Gordon McMurphy wrote:It's hard to say. They should, but Anchor Bay are pretty fickle when it comes to putting Limited Editions and OOP titles back in print, for some reason - TV cut of Halloween, etc.
Only the gods know what Anchor Bay is thinking with the Halloween editions. If you want the cool supplements, you have to own the new 2 disc. If you want the proper transfers and/or all the cuts, you have to own the original 2 disc. It's like having to buy a 4 disc box set in installments. They've gotten better since that rough patch of stupidity inbetween Bill Lustig's departure and the better days of Perry Martin, but those horrible editions of Halloween and Evil Dead are still littering the market.
This edition also features an audio commentary with Christopher Lee, Edward Woodward, director Robin Hardy and moderated by Mark Kermode and also a 25-minute interview with Christopher Lee.
Well, the supplements sound cool but the transfer isn't worth it and I don't have multi-region. In the meantime I'll just be forced to something evil, because Anchor Bay and region coding combined is frustrating enough to lead me there. Again, I will gladly put money in their hands if/when they're smart enough to reintroduce it. It would be especially nice if they found a way to Divimax it as they did with that poor quality director's cut of Manhunter.
"OH, GOD! OH, JESUS CHRIST!"
Mwahahahahah.
tryavna wrote:I'm in the same boat when it comes to their OOP release of Two-Lane Blacktop, a movie I just discovered in 2005 but I'm not going to pay $100+ for it.
I don't think that is their fault. From what I can tell, all the existing Monte Hellman films of note went out of print at both Anchor Bay and VCI simultaneously. It looks a lot like someone has the rights to most of his library now and just hasn't done anything with them.
To answer your question, there have been long-standing rumors that AB will re-release the far superior extended cut of Wicker Man, but nothing definite has ever been confirmed. Perhaps the one good thing about the remake will be the re-release?
Well, then my next question is, who is going to release Cowboys for Christ
(the followup) once finished? I figure a movie like that is going to go straight to video in the states, but I don't know who handlles British releases of that nature. As Anchor Bay has Wicker Man, it might be in their interest... but that sounds a little far fetched an assumption.