MGM: My DVD want list (American Internation Pictures) (1 Viewer)

[Eugene Esterly]

Vampira
Food of the Gods
Blacula
Blood Bath
Blood of Dracula
Cannibal Girls
Blood and Lace
Door-to-Door Maniac
Earth vs. the Spider
Gas-s-s-s
Gorp
Haunted Palace
Horror House
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
Incredible Melting Man
Jennifer the Snake Goddess
Love at First Bite
Maciste contro il vampiro
Madhouse (1974 movie)
Matango
Burn, Witch, Burn!
Raven
Return of Count Yorga
Rolling Thunder
Scream, Blacula, Scream!
Scream... and Die!
Seizure
Sugar Hill
Tales from the Crypt (1972 movie)
Tentacoli
Town That Dreaded Sundown
War of the Colossal Beast
¿Quién puede matar a un niño?

Theses movies need to be released on DVD in their OAR.

 

[Rex Bachmann]

Already announced by MGM/UA as "Midnight Movie" double-features are:

(a) The Haunted Palace/Tower of London "(featuring new interviews with director Roger Corman and producer Gene Corman)"

and

(b) Comedy of Terrors/The Raven "(both featuring new interviews with screenwriter Richard Matheson and director Roger Corman, plus a rare promotional record featuring the voices of Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and Paul Frees)".

These and the other August 26, 2003 "Midnight Movie" releases are "presented in anamorphic widescreen . . . . [at SRP] $14.95 a pop".

 

[Peter M Fitzgerald]

Unfortunately, a few of the cool AIP titles on Eugene's list are likely outside of MGM's control:

I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN
I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF
EARTH VS. THE SPIDER
WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST
BLOOD OF DRACULA

These, as well as several of AIP's other 1950s films (THE SHE CREATURE, IT CONQUERED THE WORLD, THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN, HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER, SORORITY GIRL, INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN, THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED, MACHINE GUN KELLY, THE UNDEAD, TEENAGE CAVEMAN, etc.), are currently owned by the estates of Sam Arkoff (run by his son) and James Nicholson (run by his widow, former AIP starlet Susan Hart). Unless MGM manages to license the films from these estates, they won't be releasing them on DVD any time soon, or perhaps the Arkoff and/or Nicholson estates may decide to license the films to another DVD company. Time will tell

A few of these films (HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER, EARTH VS. THE SPIDER, WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST and THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED) are going to debut as legit DVDs in the U.K. soon, so they may well be announced for R1 DVD release sometime in the near future, but whether this could be through MGM is not clear at this point.

I could be wrong, but I believe that the home video rights to TALES FROM THE CRYPT (1972) belong to Warner Home Video these days (ditto the sequel, VAULT OF HORROR (1973); both were previously in Fox's hands for some period of time). I seriously doubt MGM currently has them, though.

Also, the North American rights to MATANGO (1963, a.k.a. ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE) probably have reverted to Toho Studios within the last few years (along with other Toho films imported by A.I.P., like GODZILLA VS. THE THING (1964), ATRAGON (1963), GODZILLA VS. THE SMOG MONSTER (1972) and THE LOST WORLD OF SINBAD (1964)). Such has been the case with most of their other 1950s-1970s monster/sci-fi/horror films. I'd sure like to have it on a subbed & dubbed widescreen DVD, along witm many other genre Toho faves.

As for my "A.I.P. from MGM" wish list, I would like to see these on DVD:

ALAKAZAM THE GREAT (1961)
BURN, WITCH, BURN! (1962)
PANIC IN YEAR ZERO (1962)
THE LAST MAN ON EARTH (1964)
THE TIME TRAVELERS (1964)
WILD IN THE STREETS (1968)
UP IN THE CELLAR (1970 a.k.a. THREE IN THE CELLAR)
THE INCREDIBLE TWO-HEADED TRANSPLANT (1971)
SHOUT AT THE DEVIL (1976)
ROLLING THUNDER (1977)

 

[Rex Bachmann]

To the lists provided above

I would add

(a) Queen of Blood (a.k.a., Planet of Blood) (AIP, 1966)
(b) Terror from the Year 5000 (AIP, 1959).


I would be amazed to see The Undead in a quality DVD transfer from anybody.

 

[Rex Bachmann]

Eugene Esterly wrote (post #1):