Misleading DVD (and video) cases

[Yesfan]

One of these movies is called "Bela Lugosi meets a Brooklyn Gorilla." Bela has supporting role, but this film is a hoot! A great family film too! Get the $1 Digiview version that's on sale at Wal-Mart for $1 or even 88 cents. Worth every penny and great picture quailty too. I was really surprised at fun this forgotten film was...chris

[Writer]

As Jackie Chan pointed out in his autobiography, using the big name to sell the flick is a very old trick in Hong Kong. Part of how he got to be such a big name himself is that after Bruce Lee died, everyone was trying to sign up someone who looked like Bruce Lee, which he apparently did. (Of course, just like all the other Bruce Lee look-alikes, he could never actually be Bruce Lee, so he adopted his own comedy style instead.)

After Jackie Chan became famous, he was such a big name that not only did any film that had him in it get a new cover with his name prominently displayed on it, but some studios actually went so far as to splice footage of him into their films! Just as some films are star vehicles, some stars get so famous that they become film vehicles.

I am rather surprised to hear that Mark Hamill was actually famous enough to make the cover of the Guyver, though. (He wasn't on my version's cover.) He actually is a decent actor, but man, what lousy films they gave him after the big one! I'm glad to hear he's got steady work as the voice of the Joker in the animated Batman shows now, since that is definitely a more respectable work than much of anything he's had since Star Wars.

[Jack Corbett]

You want the best example?

It's called:
"Night of the Living Dead 30th Anniversary Edition"

From what I've read, it's s**t. Absoulute s**t. Even Mr. Harry Knowles hates it.