Why are old TV movies like this so hard to find?
I started watching these old 1970's TV movies recently because I was getting too hot and bothered by my usual steady diet of sleazy European horror flicks and softcore porn. Many of them are great. There's this one, "Bad Ronald", "The Darker Side of Terror", "When Michael Calls", "Terror on the Beach", "Savages", "Snowbeast", "The Mysterious Monsters" ad infinitum. But what's interesting is how few of them are available on legitimate DVD. Some of the really good ones are like "The Night Stalker" and "Trilogy of Terror", but other equally entertaining ones are not. Why? You'd think there'd be more of a market for these than Season 6 of "Laverne and Shirley", for instance.
Then there's the 500 some cable channels. Even the stations that occasionally used to show these, like TBS or TNT, have replaced them with the mainstream Hollwood crapola that if you didn't see at the theater, you saw later on DVD, or on pay-per-view, or (unedited) on the other pay-cable stations. Lifetime shows TV movies a lot, but all the worst ones--the ones that focus on social "problems" and appeal to the sort of bored (and hopefully very drunk) housewives who actually look up to people like Delta Burke.
Perhaps I'm a voice in the wilderness here (and before you flame me, by the way, I am aware that THIS movie, at least, has been showing on the Showtime stations recently, but it is still a rare exception), but it would nice to see these movies appear SOMEWHERE where I could see them (and without having to devote my life to combing the monthly schedules of every obscure TV cable station hoping to get lucky).