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1 hour ago, Curt McGirt said:

I've got a sweet one called Gore and More that has the following: 

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Bad Taste
A group of aliens land in a small New Zealand town and wipe out most of the population. Aliens from an intergalactic fast food chain are looking for new menu items and human flesh appears to ne the next specialty. 
Peter Jackson (1988) Color 90Minutes Unrated

The Bloody Brood
A man begins to investigate on his own the death of his brother, who died from eating a hamburger laced with ground glass. With the police case stalled because of ineptness, the man's own investigation leads him toward trouble. 
Peter Falk (1959) B&W 65 Minutes Unrated

Drive-In Massacre
Two police detectives investigate a series of murders at a Texas drive-in theater. Someone has been murdering movie patrons. 
Jake Barnes (1974) Color 74 Minutes R

Don't Look In The Basement
A new nurse arrives to begin work at a mental hospital only to discover that the head doctor has been murdered by one of the patients and a new doctor is in charge. 
Rosie Holotik (1973) Color 92 Minutes R

Driller Killer
A struggling artist finishes his masterpiece. His art dealer laughs at his work. The artist snaps and begins killing people using a large power drill as his weapon of choice. 
Abel Ferrara (1979) Color 96 Minutes Unrated

Night Train To Terror
Three chilling tales of terror are presented to you by your hosts "God" and "Satan" as they travel the rails on a train to nowhere, discussing the fate of the featured characters in each story. 
John Peter Law (1985) Color 93 Minutes R

The Pyx
A Montreal police detective (Christopher Plummer) is working on the case of a prostitute found brutally murdered. The detective is led to believe that the woman was the victim of a Satanic cult's ritual. 
Karen Black (1973) Color 108 Minutes R

Scream Bloody Murder
A young man kills his own father and is subsequently sent to a mental institution. Upon his release, he returns home to discover his mother has remarried and, after growing to dislike his new step-father, murders the gentleman as well as his own mother. 
Fred Holbert (1975) Color 90 Minutes R

Werewolf In A Girl's Dormitory
At a school for wayward girls, a series of mysterious attacks have plagued the campus. The victims all appear to have been attacked by a vicious animal. 
Barbara Lass (1962) B&W 83 Minutes Unrated

The Werewolf Vs. Vampire Women
A werewolf is brought back to life and then heads off to the countryside in search of a safe haven and also prey. 
Paul Naschy (1971) Color 86 Minutes R

For some reason I haven't watched Don't Look In the Basement or Night Train to Terror yet after all the years I've had it. Need to fix that...

Still wondering how they got the rights to Bad Taste. How does the print on that set look?

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Like a good VHS copy IIRC, so no worse than you might expect. My guess is that they didn't have the rights and it might be in some kind of international limbo to this day. Or maybe, they just didn't get caught? In which case I'd be pissed that it doesn't have Meet the Feebles too.

EDIT: Speaking of which! If you haven't seen this, get to it. 

 

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The Chilling Classics set I have has "Bad Taste", but it was also quickly taken off the market.  The Chilling Classics set out now (with the ghost girl on the front) doesn't have it.

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3 hours ago, nate said:

The Chilling Classics set I have has "Bad Taste", but it was also quickly taken off the market.  The Chilling Classics set out now (with the ghost girl on the front) doesn't have it.

I got a old Brentwood/BCI horror set with The devil's nightmare on it. Brentwood took a Redemption laserdisc and didn't even bother to remove the Eileen Dailey intro.

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  • 3 weeks later...

Saturday afternoon Amazon Prime movie watch:

BLOOD BEAT (1983)

So there's this lady, every time she has an orgasm, a Samurai spirit kills a hunter in Wisconsin.

Or, every time a Samurai spirit kills a hunter in Wisconsin, this lady has an orgasm. I never quite figured out the cause-and-effect on that.

They also never adequately explained why a Samurai spirit was in Wisconsin to begin with.

One of those early 80s flicks where it's slow going at the start but then at minute forty the "WHAAT" moments kick in, and the ending is an nonsensical and insane as one would hope from a movie like this.

