Zombie / Amityville Horror Double Feature!

Last week I had the pleasure to enjoy two great classic horror films on the big screen. The Oaks Theater in Oakmont Pennsylvania showed ZOMBIE and Amityville Horror back to back as part of their Moonlit Matinee Film Festival in October.

First was Lucio Fulci's Zombie which was being played to celebrate the release of the movie on blu ray. It was a great experience to see such a movie on the big screen with a large popcorn. I snapped a few pics of the screen for fun.

The Amityville Horror was another good watch. It had been a while since I have watched it and it was great to see it on an original film. Unlike Zombie the film for Amityville was discolored and had a very cool old feel to it. Nice to see some classic films that way.

More cool stuff in October!!

October is always the best month of the year to find Horror movies. Here are a few other surprise goodies I found at a near by video store.

A great find. Tapes like this don't show up that often. 

 Vestron!

This is an awesome Wizard Video "Robot Holocaust" the box is cut on one of the sides but  its in good shape. Best  looking wizard I own so far. 

Black Christmas is one of my favorites. Couldn't pass this one up. 

Great movie and could not pass up the artwork on this version. 

Happy Halloween to all. Tis the season for scary movies!

Cool New Stuff! October

Halloween 10-31-76 Limited Edition VHS - Anchor Bay 

Halloween is up there with one of my all time favorite movies and movie series so I was super excited to find one of these limited edition Halloween 10-31-76 VHS sets. This cool little package comes with the movie and another tape with bonus features on a great bright orange VHS tape. I love the look of this edition. The front shows a faint image of the mask of Michael Myers along with the famous date 10-31-76, "The Day He Came Home" This tape is #11,201 out of 40,000. I don't think this particular tape is that hard to track down but this is the first time I saw it and I have to thank my girlfriend because she bought it for me, and for only $2.50. Gotta love the deals!

The Basement Big Box VHS and DVD Box Set - Camp Video 

This is a recently released box set that includes a long lost horror anthology film from the 80's called The Basement. Included is The Basement on a nice (but light) red VHS and DVD and also 4 other horror films. Hopefully I will be posting about this in more depth sometime soon. I plan To add it to my 2011 October Halloween Horror Marathon as well as some of the other movies included. Check this one out and support the independent releases, It should not be to hard to find I got mine at deep discount for a very decent price.

555 VHS Massacre Video

555 is a movie that has peaked my interest just recently and when I found out that a small independent video company named Massacre Video was going to make this their first release I had to get it. 555 is one of those long lost horror films that hit shelves in video stores back in the day and never got a proper DVD release (until now!) which made the movie a very sought after item. Massacre Video Released 555 on DVD, a Limted Edition DVD, and a Limited VHS (pictured) which I was lucky enough to snag during the pre order because there were only 50 made. Search for this movie on DVD and see what it is all about and allow releases like this to happen. Massacre Video has plans to release more lost films soon.

Texas Chainsaw Autograph - Gunnar Hanson

Every time I go to the Cinema Wasteland convention in Strongsville Ohio I try to get something autographed and I have been fortunate enough to meet many what I would call Horror Legends. This Year was the first time I got to meet Gunner Hanson AKA Leatherface. This has quickly become one of my favorite DVDs. I love the autograph right by the character. 

Sleepaway Camp 2 Unhappy Campers

Sleepaway camp is a classic 80’s slasher with one of the most, if not THE MOST creepy and memorable ending of all time. There is no doubt that Sleepaway camp is on my long list of favorite horror list but for the longest time I could never find the sequels. Until now! I recently found a video store, that was sadly going out of business, with a very large horror section. Sadly I feel most of it was picked over but someone was nice enough to leave me with both Sleepaway Camp 2 and 3. 

Pamela Springsteen sister of “The Boss” 

Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers, takes place a number of years after the first movie. It has a lot of violence, more nudity, and the campers seem to be even closer to pushing 30 years old than in the first. This is a total cheeseball of a movie but i encourage anyone to watch it especially if they liked the first one.





One thing… probably the only thing that kept this movie alive were the DEATH SCENES. most of the acting and interactions between the campers makes me want to puke but the killing scenes I found to be quite impressive and very mean. Many people die in this movie so despite the horrid acting this movie still offers quite amount of entertainment. Especially the “Happy Camper Song”.





I Rate this flick a solid 3 out of 5 Dead Unhappy Campers. Cool death scenes, and fun to watch, but far from the great original Sleepaway camp. 



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