I love cheap DVDs part 1

The last 6 weeks I have managed to acquire a nice stack of cheap ,$5 and under,dvds. First off I found at a local Movie Gallerys closing sale.

Cemetery Man-Anchor Bay-OOP and one that I missed. Had the cashier check and this had been rented only 7 times since they got it. Cost $5

Let the right one in-Magnet-Been wanting to see this. And had many many people recommend it to me. Cost $5

The King of Kong:A fistful of quarters-New Line-Been wanting to get this one. And it has 2 commentaries and a reversible cover. Cost $5

4-film pack featuring,My best friend is a vampire,Repossessed,Slaughter High Uncut edition,Silent Night Deadly Night 3.Already own SNDN 3 on the recently released 3 pack of the final 3 SNDN sequels. But I figured at 1.25 a movie it was worth getting again. Mainly bought this to replace my "Slaughter High" and "Repossessed" pre-records. Cost $5

Then on a trip to Biloxi,I went to the local Big Lots. Got the following for $3 each.

976-evil-Columbia Tristar-I remembering watching this on Showtime years ago. And for 3 bucks,thought it was worth picking up.

Innocent Blood-Warner brothers-Another I remember seeing on Showtime. Haven't seen it in about 15 years,but do remember liking it last time I saw it.

Career Opportunities-Universal-One of the more under-rated John Hughs movies. It seems like back in the mid 90's this was on cable every other day.

Bloody Murder-Artisan-Never saw this ,but saw Bloody Murder 2. Always here about how bad this is,and seems to be OOP.

April Fools Day 2008-Sony-I enjoyed the original. Haven't seen this one either,but it cost me the price of a rental to buy it.


Then finally,ran by a Movie Gallery in Biloxi. Only got one thing and it was still sealed.

Ghost House Underground Double Feature,Jack Ketchum's Offspring and Seventh Moon-Lionsgate-Been wanting to get Offspring for over a year. And the cheapest I have found it was around 14 bucks. But Movie Gallery had this brand new for $9.50. Haven't seen Seventh Moon,but was more than happy to pay 9 and change for Offspring.

Supreme:Story of the year

Supreme:Story of the Year

written by Alan Moore
art by various artists


This is a trade reprinting the first 13 issues of Alan Moore's revamp of Rob Liefield's bad ripoff of Superman. Alan starts it off with a clean slate,and we find out that Supreme has been away in space for almost 30 years,and has huge chunks of his memory missing. Over the course of 13 issues we are introduced to the various people that are part of Supreme's world. In his secret identity Supreme works as a comic artist on the Omniman title for dazzler comics. Omniman seems to be a thinly veiled ripoff of Superman. We also meet the current writer on Omniman who is a British man. And who I think is heavily based on Grant Morrison. Moore leaves various little clues through out the first 5 or so issues in the collection on how this storyline will end. Things like mentions of various superheroes that Supreme teamed with back in the 40's,50's,and 60s that has disappeared without a trace. Or when Supreme meets his old high school sweethart that lives in his hometown,and runs a Supreme Museum. Throw away mentions of stuff like how Supreme's mortal enemy Daris Dox has died,turn out to be major clues to what will happen later. Moore also tries his best to work in all the corny stuff that was in the fore front of the silver age Superman stories. And unlike those corny ass Superman stories Moore makes them work. Like how Moore takes the concept of Superman/Supreme having a dog that has the same superpowers. Superman had Krypto and Supreme has Radar. But thanks to Alan Moore's writing talent Radar turns out to be a vital part of the story,were as Krypto seemed more like a gimmick. Moore has also through out this storyline had flashbacks to various adventures of Supreme from before he left for his journey through space. And all these flashbacks take on the form of comics,which are done in the style of comics of the eras the stories are set in. Moore also takes two other Liefield creations,Diehard and Glory,and turns them from one note hero/heroines and fleshes them out. Then in the last two issues we get the last parts of the puzzle,and can now see how Moore has been leading up to the final big conflict with one of Supreme's biggest enemies. Another aspect of the trade that I liked was how Alan Moore has thrown in subtle references to various comics artist of the silver age. The art is good to great,I still wonder why it seems no artist managed to stay on the book for more than a few issues. But even with the artist changing every few issues it is still well drawn,and the flashbacks look exactly like the eras they are supposed to have happened in. I give Supreme:story of the year a A.

