The Best of the Worst – 12 Horror Movie Collection (DVD)

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From Mill Creek comes a dozen horror and fantasy films so bad you’ll want to eventually claw your eyes out. You could call this a compilation of films from the “Mystery Science Theater 3000” gallery. Except without the hilarious commentary to ease the pain. If you’re interested in owning these films sans the commentaries, it’s here for the taking!

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Zombies Un-Brained 12 Film Flesh Fest (DVD)

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This October, zombie fans are able to scoop up the newest film compilation from Mill Creek Entertainment. With over sixteen hours of classic and not so classic zombie movies, this is for the horror fans looking for more with their bucks. The 1962 shocker “Carnival of Souls” is a classic spook fest, about a young woman who crashes in to a lake and survives to tell the tale. Trying to make sense of the incident, she finds herself being stalked by pale bug eyed zombies, all of whom are identical and desperate to take her. For reasons unknown (until the very end), she can’t escape their grasp.

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Taboo Tales – 12 Movie Collection (DVD)

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With the advent of indie film making and easy accessibility of technology, I’m surprised there isn’t a surge of exploitation films warning of the dangers of abortion and teen pregnancy. Back in the thirties and forties where America was paralyzed by the fear of youth culture destroying society with weed and abortion, exploitation PSA’s were all the rage. Mill Creek Entertainment offers up twelve of the best of the worst shock exploitation films about teens led astray by crime and drugs from their devotion to common American practices of the time like Christianity, Education, and making sure the black people didn’t use the same toilets white folks did.

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The Last Dance – Raw Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1999)

MST3K Raw is strictly for hardcore fans of the Mystery Science Theater show. It’s a series of raw clips and behind the scenes footage of the entire crew of the show filming the final episode in which Mike and his friends are accidentally sent back to Earth. As one final bit of pain, Pearl makes the guys watch “Diabolik.” I remember watching this last episode on the Sci-Fi Channel, and still wonder why the show had to come to a close. It was fine the way it was.

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The Censored Eleven, Part Three: Clean Pastures (1937)

“The Censored Eleven” are the unofficial eleven animated shorts that have been banned, censored, or edited from public consumption and haven’t been seen by most in America. While some of the shorts have been released with a commentary about its social and political context, most are strictly taboo. In this limited series, we’ll review the censored eleven and figure out why these titles are still very volatile.

Clean Pastures (1937)
I. Freleng

Merrie Melodies

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The Censored Eleven, Part Two: Sunday Go to Meetin' Time (1936)

“The Censored Eleven” are the unofficial eleven animated shorts that have been banned, censored, or edited from public consumption and haven’t been seen by most in America. While some of the shorts have been released with a commentary about its social and political context, most are strictly taboo. In this limited series, we’ll review the censored eleven and figure out why these titles are still very volatile.

Sunday Go to Meetin’ Time (1936)
Friz Freleng
Merrie Melodies

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The Censored Eleven, Part One: Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land (1931)

“The Censored Eleven” are the unofficial eleven animated shorts that have been banned, censored, or edited from public consumption and haven’t been seen by most in America. While some of the shorts have been released with a commentary about its social and political context, most are strictly taboo. In this limited series, we’ll review the censored eleven and figure out why these titles are still very volatile.

Hittin’ the Trail for Hallelujah Land (1931)
Rudolf Ising
Merrie Melodies

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