Saturday, December 18, 2010

TOP 50 RELEASES OF THE YEAR

Well, this is it...the Top 10 for 2010.
10. Humanoids From The Deep (Shout Factory) Doug McClure stars in this great film about mutant salmon monsters. This edition from Shout is totally uncut with scenes that were not included in the earlier release from Concorde.
9. Crack In The World (Olive) At long last this great film finally sees the light of day on any Home Entertainment medium. Dana Andrews stars as a scientist who accidentally brings about global destruction.
8. Shock Festival (Bloody Earth Films) 3 discs of nothing but classic and not so classic trailers and one of the discs has tons of MP3 files on it!! This is an absolute masterwork and a must have for fans.
7. Mega Piranha (The Asylum) A swarm of giant Piranha escapes and heads for Florida. This movie makes me believe that the Monster Movie is alive and well in some parts of movieland. It is really something to see giant piranha stuck in buildings thay have jumped into. Recommended!!
6. Dark Night Of The Scarecrow (VCI)A man is killed by vigilantes and then comes back to seek revenge in the form of a demonic scarecrow...or does he? One of the 10 best made for TV horror movies!!! Thanks to VCI for letting us again see this true classic.
5. The Evil/Twice Dead (Shout Factory) This Roger Corman double feature is highly recommended and I simply love The Evil because it stars one of my favorite people, the lovely Joanna Pettet.
4. Horror High (Code Red) FINALLY the uncut version of this film with all the gore in tact. A nerdy student creates a formula that turns him into a monster and he seeks revenge on those who have given him a bad time in school. Who hasn't been Vernon Potts at sometime in their lives??
3. Green Slime (Warner Archive) Robert Horton, Richard Jaeckle and Luciana Paluzzi fight green, multi-eyed monsters on a space station in this long awaited release of a Japanese/US co-production from 1969. Gorgeous wide screen version that never looked better.
2. Boris Karloff's Thriller (Image) Since Universal sat on it, Image decided to actually do something with it and release all the episodes of this scary as hell TV show. The episodes never looked better and the extras and superb as they include interviews, isolated music tracks, episode promos and much more. All 67 episodes are a rare and wonderful treat in what Stephen King called "The scariest show of it's kind ever to air on TV."
Well now we are up to the Number One movie for the year 2010. Most of you who know me probably knew this was going to be my choice....
1. Starcrash (Shout Factory) Caroline Munro play Stella Star who dresses in skimpy black leather and thigh high leather boots as she attempt to save the universe from the evil Count Zarth Arn. Shout really went all out with this as it is a 2 disc set which includes interviews with the forever sexy Munro, director Luigi Cozzi and much more. One of my favorite films of all time gets a release it heartily deserves..and it is easily my pick for the Number One spot.

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