The Official Anti-Worlds Thread

[El Sleezo]

Originally Posted by The Hornets

They may have decided physical media just isn't economic for the titles they release hence focused on theatrical and streaming. Don't think any of their existing titles have set sales records and most were very slow sellers. They really are niche titles so unlikely to ever generate big physical media sales.

I was thinking the same, but it would be a shame. Excellent, unique curation, combined with Indicator-quality releases. They might be my dark horse favorite label.

[jmbe]

Originally Posted by El Sleezo

I was thinking the same, but it would be a shame. Excellent, unique curation, combined with Indicator-quality releases. They might be my dark horse favorite label.

I concur.

I can't overstate just how much I'm praying that they manage to release Let The Corpses Tan. I spoke to them via email in 2023 asking about whether they would be doing a double release with Strange Colour... . They said the rights for that were too complicated, but that they were "working on the disc now" for Corpses.

Originally Posted by The Hornets

They really are niche titles so unlikely to ever generate big physical media sales.

I think it's less that they are niche titles (which I suppose they are), but more an issue of brand exposure/name recognition for Anti-Worlds itself. I can think of other labels that could have released the same films and had no problems shifting them in greater number because of consumer brand loyalty. I suppose the issue is you can't just generate that out of thin air.

I was introduced to the label because I was explicitly interested in seeing a film (Holiday), so the label was immaterial. I was so impressed by that release that I began exploring the catalogue further and never looked back.

I wonder if they'd have done better shifting units if they were explicit about the number of copies produced ala Radiance. For all the negatives, creating a bit of FOMO has it's upsides, especially for a fledgling label.