Nightmare Worlds 50 Movie Pack Collection

Platform:  DVD MOVIE Publisher:  MILL CREEK ENTERTAINMENT Packaging:  RETAIL BOX Rating:  MATURE The world faces annihilation time and time again in this terrifying collection of science fiction classics and creature features including: The Day The Sky Exploded The Doomsday Machine UFO: Target Earth End of the World and Frozen Alive.Specifications:Language: EnglishFormat:  12 DVD's NTSC Region 1Run Time: 68 hours 55 minutesRating:  Parental Advisory: Explicit ContentIncluded:1. Alien ContaminationA cargo ship from South America drifts into New York City harbor and the police board the vessel to discover what happened to the crew. Finding the crew dead apparently from their internal organs bursting out of their torso the police discover the reason for the crew's deaths were some mysterious eggs in the cargo bay. Hoping to find the source of the eggs the police officer heading up the investigation tracks down a former astronaut who was part of a Mars mission that went horribly wrong.2. Alien SpeciesA fleet of UFOs is circling the Earth and a top scientist races to discover their true intentions for the planet. When the UFOs begin an attack on Earth the scientist finds himself thrown in with a sheriff and his deputies transporting some prisoners to jail. The unlikely group is forced to seek shelter from the attack in a nearby cave not knowing how significant the location is to the alien's plans.3. Alien ZoneA man in town for a convention gets lost while trying to return to his hotel room  after seeing a woman and ends up being taken in by a mortician to wait out a storm.  To pass the time the mortician shows the man four recently deceased people and begins to tell him how each person ended up as an occupant of one of his coffins.4. All the Kind StrangersA family of seven children are living without parents is a swampy backwoods area all by themselves. Some of the children get the idea Product Description

An interesting addition to your DVD collection, especially for movie geeks.

After I was almost finished watching the 50 Horror Classics mega pack (put out by Treeline) I proceeded to acquire more 50 movie packs from Amazon.com: Nightmare Worlds, Tales of Terror, Sci-Fi Classics and Chilling Classics. What is great about these mega packs is that if you watch one movie per week on average, one of these packs will last almost a year for you.

Although the quality of the movies in Nightmare Worlds collection is not as good as Horror Classics, there are a few gems and interesting curios that you might find to be an enriching viewing experience.

I've watched about 80% of the movies in the package and it is quite a diverse collection which ranges from the 1920s all the way to the 90s. A few standouts are Alien Contamination (cheesy Italian sci-fi horror), The Alpha Incident (atmospheric and creepy), Beast of the Yellow Night (very unusual and unique film), Werewolf Woman (Italian erotic horror of which Quentin Tarantino is a fan), The Nightmare Never Ends (ever wanted to see Satan at a disco?), End of the World (w/Christopher Lee), Idaho Transfer (pretty good dystopia sci-fi), House of the Living Dead (Victorian-era horror set in South Africa), This is not a Test (pretty cool Corman-esque suspense about atomic war from 1962), Night Fright (a G-rated 1960s teen horror flick), Piranha Piranha (interesting jungle adventure that that just oozes the 1970s) and Prisoners of the Lost Universe (great cheesy 1980s sword and sorcery action). Of course, there are other good movies as well that I didn't mention and I've yet to watch and I failed to mention the ones that I really didn't like, which there were a few.

But there is more to like than to dislike here. And besides, the point of this collection is to put in as many "public domain" movies as possible, together. The picture quality is not always the best, but many of these were transferred from old VHS copies--probably the only source which Treeline was able to find. And for the low price, even if there are only a handful of movies that you like, then it is a worthwhile investment.

There was a movie out last year called "Grindhouse" where there are 2 main features (directed by Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez) which was an homage to cheesy 1970s low-budget films. If you liked this, then I would suspect that a lot of the movies in this package will be of interest to you. July 23, 2008

Poor quality overrides cheesy fun factor

All these are public domain movies with low production values. It's basically the same stuff that was shown on Mystery Science Theater 3000 but without the comments. I happen to like a cheesy movie now and again and am quite able to yell out my own quips with my friends. However, the DVD's are bad. By bad I mean that they blur out in digital green squares. Others in the set were watched once then not able to be watched again. The DVD player tried to index to the menu for a minute and ejected it. They remind me of the old Goodtimes videos of the 80's that had tracking lines no matter where you set the dial. These could be a fun bit of cheesy movie value but it's lost by the poor quality DVD's that wear out quickly and become unreadable. May 15, 2008

Some good, some bad, some really bad.

For the price of a pizza.. you cannot go wrong. But, some of these are visually defunct - some are just so fuzzy and dark you have to wonder what condition the original was in. There's a couple of really fun movies in this pack but there's a large portion of really dreadful late 60's/early 70's abominations in which the script writing, filming, acting, and directing had to have been done through a dense haze of some mind altering drugs. Ugh - just horrible and difficult to watch more than 10-15 minutes of. But then again, they are so horribly bad that, well, they're funny, quirky, and often bizarre to the point of being interesting. One of them however was a real unexpected gem however... Robot Pilots. This was a lot of fun - and had us laughing quite often. The Rocky Jones clips are always welcome. There's some good Gamera flicks here... Oh, and the StarMan flicks are a hoot. All in all... you get a handful of winners and quite a load of dogs (in which I have to believe the producers walked away before the movie was even half finished). Is this worth it? Heck yeah... some of these really bad ones might make good Mystery Sci 3k type projects too.

March 19, 2008

Poor selection and horrible production values

First, read the list of titles carefully. This compilation, with a few exceptions, really scrapes the bottom of the barrel. Even for those of us who enjoy the occasional home matinee populated by aliens with zippers in their skin and earthly heroes wearing plastic fishbowls on their heads may find that many of these films are just too cheesy to be tolerable.

Annoyingly, the compilers have done--so far as I can tell--absolutely no clean up on either the visuals or the sound. As a result, some of the films are scratched, dirty, and difficult to understand.

All in all, a disappointing collection. Dirt cheap, though. Caveat emptor. January 28, 2008

What a nightmare.

Some great, a few good, alot awfull. There have to be at least enough good ones in here to make it worth the price for anyone. January 7, 2008

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