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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: Mill Creek Entertainment
Salesrank: 2539
Released: February 7, 2006 |
| Our Price: $10.49 |
| Used Price: $14.26 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Time to get the popcorn and lean back the recliner for 50 drive-in classics that will take you back to a golden era of over-acting and cheesy special effects. Find the best and worst of undiscovered Drive-in cinema featuring box office legends and complete unknowns.
Drive-In Movie Classics 50 Movie Pack Reviews:
Laughs For Days...Most Unintentional 
2009-12-15 - First of all, you can't beat the price, but if you're a stickler for quality videos (some of these aren't so good), then you might want to purchase these films separately. Some are quite action-packed and take you back to a more innocent time, when drive-in movies were all over the country. (There were once more than 3000, now there are les than 300).
A lot of memories (my teenage kids crack up at some of the slang used "back then"), but a pretty good amount of bang for your buck--especially if you like camp and over-the-top acting. You also get a chance to see some famous actors of today in their embryonic stage of acting.
There is some nudity. "Bee Girls" in itself is a hoot and a half, as is "Jive Turkey."
3 Film Title DIFFERENCES in my Movie Pack 
2009-12-10 - This is another one of those bargain price Mill Creek Entertainment mega packs of public domain or cheaply-licensed films (largely B or C grade). Still, this set is well worth the price you pay if you like film variety or crave light horror/thrillers and/or exploitation flicks.
Something about this movie pack of particular importance to archivists and collectors is the fact that if you buy this set, the 50 Chilling Classics set, and the MASSIVE 250 flick HORROR COLLECTION --- you will have nearly 350 different films (whereas all other traditional horror movie packs are almost entirely duplicated inside the 250 pack!).
I would like to point out that in my Drive-In Classics set, I had 3 film differences from those in Amazon's list. I have a feeling that Mill Creek occasionally alters their sets if/when they get copyright notices or if they lose licensing rights, or perhaps the Amazon list has always been wrong...
Each of 12 disks is double-sided and usually features 2 films a side but a few have 3 films per side. That said, 3 different disks in my set contained different films than listed on Amazon:
3 FILMS I DID NOT RECEIVE:
*Mama Dracula
*Creepers (PLURAL, it's apparently an alternate name for a Dario Argento film)
*Death by Dialogue
3 Non-Amazon-Listed films I RECEIVED INSTEAD (these films ARE listed on my DVD case and the disk sleeves):
*Blood Mania
*The Devil's Hand
*Single Room Furnished
I was really looking forward to seeing that film about Drac's mama, but who knows, maybe one of the 3 other films I got will turn out to be an unknown gem? :) Anyone buying this DVD set after me (Nov 2009) should probably expect to get the same films that I received.
One final oddity: Being a stickler for details, I decided to compare the movie titles on the case which matched those on the 12 DVD sleeves against those found PRINTED ON THE DVDs THEMSELVES (in center ring) and I discovered the DVDs themselves had SIX ERRORS (the sleeves & case had the correct films). The six films incorrectly printed on the disk center rings were spread across six of the twelve disks! Here they are:
6 FILM TITLES PRINTED ON MY DISKS BUT NOT ACTUALLY PRESENT:
*Disk1 B2: Deadly Encounter (actually Creeper)
*Disk5 A1: Fatal Error (actually Snowbeast)
*Disk7 A2: Patrick (actually Shock)
*Disk9 B1: Boogey Man (actually Night Train to Terror)
*Disk10 A1: Cockfighter (actually Don't Look in the Basement)
*Disk11 A1: Why Shoot the Teacher (actually The Island Monster)
What does all this mean? Beats me.
Maybe those films are coming soon in a future iteration? Or they were on a past iteration? Or the DVD press somehow screwed up on 50% of the disks? Hmmmmmmmm. Who cares? Just pop the popcorn, get liquored up, and enjoy these cheap crappy flicks.
List of the 50 movies I received - No Jennifer Connelly, no Mama Dracula
2009-12-08 - # 1. Absolution 1978 Richard Burton
# 2. Beast from Haunted Cave 1959
# 3. Black Hooker 1974 aka Street Sisters, Blaxploitation
# 4. Breakout from Oppression 1973 or 1978 aka Sha Chu Chong Wei, Kung Fu
# 5. Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride 1973 aka The Satanic Rites of Dracula, Peter Cushing
# 6. Country Blue 1973
# 7. The Creeper 1977 aka Rituals
# 8. Creepers 1985 aka Phenomena. Argento, Jennifer Connelly, probably edited (110 or 114 to 82min)
# 9. Day of the Panther 1985 Kung Fu
# 10. Death By Dialogue 1988
# 11. Devil with Seven Faces, The, 1971 aka Il Diavolo a Sette Facce
# 12. Don't Look in the Basement 1973
# 13. Don't Open Till Christmas 1974
# 14. Firing Line, The 1988 Shannon Tweed. Rambo movie
# 15. Going Steady 1979 aka Yotzim Kavua. Porky's goes to Israel
# 16. Guy from Harlem, The 1977 Blaxploitation
# 17. Horror of the Zombies 1974 aka El Buque Maldito
# 18. I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now? 1975
# 19. In Hot Pursuit 1977 aka Polk County Pot Plane. Cheech and Chong rip
# 20. Invasion of the Bee Girls 1973
# 21. Island Monster, The 1954 aka Il mostro dell'isola. Boris Karloff
# 22. Jive Turkey 1974 aka Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes. Balxploitation
# 23. Katie's Passion 1975 aka Keetje Tippel. Dir by Paul Verhoeven
# 24. Lazarus Syndrome, The 1978 TV Pilot, Lou Gossett, Jr.
# 25. Legacy of Blood 1971 John Carradine
# 26. Legend of Big Foot 1976 Documentary
# 27. Mad Dog 1977 aka La Belva col Mitra
# 28. Mama Dracula 1980
# 29. Manipulator, The 1971 Mickey Rooney
# 30. Moon of the Wolf 1972 TV
# 31. Murder Mansion, The 1972 aka La Mansión de la Niebla
# 32. Nabonga 1944 Buster Crabbe
# 33. Night Train to Terror 1985
# 34. Prime Time 1977 aka American Raspberry
# 35. Prisoners of the Lost Universe 1985
# 36. Rattlers 1976
# 37. Savage Journey 1983 Mormons TV
# 38. Savage Weekend 1976/1981 aka The Killer Behind the Mask
# 39. Shock 1946 Vincent Price
# 40. Slave of the Cannibal God 1978 aka La Montagna del Dio Cannibale
# 41. Snowbeast 1976 TV
# 42. Spare Parts 1979 aka Fleisch. TV
# 43. Throw Out the Anchor 1974 G rated family movie
# 44. TNT Jackson 1974 Blaxploitation and Kung Fu (topless Karate!)
# 45. Trauma 1978 aka Enigma Ross
# 46. Treasure of Tayopa 1974
# 47. Twister's Revenge! 1987
# 48. Unsane 1982 aka Tenebre. Dir by Dario Argento
# 49. Voodoo Black Exorcist 1973 aka Vudú Sangriento.
# 50. Women of Devil's Island 1962 aka Le Prigioniere dell'Isola del Diavolo
Not worth it, save your money. 
2009-11-18 - They should call this "50 Movies no one watched" These were horrible and a waste of money. Anyone want to buy mine from me?
What do you want for $11.99???? 
2009-06-25 - Probably the best bargain on the whole freakin' planet, 50 amazing movies for $11.99, how in the Hell can you possibly go wrong??? Just buy it!!!
