What are your latest Horror DVD purchases?

[palitoy]

Mine arrived today, I bought a lot off ebay:

Assignment Terror (MY VHS copy lost it's sound)

White Zombie (Lugosi)- I've never seen this so I'm looking forward to it.

Horror Express- I don't think I've ever watched it from start to finish but it has a great cast and comes well reccomended.

[The Bat]

Kenneth Branagh's "Hamlet".
300
Elvis 68 come back special

[toys2cool]

300 I pre-ordered Transformers and I finally got Once Bitten on DVD :grin:

[The Bat]

I just realized this is the Monster thread...so You wanted Monster related DVD's.

So...for Halloween watching, I plan to pick Up:

Bram Stokers:Dracular
Mary Shelly's Frankenstein
The Shining(now being released in Widescreen)

[palitoy]

I just realized this is the Monster thread...so You wanted Monster related DVD's

Yeah, I realised that the original thread title could mislead so I did an edit.

[toys2cool]

oh my bad I'm sorry

well Once bitten is a vampire movie so it's close,but I just told my brother to get me the Night of the living dead 3D and the 28 weeks later :grin:

[Meule]

Dario Argento's "Wax Mask" and "20 Million Miles to Earth"

[Type3Toys]

The Horror Of Dracula. Moon Of The Wolf. Both are fantastic.

[Randy]

Planet Terror and Death Proof!

[phil]

Horror Express is a cool movie and Peter Cushing delivers one of the best lines in his entire career in it. I won't spoil the surprise.

White Zombie is also interesting. Fine Lugosi performance and good atmosphere.

Enjoy.

[gman]

Brain that Wouldn't Die -- new copy -- we watch it every Halloween.Double feature with House on Haunted Hill.

[ShadowAvenger]

I went on a road trip last week and bought a double feature for a a buck at the Super Wally-World. The movies were The Last Man On Earth with Vincent Price and The Devil's Messenger with Lon Chaney Jr. I would have liked The Omega Man as the second feature but I'll live with this since my old vhs is wearing out from multiple showings.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

Found a copy of "The Creeping Flesh" a little while back. And I'm waiting for the next Mystery Science Theater boxed set. (Due Oct 30.)

Don C.

[thunderbolt]

Best Buy's Classic Sci Fi Collection vol. 2, Alligator People, the real King Kong, Them!/Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

[DocDrako]

I haven't bought any lately, but I checked "Transylvania 6-5000" and "Sssssss" out from the library. The last one I bought was "Stephen King's Rose Red".

:grin:

[lepage]

"20 Million Miles to Earth"[/QUOTE]


Was it the newly released colorized edition? You have to love the Ymirs!

[lepage]

I didnt get any classics this time around but I just got BUG with Ashley Judd , flight of the living dead, night of the living dead 3-d, and the last two Masters of Horrors I was missing.
Does anyone get the Masters of horror series? Argento has done a few of them. I think they are great for 1 hour shorts.

[The Bat]

Aways loved "20 Million Miles to Earth"....I have Ymir Statue.:wink_y:

[thunderbolt]

"20 Million Miles to Earth"


Was it the newly released colorized edition? You have to love the Ymirs![/QUOTE]

Man, I thought colorizing was dead. :juggleyes_y:

[cjefferys]

Last one I got was DEATH PROOF (it's kind of horror) and I'm waiting for PLANET TERROR to show up in the mail, along with the Blu-ray discs of DAWN OF THE DEAD and DAY OF THE DEAD (two of my favourite films, I can't wait to watch them in hi-def!)

[chalwa]

I finally got Lucio Fulci's "Zombie" on DVD and love it!
A zombie vs. a shark?
It don't get no better!
Of course my faves are Universal's classics and I'll be revisiting this Halloween.
Palitoy, I hope the "White Zombie" you got is a good transfer. I have seen some really bad ones that detract from the movie.
I love that one by the way.
Bela rules!

bestest

Chalwa
(Chris of Earth-1?)

[CrimsonGhost]

Yeah, I got a cheap copy of "White Zombie" and it starts a few minutes into the movie.

I checked out "Flight of the Living dead" and it was crummy. I had high hopes based on the trailer. The other was "Death Proof" and I've seen that already, but it was better this time around. It seemed slow after watching "Planet Terror"

I'm looking to get "M" soon.

[Meule]

"20 Million Miles to Earth"


Was it the newly released colorized edition? You have to love the Ymirs![/QUOTE]

Haven't had the chance yet to watch it, but the pics on the back of the dvd sleeve are B/W

[Meule]

Bela rules!


Ya damn right he does :yes:

[ThatBatmanGuy]

Night of the Sorcerers.

This is one that my grandmother told me about when I was a kid in the 70's. Yes, my GRANDMOTHER. It just now came out on DVD and I must say I'm very pleased. It took 30 years of waiting for all the blood shead, be-headings, vampires, zombies, bullwhipings, and babes with boobs.:wink: My NEW guilty pleasure. I wish my grandmother was still around to sit down and watch it with us. She would still get a kick out of it.:wink:

Here's a cool link:

Night of the Sorcerers - La Noche de Los Brujos - Index (http://www.nightofthesorcerers.com/sorcerersindex.htm)

Bob

[Count Creepyhead]

Universal Horror Archive
Halloween 1-5
Friday the 13th 1-8
The fog
Prophecy
Alligator People
To the Devil a Daughter
Curse of the Devil
The Anichrist
Hell Night
See No Evil
TCM2
Parasite
Zoltan hound Of Dracula

[lepage]

Was it the newly released colorized edition? You have to love the Ymirs!

Haven't had the chance yet to watch it, but the pics on the back of the dvd sleeve are B/W[/QUOTE]



The new colorized version is for the 50th anv.

20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH - In Color - New DVD - (eBay item 130162007084 end time Oct-16-07 14:22:30 PDT) (http://cgi.ebay.com/20-MILLION-MILES-TO-EARTH-In-Color-New-DVD_W0QQitemZ130162007084QQihZ003QQcategoryZ617QQs sPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

[thunderbolt]

Picked up the Bela Lugosi franchise collection from Universal. Black Cat, Rue Morgue, Invisible Ray, Black Friday and the Raven for 17.99!!!

[txteach]

I just watched 28 weeks later. I thought it was pretty decent.

[toys2cool]

I just got Fright Night 2,a really rare DVD :grin:

[Meule]

Haven't had the chance yet to watch it, but the pics on the back of the dvd sleeve are B/W



The new colorized version is for the 50th anv.

20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH - In Color - New DVD - (eBay item 130162007084 end time Oct-16-07 14:22:30 PDT) (http://cgi.ebay.com/20-MILLION-MILES-TO-EARTH-In-Color-New-DVD_W0QQitemZ130162007084QQihZ003QQcategoryZ617QQs sPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)[/QUOTE]

Nope, that's not the one I got. Glad tho, cause a B/W movie should be seen in B/W, I don't care much for colorized versions.

Since last time I also added

Deep Red
Suspiria
Phantom of the Opera (Lon Chaney)
Dinner with the Vampire

to the collection.

[thunderbolt]

Just scored a couple cool things at WalMart. In the dollar section they have a double feature Last Man on Earth/Devil's Messenger (with a drunken old Lon Chaney Jr.) and a disc called Sci Fi Invasion with This is Not a Test, Killers From Space, Wasp Woman, and Unknown World. Pretty cool for a buck.

[kingdom warrior]

I watched Hostel over the weekend what an overhyped pile of dog poooo..........

[The Sentry]

Bootlegged copies of The Car and Student Bodies, but I can't watch em cause I'm on a serious Creepshow spree! I just can't get enough of that movie around this time!

[MegoGeekJr]

I just got Halloween.
Its the new one that came out this year!

[ramsey37]

I pick up genre DVDs year round, but my most recent purchases are :
The Alligator People
Bram Stoker's Dracula Special Edition
The Day the World Ended/The She Creature double feature
Best Buy's Classic Sci-Fi Collection Vol. 2 ( mostly to get Dr. Cyclops and The Deadly Mantis)
George

[thunderbolt]

I pick up genre DVDs year round, but my most recent purchases are :
The Alligator People
Bram Stoker's Dracula Special Edition
The Day the World Ended/The She Creature double feature
Best Buy's Classic Sci-Fi Collection Vol. 2 ( mostly to get Dr. Cyclops and The Deadly Mantis)
George

Who's selling the The Day the World Ended/The She Creature double feature?

