More dollar DVDs at Dollar Tree

[JohnL]

I was in the local Dollar Tree today and besides the regular selection of dollar DVDs, they had a Halloween section. I picked up the following;

Cathy's Curse - A girl falls under the spell of her long-dead aunt.

Horror Hotel - A young woman researching witchcraft ends up in a small town with a coven of witches.

Web of the Spider - Klaus Kinski plays Edgar Allen Poe, who challenges a writer to spend the night in a haunted house.

Good Against Evil - A priest tries to stop a marriage because the bride has been posessed by evil. With a young Kim Catrall.

Blood Tide - A treasure hunter awakens a sea creature. With James Earl Jones.

I haven't watched any of them yet, but it's a safe bet that they're bare-bones discs. They also had;

Night of the Living Dead
Werewolves Vs. the Vampire Women
Die Sister Die
Sisters of Death
Circus of Fear

[Anon E. Mouse]

Several (if not all) of these were part of a 10 DVD pack that's made the rounds.

Cathy's Curse -- Drink lots of booze, and make fun of this canadian flick with your closest friends. Then snap the disk in half after you're done.  It will have served its purpose.

Horror Hotel (aka City of the Dead) -- Probably the best in the list, if you're as much into "atmosphere" as I am.  I say save this one for Halloween.

Web of the Spider -- Watchable gothic horror with Klaus being the main draw, of course.  He's terrible as Poe, but I can't say he's ever uninteresting.  This tries and fails to be a Corman Poe flick, so you might enjoy it more as freshman homage.

Good Against Evil -- If The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby mated, and gave birth to a TV movie with all edge removed.  I saw this when it aired on Sci Fi (though, it first aired on ABC a little while back), and I have to say, the commercial breaks were a blessing.

Blood Tide -- Good cast, decent premise, but doesn't really go anywhere.  For a monster movie, there's a severe lack of... well... monster.

[Sugar_Nads]

I saw those DVDs the other day at the Dollar Tree here in my town. How's the quality?

[al brown]

hi . the quality is great for a dollar. if it play for imonth you got your moneys worth. igo to dollar tree every week. you better get while you can . they also got a lot of haloween fun stufv monster s ,ghst and ghoulstoo

[The Burgomaster]

Cathy's Curse - I saw this a long time ago.  I remember it being pretty slow-moving and possibly should have been rated PG instead of R.

Horror Hotel - This is a good one.  It has been released by various distributors over the years.  I have an old VHS copy somewhere around here . . . .

[Brother Ragnarok]

Makes me wish there was a dollar tree around here somewhere.  Are these DVD's in a standard size snap case, or in those little slimline ones like TV shows come in?

[nshumate]

They come in cardboard envelopes, believe it or not.  About as sturdy as a CD mailer.

And the reason you see so many of the same titles as in the 10-DVD sets is that the Dollar-DVD company is a subsidiary label of Brentwood.  (Ah, it all begins to makes sense now...)

[Brother Ragnarok]

And another harebrained scheme to make a profit at the local used record/DVD shop gurgles quietly as it is flushed down the toilet.

[Yaddo 42]

**Makes a note to self to check out the Dollar Tree sandwiched in between the local Hollywood Video and the rundown building housing the local Big Lots.**

A cheap copy of "Horror Hotel" and a Kinski flick to me at least are worth looking for at those prices. A co-worker has been telling me about the $1 DVD in cardboard envelopes there, but she mostly mentions copies of old TV shows and the usual "public domain classics" as I like to call them: "My Favorite Brunette", "The Scarlet Pimpernel", "Zulu".

[Yaddo 42]

Made the journey to Dollar Tree, picked up "Horror Hotel" and "Web of the Spider" along with discs of "The Jack Benny Show" and "The Third Man" TV series each containing 3 episodes. Decent visuals for the price, bare bones indeed. No menu beyond a logo and pressing "play" but the movies have six chapter stops at about 15 minute intervals.

The Jack Benny shows still have Lucky Strike commercials at the beginning, which is interesting to me since I'm just young enough to not remember cigarettes ads on TV when they were pulled in the early 70s.I like the idea of a "Third Man" TV series (there was a radio show at one time as well), which stars genre actor Michael Rennie as Harry Lime. Funny how they turned a guy who was a greedy, doublecrossing, callous black market profiteer into the hero of a show.

I may go back for "Circus of Fear" (since it has Chris Lee and Kinski) and "Werewolf vs. the Vampire Women" (which I think is one of maybe two Paul Naschy movies I've actually seen before) and "Good Against Evil" (just because it was one of the pilots on that failed TV pilot special that I was curious to see, even though most opinions here and elsewhere consider it deadly dull).

Anyone know anything about "Sisters of Death"? Worth bothering with?

[odinn7]

My wife came home from Dollar Tree yesterday with "The Undertaker and His Pals" which is reviewed on this site. The picture quality wasn't fantastic (neither was the movie!) but it was only $1 and to me, it was worth that for a few laughs.

[Scott]

Out of the ones from the list I can say that these are good:

Horror Hotel - Great little horror film with good atmosphere with all the fog.
Blood Tide - Not great, but I enjoyed this one as it was set in Greece with a decent story.
Night of the Living Dead - This classic for $1. Hopefully the quality is ok. I once bought a Brentwood transfer of this film and it was really badly faded.
Werewolves Vs. the Vampire Women - Great Paul Naschy film.

Didn't care much for these films below:

Sisters of Death - It wasn't that interesting to me.
Circus of Fear - Kinda boring.

Never saw these films and I might be interested in picking up these film for $1:

Web of the Spider  
Cathy's Curse
Good Against Evil
Die Sister Die

This one should be a good deal for a dollar:

Jack Benny - Not my favorite comedian, but I remember enjoying his show occasionally in reruns during the 70's.



Post Edited (10-06-04 10:01)