Unsettling soundtrack that bounces between haunting drone-synth and public domain classical music adds to my theory that the filmmaker was trying to do an Argento flick but didn't have the chops or the actors to truly pull it off.

My review: 2.5 stars.

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1 minute ago, nate said:

Shit, I HAVE to have orgasms to *stop* samurai from killing hunters in Wisconsin!

(It's my pickup line.  It's worked 4 times.  I've tried it 112.  Don't fuck this up for me guys!)

You have to tell them it's one of those coastal elite hunters. No one cares about hunters in flyover states. 

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Ladies and Gentlemen,

The latest episode of Gilbert Godfrey's podcast features an interview with His Excellence and Royal Highness The Most Benevolent and Grand Emperor of the 80s:

 

EDDIE DEEZEN!!!!

This is required on the syllabus. You will be graded on it.

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I've been cataloging my film collection, kinda like those Videohound megacollections that used to be popular, and I thought it would be nifty (especially with the kung-cu and exploitation titles) to keep up with any alternate titles.

In doing so, I've discovered an underground of unofficial "Zombi" sequels, be they bootleg or whatever.

If "Zombi" followed "Dawn of the Dead", and "Zombi" begat "Zombi 3", "Zombi 4", and "Zombi 5", then I desperately need to uncover what other Zombi sequels exist leading up to "Zombi 18: The Undead Cyborg of the Ocean" (Terror Beneath the Sea), and then to find out what made the series return to the deep blue for "Zombi 39: Wrestling Zombie Squid" (The Calamari Wrestler).

I have a new life's mission.

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17 hours ago, nate said:

I've been cataloging my film collection, kinda like those Videohound megacollections that used to be popular, and I thought it would be nifty (especially with the kung-cu and exploitation titles) to keep up with any alternate titles.

In doing so, I've discovered an underground of unofficial "Zombi" sequels, be they bootleg or whatever.

If "Zombi" followed "Dawn of the Dead", and "Zombi" begat "Zombi 3", "Zombi 4", and "Zombi 5", then I desperately need to uncover what other Zombi sequels exist leading up to "Zombi 18: The Undead Cyborg of the Ocean" (Terror Beneath the Sea), and then to find out what made the series return to the deep blue for "Zombi 39: Wrestling Zombie Squid" (The Calamari Wrestler).

I have a new life's mission.

I would like to walk this back.

I was just checking titles that would qualify under the "Zombi sequels" category, and apparently - and of this, I was unaware - IMDB can be altered like Wikipedia.  That's the only explanation for the '88 film Twins having an alternate title of "Zombi 42: Two Times the Death."  I feel like a dumbass.

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Yeah, I was actually excited that I'd discovered this underground network of some bootleg system where the Zombi franchise was being somehow continued from Zombi 5, because I think Absurd, Night of the Seagulls, and Demons were all tagged with a Zombi moniker.  And honestly, it wasn't too far-fetched to think that "Terror Beneath the Sea" and even "Calamari Wrestler" would have been included. But I found some entries with subtitles like "The Very Last Chapter and We Mean It This Time", and at that point my faith in humanity died a little more.

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Thanks to a Code Red sale on Screen Archives, I have made some very regrettable decisions.

Wacky Taxi/Superargo (mainly wanted Superargo)

Lightning Bolt and some other movie

Hot Moves (a friend of mine said, "What's that about?"  "It's an '80s R rated comedy, so basically titties and shenanigans," and FINALLY I've found a podcast name!!)

Love Butcher (I have a thing for these kinds of movies, the grindhouse/exploitation/psychotronic types, but the selling point on this is the commentary moderated by RA the Rugged Man)

And then ... I went to Code Red's Big Cartel merchant site and picked up a copy of Splitz (more titties and shenanigans).

Now, it's a matter of waiting on the mail.

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Open for a spiritual experience that could change your outlook and future.

 

 

Spoiler

What a great movie right now on B Movie t.v.

It's a super cheap car chase movie from 1977 called DOUBLE NICKELS.