[davidb]

I don't know if it's really a "horror" movie, but the Monster Squad. Also, Student Bodies is great. I've been trying to find a copy for years.

[palitoy]

I bought the sexy Euro Comedy "The Vampire Happening" along with "Lady Frankenstein" at Kane County this past weekend. Can't beat it for $3.

[Adam West]

I just got Halloween.
Its the new one that came out this year!

Is this the Rob Zombie version?

I think my most recent pickup is Psycho...haven't seen it in a while.

[ramsey37]

Who's selling the The Day the World Ended/The She Creature double feature?

I picked up a copy on eBay for $8.00 or so. :feiertag-smiley-015
George

[thunderbolt]

cool, i thought maybe it was showing up in seasonal assortments at WalMart or somewhere.

[Type3Toys]

I just got the Craeture legacy set in the mail today!

[toys2cool]

I just picked up the Grudge 2 and this thing sucks more then part 1:14:

[lepage]

I just picked up the following but have not watched them yet.
The reaping
Hostel 2
NOTLD 3-d (I did watch and though its not an award winner by any means, I thought it was fun)
black sheep
Wrong turn #2
Darkman 3 disk set
Dr. giggles
Tales from the crypt season 7
tales from the cyptkeeper animated series
Abandoned (the last of the 8 films to die for)

[csstuba]

suspiria

[Bo8a_Fett]

Just picked up
Ghoul School
Turkey Shoot AKA Blood Camp Thatcher
Patrick
Strange Behaviour
Creepozoids
Vampire killer barbys
All for £1 each

Also got the Hammer Collection Box set for £40 in a sale

[unataper]

I just picked up the following but have not watched them yet.
The reaping
Hostel 2
NOTLD 3-d (I did watch and though its not an award winner by any means, I thought it was fun)
black sheep
Wrong turn #2
Darkman 3 disk set
Dr. giggles
Tales from the crypt season 7
tales from the cyptkeeper animated series
Abandoned (the last of the 8 films to die for)

Some great movies on your list!

Wrong Turn 2 is hilarious! My girlfriend and I sat down to watch it and about 30 minutes into the movie she turns to me and says "I didn't realize we were going to watch a comedy!" Lots of gore though, I really liked it.

Cecil

[unataper]

I bought Planet Terror. I wasn't going to buy Death Proof but with the $5 off coupon in PT, I probably will. I also picked up the Russian film "DAYWATCH".

Cecil

[palitoy]

I got a tip here to go to Giant Tiger (thanks Stretchandro) and I got the 75th year edition of Frankenstein for $10. It was the only copy but they had tons of Dracula (I'm sorry that movie puts me to sleep). What a great DVD set, the extras alone are worth it.

However, the whole container just completely fell apart when I opened it.

[toys2cool]

I just got the Phantom of the mall Eric's revenge and the coolest part is that i contacted the Guy who plays Eric (Derek Rydall) who was also in Popcorn in the 80's and the chick Kari Whitman(who was a playmate :drool:) and the both were really cool and said they would sign it for no charge...How cool is that? :grin:

[cjefferys]

I just picked up the Asian horror anthology 3 EXTREMES for dirt cheap at Blockbuster ($2.75!). It includes short films by Park Chan-Wook ("Old Boy"), Fruit Chan ("Durian Durian") and Takashi Miike ("Audition", "Ichi the Killer"). This is supposed to be pretty twisted, and I'm especially a Miike fan, so I'm looking forward to watching this. I'm always happy to see the less mainstream stuff sell for so cheap at BB.

[ramsey37]

I got a tip here to go to Giant Tiger (thanks Stretchandro) and I got the 75th year edition of Frankenstein for $10. It was the only copy but they had tons of Dracula (I'm sorry that movie puts me to sleep). What a great DVD set, the extras alone are worth it.

However, the whole container just completely fell apart when I opened it.
I couldn't make myself buy either of the 75th Anniversary sets at original issue price, since I already have the Legacy sets for both characters. For $10.00, I'd have to bite the bullet though.
I agree that "Frankenstein" is definitely the better film of the two. "Dracula" has iconic performances by Bela Lugosi and Dwight Frye, but the rest of the cast is pretty lackluster. Once Dracula takes up residence at Carfax Abbey, the movie moves at a glacial pace. On a totally unrelated note, I'll be adding more crosses and garlic to my room tonight, just to be safe. Nothing personal, Count! :feiertag-smiley-003
George

[ramsey37]

I picked up the Universal Classic Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection and the Hellboy Director's Cut set within the last few weeks.
George

[palitoy]

I agree that "Frankenstein" is definitely the better film of the two. "Dracula" has iconic performances by Bela Lugosi and Dwight Frye, but the rest of the cast is pretty lackluster. Once Dracula takes up residence at Carfax Abbey, the movie moves at a glacial pace.

That's where my wife and I both fell asleep (mid day) on our last attempt to watch it. She's a vampire movie fanatic and her favourite is Dracula's Daughter, which I view as a better film.

I would like to watch the extras on the Dracula disk so I might go back and get it as well.

[cjefferys]

I agree that "Frankenstein" is definitely the better film of the two. "Dracula" has iconic performances by Bela Lugosi and Dwight Frye, but the rest of the cast is pretty lackluster. Once Dracula takes up residence at Carfax Abbey, the movie moves at a glacial pace.

Oh yeah, I agree with all of this. FRANKENSTEIN is infinitely better. I just have a hard time getting through DRACULA (and I'm a fan of several other Browning films), especially the second half. The lack of music and stagebound camera work certainly doesn't help (unfortunately, these two things may have been partly because this film was an early talkie). I have yet to actually watch the Spanish version (which is supposed to be superior on all counts except lacking the iconic presence of Lugosi in the title role).

Is there anything substantial on the 75th Anniversary sets that isn't on the Legacy sets? I already have the latter versions, so I don't know if it's worth my while to hunt down those $10 75th Ann. sets.

[ramsey37]

I have yet to actually watch the Spanish version (which is supposed to be superior on all counts except lacking the iconic presence of Lugosi in the title role).


The Spanish version is definitely better, although Bela Lugosi was a much better Dracula. If they coulda done the Spanish version with Bela, it would've been perfect.
George :feiertag-smiley-003

[DocDrako]

The last horror DVD I picked up was Dawn of the Dead, the original version. But that was last Halloween. I still need to pick up Day of the Dead.

:grin:

[FullerDawg]

Just watched "30days of Night" Pretty cool

[apes3978]

I'm not quite how sure this sizes up to most of the other titles listed in this thread (which seem to be "monster" films) but I picked up PET SEMETARY in WALMART's "2 for $11.00" bin awhile back...

[ramsey37]

I spent the morning in Bowling Green trying to track down a copy of the new re-release of "Man of 1000 Faces". I had no luck on that movie, but did pick up a couple of other films: Vincent Price in "The Last Man On Earth" and the new re-release of "Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster". Luckily, I can always get the Cagney film online ;)
George

[ramsey37]

I ordered a copy of "Man of a Thousand Faces" from deepdiscount.com, and finally got to watch it last night. It had been awhile since I'd seen it, but overall it was entertaining. Of course, as an actual biography, it doesn't compare to the Chaney biography that was included on the TCM Lon Chaney set.
I'd been hearing over at the Universal Monster Army that Big Lots has just gotten in a bunch of movies at $3.00 a pop. I looked last week and didn't find much worth having, but this week a new display was up and chock full of movie goodness. I picked up eleven movies including:
Needful Things
Jack the Giant Killer
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Dudley Moore/Peter Cook version)
Making Mr. Right (it's not a monster movie, but I like it)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
The Fall of the House of Usher (Vincent Price rulez!)
The Ghoul (Boris Karloff rulez more!)
A Bucket of Blood
Konga
The Dunwich Horror
Swamp Thing
And at $3.00 a pop, you can't go wrong. Hit your local Big Lots before they're all gone!
George :feiertag-smiley-003

[spaceace35]

nice find
i dont get over to big lots enough

[Monsterama2000]

My wife and I went to two different Big Lots last weekend and bought a total of 18 DVD's. 11 of which are horror related --

Bubba Ho-Tep (Collector's Edition)
"X" The Man With The X-Ray Eyes
The Dunwich Horror
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978)
Rollerball (1975)
The Ghoul (starring Boris Karloff)
Swamp Thing
Konga
Howling II: Your Sister Is A Werewolf
Piñata: Survival Island

[david_b]

Just saw 'The Atomic Brain' (1960) a few days ago from my nieces' AMC Collection DVD. Cheap bad film about these 3 young women being considered as 'body replacements' for this wealthy old spinster to have her brain transplanted into. It was alright for me, but my wife, hoping to make lots of MST3K comments, actually had bad dreams about it. Oy..

david_b

[Mego Milk]

Shawn of the Dead

[toys2cool]

Shawn of the Dead

lol! great movie :grin:

[ramsey37]

I've been on a Godzilla kick the last few weeks. I picked up the following from DeepDiscountDVD.Com:
Godzilla Raids Again
Invasion of Astro Monster (aka Godzilla Vs. Monster Zero)
Godzilla Vs. the Sea Monster
Son of Godzilla
I also retired a few old VHS movies and upgraded to DVD:
Shock Waves
Sherlock Holmes in Dressed to Kill
Fantasia (not exactly horror, but it does have some cool stuff in it)
George

[palitoy]

Other than the Mummy, my friend gave me "Frankenstein Must be Destroyed" and another friend gave me "The Bermuda Depths" recently.

