I recently became the proud owner of a horror movie "collection"-4 schlocky horror films on one DVD for the unbelievably low price of $3.99. (I got ripped off.)
It has Roman, Wages of Sin, Live Animals, and Skeleton Man. So far I've watched Roman (insufferable) and Wages of Sin (it had its moments. My review is in the Movie Reviews category of the forum). Both were clearly shot on digital video with no budget and exceptionally poor lighting. I am dreading the other two but I will force myself to watch them.
Does anyone else have a horror collection DVD like this? Are any of them any good, in a bad way?
Most are summed up pretty well in your sentiments. There are occasional gems. Look for recognized actors and try to find a story that appeals on its premise. It is hard to do but have found a couple.
I have a few midnight horror collection sets. Road Trip to Hell and Bloody Slashers
On Road Trip, most sucked I mean awful. Feeding Grounds was okay. Hell's Highway sucked. The Craving sucked. Sheltered, however, was a great story and though not as great as it could have been was well told and kept you wondering on it. Not in the who is doing what but rather the why part. A bigger budget and better actors would have definitely made this very entertaining. It was worth the $3 I paid.
Bloody Slashers is similar, however, sooner then the last I was watching Hoboken Hollow. It is a Texas Chainsaw Massacre rip off from what I could tell but was interesting. I was only half paying attention (phone call) so need to watch again. It was rather well acted, had Dennis Hopper and C. Thomas Howell so names I can recognize, and had special effects that were not plainly stupid.
Skeleton Man should give you some camp value. 3 packs tend to be better as they typically include one recognizable movie and then 2 loosely related movies. Hope that helps you.
The Bela pack in my signature has turned out to be much better then anticipated. While I still haven't watched them all, the only two I didn't like are The Midnight Girl and The Mysterious Mr. Wong.
I've accumulated a collection of collections over the years.
Fright Night 10 movie set - Pieces is noteworthy for it's crazy cheesiness. Several other watchable ones in this set.
Night Chills 10 movie set - WOW (the Women of Wrestling) star in a slasher called Slashdance LOL. A few other oddities, and a few nearly unwatchable bore-fests.
Serial Psychos 6 movie set - Got this for Las Vegas Bloodbath, which I still haven't watched. I honestly can't remember watching any of these movies actually :question:
Beasts of Terror 4 movie set - Mostly '70s made-for-TV stuff, which I happen to love. Snowbeast is awesome and the others are quite watchable too.
Vamps and Witches 4 movie set - 3 of these were entertaining cheese with plenty of eye candy. The fourth was just pretty boring.
Nightmare Worlds 50 movie pack - A few good movies, a few that are more entertaining than reruns on the Cooking Channel, and a whole bunch that make you ask why you're still watching this.
The Hammer Horror Series - fantastic collection. The majority of these are absolute gems. The worst of them are pretty good.
Bloody Schoolgirls triple feature - One good, one bad, and the third I can't remember. I think I need to watch this again as the description sounds great :teddyr:
I have Mill Creek's Decrepit Cypt of Nightmares (http://www.amazon.com/Decrepit-Crypt-Nightmares-Movie-Pack/dp/B000QQDKYG) which contains the wost of the worst 'home-made' horrors from Pendulum.
Highlights include: SUBURBAN SASQUATCH, the infamous LAS VEGAS BLOODBATH...
and, Heaven help us, SCARLET FRY'S JUNKFOOD HORRORFEST (http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,119278.0.html). :teddyr:
Like Raffine, I also have Mill Creek's DECREPIT CRYPT OF NIGHTMARES 50 Movie Pack. In addition, I have Mill Creek's companion set, the TOMB OF TERRORS 50 Movie Pack. Both are full of very cheap, mostly homemade (some look like a group of friends got together over a weekend and shot them with a video camera) horror movies. Definitely good for laughs, if nothing else.
Mill Creek's NIGHTMARE WORLDS, CHILLING CLASSICS, HORROR CLASSICS, TALES OF TERROR, NIGHT SCREAMS, and SCI-FI CLASSICS 50 movie packs have more "legitimate" movies you might enjoy.
