Once a major DVD player, Anchor Bay Entertainment, seems to have lost many of their licenses to the major movie studios (it was more profitable for them to release the DVDs themselves). Lately, Anchor Bay have been releasing B-movies and direct-to-DVD movies. Although this is common and accepted for such places like Japan (where they even coined the term V-Cinema and OVA), in America, Direct-to-DVD is not good as it's generally ignored by the mass market.
So, anyway, for a time, Anchor Bay released some really cool tin collectible DVDs. The Repo Man tin came with the original MCA soundtrack, which is a nice bonus. The soundtrack has some old punk favorites like Black Flag, Suicidal Tendencies, Iggy Pop, and The Circle Jerks. The best songs are the Spanish songs by the Plugz.
These are long out of print, but you can always try and track these down on the secondary market. I did some random price checks, the most expensive ones are the smaller print run (obviously). The least desireable one is Evil Dead 2 on account that the film is available in many, many, many reissues. The two that I'm missing are in the high $60+ ranges.
ANCHOR BAY TIN DISCOGRAPHY (Title/Limited Number)
- Hellraiser I/II (not listed, probably 30,000)
- The Beyond (20,000)
- Evil Dead II (50,000)
- Halloween 4 (40,000)
- Halloween 5 (15,000)
- Maniac (5,000)
- Candy (16,000)*
- Heathers (15,000)
- Two Lane Blacktop (15,000)
- The Wicker Man (50,000)**
- Repo Man (30,000)
* Circular tin case, available in pink case and "pill" case
** The case is made from pine wood, instead of a tin case.
ABE is one of our clients (I work in PR). Halloween 4 5 we probably have in our garage.
And licenses are a bitch - we lost 'Man From U.N.C.L.E.' that way. And I must tell you, the transfers looked sweet.
Oh, and you'll be glad to know that we'll probably be double-dipping Evil Dead again later this year.
I know - we don't get it either.
Posted by: Aubrey | 03/21/2007 at 04:07 AM