BCI/Deimos Drive-In & Mexi-Horror Packs...

[cloud]

As we're giving a lot of alerts on here regarding DVD releases I thought I'd alert a few people to these new BCI sets. They started by releasing double bills of obscure Drive-In favourites for around a fiver each and as it goes I used to see a lot of them in the import section in Mexico for around £8 each. I nearly bought a few too but an inner voice told me to hold off because I just knew they'd be repackaged in box sets.

Here's the irony, they've been repackaged in box sets of 8 films and are cheaper than the double bills!
I recently ordered the After Dark Thrillers and Drive-In Cult Classics sets and it set me back £8.50 all together with p&p.

If you're concerned about picture quality then read some reviews over at DVD Drive-In and DVD/AV Maniacs amongst others. The gist I got (I only skimmed in fear of spoilers) is that they've done a commendable job. Picture quality is varied due to the masters used for each set and though it's not Blue Underground quality it's not too far off. They are all barebones releases though but with how rare these films were we should just be happy to see them full stop. My two sets arrived today so when I've watched one of the films I'll comment on how it looks.

I know there are a few people on here into these sort of films so I thought it would be of interest.

BCI are releasing so much now I can barely keep up. So if you are alerted to new releases then can you please post them here.

In the meantime...

Drive-In Cult Classics - 8 Movie Set (amazon.co.uk (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0010T3ULQ/ref=nosim?tag=mondoerotico05) | amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0010T3ULQ/ref=nosim?tag=mondoerotico))

- The PickUp
- The Sister-In-Law
- The Stepmother
- The Teacher
- Trip with the Teacher
- Best Friends
- Cindy and Donna
- Malibu High

After Dark Thrillers - 8 Movie Set (amazon.co.uk (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000QQ81YA/ref=nosim?tag=mondoerotico05) | amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QQ81YA/ref=nosim?tag=mondoerotico))

- Blue Money
- Pick-Up
- French Quarter
- Separate Ways
- Double Exposure
- Hot Target
- Night Club
- Click: The Calendar Girl Killer

Aztec Mummy Collection - 3 Movie Set (amazon.co.uk (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000I0QLSC/ref=nosim?tag=mondoerotico05) | amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000I0QLSC/ref=nosim?tag=mondoerotico))

- Attack of the Aztec Mummy
- Curse of the Aztec Mummy
- Robot vs the Aztec Mummy

Crypt of Terror - Horror from South of the Border, Vol. 1 - 7 Movie Set (amazon.co.uk (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000XUOLPW/ref=nosim?tag=mondoerotico05) | amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000XUOLPW/ref=nosim?tag=mondoerotico))

- Vacation of Terror (Vacaciones de terror)
- Vacation of Terror 2 (Vacaciones de Terror 2)
- Hell's Trap (Trampa Infernal)
- Cemetery of Terror (Cementerio Del Terror)
- Grave Robbers (Ladrones de Tumbas)
- The Demon Rat (La Rata Malidita)
- Don't Panic (Dimensiones Ocultas)

Crypt of Terror - Horror from South of the Border, Vol. 2 - 5 Movie Set (amazon.co.uk (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0011MRX3S/ref=nosim?tag=mondoerotico05) | amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0011MRX3S/ref=nosim?tag=mondoerotico))

- Night of the Bloody Apes
- Curse of the Doll People
- Spiritism
- Wrestling Women vs. The Aztec Mummy
- Doctor of Doom

Starlite Drive-In Theater: A Dust Til Dawn Marathon - 8 Movie Set (amazon.co.uk (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000XUF6NI/ref=nosim?tag=mondoerotico05) | amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000XUF6NI/ref=nosim?tag=mondoerotico))

- The Pom Pom Girls
- The Van
- Hustler Squad
- Wild Riders
- Mademn of Mandoras
- The Devil's Hand
- Van Nuys Blvd
- Little Laura and Big John

School Dazed - 8 Movie Set (amazon.co.uk (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000QQA288/ref=nosim?tag=mondoerotico05) | amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QQA288/ref=nosim?tag=mondoerotico))

- My Tutor
- My Chauffeur
- Hunk
- Tomboy
- Jocks
- Weekend Pass
- The Pom Pom Girls
- The Van




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[tall dude]

Cheers For The Heads Up On These Box Sets.
The Crypt Of Terror Ones Have Made Their Way Into My Wish List.;)

[cloud]

Phew! And there was me thinking I was the only one interested in these box sets.