I bought one on Monday just simply called Horror. It has 4 films over 2 discs and cost me £1. It was such a bargin I could not resist. On one of the discs there is a film called With Friends Like These. It is the most BONKERS thing I have ever seen. I has 3 short stories about 3 passengers on the same bus and their relationships. I recommend anyone to watch it just to say " WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON? "
I have a lot more which I will tell you about tomorrow as I am off to bed.
I have the same Horror Movies 4-pack. "Roman" is a very strange movie. But not bad. It's about a psycho stalker guy. It features a very young Kristen Bell. Her character is killed 20 minutes into it. "Live Animals" is "Hostel" like torture film. Hillbillies capture hot women and keep them prisoner in cages. It sucks cause it's not a good movie and it not unintentionally bad. "Wages of Sin" was ok. The girls were pretty hot. Typical "teens die in the woods" movie. I don't remember anything about "Skeleton Man" I don't think I even finished it.
Quote from: 66Crush on April 27, 2011, 11:36:31 PM
I have the same Horror Movies 4-pack. "Roman" is a very strange movie. But not bad. It's about a psycho stalker guy. It features a very young Kristen Bell. Her character is killed 20 minutes into it. "Live Animals" is "Hostel" like torture film. Hillbillies capture hot women and keep them prisoner in cages. It sucks cause it's not a good movie and it not unintentionally bad. "Wages of Sin" was ok. The girls were pretty hot. Typical "teens die in the woods" movie. I don't remember anything about "Skeleton Man" I don't think I even finished it.
It's funny, almost every review on IMDB for Wages of Sin mentions the girls being hot. I didn't think they were hot at all. I don't know why Roman rubbed me the wrong way but I just hated it. I didn't even make it all the way through Hostel so I am likely to hate Live Animals but I will give it a try. I'll check back in if I make it through Skeleton Man too.
I have something called 50 Horror Classics with Chaney's Phantom on the cover. Not too bad of a collection. My cousin got it for me for Christmas last year. Some good choices like Nightmare Castle and Night Of The Living Dead for starters. I should sit and watch more of it.
20 Film Horror Collection
This box set has some gems such as Carnival of Souls, Eat and Run and Don't Look In The Basement and on the other hand there is Don't Ring The Doorbell which has to be the silliest movie name change ever. It was originally called The Mafu Cage which would make perfect sense as is about a girls love for mafus (African for monkeys or which the film leads you to believe) which she keeps in a giant cage, but upon closer inspection of the film the house where the film is based does not even have a doorbell. It's not the best film.
B-Movie Collection
I love this collection.
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark: Meet Elvira, the notorious American cult heroine! This wisecracking vamp wishes to open her own show in Las Vegas but needs $50,000. Suddenly her great aunt dies and Elvira goes to a conservative mid-west town to hear the reading of the will. Elvira discovers the evil force in the town and finds that only she has the power to stop it!
Return of the Killer Tomatoes: 20 years on from the Great Tomato Wars, and red skins are still banned. But Professor Gangreen has made a fiendish discovery - how to turn tomatoes into perfect replicas of people. These tomatoes are really stewed and dangerous!
Hell Comes to Frogtown: Hell is a prisoner of the women who now run the USA after a nuclear/biological war that leaves the human race in danger of extinction due to infertility. Hell is given the task of helping in the rescue of a group of fertile women from the harem of the mutant leader.
Return to Horror High: Producer Harry Sleerik wants to recreate the notorious Crippen High killings for the big screen using some of the school's original employees to play themselves. But filming starts to go horribly wrong when, one by one, cast and crew begin to disappear.
Crocodile: High school sweethearts Brady, Claire and six of their college friends board a houseboat for a fun-filled spring break vacation. But when they discover a nest of large eggs in the marshlands -- and one of them can't resist taking one back to the party -- their weekend of fun-in-the-sun will turn into a weekend of terror!
Creature: A family living around a naval research station experience shark attacks against their boat. When they investigate further they discover a half-man half-shark like creature. Based on the novel by Peter Benchley (Jaws).
The Stuff: A satirical horror movie about a designer foodstuff that takes the public by storm... but are they eating it or is it eating them? Another cult classic from director Larry Cohen (It's Alive, Black Caesar, Q - The Winged Serpent).
