31 Uncanny Bits of Terror for October - Day Twelve: The Haunting of Julia is Still Not Available on DVD

Great Horror Films NOT Available on DVD - Part One.

The Haunting of Julia (AKA Full Circle) (1977)

 

The edited synopsis from IMDB:

After the sudden accidental death of her small daughter, Julia Lofting (Mia Farrow), a wealthy American woman living in London, leaves her gold-digging husband (played by Ex-Clevelander, Keir Dullea) and buys a house in Kensington which is haunted by the ghost of a nasty little girl who died in the 1950s and plans to use Julia as her pawn in a terrible revenge.


From beginning to end, the air of sadness and genuine creepiness this film conjures never lets up for a moment.  Well, there is a moment of (in my opinion) dark comedy when Tom Conti's character is electrocuted in a bathtub while this Pat Boone number plays in the background:



Side note: The late David Hess co-wrote this wacky tune.  The addition of Mel Blanc's voice changes the winsomeness of the lovable mouse.  The song makes him out to be a hard drinker who is away from home whoring about with some floozy named, Flo.  For me, Speedy never seemed like the type for this sort of behavior...his cousin, Slowpoke Rodriguez, now that guy I could totally see him in this precarious position...


Beside the weird aversion to coffee/caffeine that two of the characters in the film display (what is this supposed to symbolize?  Am I reading to much into this?), there is nothing I can add to the already glowing commentary regarding this wonderful film. 

That graveyard, as they say, is already full.

I could complain that this film languishes unseen and unavailable on DVD yet the unending stream of re-makes (The Thing?  Come on!!) continue to flow out of Hollywood like snot from my nostrils during the height of the ragweed season.  But this is the way of the world today, I guess.  Maybe if someone decided to remake The Haunting of Julia then we would finally see a DVD release of the original version.  This very thing happened when Bedazzled was re-made.

Could liking a Facebook Page help get this film out and in your DVD player?  I've been liking the shit out of the Surf II:  The End of the Trilogy Page for months now and I have yet to hear a peep about a release of that unheralded classic.

Also, there is the matter of the unavailability of the very appropriate eerie, melancholy soundtrack composed by Colin Towns. The score was released in 1995, but now it is long out of print.


  



I wonder if Pat Boone is behind the fact this film remains unavailable on DVD...Hmmmmmmmmmm.