Whats the focus of your movie collection. do you have a favorite GENRE?

[ErickRPG]

If you are just starting or have amassed a large collection of movies. I'm interested to hear what you like most about your collection, is there any specific targets? Targets meaning, I want a complete "Warner Arhive" collection. Or I like 1950s westerns.

For me, my main target is 1980s horror flicks. But a little 90s too. If it's an 80s or 90s horror, sci-fi, comedy, or adventure. It's up my alley. As an aside Martial Arts is my 2nd favorite after 80s stuff.

[PallasCat]

I like Italian genre cinema from the mid 60s to 80s. So that's westerns, gialli, poliziotteschi, and then some zombie films.Ive got pretty much every BD of the westerns and crime films with English options. There's a few gaps in the gialli and a bit more in the other horror films but that's my main focus. That said, I like weird and wonderful films from all overr too. Also, I've got over 200 Criterions so that broadens my taste some. I try to cover the classics now too. When I set out with HD / BD I was looking to create my own video library because I was concerned with how much longer physical media will exist.

[Richard--W]

3D, European cinema, vintage British, noir, classic westerns (not spags), specific directors.

[Torgon]

My focus is I buy what I like. That includes almost every genre, but it doesn't mean I'll buy every movie in every genre. I like noir movies, I may buy a lot of noir or maybe a certain actor's collection. Maybe a series of films. I just get what I want.

[BobSimms]

I don’t have a focus, but if you looked at my collection you’d think “wow this dude’s really into the Nineteen Seventies.” That’s just how things shook out. Best decade of American filmmaking.

[Bzilla1982]

95% horror.

[Skylath]

I'd probably say westerns (my collection is pretty big and would take awhile to log so I put only my favorites for what's on here). Not a big John Wayne fan but I love Anthony Mann's, John Ford's, Burt Lancaster's, Kirk Douglas', and Jimmy Stewart's. Shame that it's kind of underrated as a genre these days but I'm happy to bear the torch!

As for what I like about my collection, I'd say that it's diverse in that it has American films of multiple genres, concert films, documentaries, and foreign films. Not to mention spanning multiple decades from the 1920s to the 2010s.

[RFK]

Horror is the largest category, Comedy is the smallest.

[TripleHBK]

I grew up in the video store era (as did most here I would assume). I have very fond memories of that time in my life. I've always liked movies but wasn't as passionate about them until 2011 or so as I was far more focused on gaming up to that point. At my peak prior to HD I owned around 200 DVD's or so.

In 2005 I purchased my first HDTV. A beast of a unit. A 32" Phillips 1080i widescreen CRT. With that purchase my gaming elevated as in 2004 I had purchased a Yamaha 6.1 surround sound system. It was bliss.

With the advent of the format wars I was firmly HDDVD to start. I quickly acquired around 30 titles. I still vividly recall watching The Last Samurai in HD and having my mind blown. It was the first time that I stopped watching "the movie" and became aware of so much more. The cinematography, the colors, the music, the composition, etc. For the first time in my life I became enamored with the parts that make up a movie as opposed to just mindlessly consuming the end product. With this new found appreciate my HDDVD and DVD collection grew.

In late 2007 I took the Blu Ray plunge. I was slow to pick up a ps3 (not actually getting one until late January 2008). With the signs of the format war ending and Blu Ray the victor, I sold off my HD DVD collection on the High Def Digest forums, keeping only my xbox 360 addon and the pack in title King Kong.

Over the next few years I began selling off much of my DVD collection to fund my upgrades to Blu Ray.

With the recession in 2008 and the changes to the home media market, I legitmately believed that Blu Ray would be the last hurrah for physical media and began buying more and more films. My goal then was preservation.

Jump to 2011/12 and my gaming passion significantly dwindled. I had been enamored with Home theatre and my passion for film had exploded.

It became my goal then to build a sizeable collection across all genres to preserve not only the physical media aspect, but to also always offer up something new to watch into the future.

I began buying en masse. I was at this time fully diving back into horror again and constantly finding new films to watch, however I was also then very much focused on buying the best and most known titles across film history in an effort to expand the collection.

Finances were limited and so the name of the game was deals, deals, and deals. I began watching for any and all bargains. My initial budget mindedness really took hold at this point. I stopped selling DVD's and my collection continued to grow.

In 2013 my daughter was born. Gaming was still difficult and my job was time consuming and so movies were an easy bite sized relief.

The collection continued to grow... and grow. It was around this time (or shortly before) that I fell into my love of indie horror. Suddenly I had even more direction with my collecting... "Buy all the indies".

Scream Factory came onto the Map next. As did Arrow, Synapse, Vinegar Syndrome, etc.

Must buy them all...

Jump to 2025. I've been legitmately buying/collecting for nearly 20 years now. I've acquired far more than I ever thought I would and continue to do so.

In 2017 I moved to a new home that allowed me the space to dedicate a basement bedroom to my collection of all things movies, gaming, comics and toys. Those photos can be seen in my profile.

These days I purchase 80-85% horror. That remaining 15-20% is everything else.

My goal as a young man was to create a video store like environment at home. Something I could always explore and find new titles to watch. That goal was more or less met in 2019. Now it's maintenance. Titles still poor in each month but many are 4k upgrades. Streaming has put a serious dampening on my indie releases but i still pick up what I can find.

3 weeks ago I rearranged the room again to accomodate a bulk load of titles I had found locally for $20. I am still wanting to pick up 2 more small endcap style shelving units.

