Blu-Ray: The Out of Print and Valuable

[AndyDursin]

Melanie Griffith's half-sister was cute. I never had the Blu-Ray. I just remember watching once on VHS years ago and disliking the ending, and then basically forgetting all about it afterwards.

It actually made some money for Orion though, back when they were more famine than feast at the box-office.

[Monterey Jack]

Deceived is another 90s Kino thriller title that went OOP at warp speed...released in April of 2018, already selling for $80 on eBay.

[AndyDursin]

Yeah that's another one. At this point even if there's a Kino title you don't like, just grab a box and stash it away somewhere for a year or two.

[Monterey Jack]

Yeah that's another one. At this point even if there's a Kino title you don't like, just grab a box and stash it away somewhere for a year or two.

I grabbed Mulholland Falls from the Kino "limited supplies" sale a year or so ago, mainly for prurient interests (longtime Aisle Seat readers will know why ), and was reminded how bland and uninteresting it was. Now that's another title that no one wanted when it was readily available and cheap that suddenly, with the magic acronym "OOP" attached to it, everyone is willing to lay down $50 for.

[AndyDursin]

This is also a little different than the old days of titles being out of print.

Before, there would typically be some kind of rush for a major studio title that went OOP that was sold at retail. In those cases, copies would still usually be "around" and there would be an assortment of them to either scope out and find somewhere OR buy in the secondary market. And there would also be people who would buy and sell them just because they were going OOP.

Now, labels like Kino Lorber are pressing very FEW copies of these titles -- so when they're gone, they're gone, and there isn't going to some big pool of copies out there to choose from. In many of these cases, it's going to be one legit movie buff buying the copy of another legit movie buff. It's not like some retailer's excess stock suddenly showing up somewhere.

Judging from actual prices sold, that's what we're seeing. And obviously, as copies get more and more scarce of a certain film, the value will go higher.

[Eric Paddon]

These are like the new 1000 press CDs that used to sell out in one day!

[AndyDursin]

You're right Eric. At least they are closer to that (even though they're not technically limited) than a retail release. Kino probably presses in batches and if a title doesn't sell, they don't just keep on pressing copies. On some of these the numbers are probably small....in fact it'd be interesting to know how many copies were pressed on some of them.

[Monterey Jack]

Deceived is another 90s Kino thriller title that went OOP at warp speed...released in April of 2018, already selling for $80 on eBay.

Supposedly one of four OOP Kino titles being reissued "by popular demand"...and one of the other three is Gone Fishin'.

[AndyDursin]

Lol Gone Fishin is like $3 from Mill Creek. But Deceived I believe will sell!

Kino's new list of going OOP titles for the folks who don't know is here:

https://www.kinolorber.com/list/view/co ... -sale-2022

[Paul MacLean]

What about Twilight Time's The Bounty? I was wondering if the fact it contains an isolated audio track of Vangelis' coveted score makes it more of a collectors item.

[AndyDursin]

Sold listings show $30-50 (for used) to $70-$100 (for a new copy):

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R ... Complete=1

Not terrible considering Kino re-released it (sans the isolated score but otherwise identical). There's an auction that just started at $4.