DVD Most Wanted

Last night I uncovered an ancient (and slightly mouldy) VHS tape of that lost classic, Hell Comes To Frogtown, in the basement of Gary's video shop. Alas, playing said tape resulted in a snowstorm on screen and now my VCR won't play any more videotapes. Bugger!

If only everything was available on those small, shiny, metal discs... which made me think, what other films or television shows have we been deprived of seeing on DVD here in the UK?

Here's my top ten most wanted:

1. Night Of The Creeps - My best-loved eighties 'B' movie, directed by Fred Dekker. Currently stuck in some kind of contractual hell between Fox and CBS and only available as a bootleg, although it does feature an alternative ending.
2. 15 Storey's High: The Complete Second Series - Hilarious sitcom starring Sean Lock and Benedict Wong. Series one came out on DVD two years ago (distributed by Carlton, even though it's a BBC show...) but there's been no sign of the follow up, and even BBC Three gave it the graveyard slot when it was broadcast.
3. Hardware - Richard Stanley's futuristic British sci-fi shocker with an excellent score from Simon Boswell. I asked Richard about a proper DVD release for this last year and he explained it's another film tied up in endless studio wrangles. There's just an old European 'red' edition release available retitled Mark-13.
4. Exorcist III - William Peter Blatty's sequel to his own novel, Legion, is only available as part of the various box sets of The Exorcist. If both versions of the latest movie can get an individual release then surely it's time for Blatty's original cut to be restored and released as a special edition DVD?
5. Last Night - Don McKellar's 1998 apocalyptic drama starring Sandra Oh, Sarah Polley and David Cronenberg. It got a cinema release over here so why no DVD release?
6. Time Gentlemen Please - Al Murray's ill-fated Sky One sitcom starring Phil Daniels, currently clogging up the schedules on Paramount. This ran for two long series, was extremely purile and built upon repetitive catchphrases, but I loved it all the same. Don't release yet another live Al Murray DVD, shove this out instead!
7. Citizen Dog - Wisit Sasanatieng's colourful follow-up to Tears Of The Black Tiger. Already available on Thai DVD but without English subtitles. Bastards!
8. Highway To Hell - Ate de Jong's DTV classic starring Patrick Bergin (!) and Ben Stiller before he was famous, and written by Brian Helgeland before he did L.A. Confidential. I was probably the only person to ever see this film at the cinema (Wareham, Dorset, 1992).
9. The Kingdom 2 - Lars Von Trier's very odd second series of his weird monochrome hospital drama that Stephen King later bastardised as Kingdom Hospital. The first series has been available here for ages, and the second series was screened on BBC Two, but there's no sign of a DVD release yet. Still, the recent R1 release of series one - with director's commentary - gives me hope!
10. Buppah Rahtree / Rahtree Returns - Yuthlert Sippapak's double-bill of ghostly Thai madness. Both available on Thai DVD but (again!) no English subtitles. Momentum were supposed to have picked up the first film - which was screened at last year's FrightFest event - for release in the UK, but it's yet to surface.