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Brian T 02-10-09 09:57 PM

Re: Exploitation film discussion
 

Originally Posted by JJE-187 (Post 9258239)
The Screaming Skull/The Giant Leeches
The Giant Gila Monster/The Wasp Woman
I Bury The Living/The Hand


These releases make up the "Drive In Discs" collections (later a boxed set), and I have to give them credit for trying something different to liven up the whole "drive-in experience". On the first volume, SCREAMING SKULL/GIANT LEECHES, one of the audio options pipes the film soundtrack through just the left front speaker I believe (as you'd hear it in a real drive-in), and fills the other speakers with various "drive-in" sounds such as crickets, wind, honking horns, cars driving to their parking spots, subtle voices in the vehicles around you, feet walking across the gravel behind you on their way to the concession stand and more. I believe there's a few moments of dialogue early on between the occupants of "your car" but nothing much through the rest of the movie. HOWEVER, the completely blew it on the next two releases by having "your car" filled with about three or four young-ish sounding people "riffing" through the entire movie so poorly that it's virtually unlistenable. Shame, really.

JJE-187 02-10-09 10:49 PM

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I know alot of the SWV titles didn't have a Play All option but the ones I listed are ones I found on DVDEmpire with the Drive-In Experience option listed in the Special Features , here is a link to one of them.
http://www.dvdempire.com/Exec/v4_ite...or=1#topoftabs

Mondo Kane 02-17-09 08:32 PM

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I've recently become a Jean Rollin fan (Through rentals) the problem is that some of his current R1 titles (Night/Hunted,Living Dead Girl) are OOP. Any word on them being re-released?

TomOpus 02-17-09 08:35 PM

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Just got Drive-In Cult Classics vol 3 & 4 along with Savage Streets.

Raw_and_Vital 02-17-09 08:57 PM

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I purchased drive-in cult classics Vol. 2 & 3 at Best Buy a couple weeks ago. Last week I stumbled across a couple of vol. 1's. Where did you find 4? At best buy?

TomOpus 02-17-09 09:05 PM

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Got vol 4 on Amazon for $9.49.

netzero19 02-17-09 10:04 PM

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Drive in Cult rules.

actionjackson29 02-18-09 03:59 AM

Re: Exploitation film discussion
 

Originally Posted by Mondo Kane (Post 9273353)
I've recently become a Jean Rollin fan (Through rentals) the problem is that some of his current R1 titles (Night/Hunted,Living Dead Girl) are OOP. Any word on them being re-released?

Go to Xploited Cinema, they have 7 of his films in 2 and 3 disc special editions. They may not be R1 I'm not sure.

SPRBD 02-23-09 12:10 PM

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Anybody know what the differences are between the version of "Malabimba The Malicious Whore" that Severin Films is releasing this week and the OOP version that they released in '07? The cover border is now red instead of black and says "Unrated Version" instead of "X Rated Version", but the running time and extras seem the same.

Did they do this just to lose the "X Rated" stigma?

LickTheABCs 02-23-09 01:58 PM

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^ from what I hear it is "slightly edited"...

They probably took out the unnecessary X-rated scenes and added back in the scenes that probably shouldn't been taken out in the first place. From what's being said, the film plays better without them.

SPRBD 02-23-09 04:13 PM

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I know of at least two other movies they put out which had x and non-x versions released at the same time. As far as I know, this would be the first time they released them at different times, and let one fall out of print.

BuddhaWake 02-24-09 10:50 AM

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the other one went out of print because the distributors got complains about "pornography" and when they looked a lot of the stuff up they ceased to distribute. It happened to a couple of labels too. they commented on their blog when it happened. if i find the article I'll post it here.

LickTheABCs 02-24-09 02:00 PM

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^ I'm pretty sure that's what they're doing with The Sinful Dwarf, releasing the 2 cuts. X-rated and Unrated.

Giles 02-24-09 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by LickTheABCs (Post 9288728)
^ I'm pretty sure that's what they're doing with The Sinful Dwarf, releasing the 2 cuts. X-rated and Unrated.

looking forward to seeing the harder cut (have my preorder over at TLA)

cverneau 03-23-09 11:58 AM

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If anyone's here is interested, I have an extra copy of the Best Buy Exclusive Exploitation Cinema Collection I'm looking to unload. It's new and sealed. You can find the info in the Exchange Forum on here...

dullboy 03-23-09 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Giles (Post 9288790)
looking forward to seeing the harder cut (have my preorder over at TLA)

Giles, as far as I know, Severin still don't have a distributor for the hardcore cut. I know Marc Morris said that TLA would be selling this version, but that's the regular cut they have up there.

SPRBD 03-23-09 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by cverneau (Post 9343788)
If anyone's here is interested, I have an extra copy of the Best Buy Exclusive Exploitation Cinema Collection I'm looking to unload. It's new and sealed. You can find the info in the Exchange Forum on here...

