HOW OFTEN DO YOU BUY MOVIES THAT YOU ARE UNFAMILIAR WITH?

[mrgb46]

For me,it all depends on the price and the quality..I purchased STAR CRASH just on the reviews alone from this website and was pleased with it! You can't go wrong with Caroline Munro,right?? I have to read about a bad movie or an obscure movie,the reviews of it and so on before I even buy it...I remember I bought MESA OF LOST WOMEN because I love bad movies,but after the first viewing,I thought,"There's no way I could watch this again and still enjoy it!" I've seen "Plan 9" many times and still enjoy it,but there are some bad movies that get on my nerves and want to wipe it away from my conscious!                                                                                                                                                   There's one movie called "Thriller:They Call Her One Eye" and I've heard some mixed reviews about it,but I'd rather rent it first and then decide if I want to buy it later.I believe I've gone through 10 movies or so over the last 5 years that I thought I wanted,but watched them again and decided,What was I thinking???

[RapscallionJones]

                                                                                                                                              There's one movie called "Thriller:They Call Her One Eye" and I've heard some mixed reviews about it,but I'd rather rent it first and then decide if I want to buy it later.I believe I've gone through 10 movies or so over the last 5 years that I thought I wanted,but watched them again and decided,What was I thinking???

Oddly, I actually bought Thriller when it was released by Synapse.  I bought the first version, A Cruel Picture, based partially on a whim.  I'm so familiar with cult/b-movies these days that it's hard for me to find something I know nothing about.  I'd heard some things about Thriller in the past, too, and it sounded like something I needed to see.  There's a blurb from Tarantino that calls it the roughest revenge movie ever made.  That also played a part in me buying it.  He and I share similar opinions of exploitation and I'd call that a hell of a claim coming from him.  Unfortunately, there's probably more to that quote that lists a few exceptions because I can think of dozens of rougher revenge movies than that one.  It has nothing on I Spit On Your Grave.  I'd even say Old Boy was rougher.

That doesn't mean it's bad, though.  It moves slowly, but it has this Peckinpah presentation to the violence which happens in super slow mo every time and Christina Lindberg is bad ass (as well as hot as hell) in those fight scenes.

It's a rarity that I'll just spring for something, though.  Usually I've read up on something before I buy it.  I bought Darkness: The Vampire version based solely on the Rue Morgue page about it in one their issues last year that featured some great gore makeup.  There's a reason I never got into that early 90's Bookwalter no-budget wave of horror and Darkness was one of them.  While it wasn't a total bust, it didn't change my opinion of microbudget fan horror.

[dean]

Short answer:  All the bloody time.

I'll often either buy something on reputation [oh that film I read a review on is here cheap] or by an interesting director/actor or has a catchy cover/premise.  Not often am I disappointed, but the occasional 'not good' moment slips through.

Three of the last 'unfamiliar' purchases: Broken Saints, a web-animation in the style of a comic which one some award at Cannes.  It's quite interesting in premise and has a story I enjoy, but it can be hard to watch at times, just because of the style.

Electroma: The Daft Punk movie that has no dialogue in it.  Very odd film, but I enjoyed it.  About a pair of robots who want to be human.

Immortal: The idea of Horus the ancient god flying being banished, but having one last chance to visit humanity was a good one.  Add to the fact that he visits Earth in the future, so there's alot of sci fi elements in it, and you have me sold.  Sure the film is one big euphemism for rape [I reckon] but it's a film I quite enjoyed, since it mixes CGI characters in which adds to the oddness.