WWF Wrestling Challenge 5-27-89

Another day another episode of WWF Wrestling Challenge.This one is from 5/27/89. We start off with a match featuring Jake "the Snake" Roberts vs Tom Burton. Not as good as the Jake match on the other episode I watched,but even with a crappy jobber Jake can entertain. Next up is Big John Studd Vs an unnamed Jobber. Well first off I have never been a fan of Studd,he has to be one of the most boring big men in wrestling history. Yeah I know he was better than Giant Gonzalez,but at least Gonzalez had the "Freak show" factor. Anyway boring match,I am sure Big John Dudd won. Now it's time for a tag team match up first is Akeem and Big Bossman AKA the Twin Towers.I never got that name as a kid or even now,it ain't like either of them are really tall. They are facing a jobber team of JT thomas,who isn't that annoying kid from Home Improvement,and Red Tyler. Bossman is one of the few "fat" men that I found enjoyable. And Akeem who is a much better worker than Bossman is great,with all his mannerism and just his whole gimmick of being a black man trapped in a big fat pasty white body. The Twin Towers win,and so far this has been the best match on the show. JT Thomas takes nice bumps,and Red isn't bad for a late 80's WWF jobber. Great we hear music that sounds like rooster's crowing so that means the Red Rooster is on his way to the ring. Growing up in the Mid South/UWF territory I saw a bunch of Terry Taylor. And I was majorly dissapointed when he came to WWF and became one of the worst gimmicks ever. Well this match has him fighting Tim Stock. Even though Taylor is a good worker,you can tell he just doesn't care. The match was total shit.Now on to Curt "Mr Perfect" Henning vs Frank Delfalco. Curt is as always amazing. Delfalco is kinda a Northeast indy "legend". IIRC he also goes by Frankie "the Thumper" Defalco. Good match ,that Curt wins with the Perfectplex. I forgot to mention that earlier we get Mean Gene interviewing Zeus. And there has also been 3 different segments talking about "No Holds Barred". Time for the main event, and just like the last Wrestling Challenge I watched it is a shithole of a match. We get Hillbilly Jim vs another unnamed jobber. Match starts off with Jim wanting to shake hands. Does Jim think this is the early days of ROH? This match like all other HillbillyJim matches I have seen is horrible. Thankfully it is very short. This episode is noticeably better than the last one I watched and gets a B-.

WWF Wrestling Challenge 8/30/87

The other day I was going thru a stack of discs. And found one that had the 8/30/87 episode of Wrestling Challenge. Back in the day before cable was in my area this and Saturday Nights Main event were the only way to see WWF. Later on I have found out that Wrestling Challenge is considered the "B" show of all the syndicated WWF shows.

OK first match,we got Jake "the snake" Roberts vs Steve Lombardi. This is from before Lombardi became the Brooklyn Brawler,and at this time he was one of the more well known jobbers in the WWF. Decent match and of course Jake wins. After the pin he goes and gets his snake outta the bag and puts it on Steve. The second match has Killer Khan vs Jack Milliman. I am pretty sure Jack Milliman is the same guy who went by Jake Milliman in the AWA. Pretty crappy match,but I really don't think I have ever seen a good Killer Khan match. Third match has Butch "the Natural" Reed vs Brady Boone. This is Boone before he became Battlekat. Why hasn't there ever been a Battlekat action figure,he deserves one more than Shockmaster? Boone is a decent worker,and Reed is way under-rated. Sadly the match is short. But still it so far has been the best match on the show. Next up is George "the Animal" Steele vs Rick Gantner. Typical Steele match,lots of brawling and of course he rips open the top turnbuckle. I think Gantner was a guy who appeared a bunch on the various WWF syndicated shows. Usually he lost,actually I don't think I have ever seen him win a match. Time for the 5Th match of the show,and it's a tag team match. In one corner we have "The King" Harley Race and Hercules Hernandez vs a team of jobbers. The announcers never mention who the jobbers are. Race is decent in the match,but Hercules and the jobbers are just huge bags of suck. Now it's time for the WWF Wrestling Challenge main event. Koko B. Ware vs Dave Wagner,which confuses me cause that sounds more like an opening match than a main event. Koko is OK here,he was so much better back in Memphis. And Wagner,well he is total shit. Boring match that gets way too much time. The show ends with previews of who will be on the next weeks show. Overall a below average show,that wouldn't work at all today with the average wrestling fan. I give it a C-.

