Movies:

Here are the movies on my version of the set with some brief comments. Each one has a more detailed guide with morality and spirituality sections. They are in alphabetical order rather than order of presentation. Their order in the set appears to be completely random so you'll just have to search through the discs to find what you want.

 

-The Alpha Incident: Some people at a remote train station are infected by an alien virus. They have to stay awake or die while scientists hunt for a cure. Mostly drama with sci-fi tinges, it's decent but not great.

 

-Bad Taste: Peter Jackson's first production, a low budget, homemade flick. Aliens are wanting to turn humans into the next intergalactic fast food craze, and a makeshift commando group is resisting them. It's mostly just a mindless gore fest with plenty of sick comedy.

 

-A Bell from Hell: A young man has been released from a mental institution and plots revenge on his aunt and cousins for putting him there. A thriller that goes in unexpected directions this one has promise and good moments but doesn't deliver as a whole.

 

-The Blancheville Monster: A girl's family has been told that a curse that plagues them will lift if she dies before her next birthday. Either the monster roaming the grounds or an inexplicable illness will surely get the job done but not if her friends have anything to say about it. It's a decent movie of suspense and mystery.

 

-The Bloody Brood: A drug dealer peddling to beatniks gets a power trip by watching people die. When he orchestrates a murder the brother of the victim comes looking for the culprit. It's not a bad offering though it is beatnik overload. Peter Falk stars.

 

-A Bucket of Blood: Dick Miller plays a nobody who wants desperately to fit in with the cool beatnik crowd. He begins turning living beings into sculptures. His work is a hit, but of course no one realizes the secret to his success. How far will he go to stay on top? It's a pretty good flick if you can overlook gaps in logic.

 

-Cathy’s Curse: A little girl is possessed by the spirit of her dead aunt. She begins lashing out at others and driving Cathy's mother insane. It's a bore of a movie.

 

-The Cold: A group of bored rich folks invite a number of people to take part in a game of fear that will leave the winner rich. But is the game lethal for the losers? It's not worth watching, the plot unravels and is unsatisfying.

 

-Crypt of the Living Dead: A young man unwittingly releases a 700 year old vampire from her prison tomb. As she wreaks havoc on a small island village the man responsible for her release must find a way to stop her and the cult that would serve her to save the woman he loves. It’s a pretty enjoyable but poor quality vampire flick.

 

-Death Rage: A retired hitman comes back to the job when information about his brother’s murderer comes to light. This is an unimpressive mob movie. Yul Brynner’s last staring role.

 

-Deep Red: When a psychic is murdered her neighbor catches a glimpse of it and sets out to catch the killer. Aided and hindered by a pretty reporter the pianist/would-be gumshoe searches for clues in his scattered memory. It's not an awful movie, but it is forgettable.

 

-The Demon: This one follows two intertwined stories that don't feel properly connected. One is about a kidnap victim whose parents call in a psychic to help. His revelations only result in tragedy. The other is about two cousins one of whom is dating a rich playboy and one of whom is being stalked. It's a dull and unimpressive flick.

 

-The Demons of Ludlow: The spirit of a man mistreated by the town he founded resides in a piano presented to the townsfolk as a gift generations after the founder's death. The spirit begins taking lethal revenge on the descendants of the people that wronged him. Not worth watching.

 

-Devil Times 5: 5 criminally insane children are unleashed upon an isolated cabin full of people to be used for murderous amusement. It's a disturbingly creepy and fairly well done slasher film.

 

-The Devil’s Hand: A seemingly happy man turns from his normal life to the pleasures of a dark cult. Can he realize what he has given up or will the cult be the death of him? It's an interesting and dark tale of carnal pleasures vs. good sense.

 

-Dr. Tarr’s Torture Dungeon: Based on Edgar Allan Poe's work this one is about a reporter who is writing a story about the peculiar treatments used at a sanatorium which he visits. He soon learns that the place has been overtaken by the inmates. Trapped, he and a few others must find a way to escape the walls built to keep lunatics inside. While interesting at times I wasn't very impressed overall.

 

-The Driller Killer: A struggling artist flips his lid and goes on a killing spree with a power drill. It's a string of pointless scenes intermingled with lots of shots of a performing band that isn't much good.

 

-Drive-In Massacre: A sword-wielding maniac is slicing people up as they watch movies in a drive-in theater. Two cops investigate the crimes questioning ex-carnies, bulling bosses, and peeping toms. Is it anger, lunacy, or perversion that is leading the killer to do his bloody deeds? Is any movie patron safe? It tries some interesting tactics but isn't all that good a movie.

