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That's alright. I guess this is the thread then. I'll start by bringing up something that might help new members who are getting into collecting movies. The 50 movie box sets that are out there. We talk about these occasionally in other sections, but there are a few of them out there and some are better than others. The 50 Drive-in Classics set for example, provides you with two Argento movies for 20 dollars, which is a good deal to begin with, because one of them is Tenebre, which is a somewhat costly DVD. It's a good thing to have at this level of quality and price, because it allows people to see if they're into the Argento aesthetic and would want to throw down for an upgrade. The other, Creepers, or Phenomena is not people's favorite generally, but I'm quite fond of it and there are some things in it that show how far Argento's imagination can go. Other gems on there are the British cut of Satanic Rites of Dracula (which is pretty ubiquitous to be fair), Do Not Open Til Christmas, Savage Weekend (which nobody's heard of, but it has plenty to enjoy) and the eerie and intriguing Legacy of Blood with John Carradine. Be warned however that other movies on there are titles that could very easily follow the phrase "I'm Troy Mc Clure and you might remember me from such films as..." things like the monumentally silly intelligent monster truck caper yarn Twister's Revenge, the hillbilly drugrunning getaway flick in Hot Pursuit and straight to video action hero Reb Brown's the Firing Line. Two Argento movies, a good pseudogiallo and a lot of fascinating crap might make this a good grindhouse/cult sampler for a person just getting into crazy cult films, but the crap to gold ratio is very low. Any other thoughts on the 50 movie collections out there?
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