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11-16-2006, 06:41 AM
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Classics on DVD for cheap
Was in the Dollar General store last night...they have a ton of old horror movies on DVD...some are like $1-$3...some old Italian Horror...some b-n-w Bela Legosi and Karloff's....work a buck or two for some of these to add to the collection. Had some more modern ones in the $3-$5 (had all of the Matrix movies including Animatrix for 2 for $10).
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12-08-2006, 08:23 AM
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Indubitably. I got Night of the Living Dead and House on Haunted Hill at a dollar store for (gasp) a dollar. The lads at Brentwood Communications have a large variety of old horror classics for a buck. At another dollar store I found Carnival of Souls. The dollar bin is in the next few years going to be a serious force for cultural change. Any curious kid at the mall with a couple bucks to burn can see Nosferatu or the Cabinet of Doctor Caligari now. One of the downsides to DVD is that a lot of classic cinema is rendered quite costly. The upside is a lot of it is rendered quite cheap. The Legacy box sets are a value of similar magnitude, though not quite as dramatic. There isn't anybody who should consider themselves beneath checking a dollar bin for some lost cult classic. I found Santa Claus Conquers the Martians once, and another time Christopher Lee in Horror Hotel and Terror in the Crypt. Anybody just building their collection should try gambling the dollar on some unknown gem. What else are you gonna do with it?
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12-11-2006, 03:16 PM
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That is so awesome. I wish shit like that would happen in my town.
However, doesn't it make you a little sad, maybe right down in some corner of your mind? You know, it's like pooping on something that's really sort of priceless. These movies are great and they're a part of a rich genre. You wouldn't see Casablanca for a buck...would you? (Can I make that comparisson? I mean this is a Horror forum).
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12-12-2006, 08:48 AM
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I think it's very sad that film rights were trivialized by studios in their time to the point at which fantastic movies get cheap and the rights can be purchased by any yokel with three hundred bucks and the capacity to print DVDs. I would say that in the age of free downloads and a more globalized America, that cultural availability is worth many of its trade-offs. I think also that the import the buyers and owners put on items, is in the longtime a better testimony to the movie than the import companies put on an item. What in the long run is a better testimony to a movie's quality, the import to fans or the import to studio cyborgs? In that same bin was Hitchcock's Man Who Knew Too Much, and I don't think it hurt Hitchcock any. I'm not sure that in the long run cheapening, is really...well, cheapening. It's much better than films being priced outside the grasp of the populace. People making 5.15 an hour are moving towards having the same experiences in filmdom as the middle class, and that to me isn't pooping on something priceless, it's unearthing a treasure for everyone.
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