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I know that poster says "an action packed thriller" and i guess it's supposed to be...but it's not...at all.  But the amazing thing as that this is the most relaxing and fun movie I've ever seen. t's not great as a car chase movie, as in the chases are crappy and pointless. And they drive, chase, and crash the most amazingly cheap and crappy cars ever...which just adds to the whole "this is the reality of the 1970s" vibe.

The level of car we are talking about in this car chase movie

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But this movie is straight up charming. The lead actors are funny and likable and everyone has that deadpan, mellow 1970s "just cruising through life vibe." It's basically about two laid-back (as in shitty) highway patrol guys who are bored and make shit money and one day they pull over this smooth-as-fuck dude named Dennis who's a repo man and so the start moonlighting as repo men.

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So it starts with them chasing people around in during their day job, but then starts cutting to them running from their fellow cops as repo men (in a literal "'57 Chevy pickup").

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 Imagine if Cheech & Chong were two skinny, dopey white dudes and instead of getting high they stole cars.

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The thing is they are terrible at that too, and are very nervous and fuck everything up about as much as they can...but somehow because it's 1977 and everything is groovy they always come out ok.

There is the obligatory chase in the L.A. River, and another hilarious (and very slow) chase down a long flight of stairs. But the real draw here are the leads. They are hilarious, hapless goofballs who get "aw shucks" and whine their way through absurd situations.

image0005.jpgDUNE BUGGY CHASE!!!

 

They are alternately smooth, terrified, competent, hopeless, confident, dumb...there is no character continuity, but it's great because they are so laid-back through it all you can't help but root for them.

This is a great example of how a low budget movie doesn't have to be boring just because nothing is happening if you just know how create likable characters. This movie is SUPER TROOPERS if it wasn't so try-hard all the time. Yeah, stop "trying so hard" SUPER TROOPERS! CHILL THE FUCK OUT, GET A FUNKY SOUNDTRACK AND JUST CRUISE FOR AWHILE!!!!

A sample bit of dialog:

"Man, I sure didn't like those guys shooting at us."

"Yeah. That was bad."

"Wonder what happened to them?"

"I don't know but I sure am glad they're not still shooting at us."

"Yeah, I didn't like that at all."

Guys, I think I found the people that I'm going to model my life on. This is a kind of mindfulness I've been looking for. These three men are...immortals.

I give this easily four FOUR shitty Pintos driving down steps out of a possible FOUR!

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Bottom line: The power of this movie is its realism. This is a small movie about the small-time concerns of some small and inconsequential people who drive shitty cars. And that makes it more powerful than all the Fasts and Furiouses in the world.

This movie is us, if we're really honest about us.

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16 hours ago, piranesi said:

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Okay, if I'm Han Solo, I'm asking Leia some serious ass questions right now.

ETA: Okay, the pic formatting on this paste job?  Woof.  But my point remains.

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On ‎1‎/‎27‎/‎2018 at 2:33 PM, bobholly138 said:

I lucked out in the mid 90s and found a video store that had Bad Taste,Meet the Feebles and Nekromantic. 

This store could only exist in a small town in New Jersey and the clerk would be an elderly woman that keeps a shotgun behind the counter.

WE HAVE NO ADULT FILMS FOR SALE~!  DO NOT ASK~!

 

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1 minute ago, J.T. said:

This store could only exist in a small town in New Jersey and the clerk would be an elderly woman that keeps a shotgun behind the counter.

WE HAVE NO ADULT FILMS FOR SALE~!  DO NOT ASK~!

 

No, it existed in Seattle as Vertigo Video, one half of the store was devoted to gay porn, the other half to the type of film that only you and I would know... 

The owner, Bob Cleere (RIP, a victim of AIDS), and I would go through catalogs from distributors looking for weird shit like Lady Terminator. Tapes were expensive way back them, average about $50.00 before quantity discounts. Last Orgy of the Third Reich ran him $140.00 as he had to get it from a private collector. Some of this stuff just sat, but he told me he wore out three sets of the Ilsa movies... So those made up for some Lady Terminator that Bob and I were probably the only people to watch it more than once.

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I am sad (proud?) to admit that I have seen every one of the Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS films in an actual movie theater.

Midnight showing to be certain, but in a movie theater all the same.

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