 

-Funeral Home: A one-time funeral home is now being turned into a bed and breakfast by the wife of the mortician who mysteriously vanished into thin air some years before. It seems that disappearances are disturbingly common around this area. The granddaughter of the home owner comes to town to help the new establishment get off the ground, but when more people begin disappearing she can't help but be curious about what's going on. That's going to get her into a world of trouble. This is one of the best movies in the set. I enjoyed it a lot: good story, characters, and atmosphere, with decent pacing and suspense.

 

-The Ghost: The wife of a wealthy, crippled old man and her young doctor lover plot to kill the older man, but when he's out of the way his stashed wealth isn't where it's supposed to be. The secret lovers begin scouring the estate for the missing jewels, but strange things are happening. The ghost of the murdered man wants vengeance. This one is borderline decent; mostly it just takes too long to get to the ghost part of the story.

 

-Gothic: This is the tale of the real-life night Mary Shelley came up with the idea for Frankenstein. It is a fictional tale despite using characters based on real people. It's a disjointed romp through a dark house during a storm with little rhyme or reason. Julian Sands and Natasha Richardson star.

 

-Hands of a Stranger: A pianist loses his hands in an accident and is given those of a dead mystery man. He starts losing his mind leaving people dead in his wake. It's right on the verge of being enjoyable with a weak premise holding it back.

 

-Haunts: A killer terrorizes a small town, and a lonely farm girl is particularly traumatized. The trauma doesn't end with the cessation of the killings, either; there's more going on here. A fairly decent movie – nothing great but not a complete waste of time.

 

-Horror Express: An archaeologist has found what he thinks is the missing evolutionary link between humans and primates. As he's transporting it on a train, this fossil comes to life and start killing people. Some think it's the devil, others think there's something more natural going on here. The archaeologist and a doctor join forces with an investigator and other train passengers to try to figure out what's going on and stop the killing. Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing star with a small role for Telly Sevalas. Despite the good actors the movie is not very good.

 

-Horrors of Spider Island: A plane carrying a group of dancers on the way to a show crashes on a remote island. The manager of the group is bitten by a weird spider and begins mutating into a monster. As the girls are tormented by the murderous man-beast they think they have found rescue in a group of mining researchers, but they might not last long enough to get away. This is a really really bad movie.

 

-The House of the Dead: A man lost in the city is brought in by a kindly mortician who shows him 5 coffins and tells him 4 stories about the occupants: a stalked teacher, a videotaping serial killer, a couple of feuding detectives, and a tortured man. Some of the stories are good, but others not so much. Some of the performances here are surprisingly good.

 

-I Bury The Living: The director of a cemetery learns that if he places a marker on the cemetery map the owner of that plot dies. As people try to convince him it's nonsense they lead him to kill more and more people. Wracked with guilt and questioning his sanity the poor man tries to figure out what he should do even to the point of calling the cops on himself. Yet he can't seem to simply stop putting the markers on the map. It may sound goofy, but it's actually a pretty decent movie.

 

-I Eat Your skin: A playboy writer is sent to a remote island full of voodoo rituals. Bad luck and zombie maniacs create danger for the writer and his friends as he tries to save a pretty girl living there from a cult that wants her for a sacrifice. She is refusing to leave because of her father so the writer must stick around to play hero. This is an unimpressive effort on all fronts.

 

-Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter: Gunslinger Jesse James takes his injured friend to a doctor for help. This doctor is part of the Frankenstein family and is hiding out in the old west to continue their legacy of questionable experiments on humans. It becomes gunslinger vs. mad scientist and her monsters. While very campy I enjoyed it a lot.

 

-Lady Frankenstein: When Frankenstein succeeds in creating a monster which kills him, his daughter takes up the mantle. According to her she wants to create a monster that can stop the previous killer creation (mostly to save face for her father's reputation), but her motives and methods are questionable. I didn't like anything about this movie. It's a weak story poorly executed.

 

-The Legend of Bigfoot: This is a supposed documentary about a wilderness tracker who becomes convinced of the existence of Bigfoot and tracks the beast across the continent finally capturing footage of the creature in the wild. It's perhaps mildly interesting if you're into Bigfoot legends or wildlife footage (low quality as it may be).

