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Re: Latest dvds and bluerays
« Reply #405 on: February 12, 2016, 02:29:13 PM »
Can't beat Bloodsucking Freaks for a twisted trash trip.  ;)

When I was in the Army someone had porn tapes in the barracks and Bloodsucking Freaks was on one of them. It was actually considered as forbidden as porn back in the '80s.  :laugh:  Of course, most people have really mellowed on such fare in the last few years and most porn is considered almost mainstream now, probably more so than Bloodsucking Freaks.

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« Reply #406 on: February 12, 2016, 03:17:54 PM »
Can't beat Bloodsucking Freaks for a twisted trash trip.  ;)

When I was in the Army someone had porn tapes in the barracks and Bloodsucking Freaks was on one of them. It was actually considered as forbidden as porn back in the '80s.  :laugh:  Of course, most people have really mellowed on such fare in the last few years and most porn is considered almost mainstream now, probably more so than Bloodsucking Freaks.

Gotta love Ralphus.  :laugh: :laugh:

I remember seeing it for the first time on video back when the VCR tape craze was in full swing during the '80's. I thought it was hilarious, though a bit bizarre. Some of the others who watched it with me were horrified. I still think it's a twisted comedy in some ways. :)
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« Reply #407 on: February 12, 2016, 03:22:45 PM »
I still think it's a twisted comedy in some ways. :)

The poster certainly suggests that it's a comedy.
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« Reply #408 on: February 12, 2016, 06:06:43 PM »
I'm ashamed to say I own a copy of this movie (Blood Sucking Freaks). A few years back Troma had a blow out sale on DVD's at fifty cents each and this was one of my selections based on a friends recommendation. He's still my friend despite that.  ;)

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« Reply #409 on: February 12, 2016, 06:12:59 PM »
And a fifty-cent friend at that!!  Whooo hooo!!  I'm sure he's, uh, well... thrilled.  "Coulda been worse!  Coulda been a dime!"   And for once, product and price match.

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« Reply #410 on: February 12, 2016, 11:30:13 PM »
Shriek of the Mutilated DVD

Hoo boy!  What a weird movie this one is...
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« Reply #411 on: February 13, 2016, 06:15:13 AM »
Neon and others... one thing that fascinates me about these late '60s and early '70s gorefests is how they understood they were probably drive-in fare - ie, low-rent, low revenue - during their filming.  This was understood in the B-Movie Studio-World for a few decades and this was a proving ground for young filmmakers on studio lots.  But in the '60s, you had weirdos like George Romero and John Russo sitting in a Pittsburgh dump, thinking he too could be a filmmaker.  AND THEY DID.   

We've been thru the bad film-wringers of H G Lewis, Ray Dennis Steckler - few of their films made it even into the upper half of drive-in's.  They weren't fit for even B-film classifications. 

But they opened the door for others who thought they could do that or better!  This 'emotional license' AND their ability to find funding (or praise the heavens, NOT!) brought in this low-class of films that sometimes spawned real gems by folks like Romero, Tobe Hooper, etc. 

For those of you alive and cognizant of filmmaking trends - was Corman sitting on a throne by that time, teaching these or vast numbers of other filmmakers the in's and out's of poster-art, marketing AND financing?  Were there little black books full of names for artists, printers and rich folks with money to burn being passed around?  I don't know if these filmmakers even got together, though.  I think not.  Not for years, at least.

So, Neon's SHRIEK OF THE MUTILATED (1974) is part of these wave of cheapo-productions, probably, aiming at low-rent drive-in's probably.  And the filmmaker's goals were Corman-esque?  "Make enough on this one to make just one more... just one more after that, too..."

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« Reply #412 on: February 13, 2016, 10:42:54 AM »
Well, yes, CBCW, I think a lot of the time you are seeing the feverish scrambling of the working-class craftsperson.  "If this is good enough we can sell it, and then we can go to the store and get stuff to make sandwiches with!"  And out of that impetus there often comes a weird sort of creativity, the creativity of necessity.   The movie was never meant to be art or even a respectable product--just a viable means of putting bread on the table.  And bless these people, decades later if luck has shone on them, you've got folks screaming for DVDs of those films, because they offer a different kind of entertainment.  I think when we enjoy these things, we celebrate the desperation and the ingenuity.  And the will to keep going, to succeed at whatever level is possible. 

In regards to "bad" films, you've heard someone say it or you've said it yourself:  "We've all made something awful at one time or another!"  And I think that sometimes we will sit down to watch a bad film and laugh at it and poke fun at the ineptitude of the filmmakers, but what we are really doing is celebrating (and accepting) our own imperfections and foolishness.  It's okay to be imperfect; it must be, because aren't we all?  And maybe that's why the experience of enjoying a bad film is so relaxing; because that's literally what the viewer is doing--relaxing the rigid criteria.

As someone has said, "How bad is a bad film REALLY, if you are sitting there enjoying the heck out of it?"
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« Reply #413 on: February 13, 2016, 12:50:57 PM »
"The ingenuity OF desperation" - absolutely a fascinating motivation where "What else can we do?" meets "Can't think of nuthin' else". 

"OK, let's try it..."

As much as I can decry Steckler, Corman, etc, those guys were anything but thoughtless.  I can see "ingenuity" at every corner, every shadow, every fobbed-off extras job.  "We need two more extras - don't let the pizza guys drive off - offer them a chance at Hollywood stardom!"

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Re: Latest dvds and bluerays
« Reply #414 on: February 13, 2016, 02:48:38 PM »
necessity, the mother of invention. ;)
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« Reply #415 on: February 14, 2016, 05:11:21 PM »
My wife gave me the Monsters and Madmen box set for my birthday. The artwork is rad and some cool booklets come with the set.

Some of the other movies here I picked up in the last few months, just didn't get around to posting yet:

mm by geezer2014, on Flickr


yorga by geezer2014, on Flickr

X by geezer2014, on Flickr

terror by geezer2014, on Flickr

queenblood by geezer2014, on Flickr

price by geezer2014, on Flickr

Karloff by geezer2014, on Flickr

godzilla by geezer2014, on Flickr

bloodmummy by geezer2014, on Flickr

ac by geezer2014, on Flickr



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« Reply #416 on: February 14, 2016, 05:16:02 PM »
My wife gave me the Monsters and Madmen box set for my birthday. The artwork is rad and some cool booklets come with the set.

That artwork is gorgeous. Darwyn Cooke is one of my favorite comic book artists and I pick up pretty much everything he does art for. I may have to make room for that set in my collection!
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« Reply #417 on: February 14, 2016, 05:17:35 PM »
My wife gave me the Monsters and Madmen box set for my birthday.

What's on the Karloff collection?
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« Reply #418 on: February 14, 2016, 05:27:06 PM »
What's on the Karloff collection?

Yeah, this is a real bargain too. I think it was like $14 or something like that.

Anyhow, you get: The Black Room, The Man They Could Not Hang, The Man with Nine Lives, Before I Hang, The Devil Commands, and The Boogie Man Will Get You.

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« Reply #419 on: February 14, 2016, 08:47:12 PM »
Anyhow, you get: The Black Room, The Man They Could Not Hang, etc.

Oh, it's the Millcreek reissues of the BK Columbia horrors. I have the Columbia label DVDs.
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