I need to start watching DVDs.

[ramsey37]

I picked up a copy of the new "Nightmare Before Christmas" 2-disc DVD set last night. The second disc includes the Tim Burton shorts "Vincent" and Frankenweenie". Grab your copy now before Halloween gets here!
George :feiertag-smiley-003

[palitoy]

I wonder if my kids are old enough for that yet?

[ramsey37]

I took my daughter to see "Nightmare" when it debuted. She was about three and slept through most of it ;) I picked it up on VHS for her about a year later and she loved it. Of course, your mileage may vary.
George :feiertag-smiley-003

[palitoy]

My kids send mixed signals as to what they're afraid of, Mad Monster Party is OK, Scooby Doo can scare my daughter.

[kingdom warrior]

I just got Frankenstein (original) My two year old hopped up next to me and laughed the whole time watching it..kid has no fear. Still one of the greats for me.

[madmarva]

Karloff's Mummy with the new Jack Pierce mini documentry

[ramsey37]

Another kaiju flick landed today: All Monsters Attack aka Godzilla's Revenge. I now just need eleven more films to have all of Godzilla's movies :)
George

[thunderbolt]

Picked up the Darkman trilogy at WM for 9 bucks the other day. The first two are good, but the last one is barely watchable.

[palitoy]

My buddy did the makeup in those Darkman movies (they were filmed in Downtown Toronto/Scarborough), the second one was filmed last. Vosloo makes for a good Darkman but they don't let him unload enough.

[noelani72]

the last one I have bought was Carpenter's Halloween on Blu-Ray.
Holy Cow, what a nice transfer. I am extremely picky with these sorts of thing, but wow...really top notch transfer. Made it like watching it for the very first time.

[SUP-Ronin]

The scariest movie out there of course.

"Night of the Lepus" With the one and only DeForest Kelley

Got it for like 5 bucks. Woo hoo.

[vintage spideyfan]

The scariest movie out there of course.

"Night of the Lepus" With the one and only DeForest Kelley

Got it for like 5 bucks. Woo hoo.

Ha!! That movie actually freaked me out when I was little...LOL!! That, and the movie "Stuff". I didn't eat ice cream for a year...

[ramsey37]

I picked up "Killers From Space", "The Monster Maker", and "Godzilla Vs Gigan" this week. I'm planning to get the new "Rodan/War of the Gargantuas" double set very soon as well. I highly recommend the Classic Media sets, as they contain not only spruced up copies of the American versions of Toho classics but also the original Japanese versions.
George

[thunderbolt]

Found a used set of season 1 of Millinium. 9 bucks!!! Creepy stuff.

[Mikey]

I just got Snowbeast.

It doesn't get any better then Yvette Mimieux and a killer Big Foot in the same movie :grin:

[palitoy]

I just picked up Cinematic Titanics "The Oozing Skull", which is actually a Sam Sherman/Al Adamson piece called "Brain of Blood" (Elvira ran this for years in the early ninties) which features much of the same cast from "Frankenstein VS Dracula".

Anyway, the movie is unimportant, the big deal is the reassembling of the original MST 3K cast and well, the magic is still there. It's not as slick as the show got during it's highlight but it's far better than season one.

With this project and rifftrax, MST3K fans have the best of both worlds.

Cinematic Titanic (http://www.cinematictitanic.com)

[thunderbolt]

^^^ Cool, didn't know the dvd's were available, last time I checked it was download only.

[Tothiro]

The new colorized version is for the 50th anv.

20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH - In Color - New DVD - (eBay item 130162007084 end time Oct-16-07 14:22:30 PDT) (http://cgi.ebay.com/20-MILLION-MILES-TO-EARTH-In-Color-New-DVD_W0QQitemZ130162007084QQihZ003QQcategoryZ617QQs sPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

Nope, that's not the one I got. Glad tho, cause a B/W movie should be seen in B/W, I don't care much for colorized versions.[/QUOTE]


I understand everyone's hatred for colorizing because I wholeheartedly share it (though the Psycho remake could have saved some money if they just colorized). On the other hand I have to say though I don't own the 50th version I did have the chance to see it at SDCC right before the release in 2007 with a panel that included Ray Harryhausen. THAT was cool.
Having watched it - this version is actually really impressive. What the colorizing did was not the typical, crappy "tinted" shading that we all hate. They used an interesting new digital tracking process that they talked about and they did a lot of research regarding date sensitive coloring, from the Colosseum (because it's colorized to the tone it was, as opposed to the post refurbishment color it is today) to not making the film look "modern." They were really sensitive about not trying to make it look like modern film stock, but instead it looks as if it were filmed back in the day on color stock which the film at the time just didn't have budget for. All in all I have to say it turned out very well.
Watching it was, for fans of the movie, a kind of weird experience though. The color process was so near seamless that you forget about it and can't figure out what the problem is. It was like watching Star Wars in black and white, if that makes sense.

Anyway I just got around to watching my copy of Matango a while back. Love me some Toho mushroom people.

[kryptosmaster]

Last few I've picked up are:

"Frogs"
a typical drive-in B-movie starring Ray Milland & Sam Elliott (early 70's)

"Blacula"
actually not too bad but very, very dated..."you jive turkey!"

"Dracula AD 1972"
Christopher Lee & Peter Cushing rule! a bit dated also.

Speaking of kids & movies:
My 6 year-old daughter just loves watching Eight-Legged Freaks & Gremlins whereas a lot of kids would have nightmares. She started watching my POTA tv series set too and loves that as well.

I love Eight-Legged Freaks. That movie is like a classic to me. I highly recommend it to anyone.

Rich

[Gorn Captain]

The scariest movie out there of course.

"Night of the Lepus" With the one and only DeForest Kelley

Got it for like 5 bucks. Woo hoo.

Now I'd watch a remake of this!

With giant CGI bunnies. Think about it, I'm smelling box-office success here...

[Gorn Captain]

30 days of night.
Not bad, but I'm not totally convinced.
The lead sacrificing himself about 30 minutes before the sun comes up?

[StrangeVisitor]

I just got Snowbeast.

It doesn't get any better then Yvette Mimieux and a killer Big Foot in the same movie :grin:

This one freaked me out a little as a kid. Just the deal with the victim seeing the off-camera Snowbeast, screaming and the scene suddenly going red - the guy trapped in the over-turned camper and the skier who almost goes over a cliff, stand out. Nothing violent was really shown, 1970's TV after all, but what was implied got under my skin.

[ramsey37]

I swung by big Lots today and spotted a new selection of $3.00 movies. I picked up several movies, including:
Bubba Ho-Tep
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
The Amityville Horror (1979)
I'd always heard "Bubba Ho-Tep" was good but had never seen it, so I couldn't pass it up at that price. I highly recommend this movie!
George

[palitoy]

Bubba Ho Tep is a lot of fun, especially for $3.

Picked up all of the Universal Mummy Movies which have a charming "B" quality to them. They were a welcome comfort on my 5 hour flight home yesterday.

[thunderbolt]

Any cool Halloween dvd assortments at Walmart yet?

[ramsey37]

Any cool Halloween dvd assortments at Walmart yet?

