I think I hit the jackpot
 

I found a DVD at Walmart today that features 6 classic horror movies, 4 of which are some of my all-time favorites. This DVD includes: Night of the Living Dead, House on Haunted Hill, Dementia 13, The Brain That Wouldn't Die, Night of Bloody Horror, and Nosferatu.

The only complaint I have about it is that this version of Nosferatu seems to be lesser quality than the version I had watched before. It's missing some scenes, the soundtrack isn't as good, and for some reason it uses the original names of the characters from Bram Stoker's Dracula like Count Orlock is Dracula, Max is Johnathan Harker, etc. I dunno why but I kind of liked the other names better.

But other than that I am very satisfied with my recent purchase today. Now I am looking into buying a DVD from Walmart's website that has Carnival of Souls and four other bonus movies. ::cool::

Good set. I have this super cheap 4 DVD set of 20 horror films that include all of those except The Brain That Wouldn't Die, Night of Bloody Horror, and Nosferatu. I've even heard of Night of Bloody Horror. But the movie I have does have the original Little Shop of Horrors, Maniac and The Last Man on Earth.

I've never watched The Brain That Wouldn't Die (or Night of Bloody Horror) but I've heard good things about it. Apparently it's pretty violent for a movie that came out in the early 60's and has a scene of a man getting his arm ripped off.

Also I just ordered the Carnival of Souls DVD with four bonus movies and I have no idea what the four extra movies are but I hope they're good lol. I'll let you guys know once I get it.

dvd bargains
 

Six movies on a dvd? That's nothing. I bought a dvd for ten bucks at Walmart that had 50 horror movies. I guess "classic horror movie" to them means "movie that doesn't happen to be under copyright right now."
But the quality varied greatly, from good to unwatchable.

The dvd included a movie that I was the only one in the world to have ever seen: a peculiar vampire movie from the 1940s called Dead Men Walk, starring George Zucco. He plays twin brothers, one good and the other evil.
I suppose not many people remember Zucco, except for his playing Prof. Moriarty in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Basil Rathbone.

Here's another movie that I thought only I knew about. I saw this movie on the late late show when I was a child. Last night I saw it in the cable listings: On Borrowed Time, starring Lionel Barrymore. It's about an old man who had Death (Sir Cedric Hardwick) trapped in his apple tree.

Speaking of Death as a character, I have never seen the original Death Takes a Holiday, starring Fredric March. My sister says that's its the corniest movie she's ever seen.
As you all know, Fredric March is the only actor to win a Best Actor Oscar for a performance in a horror movie: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Carnival of Souls
 

I hope you enjoy Carnival of Souls. I suppose a lot of people who only know recent horror movies would find it very slow moving.
Clive Barker says that modern audiences won't sit still for any kind of careful character development or building up atmosphere. They want to see heads flying off, and they want it RIGHT NOW.

I've already seen it and it's one of my favorites. The reason I bought the other DVD was because it had so many of my favorites on one DVD. I usually don't buy those kinds of DVDs because they mostly have crap but I really liked this one and I'm sure I'll like the one with Carnival of Souls too. Hopefully it'll have some good movies.

OK I bought the one with Carnival of Souls and it comes with The Last Man on Earth which I heard was really good, White Zombie which I also heard was good, The Bat, and Chamber of Horrors. Sounds like some promising movies on this DVD. ::smile::

Good set. You get to see a nice copy of Last Man. The Bat is an interesting film, good writing in the beginning, talented actors and good sets.

I watched some parts of it and it kind of reminds me of Night of the Living Dead. Are those people supposed to be like zombies basically?

A type of vampire actually... from a virus outbreak.

Ah, well the way they were dressed in rags and banging on the boarded-up windows trying to get in reminded me of Night of the Living Dead. Maybe this movie was one of the inspirations for George Romero's zombie classic? I read somewhere that Carnival of Souls was another one of his favorites and I suspect that he took inspiration from that movie too.::smile::

Yes, I read Last Man on Earth, Omega Man, Night of the Living Dead and I Am Legend, are all taken from the short story I Am Legend by Richard Matheson.

SPOILERS

And have you ever noticed how Barbara is very similar to the character Mary Henry from Carnival of Souls? Both are quirky young women with blonde hair who are being attacked by the undead and they loose their sanity before the ghouls eventually get them in the end.

Yes I did. ::big grin:: The first time I saw the cover art of Carnival of Souls I thought it WAS Barbara. The freaked-out head-spinning expression is pretty much identical.

P.S. But you should really not reveal the ending of Carnival for those who haven't seen it. Well, I guess that goes for NLD too, but who hasn't seen that?

Lol sorry I'm the world's worst about forgetting to put spoiler alerts. ::smile::

But yeah speaking of Barbara and Mary Henry I loved how they both had such eccentric characteristics. Like how Mary Henry was an introvert who worked as a church organ player despite the fact that she was implied to be an atheist (something that was probably very unusual in the 1960's), and how Barbara was a grown woman still living at home with her elderly mother and brother Johnny and how she relied on her brother to drive her back and forth to the cemetery to pay her respects to her deceased father even though she obviously had a phobia of the cemetery which her brother teased her about.

I just think it made them both really interesting as characters. There was more to them than just being the scared chick in a horror movie.

Edit: Also the strangeness of Barbara's character was shined upon even more in the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead. Her mother was implied to be somewhat abusive and controlling by her brother Johnny and it was even implied that the reason she was unmarried and still being dependant on her brother was due to her mother, yet Barbara seemed to be in denial about this and was angry at her brother for complaining about it.