Sometimes, if for some reason I'm not watching
Star Trek reruns, I'll put in a DVD while I'm maybe going to be blogging. But, the audio is sometimes an issue: if it doesn't have captions, for instance, I might have to pay more attention, especially for something as wacky as
Kung-Fu Zombies! There was a stretch about a year ago or two when the local dollar stores were getting DVD's and even some Blu-Rays--I think they were actually a dollar even, so maybe it was a bit ago. There were a few name brand ones in there: I know I got
Child's Play,
Return of the Living Dead, and the 1978
Invasion of the Body Snatchers. But, there were a lot more cheap ones, and I'm having to go back through some of them and label them if they're awful, so I don't accidentally watch something like
The Strangers: Prey at Night again. (Spoiler alert: it
suuuuuuucked! It wasn't even my least favorite part, but the dad is pleading for his life, after his wife, Christina Hendricks, was killed: no, just kill me. You lose someone like her, you would give up on life at the earliest convenience.)
Still, like we looked up
before, the Criterion Closet has like 1500 discs in it, although a lot are probably duplicates. No way I'm going to get that many DVD's, but even the lowest end Criterion discs are like 15 bucks a pop new: I'm usually getting between three to fifteen DVD's for that! I did splurge about six bucks each for
Event Horizon--the bestest horror movie I will never say an unkind word about--and, as I think H. suggested,
Judge Dredd which...maybe has some good bonus features or something? I don't know if I'll watch the latter for spooky-season. Along with, um, six more movies in that
Kung-Fu Zombies set, I still have the recent
Nosferatu (wow, Nicholas Hoult is in everything!) and the first
Black Phone; before I start digging back into Tubi or Shudder. I say that now, but I might see what they've got; and see you next week!
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