I've seen this at both the Culver City and the West LA BB recently, if any locals want to pick it up.

JJE-187 03-30-09 12:09 AM

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Some good news for fans, it looks like Code Red is taking up the explotation cinema banner and re-releasing 4 films as Double Feature on 5-26
Devil Time Five/Mark of the Witch
The Forest/Don't Go In The Woods

zyzzle 03-30-09 05:48 PM

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Too many RE-releases! Let's get some of the CANCELLED stuff out that BCI/Eclipse had on the plate, like where's that wonderful promised SE of KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS? Hopefully Code Red will focus on other obscure, unreleased titles in the future...

Peep 04-22-09 06:47 PM

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So, according to DVDDrive-in, Shock-O-Rama Cinema will be releasing "WOMEN IN PRISON TRIPLE FEATURE" (THE HOT BOX/ESCAPE FROM HELL/WOMEN IN CELL BLOCK 7) on 6/30.

Is this the same "Escape From Hell" previously put out by Troma? Does anybody know anything about this release?

imagnrywar 04-22-09 07:16 PM

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If anyone in the Peninsula/Silicon Valley part of the SF Bay Area is looking for the Exploitation Cinema Collection, the Best Buy in E. Palo Alto has two copies as of yesterday.

Peep 04-23-09 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by JJE-187 (Post 9357043)
Some good news for fans, it looks like Code Red is taking up the explotation cinema banner and re-releasing 4 films as Double Feature on 5-26
Devil Time Five/Mark of the Witch
The Forest/Don't Go In The Woods

How will these be packaged?

stingermck 04-25-10 02:43 PM

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So ever since I picked up the Exploitation Collection exclusive from Best Buy, ive been buy a few sets here and there. Now im taking stock in what I have:


The Gorehouse Greats Collection

# Blood of Dracula's Castle
# Brain Twisters
# The Devil's Hand
# Madman of Mandoras(AKA They
# Saved Hitlers' Brain)
# Nightmare in Wax
# Prime Evil
# Satan's Slave
# Stanley
# Terrified
# Terror
# Trip with Teacher

Urban Action Cinema 15 movies 4 Dvds

Mean Johnny Barrows
Lady Cocoa
The Final Countdown
The Black Streetfighter
Black Cobra 1-3
The Tattoo Connection
The Black Gestapo
The Black Six
Death Journey
Get Christie Love!
The Baron
South Bronx Heroes
Black Brigade

Ultimate Dragon Collection

Kung Fu Superman
Muscle of the Dragon
Dragon Lives Again
Bruce Lee: The Star of Stars
Enter the Game of Death
Mission for the Dragon
Ching Wu and Shaolin Kung Fu Parts I & II
Fist of Fury 3
Return of Fist of Fury

Martial Arts 20 Pack

# 1. Blood of the Dragon
# 2. Bloodfight
# 3. Bruce Lee Fights Back From The Grave
# 4. Champ Against Champ
# 5. Clones of Bruce Lee
# 6. Crippled Masters
# 7. Deadly Kick
# 8. Dragon Lee vs. The Five Brothers
# 9. Fighting Ace
# 10. Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe, The
# 11. Fists of Bruce Lee
# 12. Image of Bruce Lee
# 13. Kung Fu
# 14. Kung Fu Fever
# 15. L.A. Street Fighter
# 16. Master, The
# 17. Rage of the Master
# 18. Real Bruce Lee, The
# 19. Screaming Ninja
# 20. Snake Crane Secret

Bikers From Hell, Triple Feature

Run Angel Run
Hell's Angels 69
Hell's Bloody Devils
http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/9...cture001qy.jpg

So my question to the experts is, what are the must have sets that I need now? I see people mentioning Drive In Cult, but looks like I would have a lot of crossover. Or are those sets better than the ones I have now?

And to show off my real guilty pleasure, I'm working on a full set of Xenon's Wu Tang Collection:

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/2817/picture002w.jpg

mdnitoil 04-25-10 04:40 PM

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It depends on what you're into. I tend more towards the teen comedies than anything else. Given that, I found the Too Cool for School collection to be essential.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi 04-25-10 05:16 PM

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I'd first look at the larger, as in 50 movies or more, movie packs from Mill Creek as they contain movies from the smaller sets. Then start looking at other distributors, and try to find larger sets of films that you don't already own.

By staying with smaller sets of movies, it's really easy to run into overlapping.

I'd also recommend looking for the 10 movie sets that Brentwood was putting out in the early half of this decade. They have some stuff that hasn't shown up in more recent collections. Here's one of them http://www.amazon.com/Deadtime-Stori...2233536&sr=8-7

If you need help with the names of some of the other ones like this, let me know. I picked up pretty much all of the good ones. After awhile they changed to sets that had newer, straight to video type junk instead of the "classics".


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