 

-Man in the Attic: In the midst of Jack the Ripper attacks in London a strange man takes up residence in a room and board place, only he prefers the attic to his room. Some are suspicious of him while others think he's being unfairly judged just because he's a bit odd. It's an OK flick but with a lack of closure for most of the characters. Jack Palance is the man in the attic.

 

-Medusa: A brother and sister used to a life of wealth and ease find out they are in danger of losing their inheritance. They set out to save their lifestyle by any means necessary including murder. But who is the victim and who is the culprit? It's a poorly paced nothing of a movie. Don't bother. It's mostly just an hour and a half of George Hamilton on screen.

 

-Memorial Valley Massacre: People are being murdered in a newly opened camp ground. The park ranger refuses to close the area due to secret, dark personal ties to the place. It's a mostly mindless slasher flick with an unusual culprit.

 

-Messiah of Evil: This one revolves around a young woman who travels to a rinky dink town to find her father who has cut off communications mysteriously. She is walking into a nightmare as she reads about her father’s descent into madness, a madness that seems to have affected the whole area driving them to cannibalistic tendencies. Her only companions are a trio of strangers who have been shunned by the townsfolk. It's a strange but artistic film with good and poor aspects.

 

-Metamorphosis: This story centers around a geneticist who thinks he is on the verge of cracking the secret of aging in the body. When squeezed for results he tries the experiment on himself before it's actually ready. The results are the scientist carrying out random violent deeds without memory of them. As his body continues to change he must find a cure before it's too late, but his fellow scientists are blocking his lab access. It has some OK moments of suspense but is mostly unimpressive especially the “shocking” end.

 

-Naked Massacre: A man with a serious hangup over women holds a group of young nurses hostage as he abuses and kills them. It's a disturbing movie made more so because of connections to a real-life story.

 

-Oasis of the Zombies: Zombie Nazis guard a lost treasure in a remote desert oasis. When a group of treasure hunters sets out to find it they are set after by the undead guardians. It manages to be entertaining just by being extremely campy but is not worth the effort for anyone looking for a serious movie.

 

-Panic: A lab accident turns a scientist into a murderous monster. A detective and a lab assistant set out to stop him. It's mindnumbingly dull.

 

-The Revenge of Dr. x: A NASA scientist on vacation creates a plant man that likes to kill people. It's really, really bad.

 

-Scream Bloody Murder: Matthew has a hang up about men touching women which leads him to kill even his own father. When he reaches his teen years he befriends a prostitute whom he torments. It's mildly interesting.

 

-Silent Night Bloody Night: A string of murders one Christmas are somehow tied to an empty house and its past secrets. Is the new owner a crazed psychopath or a victim like everyone else? It has some interesting ideas but doesn't deliver at all.

 

-Sisters of Death: Members of a sorority are lured to a reunion helmed by the father of a girl who died in an initiation of theirs. Is he out for lethal revenge? The living try to figure out what's going on as they one by one drop dead. It's a mildly entertaining flick with a satisfying ending.

 

-Slashed Dreams: Jenny and her new boyfriend go on a wilderness hike to find a hermit friend of theirs. They are tormented by a gang of hillbillies. There's very little suspense and too many musical montages.

 

-The Snake People: Spanish soldiers and an innocent girl cross paths with a voodoo society. One of Boris Karloff's final films and not his shining moment.

 

-Track of the Moon Beast: A man mutates into a lizard monster and kills people. Can his friends find a cure for him before he kills the woman he loves? It's not terrible but is mostly unimpressive.

 

-Virus: A doomsday virus has all but wiped out human life on the planet. Only an Antarctic outpost and a a few isolated groups survive. Continued survival is the next challenge especially when automated defense systems set in place by the world's governments threaten to finish the job of annihilation. It's a fair effort with some moderately big name actors, but it suffers from being too broad and slow-paced.

 

-War of the Robots: A scientist and a girl are kidnapped off a space station by aliens. The fate of the installation and the alien race hang in the balance. Not worth watching.

 

-Werewolf in a Girl’s Dormitory: A werewolf is killing people at a girls' school. Some think the new teacher with the shady past is using the monster story to cover up his own misdeeds, but he claims to be trying to cure the wolf disease. It's not very good.

 

-The Witch’s Mountain: A photographer and his spur-of-the-moment love interest take a trip to the mountains where they are lured to an ancient village apparently inhabited by witches. It has some creepy moments which give it potential but the plot is too convoluted to be interesting.