| Chilling Classics 50 Movie Pack | 
 enlarge | Actors: Peter Falk, Richard Boone
Studio: Mill Creek Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: $29.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (48 reviews)
Sales Rank: 11026
Format: Box Set, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: X (Mature Audiences Only)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 4423 minutes
Number Of Items: 12
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.7
UPC: 826831070186
EAN: 0826831070186
ASIN: B000AOEQ4W
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Theatrical Release Date: 1984
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Product Description
Get ready for a gut-wrenching journey into terror and madness that is strewn with bloody corpses and rocked by terrifying creatures in a relentlessly horrific universe. Included Alien Zone Alpha Incident, The Bad Taste Bell from Hell Blancheville Monster, The Bloody Brood, The Bucket of Blood, A Cathy's Curse Cold, The Death Rage Deep Red Demon, The Demons of Ludlow, The Devil Times Five Devil's Hand, The Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon Driller Killer, The Drive-in Massacre Funeral Home Ghost, The Gothic Hands of a Stranger Haunts Horror Express Horrors of Spider Island I Bury the Living I Eat Your Skin Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter Lady Frankenstein Legend of Big Foot Man in the Attic Medusa Messiah of Evil Metamorphosis Murder Mansion, The Naked Massacre Oasis of the Zombies Panic Passenger to Bali, A Revenge of Doctor X, The Scream Bloody Murder Shock Silent Night, Bloody Night Sisters of Death Slashed Dreams Snowbeast Track of the Moon Beast War of the Robots Werewolf in a Girl's Dormitory Witches Mountain, The
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| Customer Reviews: Read 43 more reviews...
 Mill Crock October 8, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Unbelievable. OK, I'm amazed that five pages of reviews focus on the cost vs the number of titles (must be Mill Creek employees that started that trend), or the quality of the movies. This is a 50-movie budget boxset...do people really expect A-grade films and become disappointed to find mostly B-movies and worse? Yes, folks...a 50-movie budget box is going to be packed with a mix of bombs and sleepers. The quality is going to also be mixed because these are public domain films and the sources are always going to vary. These details should be a given, and yet they are noted endlessly as if they are revelations and buyers should find this information unusual.
So as I waded through 47 reviews looking for some piece of unique information -- in this case, does Mill Creek pop their logo up throughout the film -- not a mention of this useful detail. Some even called the set Mill Creek's best compilation yet. I gritted my teeth and added it to my cart. I also knew that I was spinning the roulette wheel since Mill Creek have this disconcerting habit of releasing their sets with multiple versions, causing confusion when buyers purchase the set only to find that the movie they bought the set for is on an alternate version. Charming. In the software world, updated versions use version numbers, but even though Mill Creek update the box and discs, they can't be bothered to note a difference anywhere in the packaging so buyers have to play guesswork as all versions are lumped together here. Charming.
Those logos you see in the bottom corner of the screen are known in the industry as a "bug", which is ironic. And every fifteen minutes, you get to see Mill Creek's gaudy, non-translucent, obtrusive logo fade in, strike the pose, divert your attention away from the movie, then finally fade away until the next scheduled interval. Charming. That's the type of thing you expect from free TV, not something you pay for -- regardless of the cost per title. Would you buy a barrel of spoiled tomatoes just because the individual cost of each is mere pennies? Of course not. I like to pull out my movies, pop them up on the bigscreen for a cinema-style experience with my friends to simulate a theatrical showing. How is this possible when some little company is compelled to advertise themselves constantly, to remind you that this purchase you made came from them. It did serve the purpose for me, as that ugly logo is all I remember when I see this set on the shelf. I have several other Mill Creek sets that this does not occur on, and before writing this review, I had a whole bunch more ready to buy. Mind you, none of them are in my cart now. Nor will anything released by this company find its way into my cart. (I said that previously after this occured on their Cult Classics collection, but I was unwittingly lured in by the fact that the bug wasn't mentioned in any of the reviews...please note these things in your reviews folks, otherwise the practice will continue or get worse!)
These films are public domain. With a little diligence, I could have downloaded all fifty of them and that would be perfectly legal. And that is what I will do with the other titles that I would have gladly paid for before experiencing this transgression from yet another careless publisher. A response from Mill Creek? Yeah, assuming this review doesn't get buried on the last page, you'll see "This review was not helpful" numbers since, after all, why would informing potential buyers about the quality of the package be something consumers would have a problem with? Am I being a negative creep, a hater? Nope...just letting the public know what they are paying for (or not.) If none of these details bother you, then purchase away. If they do, let Mill Creek know by saving your hard-earned money or spending it with companies that don't expect you to pay for shameless self-promotion.
 Good deal but... October 8, 2008
This movie pack from mill creek entertainment contains 50 movies and who can argue with the value of that. But the movies are iffy some ranging from unwatchable to laugh out loud bad. These are your run of the mill eighties horror films. Picture quality like all budget dvds is terrible some of the films are to dark to see others are blurry fiddling around with your TV settings can help but its better to stick to a small TV for these what it boils down to is are you willing to drop 15 bucks for a month of movies even though you know that the ratios are funny for example
Movies in pack :50
Movies that are not even in the same genre as the pack :2-4
Movies that are unwatchable due to transfers:5-8
Movies so terrible you wont finish them 5-8
Movies that are funny because they are so terrible 10
Decent films 10
Suprisingly good films
this is an average of movie packs and depends on taste of course but you will see my point when you watch them but if you like only a few films youll get your money worth
Not quite a four... but better than a three June 30, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
First off, I also own Mill Creeks "Terror" collection, which for my money is the better collection to buy. However, I bought this one first, and while I'm still wodnering how Mill Creek differentiates between "chilling" and "terror" I can tell you this; the one main difference I see is ERA. Whilist the "Terror" collection features movies mainly from the 1920s - 30s, this collection is almost exclusively 1970s. That in itself is not a bad thing, because 70s B Films are still good (...by B Film perspectives) but they are a totally different breed than the Atomic Age goofiness of the 1950s/60s or the Victorian 1930s (I'm aware Queen Victoria was dead by then, but the horror films from the 30s all seem to have a rather Victorian style about them).
There's a few totally unwatchable films here ("Oasis of the Zombies") and there's a few really goofy/ funny ones (the best being future "Lord of the Rings" director's "Bad Taste").
Its a good collection. Its well rounded and most of the films are enjoyable for the camp or for riffing. However, I'm much more of a "Terror" guy, I guess.
Thanks be to Mill Creek! These compilations are great!
 Chilling Classics 50 Movie Pack Collection May 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Good movie selections, mostly, with a few great out-of-print movies and a few dogs. Picture and sound quality, though, is terrible.
 A lot of fun movies for a great price January 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I own several of these Mill Creek DVD boxed sets, and I must admit that this one is my favorite. Probably because it has some of the cheesiest and silliest B-movies out there, most of which are very enjoyable.
The movies range from those made in the 60s to the 1980s, with most in color. You get cult classics like Roger Corman's "A Bucket of Blood" and Peter Jackson's "Bad Taste" to pure schlock like "Drive-In Massacre" and "Horrors of Spider Island". Then there are those in the "pretty good" category, such as "The Blancheville Monster", which is heavy on Gothic atmosphere, and "Silent Night, Bloody Night", a somewhat bloody slasher flick. Also you get "The Ghost", a Barbara Steele flick, and "Horror Express" with Christopher Lee.
In short, a lot of fun movies at a good price.
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