Chilling Vs. Horror: The Deep Discount Mystery Box

mike

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28 oct 2006 :: 12:00am

I ordered the Horror Classics 50 Moviepack from Deep Discount DVD featuring Nosferatu, Metropolis, Night of the Living Dead, King of the Zombies, Carnival of Souls, Dementia 13, Revolt of the Zombies, and oh so many more. 

Well, the package arrived today.  Except it wasn't 50 Horror Classics, it was 50 Chilling Classics.  The reason being the Chilling Classics product description was the one for Horror Classics, listing the aforementioned movies, and I don't have the attention to detail to figure that the fuck out.

Apparently, the difference between Horror Classics & Chilling Classics in Deep Discounts taxonomy is that Horror contains a few true classics (eg. Night of the Living Dead, Nosferatu, & Metropolis (horror, though?), whereas Chilling is comprised of such fare as Killer Driller, Silent Night Bloody Night, & Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (which can't possibly live up to its expectations).

In some ways the Chilling Classics Pack seems to be the poor cousin of the Horror Classics.  For instance, Horror has Little Shop of Horrors about a man and his man-eating plant, while Chilling has the Revenge of Dr. X about an astronaut and his man-eating plant.  There may be a third leg in this race with Horror's The Amazing Mr. X.  I've also noticed certain patterns in the Chilling Collection: Mental Institutions (escapees or recent releases), women in pain (I can live without), and beatniks.  Murderous beatniks.  One of whom is played by Columbo.

But, and this is where we see the silver lining (just in case you haven't seen it already), the Chilling Classics has Peter Jackson's Bad Taste, and someone else's Oasis of the Zombies, which I mention because of the following two words in the plot synopsis:  Nazi Zombies.  And yes, those two words are together, just so.

Also, Deep Discount's 50 moviepacks are $16.32 each (although several, if not all, are in the public domain, and readily available for download).  So all told, each set contains around 70-75 hours of movies, and at least 20 hours of actual entertainment from those movies, minus the hours of negative entertainment inflicted by some of the other movies, and you still wind up 6-7 hours of entertainment to the good.  And where else can you be entertained for that long for less than $3.00 an hour?

—Update 12:32 AM—

For some of these packs the discount isn't quite as deep as it is at Amazon.com, plus there are 20 movie packs which have a lot of duplicates from the 50 movie packs, but may be less insulting to your dignity.  Or more so, depending on what you like.