Topic: Will I Make It?

[Jimmy]

Sounds cool. I know you don't contribute to Invelos any longer... but if you don't mind sharing I would like to get a copy of those profiles when you are done! 

no problem, but my profiles are done by film and not by disc (I prefer this way) and of course this is against all the rules of DVDP. At least you will be able to reconstruct them by disc if you want to contribute and without too much work since all the cast, crew, ... are done. Of course all the info are checked like I was doing when I was a contributor.

[addicted2dvd]

That's cool... I can put them together if I decide to contribute. It would still save me a load of work!  Appreciate it! 

[Jimmy]

Half of the disc are done, I will probably end the job somewhere tomorrow. Since the movies look pretty decent, I've ordered another one of these boxset (like it wasn't enough works to profile one). At those price it's hard to resist



Looks like the marathon this year will be a B-movies horror marathon

I will post the 50 movies included information in a couple of days.

[addicted2dvd]

Sounds good Jimmy!

Yesterday I read all 50 plots to the movies in that set I am planning to order. Some of them sound very entertaining. Plus lots of vampires! and even a few anthologies in there which is something else I love to watch! 

Question for you... how is this 50 movie set packaged? Coming from Mill Creek I am a little gun-shy with their packaging now.

I was thinking of maybe getting a second set myself. but was thinking it maybe it would be better to stick to just one until I see what I think of the first set. I am however looking to see what movies is in this second set you ordered.

[Jimmy]

Question for you... how is this 50 movie set packaged? Coming from Mill Creek I am a little gun-shy with their packaging now.

Just like their other 50 pack in a cardboard box (a solid one) and each discs are in an individual good quality carton jacket. Each disc had 4 or 5 movies on them, but the quality is surprisingly good.

[addicted2dvd]

Thanks... this is the first 50 movie set I ever bought. I have a few of the 10 movie sets... which comes in a large 5 disc keep case. Oh well... can't complain with such a price for 50 movies I guess!  At least they are not the paper envelopes like that last set I got from them (Booker).

[richierich]

I was a bit jumpy when I watched Blair Witch Project..course for some reason I decided to watch it in the middle of the night..all alone. 

I am pleased you said that - the ending of Blair Witch (when there is someone in the basement facing other way and sort of rocking side to side) still makes the hairs on my neck stand up when I think about it. Why is that??
And how can I go out each weekend and get bashed by 20+ stone rugby players in the name of fun, but then be scared of a horror movie? 

And as was said before, the ones that scare me are the ones that could be true or could theoretically happen, the gory ones or OTT ones I just don't enjoy viewing the 'worst' bits.

[Najemikon]

And how can I go out each weekend and get bashed by 20+ stone rugby players in the name of fun...

I do hope you mean playing rugby!

[addicted2dvd]

And how can I go out each weekend and get bashed by 20+ stone rugby players in the name of fun...

I do hope you mean playing rugby!

If he is playing... don't sound like he is playing very well... does it? 

[Dragonfire]

I was a bit jumpy when I watched Blair Witch Project..course for some reason I decided to watch it in the middle of the night..all alone. 

I am pleased you said that - the ending of Blair Witch (when there is someone in the basement facing other way and sort of rocking side to side) still makes the hairs on my neck stand up when I think about it. Why is that??
And how can I go out each weekend and get bashed by 20+ stone rugby players in the name of fun, but then be scared of a horror movie? 

And as was said before, the ones that scare me are the ones that could be true or could theoretically happen, the gory ones or OTT ones I just don't enjoy viewing the 'worst' bits.

A friend talked me into watching Saw like 2 years ago...and this is the edited version that was on like sci-fi or some station like that.  The ..idea for the plot is sort of interesting and most of was ok.  Not great, but ok.  But..

(click to show/hide)

when the one guy cut off his foot to get out freaked me the hell out even though it wasn't shown.  Just knowing he did it freaked me out.

  I had weird dreams that night.  Never again.

Oh I agree about the stuff that could be true being more scary.  I've been watching the first season of Criminal Minds...not a horror show at all.  Just a crime show with profilers tracking criminals.  But the crimes shown are believable and realistic..even down to sometimes showing how people get in houses to attack someone or jump in an unlocked car in a parking lot.  I have been a bit freaked by that stuff.  It's enough to make a person paranoid    Though I suppose I've always sort of been like that anyway.  Keeping doors and windows locked...Keeping my car doors locked.  It isn't that I think everyone is out to get me or anything.  But there are a lot of messed up wackos in the world and they don't come with handy signs over their hands saying DANGER this person is a killer, run like hell.  So..I'm cautious.  And I get freaked by non horror stuff at times.

[Jimmy]

Yesterday I read all 50 plots to the movies in that set I am planning to order. Some of them sound very entertaining. Plus lots of vampires! and even a few anthologies in there which is something else I love to watch! 

I really hope the modernized version of Dracula will be good, if not that will be a really long boring time since it runs for 2h30

[Achim]

Little late to the party but want to add my

I originally wanted to say that I think I am somewhat desensitized (Jon even called me out on that once). When I was a kid (somewhere between 10 and 14) we watched our first horror film, the old Christopher Lee Draculas. When it became night in the films I would leave the room and they had to call me back in a dawn. Well, I was really young, but so were the others. I then must have been around 14r or 15 when I watch The Omega Man on TV, all by myself. During the movie I git this dreadful feeling like Robert Neville that I would be all alone in the world, which is scary. However, after the film I realized just how cool it was that the film could do that! I was hooked.

