The GYMKAKA dvd I have is region 1 and the disc says "Made in Mexico". I bought this locally so 🙄😳🥴
I had a NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD dvd - one of those cheap Elstree Hill titles - which was so bad in quality that Duane Jones' name wasn't even on the cover 😳😳
I own the U.S. Blu-ray of Escape from New York, which has a DVD packaging. It was not a packaging mistake, it was manufactured like that. Not sure what MGM was thinking back then.
Quote from: claws on February 11, 2025, 07:09:45 AMI own the U.S. Blu-ray of Escape from New York, which has a DVD packaging. It was not a packaging mistake, it was manufactured like that. Not sure what MGM was thinking back then.
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I bought one of those DVD packs one time that's like 50 movies for $20 dollars or something. One of the movies was a copy of The Milpitas Monster that cut off about half way through the movie.
Quote from: chainsaw midget on February 11, 2025, 09:57:33 PMI bought one of those DVD packs one time that's like 50 movies for $20 dollars or something. One of the movies was a copy of The Milpitas Monster that cut off about half way through the movie.
😳😀😂
Quote from: chainsaw midget on February 11, 2025, 09:57:33 PMI bought one of those DVD packs one time that's like 50 movies for $20 dollars or something. One of the movies was a copy of The Milpitas Monster that cut off about half way through the movie.
Censored for your sanity :wink:
During the peak of DVDs, I found a movie called The Mutant Beast in the bargain bin. It turned out to be The Milpitas Monster.
The quality was awful. Drained of color and fine detail, blurry and blotchy. Looked like it was recorded from TV in the late 1970s.
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/2BYAAOSw9Ahmz4ip/s-l1200.jpg)
Quote from: claws on February 12, 2025, 05:55:23 AMQuote from: chainsaw midget on February 11, 2025, 09:57:33 PMI bought one of those DVD packs one time that's like 50 movies for $20 dollars or something. One of the movies was a copy of The Milpitas Monster that cut off about half way through the movie.
Censored for your sanity :wink:
During the peak of DVDs, I found a movie called The Mutant Beast in the bargain bin. It turned out to be The Milpitas Monster.
The quality was awful. Drained of color and fine detail, blurry and blotchy. Looked like it was recorded from TV in the late 1970s.
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/2BYAAOSw9Ahmz4ip/s-l1200.jpg)
😳😅😅
I bought a very low budget DVD about ten years ago because I liked the title which was GIANT SNAKE 2.
Brought it home, put it on and it was actually Q THE WINGED SERPENT which was banned here back in the day 😳
Quote from: Trevor on February 12, 2025, 07:42:26 AMI bought a very low budget DVD about ten years ago because I liked the title which was GIANT SNAKE 2.
Brought it home, put it on and it was actually Q THE WINGED SERPENT which was banned here back in the day 😳
Censor Board Justification:
Excessive Michael Moriarty.
Quote from: M.10rda on February 13, 2025, 05:18:11 AMQuote from: Trevor on February 12, 2025, 07:42:26 AMI bought a very low budget DVD about ten years ago because I liked the title which was GIANT SNAKE 2.
Brought it home, put it on and it was actually Q THE WINGED SERPENT which was banned here back in the day 😳
Censor Board Justification:
Excessive Michael Moriarty.
😅😆😄😀😀😃😄
the DVD I used to have of THE WITCH WHO CAME IN FROM THE SEA had the entire plot including the ending written in great detail on the back cover.
I can't remember what film it is but one DVD I have lists 'menu' and 'exciting action scenes' as the special features (...and yeah it means scenes which are in the film itself. there is no bonus stuff on the disc. :question: )
Quote from: zombie no.one on February 13, 2025, 01:48:08 PMthe DVD I used to have of THE WITCH WHO CAME IN FROM THE SEA had the entire plot including the ending written in great detail on the back cover.
I can't remember what film it is but one DVD I have lists 'menu' and 'exciting action scenes' as the special features (...and yeah it means scenes which are in the film itself. there is no bonus stuff on the disc. :question: )
The "entire synopsis" thing was not uncommon on some VHS releases that I recall from my early childhood... always thought it was weird. Perhaps consumers wanted to know the ENTIRE story as they were considering their purchase or rental...?!
The "special" features you mention is still rather common on cheapo disks... the kind you see in the Dollar store or sometimes in Wal-Mart. They got nothin' else to rep, so they rep what they got!
Quote from: M.10rda on February 14, 2025, 06:10:51 AMThe "entire synopsis" thing was not uncommon on some VHS releases that I recall from my early childhood... always thought it was weird. Perhaps consumers wanted to know the ENTIRE story as they were considering their purchase or rental...?!
guess it's a bit like trailers that basically show the entire film in random order :smile:
- there's one bluray I have of an Argento film, (think it might be DEEP RED, if not another early-ish one) where the
final scene plays in the background of the menu screen :hatred: :hatred: :hatred:
Oh yeah! I've seen that, too. For whom is that intended???
Quote from: zombie no.one on February 13, 2025, 01:48:08 PMthe DVD I used to have of THE WITCH WHO CAME IN FROM THE SEA had the entire plot including the ending written in great detail on the back cover.