My local Wal-Mart is just putting out their Halloween movies. It looks like mostly recent slasher films, sadly. The only two movies I saw so far that I still need to pick up are "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and the original "Halloween".
George

[ramsey37]

I looked more closely this morning and saw I was right, it's mostly recent slasher crap, no classic horror at all. I did spot a few movies in the $5.00 bin as well. It looked like they had most of the "Friday the 13th" movies in the mix, plus a couple of Stephen King movies that I picked up: "The Dead Zone" and "Silver Bullet".
George :feiertag-smiley-015

[thunderbolt]

^^ Well, that stinks. Last year's assortment was bad too, with the exception of Alligator People.

[ramsey37]

I just noticed this morning that Wal-Mart has put up a big section of mostly classic sci-fi/fantasy flicks beside the Halloween movies. Here's a breakdown of everything:
Star Trek II, III, IV, and VI
20 Million Miles to Earth
The Alligator People
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (Daryl Hannah version)
Barbarella
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Critters
Cult Classics Double Feature (The Spider/War of the Colossal Beast)
Cyber Bandits
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Day the World Ended (recent remake)
Dragonslayer
Dune
Earth Vs the Flying Saucers (colorized version)
Enemy Mine
Fire In the Sky
First Men In the Moon
Heavy Metal
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1950's version)
It Came From Beneath the Sea (colorized version)
Jason and the Argonauts
Ghosts of Mars
Johnny Mnemonic (save your money and buy it at Big Lots for $3)
Krull
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
The Mysterious Island
Planet of the Apes (1968 version)
Spacehunter
Starman
Stephen King's It
Teenage Caveman (recent remake)
The 13th Floor
The Time Machine (recent remake)
Tobor the Great
The Toxic Avenger
Videodrome
The War of the Worlds (1950's version)
I already have quite a few of these, but definitely plan to pick up a few on payday. I've been meaning to get "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra" for awhile now, and at $7.00, I don't have any excuse to put it off anymore! ;)
George

[StrangeVisitor]

I already have quite a few of these, but definitely plan to pick up a few on payday. I've been meaning to get "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra" for awhile now, and at $7.00, I don't have any excuse to put it off anymore! ;)
George


"Lost Skeleton.." is hilarious!! :smiley1::smiley1: Anyone who's a fan of the 50s-60s B-movies will get a kick out of it. I heard that Larry Blamire, lead actor/ writer/director, is working on the sequel "The Lost Skeleton Returns Again!".

[thunderbolt]

Wow, I guess I need to mosey up th Wally World. The SF assortment has some good stuff.

[StrangeVisitor]

Just picked up SkinWalkers, Dead Silence & Argento's Mother of Tears at the Wal. Has anyone seen any of 'em? Good, bad, or meh?

[DocDrako]

The last horror DVD I bought was "The Boogeyman". The thought of something in the closet waiting to get me is still high on my fear list. I can't sleep with an open closet. I know. I'm a wuss. Childhood fears die hard sometimes.

:crazy:

[palitoy]

I taped "Son of Godzilla" and "Revenge of Frankenstein" last night. The kids loved "son" and I didn't mind the Hammer film, one of the better entries in their Frankenstein series.

[thunderbolt]

Walgreens has some cheep-o movies in the Halloween aisle. I picked up the Bluebeard/House on Haunted Hill DVD. There are 3 other double features.

[JPkempo]

Just got 1408 on blu-ray. I liked it not a great movie but enjoyable.

[Dave Mc]

I also picked up Planet Terror and Death Proof recently. Planet Terror put me in a Zombie mood so I bought all the Romero "Dead" movies which I hadn't owned on DVD. Had a real Zombie fest for a while.

[palitoy]

Managed both the Wolfman and Frankenstein legacy collections used over the weekend, now I just need the creature sets. The stores near me were blowing these away for $15.00.

[ramsey37]

Managed both the Wolfman and Frankenstein legacy collections used over the weekend, now I just need the creature sets. The stores near me were blowing these away for $15.00.
Do you have the Invisible Man and Dracula boxed sets?

[palitoy]

OK, no I don't have those. One store in another town has Dracula but I didn't even know about the Invisible man set.

[ramsey37]

OK, no I don't have those. One store in another town has Dracula but I didn't even know about the Invisible man set.

Well, the Invisible Man is easy to overlook....;)
George

[ramsey37]

I swung by Wal-Mart this morning and noticed a new selection of $4.00 movies. The sole movie of interest was the 1976 version of "King Kong". I resisted picking this up a few years ago at $7.50. I'm glad now I waited :ape:
George

[kryptosmaster]

Big Lots seems to be getting some nice MGM displays in lately with various movies for $3.
I picked up Swamp Thing (Adrienne Barbeau) & Konga.

Rich

[thunderbolt]

^^^ They also have Frogs, Bubba HoTep, Bucket of Blood, The Dunwich Horror, The Ghoul

[Earth 2 Chris]

My wife picked me up Sleepy Hollow (the Burton movie) yesterday. I know it totally masacres the original story, but it's just so much damn fun. Good, Hammer-like Halloweeny vibe. I'm a sucker for anything with the Headless Horseman and Ichabod, and when Burton isn't messing up a licensed character, his stuff is fun to watch.

Chris

[steelcouch]

Picked up house by the cemetary and beast from the haunted cave. As far as new horror picked up the village of the damned and Frontiers. Frontiers is a little demented. Something I could see rob zombie directing but more twisted.

[palitoy]

I picked up all the creech movies at the mall for the sum price of $20. The mall usually is known for insane DVD prices too....

[Type3Toys]

I just got "Werewolf Of Washington " DVD. It is ok. Almost identical, though updated, Universal Wolfman story. Even some of the exact same lines.

[kryptosmaster]

^^^ They also have Frogs, Bubba HoTep, Bucket of Blood, The Dunwich Horror, The Ghoul

I have frogs. I saw bubba hotep but put it back down. it looked stupid. I didnt see those other 3 and i looked at every dvd on the rack. I think ill hit Big Lots tomoorow and see if any new displays are up.
Rich

[txteach]

The movie "the visitors?" is coming out soon. It's with Liv Tyler (if I got the name right) and Owen Wilson's brother and is worth checking out. I saw it at the movies and will buy it.

[thunderbolt]

I have frogs. I saw bubba hotep but put it back down. it looked stupid. I didnt see those other 3 and i looked at every dvd on the rack. I think ill hit Big Lots tomoorow and see if any new displays are up.
Rich

Ho Tep is great fun. Old Elvis and a black guy that thinks he's JFK fighting mummies in a nursing home. What's not to like? Besides that: Bruce Campbel!!!

[kryptosmaster]

Ho Tep is great fun. Old Elvis and a black guy that thinks he's JFK fighting mummies in a nursing home. What's not to like? Besides that: Bruce Campbel!!!

I had heard some people say it is good but I looked at the case and just couldn't bring myself to buy it. I guess maybe I'll run by there in a bit and see if they still have it and any new ones. Maybe I'll pick it up this time.
Bruce Campbell is good. Mostly the reason I didn't get it was because it was rated R but I didn't look to see why. I don't mind violence and gore, it's the F-word every other word that just spoils a movie for me. Not that I don't hear it or haven't used it in a fit of anger; I just don't really care for movies laced with it.

Rich

[StrangeVisitor]

The movie "the visitors?" is coming out soon. It's with Liv Tyler (if I got the name right) and Owen Wilson's brother and is worth checking out. I saw it at the movies and will buy it.

http://nicklepre.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/strangers-poster-newbig.jpg

You got a little mixed-up, Luke Wilson was in "Vacancy"

[txteach]

Ya, for some reason I thought Luke was in that one. Anyways, its a good horror flick.

[StrangeVisitor]

I just picked up Hostel DC & 2, B.Stoker's Dracula CE, Hollow Man DC, Resident Evil: Extinction, Hellraiser 20thAnn, Girl Next Door & Spiral at Best Buy. I haven't seen a couple of these Direstor's Cuts but the one I haven't seen at all is GND but I've heard it gets a little brutal. Spiral is a really good indie psycho-thriller I happened across. It also features Zachary Levi from "Chuck" as a not-a-nice guy role.

TXTEACH, since you liked "The Strangers", you might also like:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b265/mykelogan/Them_poster.jpg


Really creepy, especially if you have a nice sound system.

[fallensaviour]

Just picked up flight of the dead for $6.88
and
Diary of the dead for $13.88
both at wally world I'm sure they are both kinda hokey but what zombie flick isn't.