When I was in my early twenties They started to do a "Fantasy Filmfest" in Hamburg (yes, the same one Tom now goes to every year, which, my God, means they've been doing it for almost 20 years now!) and the first year I avoided films that I thought would be too..."radical" for me. I kept going every year and got more adventurous every year. The peak somewhat came the year they showed "Dellamorte Dellamore" and "Braindead" (a.k.a. Dead Alive) which I had a great time watching with a good friend of mine.

Nowadays films normally don't scare me or freak me out. I am still smart about avoiding certain films, so something like Cannibal Holocaust stays off my orders.

Then Jon posted this:

I don't think you get desensitized to anything really. We all have comfort zones, our default setting. We find something scary, likely we always will on some level. I'm like Pete, in that I love horror and the ideas behind it, but I've never been scared, so to speak. Startled, yes, but never disturbed. So I'm fascinated by people who genuinely get the willies! I remember a girl at work went to see Scream with her friend and when she dropped her off at home, her wouldn't dare get out the car and demanded she escort her to the door!

This reminded me of the actual "problem": I am not desensitized, I just know too much. I have read numerous books about making films (with emphasis on horror films) and watched any documentary/featurette on my laserdiscs or DVDs. So now when I watch a horror movie I often find myself watching out for "how they did it" and since I have seen so many horror films (nothing close to Pete though ) I know the director's tricks.

Only movie in recent years that scared me was The Descent, which I watched in a cinema and had my blood pumping. What a great experience, I wish I could get it more often.

Only problem was, my friend wouldn't do it because she was to scared to walk back to the car on her own!

I went to see Blair Witch at the theater with my niece and my sis-in-law... and my niece was sitting next to me curled up in the fetal position in the chair and every once in a while burying her head in my shoulder!   But yet this is the same niece that when I showed her The Exorcist laughed through-out the entire movie!   I still haven't figured that one out!  

I think that shows how horror has changed over the years and, on the other hand, how the kids grow up differently today. Therefore she gor more scared by the film made for her generation and the old film was just not structured in the film that it "got to her" and she just laughed it off.


There is a good book by Stephen King called Danse Macabre (non-fiction!) in which he explains horror books and films, how they work and which ones he thinks are good and why.

[Kathy]

I think I must be the least sensitive of all! I went to see the Blair Witch Project and was bored to tears. My niece on the other hand was terrified. I can't remember a movie that made me cover my face or give me nightmares. Of course, like Achim,  I don't go out of my way to see those types of films. But a film like Audition or Brain Dead I just love! Maybe its because I see the real thing so often that seeing it on film doesn't scare me. I've seen real amputations, open heart surgeries, gun shot or burn victims...and I have to stay calm, cool and collected in order to do my job.

[addicted2dvd]

Yesterday I read all 50 plots to the movies in that set I am planning to order. Some of them sound very entertaining. Plus lots of vampires! and even a few anthologies in there which is something else I love to watch! 

I really hope the modernized version of Dracula will be good, if not that will be a really long boring time since it runs for 2h30

2 and a half hours!?!?! It better be good! Or at least bearable!  

Out of this set I am kinda looking forward to (at least sounds good from the overview)...

- Alucard (Not much of an overview on the site... but hey... it is Dracula!)
- Black Ribbon (Sounds Interesting... if done right)
- Blood Bound (Vampires!)
- Cadaverella (Come on... A Zombie Cinderella story!?!?)  
- Creeply Clips (Anthology Horror!)
- Curse of the Wolf (Plot sounds good)
- Dark Light (Basically no overview online other then to say it is a Vampire Movie! I love Vampire Movies!)
- Dead Teenagers (From the sounds of it... it could be an Anthology Horror!)
- Fist of the Vampire (Vampires and Underground Fighting Tournaments all in one movie!)  
- I Dream of Dracula (Slutty female vampires... what more can you ask for? )
- Killer Story (Sounds like it could be another Anthology Horror)
- Mrs. Amworth (Sounds like a Vampire movie to me!)  
- Sabbath (Zombie movie is about all the plot tells me)
- Vampire Conspiracy (The plot Mill Creek Ent. has on their site sounds like could be fun)
- Vampire Whores from Outer Space (Plot sounds stupid... and I imagine the movie is too. But I have to see it from the title alone!)  

Wow... 15 out of 50 that I am actually kinda looking forward to. I think maybe I been without horror for too long here!   Seriously though. It is like my friend Tammy said... at the price of these sets....If I even get 1 movie that I like it is worth it... I can consider the rest to be freebies!  

[addicted2dvd]

I went to see Blair Witch at the theater with my niece and my sis-in-law... and my niece was sitting next to me curled up in the fetal position in the chair and every once in a while burying her head in my shoulder!   But yet this is the same niece that when I showed her The Exorcist laughed through-out the entire movie!   I still haven't figured that one out!  

I think that shows how horror has changed over the years and, on the other hand, how the kids grow up differently today. Therefore she gor more scared by the film made for her generation and the old film was just not structured in the film that it "got to her" and she just laughed it off.

True... this is probably it. Still seems kinda weird to me though! 

There is a good book by Stephen King called Danse Macabre (non-fiction!) in which he explains horror books and films, how they work and which ones he thinks are good and why.

I am not normally a reader... but this one sounds like something I would like.