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Rating:  - A lot of fun movies for a great price
I own several of these Mill Creek DVD boxed sets, and I must admit that this one is my favorite. Probably because it has some of the cheesiest and silliest B-movies out there, most of which are very enjoyable.
The movies range from those made in the 60s to the 1980s, with most in color. You get cult classics like Roger Corman's "A Bucket of Blood" and Peter Jackson's "Bad Taste" to pure schlock like "Drive-In Massacre" and "Horrors of Spider Island". Then there are those in the "pretty good" category, such as "The Blancheville Monster", which is heavy on Gothic atmosphere, and "Silent Night, Bloody Night", a somewhat bloody slasher flick. Also you get "The Ghost", a Barbara Steele flick, and "Horror Express" with Christopher Lee.
In short, a lot of fun movies at a good price.
Rating:  - Okay.
The movies are okay. There are some good ones, but also some lame ones, and they are basically 1970 movies with poor visual quality. Yet, I would say a value for the price.
Rating:  - Great B-Movie Collection
This is a great collection for fans of B-Movie Horrors. You cant beat the price since some of these are on sale for much more. The quality is ok but for some of these movies its the only way you will get your hands on them. Watch out for different versions of the box set.
Rating: - Watch out for 2 different versions of this DVD boxset!
These are the titles that came with my boxset.
The Alpha Incident
Bad Taste
Bell From Hell
The Blancheville Monster
The Bloody Brood
A Bucket of Blood
Cathy's Curse
THe Cold
Death Rage
Deep Red
The Demon
THe Demons Of Ludlow
Devil Times Five
The Devil's Hand
Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon
THe Driller Killer
Drive-in Massacre
Funeral Home
THe Ghost
Gothic
Hands Of A Stranger
Haunts
Horror Express
Horrors Of Spider Island
The House Of The Dead
I Bury The Living
I Eat Your Skin
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
Lady Frankenstein
The Legend Of Bigfoot
The Man In The Attic
Medusa
Messiah Of Evil
Metamorphosis
The Murder Mansion
Naked Massacre
Oasis Of The Zombies
Panic
The Revenge Of Dr. X
Scream Bloody Murder
Shock
Silent Night Deadly Night
Sisters Of Death
Slashed Dreams
Snowbeast
Track Of The Moonbeast
Virus
War Of The Robots
Werewolf In A Girl's Dormitory
The Witch's Mountain
Rating: - Uneven Collection of Chillers
50-Movie packs are definitely a bargain, but this particular set is very uneven. I'm not referring just to the varied conditions of the prints of the movies on these DVDs. I am talking about the actual quality of the films. This one has a higher-than-expected ratio of losers-to-winners.
On the positive side are some amazingly clear prints of "The Blancheville Horror" (a European attempt to simulate the Roger Corman Edgar Allen Poe films), "Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory" (a decent early 1960s Italian suspense film), "Shock" (in which Vincent Price plays a murderous psychiatrist), the clever horror anthology "House of the Dead," "The Devil's Hand" (a Twilight Zone-style film with Robert Alda), "Horror Express" (a Lovecraftian horror), "Snowbeast," and "Messiah of Evil." The copy of "Silent Night Bloody Night" - one of the most effective cult films of the 1970s - is about as good as you can ask for, considering that the original prinst of the film started to deteriorate almost immediately.
Unfortunately, "Deep Red" - perhaps the best-known film here - has an awful quality print. It's also odd that some films here are really crime dramas and not suspense or horror. And, even more unfortunately, most of this box set consists of awful prints of awful films released in the late 70s or early 80s and forgotten until now. I can be very forgiving when it comes to B-movies but I found myself stopping way too many movies after the first 15 minutes were up. They were that bad.
So, while the price ratio of watchable movies is definitely in your favor, be prepared to wade through lots of clunkers.
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