It's the third batch of movies from the Mill Creek 50 movie pack. There are 9 movies on 2 double sided discs.
Disc 5 Side A
First up Eternal Evil, a 1985 movie with Karen Black also known as The Blue Man. Never was a big fan of Miss Black for some reason. She always does a good job but she's in more dramas than horror films and the horror films she's in are none too good. This is about that level, none too good, while still being watchable. It's just a dull thing with the occasional murder by a guy who learns to astroproject. His body goes on a killing spree when left alone. The cops get involved and it takes ages to get to the end of the story. There are some evil people who swap bodies and have been living for centuries. The stuff they might have seen, huh. Almost makes those murders worth it.
Evil Brain From Outer Space is the 4th of the Starman movies with Ken Utusi. It's made up of the last three short movies in the Super Giant series. The three movies were 159 minutes orginally and that has been cut down into a 78 minute movie. Lots is missing from the three stand alone stories. There's evil doin's as aliens try to invade the Earth. Between the exposition there's pretty much one chase or fight after another. Luckily Starman is there to help. Like the other's in the series it's entertaining for what it is but not that great. There are a whole underground lair full of costumed creeps that need a beat down. The monster Starman fights is pretty silly but the scenery is nice to see. There seem to be a lot more children in this movie than the first two in this set. I wouldn't mind seeing subtitled copies of the original series.
Disc 5 Side B
Shadow of Chinatown is a 1936 serial starring Bela Lugosi that has been cut down from 300 minues to 71 minutes. Bela partners up with an evil young lady who works for some evil businessmen who wants to ruin the merchants in Chinatown San Francisco. Bela and the lady work to ruin the tourist trade. There's a reporter or two, some cops and a lot of running about.
The Disappearance of Flight 412 is a 1974 made for tv movie with Glenn Ford as an airforce colonel that sends some men out on a mission in their radar plane. It sees some blips that don't fly normally and then two fighter jets disappear. The crew are locked up and interrogated but they don't know anything and at the end of the movie we don't either. Not worth seeing.
Idaho Transfer is a movie that is on another box set that I have, maybe two. It's a 1973 movie directed by Peter Fonda. There's a time travel machine and the travellers discover that the end of the world is in just a few years. Most of the movie was shot in the bleak Craters of the Moon area in Idaho. Keith Carradine is the only well known actor to appear in the movie, most of the cast did not pursue a film career. I didn't find the film that interesting and I didn't care much about the characters. There's little or no hope in the thing. Not one I need to see again.
Disc 6 Side A
Good Against Evil is a 1977 TV movie about devil worshippers. You can see the first two covers have a good versus evil sort of look to them, but that third cover makes the movie look like porn. There's nothing like walls of fire and strippers in the movie. Some one want to fool the dvd buyer or renter into picking up a movie that isn't going to satisfy anyone. Some guy meets a pretty young dress designer and they start dating. Sadly Satan wants her for his bride and the couple has to fight his ass off. Richard Lynch plays the devil's minion. He's always pretty good as the villian. There's not much of an ending as the movie was meant to be the pilot for a series that never got sold. It just didn't have much going for it and lacked any original ideas or interesting characters. It's not a movie that I would care to watch again. This box sure isn't offering much by way of movies to re-watch.
Alien Zone is another movie that I had seen in another box set under the title House Of The Dead. Not so oddly there are no aliens in the movie, it's just some business jerks retitling a movie or book to fool you into thinking you might want to see or read it again. I did scan through it and remembered that it was another piece of crap. Some guy's been out cheating on his wife. He gets dropped off on the wrong street in a heavy rain. A mortician invites him in to his funeral home and tells the guy a story about each of the four stiffs in his coffins. The first is about a lady that hates kids and she gets killed by some of them. It makes little or no sense, as did the second bit about a guy who invites women into his apartment and stranges them. In a weirdly filmed scene at the end of the segment it looks like he was arrested and we have to assume he was tried convicted and executed before he got to the funeral home. It's not clear. The third segment has a pair of detectives investigating a crime. That's about the best part of the movie and it isn't that great. The last bit has a guy fall down an elevator shaft and survive. Then a wall of nails nearly kills him. Where did that come from. The wall opens again and some wine rolls out. He drinks that, and several bottles more, and after we cut to the framing story the mortician says he died later, drunk, his liver rotted. The guy in the framing story runs away when the mortician tells him he's got a spot ready for him. Outside the cheatin' guy is murdered by the husband of the woman he was cheating with. Who wrote this? David O'Malley, not very good Mr. O'Malley, not very good. He's someone who needs his nuts kicked.
Disc 6 Side B
The Fury Of The Wolf Man is a crappy Paul Naschy movie from 1972. It's Spanish and it scores a 2.6 on the IMDb which means it's one of Paul's better movies. In the mountains of Tibet Paul is bitten by a Yeti and that turns him into a werewolf. What? He attacks his wife and is killed and later revived by a science lady. Now that's makin's some sense. I'm lyin' it's all pretty stupid. I'm not at all a fan of the late Naschy. He's a pretty piss poor actor. A lady scientist is making mutants and she stores them in her basement. That's just a bad idea. The bad ideas keeep on coming and eventually most of the people in the movie get murdered. Not a movie I would recommend to anyone.
House Of The Living Dead rates even lower on the IMDb. It rates a 2.3 and that's about right for this lack luster science and voodoo movie set, and filmed, in South Africa. There certainly aren't any zombies, that's not what the title refers to. A guy has been experimenting with the transfer of souls. He brings his finacee to the house against his mother's wishes. She wants the family to die off and this is not helping. The local's are unhappy with the guy and his evil ways. It all leads to death and madness at the end of the movie. It takes a long boring time to get to the payoff and it sucks. Yet another movie to avoid rewatching.
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