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. 



Doomsday for the Deceiver

The Grapes of Death

It has been a little while since my last post. School and important things have popped into my life again but nothing can stop my horror movie madness! so after a long day I sat down and enjoyed THE GRAPES OF DEATH! on DVD

This movie always intrigued me. The DVD has a bright pink cover, the back cover shows some scenes of intense gore, and The Grapes of Death is just a crazy (but fitting) name for a movie. I never really knew what it was all about until now. 

Killer Grapes?

I would throw this movie into the Zombie genre. Films like Night of the Living Dead and Let Sleeping Corpses Lie were swimming through my head as I was watching but The Grapes of Death holds its own in being an original zombie flick. Much like Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, the zombie approach of "Grapes" comes from environmental issues with pesticides. The local affected area home to a winery (this is where we get the grapes) which is using infected grapes and turning everyone into crazy rotting zombies. Of course not much other than that is explained in the movie but the main point I think they were trying to get across was Pesticides + Vegitation =  zombies, blood, and severed heads. Which of course also makes for one hell of a cool movie!

One thing that stood out as I was watching was the surroundings. The filming locations were excellent creepy goodness. Perfect for zombies. Aside from atmosphere this movie has quite a few nasty gore soaked scenes that are sure to remain memorable.

I rate this movie 4 out of 5 Bloody Severed Heads Delicious Grapes.

This movie is a must see for zombie lovers! Check this one out!

VHS Collection: The Virgin of Nuremberg

Lately I have been in a big Christopher Lee mood so the other day I busted out a tape I got on a recent yard sale haul that I have never heard of before, The Virgin of Nuremberg from AIP Home Video. This was one of the nicer looking tapes I found at the yard sale and got instantly excited when I saw Christopher Lee’s creepy face on the front cover.

This movie turned out to be really good. It has a very cool Gothic Castle type atmosphere to it. If you like those types of movies check this one out. One minor downfall of this movie is that Christopher Lee’s horrifyingly amazing voice was dubbed with another voice but after the movie gets going it’s easy to ignore and dive into the murder mystery.

Their is a strange choice of music for this movie. Most gothic style movies I have seen do not include quick pace  Jazz music but overall it made the movie even more interesting and shows off the time it was made well.

The movie is about a man who inherits a museum of torture devices, one of which is called The Virgin of Nuremberg, a stand up coffin looking device with spikes inside that stab the victim in the eyes. The movie quickly turns into a “Who Done It?” type movie as the man’s wife discovers a dead woman in the Virgin of Nuremberg. This movie is full of characters that slowly die off at the hands of a masked executioner. I really liked this movie it kept me guessing and includes some interesting twists. Christopher Lee’s performance as the creepy museum custodian as I assumed was the best character in the movie.  Was he the masked killer? Find this movie and Find out!

Black Christmas Shirt

My latest horror purchase from the House of Mysterious Secrets!  

I love horror movies and i love to let everyone know by sporting horror movie t-shirts! I found this Black Christmas shirt and was sold after I saw it. I love this movie and the image on the front is just fantastic. This is an exclusive shirt from the House of Mysterious Secrets. Check out there other exclusive horror shirts and all the other creepy goodies they have.