Smackdown vs Raw 2010 DS

A few years back I picked up the 2008 DS version of this game. And was one of the worst games I had ever played. For some unknown reason the developers made all the controls based around the stylus. Which made for a very annoying game. But when I saw on the back of the 2010 version that this time it used the basic d-pad and buttons control scheme I figured it would be worth buying. And it so far has been. The Create a wrestler feature is fairly detailed,and so far I have created 3 different CAWs. The storyline feature seems to have some depth and replay value. The graphics look really good for the DS. The roster is pretty large when you consider this is a handheld version. Now I haven't finished the storyline mode,I think I am about halfway through it so far. But so far their has been plenty of humor and just plain strange stuff in the story. The only real negatives to the game are first the annoying mini games you have to play to increase your stats. Most of them are button mashers,that get pretty old pretty quick. The music is mostly shit,well besides the various superstars entrance themes. But overall the game is worth what I paid for it. Smackdown vs Raw 2010 gets a B+.

Ok gonna be awhile till I make a new post

Just been feeling like shit lately,the change of seasons has majorly effected my mood. So I will be at least a week or so before I put up any new reviews. Sorry :).

House of the devil

House of the Devil is a recent film from director Ti West. A young college student has just moved into her first apartment and is trying to get enough money to cover her first months rent. She sees an advert for a babysitting job and calls the listed phone number. Turns out it is a couple that needs her to babysit on the night of a Lunar eclipse. She gets her best friend to drive her out to the house,and while she feels uneasy about taking the job. Her uneasiness is tempered by the father of the couple offering her $400,It seems they have no kid and just want her there to keep an eye on his wife's elderly mother. After the couple leaves she goes walking around the house and finds what seems to be a kid's room that has many current toys laying around. This causes her to get weirded out. Meanwhile while on her friend is driving home and stops in a local cemetery to rest and have a cig. While trying to light her cigarette she is startled by a scruffy looking man. He ask her if she is the one coming out to babysit,and when she says no. He shoots her point blank,and we get to see a nice blood and brain splatter scene. Back at the house,the young girl orders a pizza,while waiting she goes an plays a game of billiards. Finally there is a knock at the front door and it's the guy who killed her friend in the graveyard. She gives him a $20 and slams the door. Finally she sits down to eat and calm down. But after one slice she hears a strange sound upstairs and goes to investigate. But after she gets up to the third floor ,every thing gets all cloudy and she passes out. When she comes to she is in an all white dress and tied to the floor in the middle of a huge pentagram. It seems the parents and what I assume has to be their "child" are gonna sacrifice her. She manages to get one arm free and quickly gets herself free. She runs off but is confronted by the "pizza delivery" man. He shoots her in her right shoulder,but thinking quickly she slashes his throat with a knife she had managed to pick up in the kitchen. The two parents chase after her,but she manages to escape out of the house and runs down the long road. She makes it all the way to the graveyard and is confronted by the father,she uses the gun she got off pizza man and shoots herself in the head.Then we cut to a hospital room,where our heroine is laying in a bed almost completely covered with bandages. A nurse is attending to her and says "No worries you and your little one are gonna be OK." And then the credits roll. This film is one I have been hearing about for about the past 9 months all over the Internet. It is a throwback to the 80's horror films,but I also noticed a heavy 70's made for TV horror film vibe to it. It is a very very slow build,with nothing much happening until the 1 hour mark. But while in other films I would find this a major problem in this film it just works at building the tension. One thing that stood out to me is how grainy the picture was. I watched this on my decent sized LCD TV and the DVD is 16x9 anamorphic,so I assume it was supposed to look this grainy. The grain didn't really detract from the film,it actually made it feel more like something I would have rented and watched back in 1984 on the Beta max. The acting was all around pretty good. House of the Devil gets a B+.

