Blu Rays from some of the smaller labels that I never thought would see the light of day. It's a wonderful boom for you if you want to explore things like low budget Euro Horror or the Italian Giallo genre. Problem is, they aren't cheap because you can't walk into a Best Buy or Wal Mart and get them. But I have to say, aside from many of the titles already mentioned in this thread, most of my favorite major films have been released already.

[Bruce Banner]

Dracula (1979) in its original theatrical color. It's my favorite Dracula movie of all time and it has had abysmal home video releases from dvd to the 2014 blu-ray where color has been nearly all striped away making the movie look pale and washed out.

Yeah, they should have had 2 versions on the disc... one in its original theatrical colour and one with John Badham's preferred "toned down" colour version.
Okay, I can appreciate why he chose to desaturate the colour to almost capture the monochrome look he initially wanted to use for the picture, but having both versions would have been nice.

Top of my Blu-ray wish list are still The Black Hole and Dragonslayer.

[Hedji]

Dracula (1979) in its original theatrical color. It's my favorite Dracula movie of all time and it has had abysmal home video releases from dvd to the 2014 blu-ray where color has been nearly all striped away making the movie look pale and washed out.

Yes! Excellent choice. Release the complete score by Williams too, please.

[thunderbolt]

If you have a multi regional player they are available legally in the UK. They've been available for about 10 years or more. Great sets and highly recommended if you have multi region machine.

No reason it can't be released here instead of going thru making sure I have the right player and then getting it imported. Disney owns Marvel now and has owned the cartoons for a while. 4 out of 5 characters are movie Avengers, if Namor is the sticking point leave him out.

[SKotK]

Ooh, good topic!

Star Wars Trilogy (Original Theatrical Editions) [absolutely this - is 3 films in 1 cheating?]
THX 1138 (Original Theatrical Version) [the other original version that George Lucas has denied everyone]
Dune (Extended Edition) [was available on DVD, but only the standard version is on Blu-ray]
Rad! [super cheesy, still only available on VHS]
Gleaming The Cube [another cheesy but fun 80s flick]
Children of Nature [incredible Icelandic film]
Idiocracy [hoping that in hi-def I can read all the hilarious background signs]
Pump Up The Volume [huge influence on my going into radio]
Something Wicked This Way Comes [Disney does dark Ray Bradbury]
Zentropa [Hitchcock-esque very stylized film set in post-WWII Germany]

--SKot