Chilling Classics - 50 Movie Pack (DVD, 2005, 12-Disc Set)

Although I've yet to even come close to viewing all 50 films as of yet, I have sat through a dozen or so and already am convinced that I've gotten my money's worth and more! At a price like this, you can't expect any extras, or even high quality reproduction of these mostly well under the radar "Chilling Classics", but with 50 movies to choose from, there's got to be something here that's worth spending your hard earned cash on. Here are the highlights and lowlights of what I've come across so far.

The good:

Scream Bloody Murder - This low budget 70's shocker starts off strong and rarely lets up. A young demented psychopath with a serious mama's boy complex freaks out and kills a bunch of folks. The lead actor plays the part way over the top, just like it should be. There are even some legitimately creepy visual effects, and our boy is haunted and taunted by the dead. A bit more blood and this would have been about perfect.

Deep Red - Dario Argento's classic still resonates through a moderately poor visual and audio reproduction. The plot is slightly convoluted, but there are some cool death scenes here.

Bad Taste - Peter Jackson's early work is fun and loaded with gore. Jackson would later perfect this type of comedy meets gory horror with Dead/Alive. On a shoestring budget and using friends and family as cast and crew, Jackson appears to be having a great time acting in and directing this fun film

Gothic - This is one of my favorite Ken Russell films. The story of these affluent intellectuals getting together in a creepy mansion to stimulate each other's aesthetic capacity with bold talk and illicit substances is rather fascinating to me, and Russell throws in enough weird unsettling images to keep the viewer off kilter for the final third act.

Horror Express - These cheesy story about a monster on a train would fail in other less capable actor's hands, but with Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, and Telly Savalas (!) on board selling this thing like their lives depended on it, Horror Express is great fun.

These five films alone are worth the price of admission, and I haven't even seen over half of them yet. Of course there are some duds here and while some of them may be in that "so bad they're good" category, here are a few that I thought just plain sucked.

The bad bad bad:

War of the Robots - Antonio Sabato stars in the worst looking sci-fi movie I've ever seen. This is so incredibly lame and boring, I confess that I couldn't make it through to the end.

The Driller Killer - Initially I thought this would be good. An artist flips out and runs around killing people in NYC because a punk rock band practices in his building all night long, day after day until he just can't take it anymore!! The problem is both the band and the artist are some of the most irritating characters to ever grace a bad film. Supposedly the film stars Abel Ferrara (?), but there's no such listing in the actual film credits. Prepare to be annoyed.

Oasis of the Zombies - Another one that I thought might be decent turned out to be a dud. This is an hour plus of kids running around trying to find some secret treasure and 15 minutes of similar looking kids with mud on their faces moving very, very slowly. You may turn into a zombie from watching this crap!

This is just a sampling of what you get. If you like fun low budget films with mild gore and brief nudity then this is an easy decision: get it.

The 12 disc set was a gift for an older uncle. The number 6 dvd was missing and I got no answer to repeated emails. Naturally the missing dvd was the one he most wanted to view. after 2 weeks of no answer to emails, I finally left bad feedback, then got an email and i quote'was one missin?' New sellers need to understand the reason for cxommunication. I recently had a new seller who did not answer emails for a week and a half, but finally checked into it and found that because of unreadable address it never left post office...offered to return money also, but i told him no, just make address legible and always put return address on plus read emails...think he will make a good ebayer...but you need to educate new buyers in the basics!

I like cheesy movies. My faves are MST3K's. I bought these because I thought they would be fun to make fun of and they do not dissapoint. If you want some flashbacks to the 70's, or love dubbed Japanese movies, this item is for you. If you enjoy films that are short on plot and cohesiveness, this is just what you are looking for. Many a time I have yelled at the screen at the conclusion of a feature, "That's not a movie!" I am really enjoying them!

I AM A HORROR FANATIC.IF YOU LIKE THE OLDER HORROR FILMS THIS WOULD BE A GOOD CHOICE FOR YOU.SOME ARE IN BLACK AND WHITE BUT MOST ARE IN COLOR.VERY GOOD COLLECTION.

Soy fanatica de las peliculas de terror, me encantan ya que me tienen todo el tiempo que dura la misma alerta y despierta. Gracias por tener tanta variedad de estas peliculas.

Watching these movies is like a step back in time.
They bring up old memories of what the movies were like before today's special effects.
It is great to see these old timers - and brings a smile to the face.

My wife and I love horror movies we bought this item because they are older movies that you just dont see anymore,we both enjoy watching them.We were not very happy with the color in them but due to the veriety of movies and the price we paid for them they were well worth the money.We now have hours of movies to watch for a fraction of the price we would have had to pay anywhere else.

This 50 set of classic SF Movies has hours of some of the best movies to ever be seen on the silver screen.

I bought this as a gift for a friend and they loved it. It is something different than the usually scary movies on tv. There are plenty of different selections that provides hours of curled up on the couch movie watching.

the delivery took a while, but they are good movies.i decided to buy it because i like horror movies and usually buy the most gory as possible. seller was great, and very courteous.

i love all the older and some newer "corny horror flicks". it would have taken a long time and alot more money to collect them all. i was greatly pleased.

I decided to buy the movie because of the fact that you get 50 movies at one time. There also is a lot of good moives that I can't find any more on this movie set.

i bought this movie pack because ilove scary old movies so this was a great package deal for me. i have watched most of the movies and am very impressed with the deal i got.i would highly recommend chilling classics-50 movie pack.

i love old horror movies, these are purfect!!! the price was a great deal!!!WOW!!! they don't make movies like these today.

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