Is Blu-Ray Becoming the Last Chance for Certain Kinds of Movies? - Blu-ray Forum

bigshot · 08-03-2018, 05:07 PM

I was looking at DVD Beaver at the new review for Genghis Kahn and the Hammer "Orientalist" movies (Stranglers of Bombay, Terror of the Tonga, etc) and I suddenly wondered if this may be the last we see of films like this. British actors like Christopher Lee and Robert Morley in unconvincing Asian drag playing villains isn't the sort of thing that goes over well with people any more. And neither does sexualized violence against women, but Giallo and Italian cannibal movies all seem to be coming out lately too. It may be that distributors think that this is their last chance to release these films.

Perhaps I'm reading too much into it, but scanning through the latest releases at DVD Beaver, there does seem to be a particular skew to the types of back catalog films that get released to blu-ray and the ones that don't... Lots of 80s horror, lots of widescreen, lots of costume epics, lots of martial arts, lots of 50s and 60s low budget sci fi...

Does anyone else have any thoughts about what makes the demographic for blu-ray unique as opposed to streaming services, DVD or broadcast TV?

08-03-2018, 05:07 PM	#1
bigshot Blu-ray Knight Member since:Aug 2010 Home Theater Gallery:12 Blu-ray collection:82 Blu-ray reviews: 3 Trading Score:3	Is Blu-Ray Becoming the Last Chance for Certain Kinds of Movies? I was looking at DVD Beaver at the new review for Genghis Kahn and the Hammer "Orientalist" movies (Stranglers of Bombay, Terror of the Tonga, etc) and I suddenly wondered if this may be the last we see of films like this. British actors like Christopher Lee and Robert Morley in unconvincing Asian drag playing villains isn't the sort of thing that goes over well with people any more. And neither does sexualized violence against women, but Giallo and Italian cannibal movies all seem to be coming out lately too. It may be that distributors think that this is their last chance to release these films. Perhaps I'm reading too much into it, but scanning through the latest releases at DVD Beaver, there does seem to be a particular skew to the types of back catalog films that get released to blu-ray and the ones that don't... Lots of 80s horror, lots of widescreen, lots of costume epics, lots of martial arts, lots of 50s and 60s low budget sci fi... Does anyone else have any thoughts about what makes the demographic for blu-ray unique as opposed to streaming services, DVD or broadcast TV?

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