Oy 😳😀😄😂
I have a cheapo DVD of the Italian movie TIGER JOE which uses cover art from another movie on the front and actual stills from TIGER JOE on the rear 😳😳
Also, the DVD source seems to be a 16mm print and not a good one at that 😳😳
Not sure if I have any specifically odd printings of cheap DVD's, but my favourite random find was a strange documentary called The Jupiter Menace. I wrote about it FOURTEEN YEARS AGO here:
https://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php?topic=135287.0
How the heck did fourteen years go by so quickly?? The Jupiter Menace was a fantastic find, and can be watched here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en8-NVgHimY
The DVD I have of the thriller IDENTITY spells Amanda Peet's name as AMANDDA and the general quality makes me think it's a knockoff copy. Even the printing is skewed 😳
Well, I bought A Serbian Film and Salo, or the 100 days of Sodom last year. No amount of bathing after watching these will remove the stench from my life.
Quote from: The Burgomaster on April 03, 2025, 10:53:56 AMWell, I bought A Serbian Film and Salo, or the 100 days of Sodom last year. No amount of bathing after watching these will remove the stench from my life.
I don't blame you for thinking that 😳😉😉
I guess those DVD/Blu-Rays are as "odd" as any others that have been mentioned. :bluesad:
I have a VHS of Steve Carver's AN EYE FOR AN EYE (1981).
I was delighted to find this until I saw all the crap on the front cover which read:
KICKED OUT OF THE POLICE FORCE: no, he resigned.
THEY KILLED HIS KARATE MASTER'S NIECE: no, his sensei's daughter!
Then this on the back cover, typos and all :buggedout:
SEAN KANE, A FORMER POLICEMAN HAS RESIGNED AFTER KILLING TWO MEN TO AVENGE A COLLEAGUE'S ASASINATION. HOWEVER, IT IS ONLY AFTER THE DEATH OF A TV JOURNALIST & THE NIECE OF HIS KARATE MASTER THAT KANE SETTLES TO FIND THE KILLERS.
THE TRAIL IS DANGEROUS. CAN HIS KARATE TRAINING SAVE HIM AGAINST
:buggedout: :buggedout:
You know how some times movies will have blurbs and quotes from popular critics, newspapers, or magazines on the cover? I once saw a DVD at Target that had a quote from Badmovies.org right on the cover.
I don't have it, couldn't tell you what movie it was, and regret not picking it up to this day.
Quote from: chainsaw midget on April 13, 2025, 02:25:19 PMYou know how some times movies will have blurbs and quotes from popular critics, newspapers, or magazines on the cover? I once saw a DVD at Target that had a quote from Badmovies.org right on the cover.
I don't have it, couldn't tell you what movie it was, and regret not picking it up to this day.
It was The Being (1981), and Andrew's quote was taken WAY outa context. :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: LilCerberus on April 13, 2025, 02:35:33 PMQuote from: chainsaw midget on April 13, 2025, 02:25:19 PMYou know how some times movies will have blurbs and quotes from popular critics, newspapers, or magazines on the cover? I once saw a DVD at Target that had a quote from Badmovies.org right on the cover.
I don't have it, couldn't tell you what movie it was, and regret not picking it up to this day.
It was The Being (1981), and Andrew's quote was taken WAY outa context. :bouncegiggle:
THANK YOU! I've been trying to remember that what movie was for ages. ... I guess I probabaly should have asked somebody....
I was going to pick up a copy just for that, but I actually already have a copy of The Being and I don't think that it's a movie worth owning two copies of.
I have a VHS triple feature tape that includes Godzilla Vs Megalon, Ghidrah the three headed monster, and the Bela Lugosi movie The Devil Bat under the alternate title of Killer Bats. One of those isn't like the other.
Quote from: Criswell on May 03, 2025, 02:27:07 PMI have a VHS triple feature tape that includes Godzilla Vs Megalon, Ghidrah the three headed monster, and the Bela Lugosi movie The Devil Bat under the alternate title of Killer Bats. One of those isn't like the other.
Tow of those movies featured winged monsters. What's Godzilla vs Megalon doing there?
Quote from: chainsaw midget on May 03, 2025, 10:19:05 PMQuote from: Criswell on May 03, 2025, 02:27:07 PMI have a VHS triple feature tape that includes Godzilla Vs Megalon, Ghidrah the three headed monster, and the Bela Lugosi movie The Devil Bat under the alternate title of Killer Bats. One of those isn't like the other.
Tow of those movies featured winged monsters. What's Godzilla vs Megalon doing there?
Megalon kinda has insect wings i think? they just don't really show them off when he's flying.
MillCreek released a 5 title set of Vincent Price's horror movies and one of them was THE JACKALS. *
*That is a western 😳😀😅
I had a VHS called SQUIRMFEST (1989). "HAD". Here's why-
From Horronews.net:
"SYNOPSIS:
She starts out by eating a dish of noodles and worms before moving on to playing the piano. Once she starts playing, she gets a nice enema and squirts it all over the floor. She is then forced to eat it!!! But it gets worse...Lots of other enema stuff before the grand finale in which she mixes HUGE c**k-roaches, maggots, worms, and her own urine in a blender and then actually drinks it all!!!!!!! If this doesn't make you sick, you're not human!!!!!"