[ramsey37]

I picked up "Sleepy Hollow" this week at Wal-Mart. It was in the $5.00 bin. I picked up copies of the "Earth Vs the Spider/War of the Colossal Beast" 2-pack and "Critters" last week.
George :feiertag-smiley-003

[ramsey37]

I hit the Wal-Mart $5.00 bin again this morning and scored copies of "Rosemary's Baby" and Stephen King's "Thinner".
George

[thunderbolt]

^^^ The 5 buck bin at the local WM is ate up with Adam Sandler movies. Nothing good at all.

[kryptosmaster]

Ho Tep is great fun. Old Elvis and a black guy that thinks he's JFK fighting mummies in a nursing home. What's not to like? Besides that: Bruce Campbel!!!

Ok, I broke down and bought Bubbahotep (and Rollerball-original) yesterday at Big Lots. They didn't have anything new from last time I was there though.
I watched hotep. It wasn't that bad. I wouldn't call it great but it was worth $3 for sure, LOL. I actually liked their theory (explanation) of Elvis's death.
I'll probably watch it again.

Rich

[ramsey37]

I made a trip to Bowling Green today and scored a stack of six DVDs I've been meaning to pick up. At Best Buy I found a copy of the new "Hammer Films Icons of Horror" collection, which I wanted mostly because it includes "The Gorgon". At the local FYE I picked up five Godzilla movies I didn't have yet, including:
Godzilla Vs Mechagodzilla
Godzilla Vs Mechagodzilla II
Godzilla Vs Megaguirus
Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla
Godzilla: Tokyo SOS
Normally FYE is grossly overpriced, but today they had all of these Godzilla flicks marked down to $6.99 each. When I went to pay for them, two rang up as $3.49 each :)
George :feiertag-smiley-015

[ramsey37]

This morning I was out bright and early hitting the Halloween clearance sales around town. I stopped at the local Rite-Aid on my way home and found a tiny selection of horror films mixed in with the Halloween stuff. The movies were priced at $7.99 each. I picked up a copy of "The Howling" and took it to the register to see if it was marked down to half-price, only to discover it was actually 75% off, so I got it for $1.99! :)
George :feiertag-smiley-015

[palitoy]

There's a movie I'd like to see again.

[ramsey37]

There's a movie I'd like to see again.
I probably haven't seen it since shortly after its release. As I recall, the first one was pretty good, but the sequels are just hours of your life that you'll never get back.
George :feiertag-smiley-015

[palitoy]

I saw it on a UHF channel probably in 83, loved it. Rented it on a movie night date in college once but, ahem, never saw the end. ;)

[ramsey37]

I saw it on a UHF channel probably in 83, loved it. Rented it on a movie night date in college once but, ahem, never saw the end. ;)
Ah yes, the infamous werewolf sex scene ;) I sat down and watched the DVD tonight/this morning. Overall, the movie still works for me. I never realized that Robert Picardo (the Doctor from Voyager) was the main werewolf in the movie. It was also cool to spot all the references to Lon Chaney as the Wolf Man, and I'd completely forgotten about the cameo by good ol' Uncle Forry in the bookstore. Definitely worth a watch if you can pick up a copy.
George :feiertag-smiley-003

[palitoy]

My friend in the industry has told me that Rob Botin loves working with Picardo, he made him up in The Howling, then in Legend (as the swamp witch) and later used his face for the Johnny Cabs in total recall.

[ramsey37]

My friend in the industry has told me that Rob Botin loves working with Picardo, he made him up in The Howling, then in Legend (as the swamp witch) and later used his face for the Johnny Cabs in total recall.
I never realized Picardo was Meg Rucklebone in "Legend" until I bought the DVD a few years back. The guy has really played a diverse group of characters. He was one of maybe two characters on "Voyager" that I ever had any interest in.
George

[cjefferys]

At the local FYE I picked up five Godzilla movies I didn't have yet, including:
Godzilla Vs Mechagodzilla
Godzilla Vs Mechagodzilla II
Godzilla Vs Megaguirus
Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla
Godzilla: Tokyo SOS
Normally FYE is grossly overpriced, but today they had all of these Godzilla flicks marked down to $6.99 each. When I went to pay for them, two rang up as $3.49 each :)
George :feiertag-smiley-015

Sweet, I paid much more than that for most of those DVDs. :yuk:

My most recent horror pickup is the Blu-ray disc of FROM DUSK TILL DAWN. It's a Canadian release only (no word of when Miramax is planning a US BD release) and is a huge improvement over the non-anamorphic standard DVD. No extras, but I'll just keep my standard DVD for that. I never get tired of watching this film, so I don't mind buying this movie for the third time (I bought the original VHS back in the day too).

[Earth 2 Chris]

WOW, that was Robert Picardo? I haven't seen Howling since the late 80s. He really does get around. He was even in the live-action Ben 10 movie! For you comic geeks, he voiced Blackhawk and Amazo on JLU.

Yesterday we were walking out of Target and my son Andrew blurted out "Wolfman!" He stopped over at a register endcap and there was Monster Squad (the 80s movie) for $7.50. He's become quite the fan of werewolves and Larry Talbot in particular, in no small part thanks to the Universal Double Feature Brian sent our way (thanks Brian!). So we picked it up. Looking forward to watching it for the first time since it first came to video in the 80s.

By the way that DVD sale runs through Saturday, so if you want it cheap, go get it.

Chris

[palitoy]

Having just watched Monster Squad for the first time in a long time be warned that it has plenty of salty language, teen smoking and some other "too adult" for kids moments.

I'm glad I previewed it for my kids.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Having just watched Monster Squad for the first time in a long time be warned that it has plenty of salty language, teen smoking and some other "too adult" for kids moments.

I'm glad I previewed it for my kids.

Ah crap. I may have to watch it first then too. And I've already sold it to him (and Cindy). Crud.

Chris

[Earth 2 Chris]

Took a chance and watched Monster Squad with Andrew, because he kept nagging me about it. Man, kids will hold you to your promises! I think he missed most of the cursing and things that were over his head (the whole vigin thing). He really enjoyed it though. Although he prefers Lon Chaney's Wolfman look to the Werewolf here. I do too. I noticed they used an image from during his change on the front box art.

I had forgotten how cool their creature looked. Kind of reminded me of the Predator!

Fun movie. Works on what kids think of the classic monsters. That they all know each other and get together to destroy the world from time to time.

Chris

[toys2cool]

Took a chance and watched Monster Squad with Andrew, because he kept nagging me about it. Man, kids will hold you to your promises! I think he missed most of the cursing and things that were over his head (the whole vigin thing). He really enjoyed it though. Although he prefers Lon Chaney's Wolfman look to the Werewolf here. I do too. I noticed they used an image from during his change on the front box art.

I had forgotten how cool their creature looked. Kind of reminded me of the Predator!

Fun movie. Works on what kids think of the classic monsters. That they all know each other and get together to destroy the world from time to time.

Chris

I grew up watching that movie over and over again,I still love it :grin:

[fallensaviour]

Just bought "Undead or Alive" A zombie,comedy,western for $5.Hope it's decent...LOL

[kennermike]

I just bought the Original black and white Godzilla flick used on DVD 4 bucks

[kryptosmaster]

recent pickups include Gremlins 2 and the 1976 King Kong.
Rich

[kennermike]

thats cool I also bought King Kong 1976 version a couple of weeks ago love that version!!

[kryptosmaster]

thats cool I also bought King Kong 1976 version a couple of weeks ago love that version!!

Was marked down to $4 at walmart.
I don't see anything less than $4 at walmart. Where do they keep these cheap DVDs that some guys were talking about?

Rich

[ramsey37]

Was marked down to $4 at walmart.
I don't see anything less than $4 at walmart. Where do they keep these cheap DVDs that some guys were talking about?

Rich

Big Lots has been getting regular shipments of movies for $3.00.
George

[kryptosmaster]

Big Lots has been getting regular shipments of movies for $3.00.
George

Yeah, I know. There's one around the corner from me but they haven't had any new ones in weeks. I was talking about a comment someone made earlier in this thread about really cheap (like a dollar or two) dvds at walmart but I can't find any under $4 there.
If I had to guess I would think all the big lots probably get those MGM displays at the same time? Possibly a regular release from MGM? Seems all the guys talk about the same movies when big lots gets those shipments so maybe a new batch is due soon?