Shelving for the first time in 8 years is becoming an issue for some genres. I have a plan for the moment, but the long term viability of my Science fiction / Fantasy genres is in question as I need to figure out a long term solution as the small space dedicated to these 2 genre's now requires that I double it for both, and that will require more shelving units than I can fit while maintaining my current arrangement.

I no longer have a specific focus the way I once did. I continue to look for deals and hope for releases of films in HD that I don't already own.

2025 saw my love of gaming explode again. It's been bubbling for the last few years but now I find myself often more interested in playing a game than watching a movie. The PS5 is largely to blame. As an XBOX fanboy since 2001 I've always games on those consoles first... The PS5 however has offered experiences this generation that have been lacking for a long time.

Now my issue is time. Work, family, and sleep are all cutting into the time I have to dedicate to film. Still, time often presents itself in unconventional manners. My daughter stayed home sick today. As luck would have it, that meant a movie day as she is almost 12 and likes horror. (We watched Host, Blair Witch Project, and Peter Jack's Braindead).

Moving forward the hope is to always recapture that Video Store feeling of discovery. But these days upgrading the 4k is more often the motivator.

[critterdvd]

Originally Posted by ErickRPG

If you are just starting or have amassed a large collection of movies. I'm interested to hear what you like most about your collection, is there any specific targets? Targets meaning, I want a complete "Warner Arhive" collection. Or I like 1950s westerns.

For me, my main target is 1980s horror flicks. But a little 90s too. If it's an 80s or 90s horror, sci-fi, comedy, or adventure. It's up my alley. As an aside Martial Arts is my 2nd favorite after 80s stuff.

Right now two of my subgoals is the full collection of vestron video releases and cinematographe (I have the full run of paramount presents as well). But I learned long ago it’s impossible to keep up with Warner archive and criterion.

My collection is pretty set when it comes to old releases. I mainly focus on what the boutiques put out each month and certain catalog studio release but I realize I rarely buy new releases. I used to blind buy a ton of new releases but after streaming in Covid I can wait to watch it first then pick it up on Black Friday if I really liked. It.

[Querelle]

My interest in film has always been focused on/informed by specific directors (though it's shifted a bit over time to encompass certain labels and genres/styles)—auteurist cinema, if you will; however, not an ideal situation when your favorite director is only barely (relative to his massive oeuvre) represented on DVD, much less formats of higher quality

[Jay H.]

'80s movies. I got into movies in 1985; our family bought a VCR and a theatre opened less than a mile from my house. Most of the movies I own are from that decade, even if I didn't see them until years later.

[The Screaming Feces]

I’ve got a little bit of everything in my 2K+ collection of films and TV shows on disc, so the desire to boost my physical library has waned significantly of late (except for the numerous cheap 4Ks and Vinegar Syndrome OOP sale items I ordered recently).

Nowadays, I’m focused on Italian genre films, which is my cinematic happy place. Gialli, horror, Spaghetti Westerns, and a smattering of poliziotteschi from the 1960s-1980s are what I focus on primarily for purchase (even if my partner groans at another giallo in the home lol).

I spent far too much money upgrading my DVD library to Blu-ray, so I don’t feel the need to upgrade everything from Blu-ray to 4K disc (only my all-time faves get upgraded). Now that I’m debt free (which took me a long time to clear off), I don’t fret over spending hard-earned loonies on discs, but I’m definitely very selective—I’d rather buy films with greater replay value than something that sits on a shelf watched once or twice a decade!

[Thomas Veil]

My collection with exceptions is heavy on exploitation, Italian giallo/horror/scifi, Japanese anything, martial arts, horror, scifi. My sweet spot is late 50's to mid 70s.

[steel_breeze]

My focus is the intersection between my personal movie tastes and film history. I'm personally awed by over-arching themes and pendulum swings of style, if you stand back and take a holistic look at the 100+ years of cinema. And I have fairly mainstream tastes, so my "Top Tier" shelves pretty much read like the Greatest Hits of Cinema -- from the Melies' Trip to the Moon to Malick's Tree of Life -- as filtered through my own idea of which movies have "infinite repeatability". Soooo... no Wizard of Oz or It's a Wonderful Life or Sound of Music, not 'cuz I don't like those movies or they're not important, but I just can't watch 'em anymore.

[CrimsonLegionVMCXIX]

East Asian Historical films that take place anywhere between Shang Dynasty (China) all the way up to pre-Second Sino Japanese War in 1937. Ditto for Japan, but mostly Heian to Meiji era, and Korea from Goguryeo to pre-WW2. My cutoff for historical period films I'd be interested in is usually World War 2, and my preference is war or action films, and wuxia and samurai over drama or romance, though I'm not above watching those if the subject matter is interesting.

[Jobla]

Favorite genres of mine:

Pre-1980s horror
Italian sword and sandal films 1950s and 1960s
1960s and 1970s exploitation films
film noir, including neo noir

I like a lot of other stuff as well, but those are my faves.

[ErickRPG]

it's great hearing from people who not only share my specific interest in genres, but to hear about other specific appreciations different from mine. One thing we share though is a love of cinema at home. It really is a joy to experience the quality of film restorations we get these days.

[Nailwraps]

Animation, sci-fi, action and comedy for me.

Horror too, but I'm done with that genre (won't go into it). Only time I'll collect that genre is when a title in my collection is getting a new edition.

[drush9999]

My tastes are very eclectic. But Horror, Sci-fi, Action and Comedy are probably the biggest chunk.