Hellraiser Hellseeker

I have been a huge fan of the Hellraiser series of films since the first one came out oh so many years ago. But had never bothered seeing any of them that came out after part 5 AKA Hellraiser Inferno. Well a few weeks back at Coast Con a very nice female recommended to me Hellraiser Hellseeker which is the 6Th film in the series. The film starts of with Dean Winters and Ashley Laurence ,who are a married couple taking a drive in their car. While getting a kiss from his beautiful wife Dean swerves into the other lane and has to swerve back quickly to stop from being hit by oncoming traffic. This causes him to lose control of the car and it goes off a bridge into a lake. Dean manages to get out of the car,but sadly his wife doesn't and He sees her die. We then see him at the hospital. While there a cop shows up and starts asking a bunch of questions. It seems when the car was removed from the lake the cops couldn't find Ashley's body. Dean ends up as the prime suspect,and the cops seem to think he has killed his wife. He keeps having flashbacks,and very weird hallucinations. And also is suffering from massive headaches. The further we get into the movie the more it seems that reality is being replaced by what to me seems to be a very Lovecraftian world. The lead cenobite Pinhead shows up at various times during the movie giving Dean cryptic clues as to what is going on. And as I predicted everything is finally explained in the final 10 minutes. The various practical and CGI special effects in the film are very well done for a film that I am sure didn't have a huge budget. And it was nice to see Ashley Laurence back playing Kirsty. Dean Winters is an actor that before this I had only seen on Rescue Me,and had enjoyed his performances on that show. Before this film I had a theory about the various Hellraiser films. IMHO the odd numbered films were good to great and the even numbered ones were below average to pure shit. This one disproved that theory. I find Hellraiser Hellseeker to be the third best film in the series. And plan on buying it sometime soon. Hellraiser Hellseeker gets a B.

Trailer Park Boys:Countdown to Liquor Day

Thanks to a buddy that lives in Nova Scotia,I found out about what has become one of my favorite sitcoms of all time. Trailer park boys,which sadly does air in the USA,was a TV series that aired on Showcase up in Canada. A few years ago a theatrical movie was made and released. But it really wasn't in the same continuity of the TV show. Well sometime last year I found out that Trailer park boys was ending and wrapping it all up with a second theatrical movie. Of course this film ,as far as I know,didn't play any theater in the USA. But this past Tuesday it got a DVD release. And thanks to Netflix I got it Saturday. The movie like most seasons of the show opens up with Julian,Ricky,and Bubbles getting outta jail. But when they get back to their home,Sunnyvale Trailer park,everything has changed. But Julian has a plan to make sure they all end up very rich and won't have to worry about anything. Besides Corey and Trevor,who most fans of the series will know why they didn't appear,almost every other character makes at least a cameo appearance. I'm not sure how funny this movie will be to someone that has never seen the show,but to long time fans it is one of the funniest movies I have seen in years. The producers had a much bigger budget for this film than they ever had for the TV show,and it shows. You get more locations and and I am sure there is some cameos by Canadian celebs that I didn't notice. The soundtrack was almost perfect,just needed more Helix. The only thing missing from the movie is an appearance of the Bottle Kids. But that doesn't harm the film at all. Trailer Park Boys:countdown to Liquor Day is almost perfect and gets a A-.

Daredevil-The Cutting edge

Daredevil The Cutting Edge came out a few years back. And was part of a line of novels based on the various Marvel heroes. I found it in a local used bookstore over 2 years ago. And finally dug it out to read a few days back when my insomnia had flared up and I was averaging about 1 or 2 hours sleep each night. First off the novel is very short,249 pages to be exact. It has two main stories going on at once. The first one is all about a pro-bono case Matt Murdock takes that involves a bio tech company that seems to be buying up huge amounts of land in and around Hell's Kitchen NYC. The second story is about a new villain that has been nicknamed The Cutter by the local press,At first it looks like the Cutter is attacking random people in the Hell's Kitchen area,and cutting them up with a huge knife. Daredevil runs into the Cutter during one of his nightly patrols,and is weirded out cause he can't seem to get a lock on the Cutter's heartbeat. Sadly by the second chapter I had figured out not only who the Cutter was,but that the bio tech company,and the Cutter were connected. And had made a pretty accurate guess on how the novel would end. If I had paid more than a buck for this book I would be pissed. But for a buck it was an OK way to pass 3 hours. Daredevil The Cutting Edge earns a C-.