I may just end up complaining every six months about Cast a Deadly Spell and Witch Hunt.

Does ANYBODY KNOW why these movies aren’t available on DVD?  They put everything on DVD these days.  Is there a lawsuit, an estate problem, a vendetta involving the Bavarian Illuminati and the Priory of Sion?  What, in point of fact, gives?

Moe Lane

PS: Background here.  Basically, Cast a Deadly Spell and Witch Hunt are two HBO pictures that mashed up noir and Call of Cthulhu, and did a damned better job at them than anybody’s reasonable expectations.  I want to own these films.  I don’t have a VHS player anymore. That doing the first would involve changing the second annoys me.

14 thoughts on “I may just end up complaining every six months about Cast a Deadly Spell and Witch Hunt.”

  1. I agree, it makes no sense. Even WKRP is available on Amazon…
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    (for those not aware, the sitcom “WKRP in Cincinnati” used many *many* bits of pop music, it was long said that they’d “never release it on DVD” because they’d have to go back and re-license all those songs …)

    1. It took forever to get John Sayles’ Baby It’s You to disc because of the music. I hear that they had to change some of the songs playing on the radio because of that.

  2. Would you like a combo VHS player/TV? I’m moving to Las Vegas next summer and am trying to reduce the amount of stuff I have to ship.

  3. I still have a VHS player for the many movies I own that never came out on DVD. I probably need to go buy a few more and store them before they quit making them.

  5. The answer to your question is contained within it. The rights holder is HBO, and they are zealously indifferent to releasing their back-catalog – i.e. the memory down which Arli$$ and pretty much every stand up special not featuring George Carlin has disappeared.

    1. I keep hoping that they’ll release the Larry Miller comedy special from the late 1980s/early 1990s. Because I want to but it. I can’t even find a bootleg copy on Bittorrent out there, except for a partial audio of when Larry first went snow skiing.

  6. PS Depending how squicky you are about such things, there just may be digital files of both available on the internets (or in the possession of some of your acquaintances…created under fair use provision of the blah blah blah bullshit).

  8. Cast A Deadly Spell was one of the best idea movies that HBO has ever made. Like you, I want to own it on DVD. Oh sure, I could get it off of YouTube and put it on disc, but the quality would be somewhat suspect.

    HBO owns the rights to all of their products. I fully support that. But I would really, really like for them to SELL me some of their stuff.

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