First Film Bought on the Internet
 

What was the first film that you purchased on the internet? My first purchase on the internet was Frankenstein (1931) on Amazon.com.

Cannibal Holocaust, its not a movie easily found in my neck of the woods, and I was dying from curiosity, Begged someone with a credit card to order for me which they graciously did (for a small fee of course) wasn't from ebay or amazon
but some strange Indonesian shady site, sent it with just the dvd no case or booklet, no regrets here, lol I still have it!

What did you think of the movie?

I'm assuming you had seen this movie before?

The first internet movie I purchased was The Amazing Spiderman 2012, because I didn't see it in the theatre, and figured I'd probably like it, so might as well buy instead of rent. Well... let's just say, I doubt I'll ever watch it again.

There was now way you had the internet in 1931.

The region 2 Phantasm collection in the sphere, off a site called XPloited cinema which was amazing but sadly no longer exists. It was chock full of hard to find stuff and great imports. I'm sure I was buying some things off of Deepdiscount or Amazon at the time but that's the first that really sticks out.

Shaun of the dead, the UK release.
Heaps of extras.
I downloaded it when I'd first heard about it, knew I had to have it.
Ordered it within a week, even though it took a month to get to me in Australia, I still had it some 5 months before it even hit the cinemas here. That was slow.
No regrets.

His Name Was Jason....had a hard time finding this in stores so I went on over to Amazon.

Fear Dot Com.

I bought it a few years ago.

I had thought it was going to be in the vein of movies like Blood Sucking Freaks, just wildly exploitative and crazy for the sake of crazy. But found it fascinatingly unsettling, all in all I do like it, It's not one that I watch over and over again, but it does have a prominent spot among my collection, and I always
mention it and lend it out to anyone I know looking to delve into those grindhouse type flicks.

(Could have done without the animal killings BUT I suppose that helped its notoriety, which if it didnt have, I might've never heard of it)

Hey! You couldn't have bought it a few years ago cause 1931 was a lot of years ago!!!! :p

Doesn't sound like anyone who's seen it is saying it was particularly good, just unsettling. I've never seen it, but it sounds like a fictional version of Faces of Death (I don't mean the story is exact, just generally speaking).

Cannibal Holocaust is a fantastic film - its clever, manipulative and head and shoulders above the rest of the genre. It has an amazing soundtrack and is one of the first films to use the 'found footage' technique which it uses to turn the audience into uncomfortable voyeurs while at the same time exploiting what it pretends to condemn.

I bought the 1931 version of Frankenstein around the year 2008. That was the first time I ever bought any film on the internet. That was what I was trying to say, not that it was the first film I bought the year it came out. They did not have internet or take home movies (i.e dvd, vhs, etc.) in 1931, and I would not be born until many decades in the future (from a 1931 perspective).

I appreciate all the aspects of Cannibal Holocaust that you mentioned, but I thought that it went way too far. There is only so much violence and sexual stuff that I can handle and that movie went way over my personal line. I recognize its brilliance and contribution to horror movies, but will likely never watch it again.

100% agree with this. I saw it expecting the usual exploitation nonsense, and walked away thinking it was actually a good film.

From what I can tell, in March 1999 I bought Beautiful Girls, Clay Pigeons and Joe's Apartment on DVD from Amazon.com.

I bought the Tox Box a few years ago. The first three Toxic Avenger films and the Toxic Crusaders "movie" which was essentially 3-4 episodes just played back to back to back. lol

What can I say? I'm a Troma guy, always have been always will be.