Slugs: An idyllic country community is shocked following the discovery of a mutilated corpse covered in slime. As the days go by, more horrific deaths take place, each one more repulsive than the last. They must discover the cause of these brutal murders before it's too late.
Spiders: College newspaper reporter Marci and her colleagues head out to a restricted area of the desert to prove the existence of aliens. When the shuttle crash lands nearby they sneak into headquarters and stumble upon a secret, unauthorized experiment that has gone wrong: a spider on board that was injected with alien DNA is now on the loose...and each time it kills, it gets bigger and hungrier!
Rats: The Brookdale Psychiatric Hospital is a crumbling institution which barely has enough money to remain open. Formerly a prison, it sits on top of a warren of tunnels and sewage system viaducts. But Brookdale has a secret, only known by one person. There is something living in the tunnels and it has developed a taste for human blood.
Octopus: An unknown object attacks the US submarine Roosevelt with devastating force and drags the vessel to the bottom of the ocean. What lies on the ocean bed beggars belief: dozens of wrecks. Whatever was on board has fed a creature of unbelievable size and strength!
All the box sets i do own have Night of the Living Dead on them. I have his film about 7 times.
Quote from: 66Crush on April 27, 2011, 11:36:31 PM
I have the same Horror Movies 4-pack. "Roman" is a very strange movie. But not bad. It's about a psycho stalker guy. It features a very young Kristen Bell. Her character is killed 20 minutes into it. "Live Animals" is "Hostel" like torture film. Hillbillies capture hot women and keep them prisoner in cages. It sucks cause it's not a good movie and it not unintentionally bad. "Wages of Sin" was ok. The girls were pretty hot. Typical "teens die in the woods" movie. I don't remember anything about "Skeleton Man" I don't think I even finished it.
I bought that the other day because you used the word "hot" twice in your description :teddyr:
I also have one called Shock Horror Collection. I love this one. It has:
1. Bird of Prey (1987)
2. Mausoleum (1983)
3. Don't Panic (1987)
4. Massacre at Central High (1980)
5. Troll 2 (1989)
6. Offerings (1989)
7. Eric's Revenge (1989)
8. Dark Power (1985)
9. Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon (1985)
10. Popcorn (1991)
So many good ones on there especially 3,4,5,7 and 10
QuoteAll the box sets i do own have Night of the Living Dead on them. I have his film about 7 times.
I'd be curious to see what film I have the most copies of due to these mega collections.
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD would be a good bet - or maybe the Lon Chaney version of PHANTHOM OF THE OPERA. SLAVE OF THE CANNIBAL GOD pops up on many of them, too.
Little shop of Horrors, dementia 13, and the terror pop up on these a lot too. Not as much as Night of the Living dead though.
Quote from: Raffine on April 27, 2011, 08:23:25 AM
and, Heaven help us, SCARLET FRY'S JUNKFOOD HORRORFEST (http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,119278.0.html). :teddyr:
Do not utter that name! :buggedout:
Quote from: crackers on April 29, 2011, 10:49:27 AM
I also have one called Shock Horror Collection. I love this one. It has:
1. Bird of Prey (1987)
2. Mausoleum (1983)
3. Don't Panic (1987)
4. Massacre at Central High (1980)
5. Troll 2 (1989)
6. Offerings (1989)
7. Eric's Revenge (1989)
8. Dark Power (1985)
9. Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon (1985)
10. Popcorn (1991)
So many good ones on there especially 3,4,5,7 and 10
I nearly wet myself when I read this list of movies only to look online and this is a UK set.
Quote from: thetoxicone on May 01, 2011, 10:26:22 AM
Quote from: crackers on April 29, 2011, 10:49:27 AM
I also have one called Shock Horror Collection. I love this one. It has:
1. Bird of Prey (1987)
2. Mausoleum (1983)
3. Don't Panic (1987)
4. Massacre at Central High (1980)
5. Troll 2 (1989)
6. Offerings (1989)
7. Eric's Revenge (1989)
8. Dark Power (1985)
9. Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon (1985)
10. Popcorn (1991)
So many good ones on there especially 3,4,5,7 and 10
I nearly wet myself when I read this list of movies only to look online and this is a UK set.
Can't you watch region 2 DVD's?