Rich

[thunderbolt]

^^^Yep, every Big Lots has the same MGM display that has been ransacked pretty well by now. Still dissapointed that they didn't get any cool crappy monster movies for Halloween this year.

[ramsey37]

They seem to get new assortments every so often, but I haven't noticed any new genre films lately.
On an unrelated note, Big Lots has been getting cheap Christmas movies in. They have individual DVDs for several of the Rankin-Bass films for $5.00 each. I picked up:
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Santa Claus is Comin' to Town
The Little Drummer Boy
Frosty the Snow Man
These are selling at Wal-Mart for $13.00 each, so I was happy to pick them up at $5.00 each ;)
George

[ramsey37]

I picked up the Special Edition of "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" on Tuesday. Well worth the price tag of $24.95!
George

[palitoy]

I bought the latest MST 3K boxset which has the incomprehensible movie "Werewolf". It's got fun extras too.

[Gorn Captain]

Just saw 1408.
Not bad, though I could have done with the disaster movie deluge near the end.

A nice, classic King story, without the "everything sucks, I'm totally depressed" attitude he's displayed during most of his work in the last ten years...

[ramsey37]

I picked up "Looney Tunes: Back in Action" yesterday in the Wal-Mart $5.00 bin. It's not exactly a genre film, but it *does* have alot of cool cameos:
Ron Perlman
Robert Picardo!
And a slew of familiar monsters and aliens including:
The Man from Planet X
Robot Monster
The Metalunan Mutant from "This Island Earth"
A couple of Daleks
A Triffid
One of the brain monsters from "Fiend Without a Face"
Kevin McCarthy and a pod from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
and Robby the Robot
There's also a reference to the giant ants from "Them!"
George

[ctc]

>I bought the latest MST 3K boxset which has the incomprehensible movie "Werewolf".

Me too! Great stuff.... er.... you know what I mean....

Let's not forget "Laserblast" (two and a half stars.) A true classic.

>It's got fun extras too.

I liked the "history of" bits a lot. It was neat seeing the ORIGINAL version of the show. And I liked the bit about the letters after Mike joined. ("New guy blows!")

The only bummer is that the Crow figure isn't Mego scaled.

Don C.

[palitoy]

Let's not forget "Laserblast" (two and a half stars.) A true classic.

Oh yeah, next to Daddy-o and Santa Claus, it's in the top three for me.

I was really happy to see clean scenes from the KTMA shows but I don't really want to sit through them, I mean again, that is.

[thunderbolt]

I hope the fact that there are cleaned up bits of the KTMA shows means that they will be available. They should be smartasses and Lucas-ize them with new effects and crap like that.

[palitoy]

We'll never see legitimate releases of the KMTA days, the main reason is and I quote Mike Nelson "They aren't very good". The people at Best Brains don't want those shown. Nothing is written, everything is off the cuff and it shows.

The movies can be fun, I mean they riff on Space:1999 and Stingray but if you compare the Gamera eps to the Comedy Central pieces, it's night and day.

[cjefferys]

Yeah, a friend of mine had a bunch of KMTA boots, and I tried to watch some of them. It was hard to get through them, long stretches with nobody saying anything and the jokes were really hit or miss. It was kind of neat to see them for history's sake, but Mike is right, they aren't very good.

[ctc]

>The people at Best Brains don't want those shown. Nothing is written, everything is off the cuff and it shows

....y'know.... I'd STILL watch them. Mostly out of morbid curiosity, but yeah I'd watch.

Don C.

[palitoy]

>The people at Best Brains don't want those shown. Nothing is written, everything is off the cuff and it shows

....y'know.... I'd STILL watch them. Mostly out of morbid curiosity, but yeah I'd watch.

Don C.

I think you're not alone, I have them all. I just get the feeling that they're embarrassed by them and while I don't totally agree, I can see why.

[Drain]

What KMTA?
I like getting the classic Godzillas released by Genius Entertainment. The DVD has both original Japanese version with optional English sub-titles and the American Release version with optional English sub-titles. I have the first (1) Godzilla, (2) Godzilla Raid Again, (5) Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster and (6)Invasion of the Astro-Monster. They also made (4) Godzilla vs thr Thing (mothra), (10) Godzilla's Revenge, (15) Terror of MechaGodzilla, Plus Rodan & War of Giangantis

[thunderbolt]

^^ KTMA is the Minneapolis TV station MST3K originally aired on before getting noticed by the Comedy Channel.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

"Gamera is really neat. He is full of turtle meat...."

Don C.

[palitoy]

We really need a Gamera box set, it's the Joel series at it's finest IMO...

[thunderbolt]

^^ And a Herc set would be sweet. And Richard Kiel.

[cjefferys]

I would kill for an official Gammy MST3K release, those episodes are still among my favourites. I wonder if Daiei would ever consider okaying this (they may be less sensitive about having their kaiju movies made fun of than Toho would be)

[ctc]

>And a Herc set would be sweet.

"....Sandstorm..... SAAAAAANNNNNDDDDSSTTTTOOOORRRRRMMMMMMM!!!!!!!...."

Don C.

[palitoy]

The Herc movies aren't as beloved to me as the Gameras, I think I need to rewatch them.

[thunderbolt]

^^^ Just for the Power of Uranus line, the Herc movies win for me.

[kennermike]

Just bought thid film for 6.99 used 1951 B&W its kinda scary SciFi B movie

[thunderbolt]

^^^ That is a really good one, kinda has that old Universal atmosphere to it.

[kennermike]

yeah its better then I though it was going to be had not seen it since it used to play on free tv in the late 70's

[thunderbolt]

And I rewatched again since it got mentioned here. It could easily be a old school Universal Monster movie.

[kryptosmaster]

Had to run an errand on the way home from work today and was right next to a Big Lots so I ran in to see what DVDs they might have different from the one near my house.
They were having a $2 sale so I picked up a couple of those:
Supernova
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

then I looked through the $3 ones and picked up:
Mighty Joe Young
Horror of Dracula

Rich

[thunderbolt]

Got the MST-ied versions of Mole People and Godzilla VS the Sea Monster.

[palitoy]

Got the MST-ied versions of Mole People and Godzilla VS the Sea Monster.

boots or legit?

[thunderbolt]

^^^ Boots of course. I doubt the Universal ones or anything Zilla will ever come out under the MST banner.

[marmes]

Picked up Night Gallery season 2 box a few weeks ago and it's been
been the only thing in my player.So much fun!!
It's got all the good ones:
Cool Air
I'll never leave you Ever..
The Caterpillar(w the earwig)
Deliveries At The Rear
Pickman's Model
Green Fingers

Awesome stuff!!

[palitoy]

Getting off topic, my buddy sculpted a Pickman's model piece a few years back:
Pickman's Model (http://www.dimensionaldesigns.com/pickmansmodel.html)
I had never seen the show prior to that.

[D-McMEGO]

Dracula VS Frankenstein, A Dollar store find .

[palitoy]

Dracula VS Frankenstein, A Dollar store find .

The Al Adamson one? That's a great find for a buck!

[ramsey37]

I picked up bootleg copies of "Godzilla Vs Megalon" and "Godzilla Vs Biollante" online recently, and they landed today. I'm now three movies away from having all of Godzilla's films. I originally set out to just pick up all the Showa Era films ("Gojira" to "Terror of Mechagodzilla"), but I snagged a few good deals on enough of the Heisei and Millenium Era films that I just figured I might as well get all of them.
http://megomuseum.com/mmgallery/files/7/0/baredancing2.gif
George

[thunderbolt]

^^^^ You see the new vinyl ZIlla's at Toyys R us? They have a 60's era Zilla and Hedora.

[ramsey37]

^^^^ You see the new vinyl ZIlla's at Toyys R us? They have a 60's era Zilla and Hedora.
Those are probably the recent BanDai vinyl figures. I've spotted the Godzilla locally at K-Mart but have yet to see Hedorah. I'm trying very hard not to start actively collecting kaiju vinyl toys. I'd love to have a collection of them, but I just don't need to spend the money on them right now.
George

[thunderbolt]

^^^ Me too, but those two are very retro looking, even with the metallic paints on them.

[marmes]

The Al Adamson one? That's a great find for a buck!

