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Chilling Classics

As with many of the Treeline Films box sets (sorry, Mill Creek Entertainment now), here's a real combination of the classic, the truly awful and a whole bunch in between.

On the classic end there are a couple of greats. There's Dario Argento's Deep Red and a lesser known fifties thriller called I Bury the Living made by Albert Band. There's also my favourite film of all time, Peter Jackson's debut feature, Bad Taste; Roger Corman's A Bucket of Blood with a great role for Dick Miller; and the awesomely titled Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter which is surprisingly good, unlike the similarly named Billy the Kid Meets the Son of Dracula which is stunningly bad.

In this box the stunningly bad is represented by a couple of films that as I write have places in the IMDb Bottom 100: Horrors of Spider Island and Track of the Moonbeast. Holding even lower ratings but presumably without enough votes to register on that list are Drive-In Massacre, Oasis of the Zombies, The Demons of Ludlow and War of the Robots.

On the side of the more interesting, there's a film co-written by spaghetti western maestro Sergio Corbucci called The Blancheville Monster (aka Horror), The Revenge of Dr X (aka The Double Garden,) written by Ed Wood; and a Japanese horror thriller called Virus directed by Kinji Fukasaku and starring people like Glenn Ford, Sonny Chiba and Olivia Hussey. There's a late Boris Karloff called Snake People, co-directed by Jack Hill, and an early Robert Englund called Slashed Dreams. I wonder if that put a thought in his head for later...

Contents

Title Year Director(s) IMDb
The Alpha Incident 1978 Bill Rebane IMDb
Bad Taste 1987 Peter Jackson IMDb
A Bell from Hell 1973 Claudio Guerín IMDb
The Blancheville Monster 1963 Alberto De Martino IMDb
The Bloody Brood 1959 Julian Roffman IMDb
A Bucket of Blood 1959 Roger Corman IMDb
Cathy's Curse 1977 Eddy Matalon IMDb
The Cold 1984 Bill Rebane IMDb
Crypt of the Living Dead 1973 Julio Salvador
Ray Danton
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Death Rage 1976 Antonio Margheriti IMDb
Deep Red 1975 Dario Argento IMDb
The Demon 1979 Percival Rubens IMDb
The Demons of Ludlow 1983 Bill Rebane IMDb
Devil Times Five 1974 Sean MacGregor IMDb
The Devil's Hand 1962 William J Hole Jr IMDb
Dr Tarr's Torture Dungeon 1973 Juan López Moctezuma IMDb
The Driller Killer 1979 Abel Ferrara IMDb
Drive-In Massacre 1976 Stu Segall IMDb
Funeral Home 1980 William Fruet IMDb
The Ghost 1963 Riccardo Freda IMDb
Gothic 1986 Ken Russell IMDb
Hands of a Stranger 1962 Newt Arnold IMDb
Haunts 1977 Herb Freed IMDb
Horror Express 1973 Eugenio Martin IMDb
Horrors of Spider Island 1960 Fritz Böttger IMDb
The House of the Dead 1978 Sharron Miller IMDb
I Bury the Living 1958 Albert Band IMDb
I Eat Your Skin 1964 Del Tenney IMDb
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter 1966 William Beaudine IMDb
Lady Frankenstein 1971 Mel Welles IMDb
The Legend of Bigfoot 1976 Harry Winer IMDb
Man in the Attic 1953 Hugo Fregonese IMDb
Medusa 1973 Gordon Hessler IMDb
Memorial Valley Massacre 1988 Robert C Hughes IMDb
Messiah of Evil 1973 Willard Huyck IMDb
Metamorphosis 1990 George Eastman IMDb
Naked Massacre 1976 Denis Héroux IMDb
Oasis of the Zombies 1981 Jesus Franco IMDb
Panic 1976 Tonino Ricci IMDb
The Revenge of Dr X 1970 Kenneth G Crane IMDb
Scream Bloody Murder 1973 Marc B Ray IMDb
Silent Night, Bloody Night 1974 Theodore Gershuny IMDb
Sisters of Death 1977 Joseph Mazzuca IMDb
Slashed Dreams 1975 James Polakof IMDb
Snake People 1971 Juan Ibanez
Jack Hill
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Track of the Moon Beast 1976 Richard Ashe IMDb
Virus 1980 Kinji Fukasaku IMDb
War of the Robots 1978 Alfonso Brescia IMDb
Werewolf in a Girl's Domitory 1961 Paolo Heusch IMDb
The Witch's Mountain 1972 Raúl Artigot IMDb


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