March 4th, 2008DVD Releases (03.04.2008)
This was shaping up to be a sad week for DVD releases, until I came across these “Cult Fiction” re-releases:
Cult Fiction: The Man Who Fell to Earth
See David Bowie as a mysterious, androgynous alien creature. In a movie, no less!
Cult Fiction: The Wicker Man
Not 2006’s terrible, terrible remake (Rotten Tomatoes: 16%). The original, Saturn-Award-winning British film (Rotten Tomatoes: 90%) often appears on “best” lists of fans and critics alike. Who will stop Nicholas Cage before he kills again?
Cult Fiction: C.H.U.D.
This kitschy 80s classic gets the award for best re-hydrated acronym name ever: Cannibalistic Underground Humanoid Dwellers. It only gets 20% at Rotten Tomatoes, but it’s the good kind of 20%.
Cult Fiction: Return of the Killer Tomatoes
It’s ten years after The Great Tomato War, but Professor Mortimer Gangreen, played by John “Gomez Addams” Astin, is about to unleash a new red menace on an unsuspecting world. It’s “gayer than Kiss of the Spider Woman“. If for nothing else, see it for a performance by the young George Clooney.
Cult Fiction: The Quiet Earth
Cult Fiction: Night of the Living Dorks
Cult Fiction: Road Games
Mega Snake
Do you remember how the winner of Who Wants to Be a Superhero was supposed to get his/her own movie? Had Fat Momma won, I would have paid cash money for actual theater tickets. Since it was Feedback, I wasn’t too disappointed when his movie turned into a short cameo on a Sci Fi Channel original movie. I did watch it when it premiered, but now I’m wondering why it didn’t make the cut for their recent snake weekend (see Angry Puppy: Episode 16).
These single Doctor Who episodes are available on DVD, though I’m not sure why you’d buy DVDs with just one episode. Anyone?
Double Features:
- Mortuary / Prom Night
- 10.5 Apocalypse / Category 7: The End of the World
- Raging Sharks / Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep
The usual miscellaneous horror:
- Automaton Transfusion
- Carver (unrated)
and Carver
(regular)
- The Fun Park
- Army of the Dead
- The Forever Dead
- Suburban Sasquatch
- Crypt of Terror: Horror from South of the Border Volume 2
- Satan’s Whip
- Experiment
- Torment
- Dead Moon Rising
- Naked Beneath the Water [HD DVD]
- The Deepening
- The Legend of the Honey Island Swamp Monster
March 4th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
The classic Doctor Who DVDs are multi part stories that just go under one name (Destiny of the Daleks part one, part two ect.). I’m surprised you didn’t know that Lee. Be sure to feel the appropriate amount of geek shame. ;-)
March 4th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Minus 10 for me.
I was actually making fun of Marc, because he has some of these (Episodes 115 - 117).
Even though they’re about an hour and a half long each, they still seem like individual looong episode to me.
I wasn’t a Doctor Who fan until the recent re-boot. We didn’t have it when I was a kid, and, for the old ones, you really had to be there.
March 4th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
I’m the same about the old ones (people sure seem to get captured, escape and then get re-captured a lot) but I am getting in to them more. “City of Death” and “Ark in Space” are particular highlights. :-)
March 5th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Genesis of the Daleks is quite a trip into Tom Baker land. Vintage DW is often a toss up, but Doctor Four and Five have some good moments.
Leave it to Hollywood to remove Christopher Lee and add Nick Cage to an awesomely weird movie like “The Wicker Man.” Some things–like crazy Scottish neo-pagans–should be left in 70’s (and periodically released on DVD).