[MarcMorris]

I've got quite a few of these too, as single discs. Only I started buying them before they decided to package them together in affordable box sets.

[cloud]

It's always wise to hold off a bit with film sets like this ;) though I don't blame you for getting the double bills, as I say I was very tempted.

What the picture quality like? I haven't started on mine yet, I have a lot of DVDs to get through.

[MarcMorris]

Well the vast majority of the Grindhouse/Drive-In titles were licensed from Crown International Pictures, and many have been remastered in 16x9. There are a few exceptions where the old 4x3 master has been used, but even so, at this price you really can't complain.

[Wayne]

Cloud, thanks for going to the trouble.

I like the look of a lot of these, never heard of them before, but there on my wish-list now.

Thanks.

[cloud]

No worries Wayne, always a pleasure to help out a fellow film fan.

I'm reading that a Drive-In Cult Classics: Vol. 2 is being released later this year by the way.

Drive-In Cult Classics: Vol. 2: amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0019D3DF6/ref=nosim?tag=mondoerotico) | amazon.co.uk (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0019D3DF6/ref=nosim?tag=mondoerotico05)

- The Madmen of Mandoras
- They Saved Hitler's Brain
- Terrified
- Bloodlust!
- The Creeping Terror
- The Devil s Hand

[louie louie]

Quite a few of these Crown International titles were cropping up on a few satellite channels about a year ago. I caught a few of them and generally enjoyed them (despite inferior a/v quality).

I especially enjoyed Best Friends and Trip With The Teacher.

Pick-Up though was the real find. Two hippie chicks hitch a ride with a guy in a mobile home, and then get stranded in the Everglades after taking a wrong turn. One of them goes off with the guy and they run around naked and screw in the swamps. The other one reads tarot cards and has bizarre spiritual encounters/visions involving altars, Godesses and an evil clown with balloons. A cartoonish politician shows up and the girl turns a Devil tarot card over. All three get childhood flashbacks, and family, religion, politics and sex hang-ups all get a pretty rough ride. Even though it's a hippie movie with sledgehammer symbolism, there's a feeling of menace throughout, and it never, ever gets dull. Recommended!

Gonna pick me up the Drive-In Cult Classics box (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0010T3ULQ/ref=nosim?tag=mondoerotico05) for sure. Oh, and that first South of the Border (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000XUOLPW/ref=nosim?tag=mondoerotico05) box looks pretty darn tasty, too...

[D'Amato lives!]

Are these packaged in slimline cases? Digistacks? I'm woefully short of shelf space right now....

[cloud]

It's a standard DVD case with 2 double sided discs countaining 2 films on each side.

[mrb]

South of the Border is on 4 flipper discs in one large box (two discs per side).

It's quite good fun.

edit: er, what cloud said. sorry.

[D'Amato lives!]

Sounds well worth a go :)

[Someone Weird]

Drive-In Cult Classics: Vol. 2:

- The Creeping Terror



Woo-hoo! Will snap this up then...what a hilariously naff film this is.

[tall dude]

Woo-hoo! Will snap this up then...what a hilariously naff film this is.

Me too! Aint seen this since that worst of hollywood season on c4 waaayyyy back in the 80's.

[CountFilth]

South of the Border is on 4 flipper discs in one large box (two discs per side).

It's quite good fun.

I've been working my way through this over the last month or so, I'd say it's well worth the price of admisssion. The movies on this set do not appear to be remastered and are probably just as they were prepared for vhs/tv in the early 90s. The only one I've not watched yet is Dimensiones Occultas, I would say they have mostly been pretty good fun with the first movie Vacaciones del Terror being probably the best. Unfortunately La Rata Maldita (The Demon Rat) is pretty awful, the picture is bad, the sound has been messed up and if it weren't for the subtitles negating the need to hear the audio properly I would have given up, to top it off the film starts off with some of the trappings of a cheap horror film about toxic and nuclear waste creating super-size bugs but is really a very tediously filmed drama.

I've also watched "The Stepmother" from the Drive-in set and that was a pretty good seedy tale.