Seeing as how the A Clockwork Car thread got hijacked into a general movie thread and I love to talk films I thought we needed a general movie thread. I promise I wont talk about weird porn anymore. With my birthday coming up and me wanting to expand my Italian horror collection I got my mom to give me my birthday money early and went nuts ordering DVDs. I ordered:

Zombie Holocaust
Burial Ground
Flesh Eater
Beyond the Darkness
The House on the Edge of the Park
Delirium
Eaten Alive
Massacre at Dinosaur Valley
Jungle Holocaust
Cannibal Holocaust (Grindhouse Releasing Deluxe Edition)
Cannibal Ferox (Deluxe Uncensored Letterbox Edition)
Shockumentary Collection Vol. 1 (Mondo Cane, Mondo Cane 2, Women of the World)
Shockumentary Collection Vol. 2 (Africa Addio, Goodbye Uncle Tom, The Godfathers of Mondo)
Man Bites Dog (Criterion)
Hell of the Living Dead
Rats: Night of Terror
Assault on Precinct 13 (The original not the remake)

That should keep me busy for a while.

 

I wonder how long it will take for the Criterion Man Bites Dog to raise in value? I wonder how much my Criterion Robocop and Bladerunner are worth?

 

I think I must have lived a sheltered life, becouse I have never heard of any of those movies. I guess I need to hit the rental store more often.

 

I'm with Mizzou on this........and I've been around just about 50 years

 

Cpt
How many total movies would you say you own?

 

Nah, I just have a taste for the obscure. I doubt you'll find any of them at a rental place. Almost every film on my recent purchase list is Italian and released under like 4 or 5 names in addition to their Italian titles (which aren’t listed). The only non-Italian films on that list are Assault on Precinct 13 (American) and Man Bites Dog (Belgian). They mostly fall into the zombie, cannibal, and mondo sub-genres. Some are a mix of films like Italian directors love to do. Like Zombie Holocaust a.k.a. Dr. Butcher M.D. is a weird combination of mad doctor, cannibal, and zombie films. To sum the list up without getting too specific about each film I would have to say it's mostly gory sleazy Italian exploitation at its best. I’m kind of surprised that you didn’t hear of Cannibal Holocaust or Cannibal Ferox a.k.a Make Them Die Slowly because they are two of the most famous and controversial Italian Cannibal films of all times. Cannibal Holocaust is my second favorite movie after Night of the Living Dead.

Edit: I almost forgot Flesh Eater isn't an Italian film either. It's American and directed by Bill Hinzman. Most of his claim to fame comes from playing the cemetery zombie in Night of the Living Dead.

 

Just my DVDs or VHS included? My DVD collection isn't that big, like maybe 250 films. If I included my VHS tapes in the count I'd say I have over 1000 movies. It all started when I was a kid and saw Night of the Living Dead. I fell in love with the movie and it was all downhill from there. It didn't help that in my early teen years when we moved to the suburbs I lived by an independent video store that has one of the largest selections of film that I have ever seen. Any obscure title I could come up with they seemed to have in stock. I spent a lot of time there and became friends with the owner.

 

Lately I've been really wanting to see Miike's Visitor Q. Has anyone seen it? I'm kind of afraid to purchase it to have it end up sucking. I kind of have mixed feelings about Takashi Miike. Some of his films I love like Ichi the Killer but then I feel let down watching some of his films like Audition. His Masters of Horror episode Imprint threw me for a loop and left me with mixed reactions. I was getting into it until the hand with a face popped out of the girls head. I'm surprised Showtime allowed him to make Imprint on their money because the torture was just brutal on that episode. The pins under the nails and lips thing had me turning away from the screen. Not to mention the horrific images of aborted fetuses floating down the river and implied incest. Sometimes I think Miike is truly insane.

 

Considering your exchange with Harzopep, that makes total sense.

 

Do you have "the Last Man On Earth" with Vincent Price. It`s an American story but it was filmed in Italy. It was the closest adaptation of Richard Mattheson`s book "I am Legend",so far at least.