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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...
Title | Year | Director(s) | IMDb |
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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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