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Post by dph on Nov 15, 2010 8:36:40 GMT -5
Since my infatuation with MST3K, I have also become quite the fan of old B-movies. I am loving these sets of Public Domain movies coming to DVD for really cheap. The bad thing is that they are sometimes poor quality (like the copy I have of White Zombie, unwatchable).
I am also a big fan of Bela Lugosi, and I found a set that was right up my alley. It was in the $5 bin at Walmart, tittled Horror Cinema. The first disk is made up of six Bela Lugosi films. The next two are filled with other odd ball public domain horror flicks that I've never heard of.
Anybody else enjoy these types of movies?
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Post by pablo on Nov 15, 2010 17:46:52 GMT -5
As a matter of fact, I bought the exact same set "Horror Cinema" ..."over 15 hours 3 DVDs 13 features" @ my WalMART too. I bought it because I had watched a bit of The Terror recently on tv and liked it, so I went in search of a set just like this, with all the PD movies, knowing they HAVE to have The Terror and it does. Plus I REALLY like the early '70's Hammer dracula pics and this set has The Satanic Rites of Dracula ('73), so, between The Terror and ..Satanic Rites, for $5!? How can you possibly lose. oh yeah, I know, if the image quality is poor. Well I watched The Terror and I would give the image quality a healthy grade of B so, my $5 has been well spent so far.
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Post by dph on Nov 15, 2010 23:36:46 GMT -5
As a matter of fact, I bought the exact same set "Horror Cinema" ..."over 15 hours 3 DVDs 13 features" @ my WalMART too. I bought it because I had watched a bit of The Terror recently on tv and liked it, so I went in search of a set just like this, with all the PD movies, knowing they HAVE to have The Terror and it does. Plus I REALLY like the early '70's Hammer dracula pics and this set has The Satanic Rites of Dracula ('73), so, between The Terror and ..Satanic Rites, for $5!? How can you possibly lose. oh yeah, I know, if the image quality is poor. Well I watched The Terror and I would give the image quality a healthy grade of B so, my $5 has been well spent so far. I was quite surprised by this set, all the film prints seem to be B grade or better. I was very impressed, better than the Treeline set of 50 movies that I also own.
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Post by angilasman on Nov 19, 2010 12:20:26 GMT -5
Not all public domain releases are of sub-par quality. Legend Films' DVD of My Man Godfry has better picture quality then the Criterion release.
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Post by dph on Jul 24, 2011 11:36:14 GMT -5
The treeline sets are at walmart right now for $10. I bought the horror, sci fi and pure terror sets. The horror set had a few I'd had already with a few new ones. The sci fi has quite a few that have been Mstied (including the AIP versions of three of the Gamera movies) as well as a few beauties (for riffing that is).
I haven't gotten to the pure terror set yet, but I noticed the only one that had been mstied was "The Amazing Transparent Man". After reading the synopsis of most of these movies, I'm intrigued. I'm a real big fan of the 40's and 50's black and white movies, but this set has a lot more 70's and 80's color movies.
The Sci Fi set also had a made for TV movie that was set and filmed in Louisiana. The funny part was that it was about the Roux-Ga-Roux (or the cajun werewolf). I found it ironic being that I had just caught the finale of Swamp People where Troy Landry caught a huge gator that they named the Roux-Ga-Roux.
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Post by inlovewithcrow on Jul 24, 2011 15:43:12 GMT -5
Because of my lifestyle (RV living, woods or desert, no TV, internet, people or town for sometimes a month at a time, if you didn't know) I've bought a lot of these, doling them out one movie per night. I've been amazed how good some of it is. I particularly like old Playhouse 90 live TV dramas and the collections of mystery flicks (there are 20-packs and 50-packs) that have the movies Reign of Terror (gorgeous cinematography) Suddenly (about a sniper going after a president) I fell for Sterling Hayden in this one. He Walked By Night starring Richard Basehart Algiers starring starring Charles Boyer who does not quite say "meet me as the Casbah" Eyes in the Night, about a blind detective with the most amazing dog-actor I've ever seen The scifi set let me see Bill Rebane's truly awful They, and a Japenese picture about a bunch of starfish aliens that charmed me called Warning From Space. I think it was the costumes that won me over. I really felt fondness for the Bonita Granville 1930's Nancy Drew films. They had some of that 30's cleverness to them. And there's a five-dollar old hitchcock film collection in those Wal Mart bins, too.
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