Reel Horror

As of this writing, the IMDb credited cast for Reel Horror is soooo misleading... Actually, this film consists of clips from eight different movies in which those people (among others) appear. This is called Reel Horror because the octet is horror (or thriller-type) flicks, which are horrible themselves. So we have parts of eight really bad pictures tied illogically together by excruciatingly inferior skits that allude to various curses that have befallen folks in the theatrical profession. It's hard to imagine that what happens BETWEEN the previously-made stuff could be WORSE than the older fare - but it is. Much worse. For example, sound so poor that I often missed what was said, in spite of my assuring ample volume. (I was the only living thing which would venture within hearing distance of the dialogue. I bet the plants wished that they could walk.) There is a cast of seven which should bear additional blame for the intervening nonsense. Also, consider this: there's a name among the closing credits for "eyepatches." The parts of the selected works have absolutely no other similarity. Having seen it on TV, my lost investment is pretty much restricted to my time. Somebody would be a robber if any money was exchanged for this tripe.

Ross Hagen...shame on you. Seeing your name listed in the credits of exploitation and action flicks has always meant sure-fire B movie fun. And then...this. What the Hell is THIS?! You've gone and scraped some detrius from a bunch of crummy 70s films, tied them loosely together with witless SOV wraparound footage, and then had pompous audacity to expect people to PAY TO SEE IT?? Yes, I know one dollar won't make or break most people, but c'mon Ross, it's the principle of the whole thing.

Please...retract your name from this abomination. You're still "the man" in my book, because I figure everyone's prone to a momentary lapse of reason once in a while. This is a big one, though, Buddy...

1.5/10...at least Catherine Bach's topless moment from NICOLE is presented, which *alone* makes this a dollar well spent.

Oh, the above comment is all too accurate! I wasted a whole dollar on this DVD because I thought it actually featured John Carradine, whom I worked with back in '66. Not only are all the selected 'archive' films dogs in themselves, but the bridging material is steaming dog crap. This must have been some locally produced TV show (or maybe unproduced!) that they strung together for this ill-begotten feature. The one main character in the new material, some dame named Hecate, can't decide which eye her eye-patch is supposed to cover! Oh, well, at least this dollar DVD has another film on it: Tommy Lee Jones in "Eliza's Horoscope"... Augggggh!

Have you ever bought a movie for a buck, watched it in disgust for an hour and a half (by God, I paid for it I'm gonna watch it!), removed the DVD from your player immediately afterward and threw it in the garbage so that all traces it ever existed would be gone? If you've never had such a reaction to a "film", you haven't seen Reel Horror.

I love bad cinema- I scour the bargain bins and half-price bookstores looking for those forgotten gems (usually horror or science fiction) that are a tribute to low budgets, lousy acting, cheesy special effects, unbelievable plots, and terrible scripts. Then a movie like Reel Horror comes along and gives all those things I love a bad name.

This "film" takes a bunch of low budget horror movies, hacks them into little pieces so that none if the original "badness" of those films is allowed to shine through, and throws them randomly them into a middle school-quality production about a haunted movie studio. This is presented as high camp and uproariously bad, in a "Rocky Horror Picture Show" vein , complete with a bunch of idiots dancing at the end.

Trust me when I tell you it's almost enough to discourage me from investing my hard earned dollar the next time I run across a potential classic, but I'm going to fight through it. Don't put yourself in this position. Avoid the temptation and put down that copy of Reel Horror.

Waaaaaaaaay back in the 80s , when vhs ruled the world, there was a strange genre of horror movie clip show tapes that circulated through video rental stores. Terror on Tape, Zombiethon, Terror in the Aisles just to name a few. The people reviewing this film clearly are too young or too uneducated to remember this. Yes, it's a bunch of clips of old movies. Yes the wraparound is poorly made and badly acted. THATS WHAT THE FOLKS THAT LIVED IN THAT ERA LOVED ABOUT THESE! They were stupid but showed you clips of other dumb movies for you to track down! Like an extended trailer reel. I always love the people that say movies like this is "the worst thing they've ever watched ". You just dont get it. Sorry.