We’ve got a massive collection of DVDs and Blu-rays, and I’d estimate easily 95% of them are genre films (sci-fi, fantasy, horror). They run the gamut from classics to trash but I’ve watched them all, and now we no longer have cable find ourselves watching DVDs far more than ever!
It’s a good thing therefore there’s always something new, like this haul I got for my birthday…
The Dr Who serial is the last release for original series material and I have to say I enjoyed it quite a lot. Sherlock season 4 we haven’t watched yet, but I think it’ll be good. Florry gave me pause though…
Street Fighter is a terrible film and we saw it at the movies (!) when it came out. I wanted to rewatch it though and KLS found it for dirt cheap! The 4-pack on the right was bought for Kull (which we also saw at the movies and is just a wretched film…) but for the low cost and both Conan films included who can resist?
And the Argento? Another film I’ve been curious about for years that hasn’t been on Hulu, Netflix or (free) Prime. It’s apparently not great, but I think I may like it. Besides, I’m this || close to going on a full-on euro-vampire movie bender and just spending a fortune on Jean Rollin and Jess Franco stuff so the Argento is maybe to scratch that itch.
I still watch a lot of anime and since I’m too stubborn to use Crunchyroll that means I do my bit to keep the DVD collection market alive! Gantz should be fun if it’s anything like the recent film. Desert Punk I know nothing about but was cheap and Highschool DxD is the third collection of the funny harem comedy.
The top two are no surprise to anyone that knows me. I’ll just say thank god Chinese Odyssey finally got a western release! The bottom two are because I can no longer ignore those that claim these two are better than Chows films. We shall see…
So I’m on a little Hammer high. At the risk of sounding old, ‘they don’t make horror like they used to’ and I’ve always been a bigger fan of the (literally) theatric and creepy Hammer style than US horror (like Halloween or Friday the 13th). I’ve watched loads of Hammer already on streaming, but the best ones (from the 70s) are unavailable free do it was time to step to the next level. Hammer House Of Horror is the anthology TV show from 1980 that I remember watching as a kid. It’s creepy and the plots are unpredictable and we’re really enjoying it!
Now that I’m making these posts and documenting the stuff I got it seems like too much doesn’t it? Remember I bought much of this myself (or put it on a list) so it may be a stretch to call them birthday gifts. But I did get some surprises, which you’ll start seeing tomorrow…