Brian,
I believe he's referring to a little film entitled Dracula Vs Frankenstein aka"ASSIGNMENT TERROR".
I saw it in the dollar bin at Rite Aid too.That movie RULES it's awesome you got it!
A favorite of both palitoy and myself(i have the awesome Spanish poster for that!)
The movie is goofy as hell ...but in the best possible way!
And to me,the makeup/costumes of the monsters strongly resemble Mego's Mad Monsters.

Definitely the Mummy who looks EXACTLY like the Mego figure!!
The Human Wolfman wd have to be like one of Naschy's roles in one of the later films like Werewolf and the Yeti or The Craving aka Night of the Werewolf to be a close representation,but the Dracula in the movie as well as the Frankenstein monster also CLOSELY resemble the Mego MM's.
(Brian we've talked about this...Frankenstein w big honkin' eyebrows LOL!
The similarity is happenstance and probably unrelated but this movie WAS out before MM's were available....so you never know.)
This is a fun,trashy early 70's monster bash film featuring Michael Rennie slumming it at the end of his career(I believe this was his last film)
and Spanish horror legend Paul Naschy in one of his many Waldemar Daninsky Werewolf films.
The whole cycle of his werewolf films are ALOT of fun but definitely check out Assignment Terror aka Dracula Vs. Frankenstien for the Mego
similarities.

[cjefferys]

I'm trying very hard not to start actively collecting kaiju vinyl toys. I'd love to have a collection of them, but I just don't need to spend the money on them right now.
George

Collecting those are very addictive, take it from one who knows. :smiley1: On the plus side, many of them are inexpensive. What 3 Godzilla movies do you still need? I'm still trying to complete a set of Godzilla DVDs myself, but I'm only about halfway there.

[ramsey37]

Collecting those are very addictive, take it from one who knows. :smiley1: On the plus side, many of them are inexpensive. What 3 Godzilla movies do you still need? I'm still trying to complete a set of Godzilla DVDs myself, but I'm only about halfway there.
I still need to get :
Godzilla 1985
Godzilla Vs King Ghidorah 1991
Godzilla Vs Mothra 1992
G85 will have to be another bootleg purchase, but the other two movies are available on a double disc that will be easy to get. I also still need to upgrade my copy of "Terror of Mechagodzilla" to the new deluxe edition from ClassicMedia.
George

[ctc]

>I believe he's referring to a little film entitled Dracula Vs Frankenstein aka"ASSIGNMENT TERROR".

Is that the ones where the aliens want to use the monsters to take over?!?! I haven't seen that one in decades!!!

>I also still need to upgrade my copy of "Terror of Mechagodzilla" to the new deluxe edition from ClassicMedia.

Yes you do. Those Master Series Godzilla disks are fantastic!

Don C.

[ramsey37]

>I also still need to upgrade my copy of "Terror of Mechagodzilla" to the new deluxe edition from ClassicMedia.

Yes you do. Those Master Series Godzilla disks are fantastic!

Don C.
I agree. I have all the other ones they've done to date. It was the first time I'd ever seen the original Japanese versions of any of the films they've covered so far. I highly recommend seeking them out to any kaiju fan!
George

[Sandlantern]

Just got the Hammor Horror Collection with Curse of the Werewolf/Brides of Dracula, and await my other set of Hammer Collection...

[ramsey37]

I picked up a WB Sci-Fi Double Feature DVD yesterday that includes "Moon Zero Two" and "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth". This was released recently as a Best Buy exclusive. I bought it to replace my tired old homemade VHS tape of "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth". It's not the greatest cavemen vs dinosaur movie ever made, but the stop-motion critters are worth the price of admission. I found this copy yesterday at my semi-local Best Buy store. I had tried to order it online a couple of weeks ago, but apparently the scalpers are already selling this thing for $45-75 on eBay and Amazon. I discovered with a little research that some Best Buy stores had pulled their copies of this set after receiving complaints about some nudity in the dinosaur film. It appears that Warner Brothers inadvertently used the European cut of the movie, which has three or four scenes with very brief nudity, instead of the G-rated American cut. Luckily for me, Best Buy is apparently only pulling this set in individual stores that have received complaints, instead of just yanking it company-wide. I was just happy to get the set for $18.01 with tax instead of paying a scalper through the nose ;)
George

[ramsey37]

I picked up the double feature DVD of "Godzilla Vs King Ghidorah" (1991) and "Godzilla Vs Mothra: the Battle for Earth" (1992). I watched the Ghidorah movie this morning, and it has both the most confusing time travel plot and the goofiest android character you'd ever care to see. MST3K woulda had a field day with this one ;)
George

[palitoy]

I had forgotten about the poor man's Terminator in that movie. I've watched more than once and I never really understood what was going on.

[ramsey37]

I had forgotten about the poor man's Terminator in that movie. I've watched more than once and I never really understood what was going on.

Yeah, it was like they were trying to ripoff both the Terminator and Data ;)
George

[thunderbolt]

^^^ Dang, I had totally blocked that guy outta my skull. Thanks. :grin:

[4NDR01D]

Bought a bunch at Giant Tiger for my Bro-in-Law for X-Mas. Going to go back and pick up some copies for myself, first I gotta see which one's he already has, so I can keep them, which is a great thing about having other monster/horror movie fans in the family. Anyways I picked up Cronos(by director Guillermo Del Toro) 10th anniversary edition, Curse of Frankenstein/Taste the Blood of Dracula double feature, Feast (one of my top 15 fave monster/creature movies and along with Slither, Feed, and The Mist as top current monster/horror films), Curse of the Vampire(Filipino vampire film), The House that Dripped Blood (Christpher Lee/Peter Cushing), 3 Extremes #2 (gory J-horror), Graveyard Alive (the tale of a zombie nurse in love, LOL!) also picked up Challege of the Super Friends 4 episode dvd.

[palitoy]

Your Giant Tiger is so much better than mine.

[4NDR01D]

Other than Cronos and Feast, which were $6.88, they were all $2.88. Giant Tigers have independent buyers, so most of the time stuff varies from store to store. I passed up Gojira double disk limited edition copy for $9.99 as I already have it as well as King Kong production diaries box set for $9.99, um not sure why I didn't pick that one up though, I outta give my head a shake dammit.

[ramsey37]

I got my bootleg copy of "Godzilla 1985" a day or so ago, so I watched it this morning. I hadn't seen the movie since shortly after it hit VHS back in the day. Anyone know why this movie hasn't had an official DVD release yet?
George

[ramsey37]

I hit Big Lots this morning and picked up the following for $3.00 each:
An American Werewolf in London
The Man With Two Brains
Superman Returns 2-Disc Special Edition
The Petrified Forest (not sci-fi/horror, but you can't go wrong with Bogart!)
George

[thunderbolt]

^^^ I picked up the Petrified Forest, I try to snag the Warner Night at the Movies discs when I see them. Didn't see Superman there, just the Story of Superman documentary that came out the same time as Returns.

[dorky tough guy]

I got Hammer's Horror of Dracula on dvd from Big Lot's for $3 last week and picked up Empire of the Ants/Tentacles for $5 tonight.

Anyone seen the french movie Inside? That's the best horror movie I've seen in long time.

[thunderbolt]

Found Freddy VS Jason at Big Lots for 3 bucks!!

[kryptosmaster]

They gotta be due for another of those big displays of $3 movies (usually MGM) soon as the last few times I've been to Big Lots they've had nothing new and the DVD rack is getting a bit sparce.
Anyone seen any new shipments at their BL?
Rich

[thunderbolt]

They are getting WB assortments now, some have found Superman Returns. I got a few WB titles already there.

[kryptosmaster]

They are getting WB assortments now, some have found Superman Returns. I got a few WB titles already there.

It's right around the corner from me. Maybe I'll run in there tomorrow and see what they have.
Rich

[Type3Toys]

I am not sure if this counts, but I just scored "Hound Of The Baskervilles" by Hammer with Peter Cushing as the king of sleuths.

[kennermike]

does this one count I know everybody is sharing getting classic horror films but I pickes the 1987 film for 3 bucks used had not seen it in a long time forgot how intense it was

[thunderbolt]

^^^ Sure, its got a monster in it.

[Al Barrett]

I bought "Caltiki,the immortal monster" a movie with a creature similar to "The blob"...
I saw this as a kid...not bad at all...Does anyone knows that one?

[thunderbolt]

^^^ Pretty sure I've seen it.

