Crappy Horror Movie Collections by Echo Bridge

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I was just wondering, does anybody else besides me actually buy these DVD collections and watch them? Echo Bridge seems to sell a lot of these DVD collections containing low budget crap movies at places like Walmart and they're very cheap too. I only buy the ones containing horror movies like The Midnight Horror Collection, and for some odd reason I like them because of the fact that the movies in the collections are so terrible. They have a few gems that aren't crappy like the original Night of the Living Dead and Carnival of Souls, but I'm more into the terrible movies like Decadent Evil, I Am Omega, and Grave Mistake. They're just so bad but in a funny way, and I like the odd little things in these movies such as the over-the-top nudity and cheesy fake violence.

Old horror movies that are in the public domain get recycled again and again for collections like these. Most of them are garbage, but there are some gems in there: Night of the Living Dead, Nosferatu, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Carnival of Souls, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The House on Haunted Hill, The Last Man on Earth, Dementia 13, White Zombie. You'll find these in Mill Creek's 50 Horror Classics set, alongside garbage like The Giant Gilla Monster, Attack of the Giant Leeches, The Beast of Yucca Flats, Creature from the Haunted Sea, and The Brain That Wouldn't Die.

Companies like Mill Creek and Echo Bridge release a lot of collections filled with crap, but they also release a lot of wonderful stuff. Mill Creek's Sherlock Holmes: Greatest Mysteries has eight movies and the entire 39-episode TV series from the 1950s. The picture quality ranges from terrific to awful, since the source material isn't always in such good shape, but it's a steal for ten bucks. Same with Ultraman: The Complete Series. Mill Creek also released excellent Blu-ray collections of the Gamera trilogy from the 90s and the Daimajin trilogy from the 60s, and Echo Bridge released Godzilla vs. Biollante, one of the best films in the series which had never been released on DVD, in a nice Blu-ray edition.

Yeah they are mostly crap, but in my opinion most crappy horror movies are pretty funny. That's why I like them, I love laughing at how stupid they all are.

I watched this classy horror movie at the Grand Cinema in Tacoma last night.

I want to buy the DVD now.

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The DVDs I own by Echo Bridge are The Midnight Horror Collection Vol. 1, The Midnight Horror Collection: Zombies, 15-Film Horror Cult Classics, Paranormal Entity (a mockbuster of Paranormal Activity by The Asylum), and a Double Feature DVD with 8213: Gacy House and Central State: Asylum for the Insane. I also own the Extreme Zombies: 8 Movie Collection by R2 Films (which are even crappier than any of the ones sold by Echo Bridge)

I'm a huge fan of horror movies and especially zombie movies, and I got these movies knowing they were mostly crap movies (except for the 15-Film Horror Cult Classics, that one actually has a lot of really good old horror movies that I've seen before). But for some odd reason I like them, I guess because not only do I like laughing at bad movies but because I'm just such a big fan of horror and zombies. I want to get a couple more in the future like The Midnight Horror Collection: Urban Legends which has a movie about Bloody Mary (the urban legend, not the infamous Queen of England), and there's another DVD made by a different company called Midnight Movies Vol. 9: Zombie Double Feature which has Hell of the Living Dead and Nightmare City. I had actually seen Hell of the Living Dead many years ago and that was the funniest crap zombie movie I had ever seen and was an obvious rip-off of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead. The highlight of the movie was when a female character strips down completely naked and covers herself in tribal paint so that she can infilitrate a tribal village in the jungle.

The Seven Doors of Death is as crappy as I've seen a horror movie get. The intro is b&w, so they decided to water down the blood a little to save money. The rest of the movie has people randomly dieing in grusome ways (real fixation on eyeballs), the most coherent way to explain the plot is that the gates of hell are being opened in the basement of a woman's inherited property.