Quote from: AndyC on April 30, 2011, 12:49:37 PM
Quote from: Raffine on April 27, 2011, 08:23:25 AM
and, Heaven help us, SCARLET FRY'S JUNKFOOD HORRORFEST (http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,119278.0.html). :teddyr:
Do not utter that name! :buggedout:
I went back and read a few of his posts. Yikes! :buggedout: Was this guy Alice Cooper's Daughter's PR man? P.S. Dancing in your father's show isn't making it, it's called nepotism.
As for the topic, I use to buy these collections a lot at suncoast usually for dirt cheap. However I got burned too many times, and rarely enjoyed any of these cheapos. So I stopped buying.
However these collections taught me how much of a B movie star Cameron Mitchell was. He didn't just play Santa Clause in Space Mutiny :teddyr:
Quote from: crackers on April 29, 2011, 05:45:39 AM
B-Movie Collection
I love this collection....
Wow this one looks amazing. The movies I have seen from that list were all pretty awesome.
I'm a sucker for those 10, 20, 30, or 50 movies packs. The three or four ones are more iffy, but in the larger collections, I have always found some gem that I probably wuldn't have found any other way and don't regret buying any of them.
I just wish I didn't own half a dozen copies of Night of the Living Dead.
Quote from: AndyC on April 30, 2011, 12:49:37 PM
Quote from: Raffine on April 27, 2011, 08:23:25 AM
and, Heaven help us, SCARLET FRY'S JUNKFOOD HORRORFEST (http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,119278.0.html). :teddyr:
Do not utter that name! :buggedout:
I now know your weakness and can use it to destroy you. Mwahahaha.
Quote from: movie masochist on May 03, 2011, 07:32:23 PM
Quote from: crackers on April 29, 2011, 05:45:39 AM
B-Movie Collection
I love this collection....
Wow this one looks amazing. The movies I have seen from that list were all pretty awesome.
It's all killer, no filler.
Quote from: Chainsaw midget on May 04, 2011, 12:33:18 AM
I just wish I didn't own half a dozen copies of Night of the Living Dead.
I know that feeling been trying to get some movies on DVD and seems some, especially, some Spaghetti Westerns are only available in these sets. I now have about 5 copies of His Name is King trying to get other movies in sets.
I've got "Leprecaun" on The Leprecaun collection and on another collection with "Pumkinhead 2" and two "Wishmaster" movies. Why not the first "Pumpkinhead" instead. Must have been a legal issue.
I picked up the Midnight Horror Bloody Slashers collection.
It has Hoboken Hollow, Secrets of the Clown, Room 33, and Curtains in it.
So far I've only watched Hoboken and it was a pretty dull movie. No real action of suspense just a lot of dull boring characters torturing a lot of other dull boring characters, none of which are really sympathetic or in any way interesting. Also the film stock seems to randomly switch. Sometimes it was grainy for a while, sometimes it wasn't. There didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to this.
Quote from: Chainsaw midget on May 16, 2011, 11:48:04 PM
I picked up the Midnight Horror Bloody Slashers collection.
It has Hoboken Hollow, Secrets of the Clown, Room 33, and Curtains in it.
So far I've only watched Hoboken and it was a pretty dull movie. No real action of suspense just a lot of dull boring characters torturing a lot of other dull boring characters, none of which are really sympathetic or in any way interesting. Also the film stock seems to randomly switch. Sometimes it was grainy for a while, sometimes it wasn't. There didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to this.
Yeah, did get around it seemed rather dull when I was paying attention. I have to revise and say Curtains is probably the best in the set. It works well but feels made for TV.
Multi pack collections are a good way to see bad movies, because they aren't gonna let you have the good stuff cheap. Sometimes it can be disappointing if you think it's going to be good. I got the "Hammer Horror Series" (not to be mistaken with the "Hammer House of Horror" TV series) on DVD and it was far from Hammer's best movies. It only had one Frankenstein and "Dracula's Bride's" had no Dracula in it. The other movie's had none of the iconic monsters. However, the 4 Film Favorites: Dracula DVD had four of the best Hammer Dracula's. "Horror of Dracula" "Taste the Blood of Dracula" "Dracula has From The Grave" and "Dracula A.D. 1972." Not bad for five bucks.