[kryptosmaster]

Nothing good or new at the Big Lots closest to me. Still same old crap nobody buys like animated features that are overpriced even at the dollar store and spanish language movies. The rack is getting sparse. Not even full anymore.
:ugh_y:
Rich

[Vortigern99]

I recently acquired Cloverfield and The Mist on DVD -- similar movies with similar monsters that act as companion pieces to one another, though their styles are widely different. Cloverfield is probably the superior film, but The Mist is so creepy and spookifying, and so true to human nature, that I definitely rank it high on my list of all-time great horror films.

I also picked up an old VHS of The Wolf Man for $5. Wonderful photography and a palpable sense of horror balance out the hammy acting and head-scratching leaps in logic the movie makes. Judging by the (bootleg) trailer, the re-make is going to be brilliant, but the original is quite good as well.

[mazinz]

a friend of mine that lives in Norway was able to get for me the Danish dvd version for the film Reptilicus which is the original uncut version and quite a bit different than how they relased this ove rhere in the US

[Vortigern99]

Ooh, I'd like to see that! Reptilicus was one of my favorite cheesy horror movies as a kid... though I'm not sure how well it would hold up thirty years later.

[thunderbolt]

Loved the bumbling janitor in Reptilicus.

[toys2cool]

Just got "Lady in White" I use to have it,but a friend borrowed it and lost it
Great 80's flick about some ghosts :grin:

Not sure if anyone remembers it

[D-McMEGO]

Brian,
I believe he\'s referring to a little film entitled Dracula Vs Frankenstein aka\"ASSIGNMENT TERROR\".
I saw it in the dollar bin at Rite Aid too.That movie RULES it\'s awesome you got it!
A favorite of both palitoy and myself(i have the awesome Spanish poster for that!)
The movie is goofy as hell ...but in the best possible way!
And to me,the makeup/costumes of the monsters strongly resemble Mego\'s Mad Monsters.

Definitely the Mummy who looks EXACTLY like the Mego figure!!
The Human Wolfman wd have to be like one of Naschy\'s roles in one of the later films like Werewolf and the Yeti or The Craving aka Night of the Werewolf to be a close representation,but the Dracula in the movie as well as the Frankenstein monster also CLOSELY resemble the Mego MM\'s.
(Brian we\'ve talked about this...Frankenstein w big honkin\' eyebrows LOL!
The similarity is happenstance and probably unrelated but this movie WAS out before MM\'s were available....so you never know.)
This is a fun,trashy early 70\'s monster bash film featuring Michael Rennie slumming it at the end of his career(I believe this was his last film)
and Spanish horror legend Paul Naschy in one of his many Waldemar Daninsky Werewolf films.
The whole cycle of his werewolf films are ALOT of fun but definitely check out Assignment Terror aka Dracula Vs. Frankenstien for the Mego
similarities.


Yeah ,what he said !
(sorry it took so long to reply }
Went back and they were long gone !

[Vortigern99]

^ ^ ^ Wow. I MUST see that movie! It sounds like a treat.

[mazinz]

snagged the finally uncut My bloody Valentine dvd on Tuesday

[jasonmego1277]

I now it's more of a Campy horror , but I just picked up " Killer Clowns From Outta Space. "

[MegoGeek]

Got Karloff's "The Ghoul" and "Food of the Gods"

[toys2cool]

I now it's more of a Campy horror , but I just picked up " Killer Clowns From Outta Space. "

lol! I have that :smiley1:


anyone see that Mirrors flick?

[kennermike]

picked up a used copy for 3.95 cant stop watching it brilliant and Batman Begins 2005 used copy for 3.00 dollars the only reason I mentioned it is that scaecrow was pretty freaky scary

[kennermike]

oh somebody gave a me a free black and white copy of King Kong 1933 on dvd great film

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

Finally got a copy of "Frankenstein: The True Story." It was really good. Amazing how BAD you feel for the monster. (Right until the end....)

Don C.

[ramsey37]

I picked up the Val Lewton boxed set and the "Night Stalker/Night Strangler" double DVD this week. The Lewton set has gone down to $25.00 on Amazon vs. the original price of $45.00. I watched "The Night Stalker" tonight. I've probably seen all of the series episodes many times but I hate to admit I'd never seen the original movies that kicked off the series. It was a cool trip back to 1971 :)
George

[thunderbolt]

^^ Never understood why those two movies weren't included with the Kolchak box set.

[ramsey37]

Wal-Mart is changing their DVD selection this week. They have a large endcap of Disney films, and buried in the assortment are copies of "Something Wicked This Way Comes" and "The Black Hole". They also have "Fahrenheit 451".
Last week I stumbled across a copy of the restored original version of "The Little Shop of Horrors" at Big Lots for $3.00. This version includes a commentary track by Mike Nelson of MST3K and Rifftrax.
George

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

Mystery Science Theater vol 14 just came out....

Don C.

[thunderbolt]

^^ Is that the one with the Crow figure? Or is there already another one?

[ctc]

>Is that the one with the Crow figure? Or is there already another one?

The one with the figure is the 20th Anniversary set, special edition. (There's a regular edition without the figure or tin box.) It's technically box 13. Box 14 came out last week.

Don C.

[Type3Toys]

I just scored the Frank Langella Dracula from 1979.

[ramsey37]

I've been busy seeking out deals on DVDs locally the last couple of weeks. These are the sci-fi/fantasy/horror films I've picked up:
Big Lots:
Darkman
Darkman 2
Waterworld
The Wiz
THX 1138 Director's Cut
Attack of the 50 foot Woman (Daryl Hannah version)
Wal-Mart:
Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius
Pleasantville
Big Trouble in Little China
Planet of the Apes (Tim Burton version)
The Addams Family 2-Pack (Addams Family and Addams Family Values)
The Mist
The Incredible Mr. Limpet
Weird Science
Target: Short Circuit 2
FYE: It's Alive
2010
C.H.U.D.
Godzilla The Series (Fox cartoon) Vol. 2 and 3
Ladyhawke
Flash Gordon Savior of the Universe Edition (marked down to $10!)
Best Buy: The Green Mile
The Thing (1982 version)
The Dark Crystal 25th Anniversary Edition
Xanadu (shutup)

I also scored a couple of large stacks of non-genre films. Big Lots just got in a bunch of classic films, including a few Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney gangster flicks, James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause", and "National Velvet", among others.
George

[kennermike]

Got Superman II for $3 and found 2005 Peter Jackson King Kong Extended Special Edition 3 disc set which clocks the film at 3 1/2 hours and 6 hours of Documentaries for $10 and the Return of the Jedi the original theater release on dvd for$3

[fallensaviour]

Just picked up "My name is Bruce."
The movie with Bruce Campbell in it.
It was freaking hilarious!!!

[ramsey37]

I picked up a copy of "Gods and Monsters" yesterday for $10.00. It's not *exactly* a horror movie, but does feature quite a bit of footage from "Bride of Frankenstein". If you haven't seen it, it's well worth a look.
George

[palitoy]

I picked up a copy of "Gods and Monsters" yesterday for $10.00. It's not *exactly* a horror movie, but does feature quite a bit of footage from "Bride of Frankenstein". If you haven't seen it, it's well worth a look.
George

Yeah, that's a fun film, McKellen's version of Whale was a lot how I imagined he might be.

[MysteryWho]

Shadow of the Vampire is another great movie in a somewhat similar vein.
It is at least worth seeing just to hear John Malkovich call Willem Defoe
a 'monkey'!

[Type3Toys]

I just scored The Beast 0f Bray Road. Excellent werewolf movie based on a true story.

[Meule]

House by the Cemetery by Lucio Fulci
House of Wax with Vincent Price
Blood for Dracula from Andy Warhol

[thunderbolt]

Got Killer Shrews and the Giant Gila Monster for 3 bucks at Big Lots. two disc set with color and B/W

[Tothiro]

The Orphanage. Spanish language - I highly recommend.
Also stopped by to check out the Big Lots dvd action while getting tires and picked up The Devil's Backbone for $3

[Nostalgiabuff]

just picked up Quarantine. Pretty cool movie. Definately not for the kiddies

[thunderbolt]

The Orphanage. Spanish language - I highly recommend.
Also stopped by to check out the Big Lots dvd action while getting tires and picked up The Devil's Backbone for $3

Man, I never find anything that sweet at BL.

[Vortigern99]

The Orphanage is a great film. Creepy and intriguing without being gorey or uncomfortably violent.