Reel Horror

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.

I took 9 and 1/3 pages of notes watching this, and yet somehow I have no words.

My gosh I don't know when I have seen a movie worse than this one.I actually bought this on Ebay for a buck plus 4 bucks shipping.And most of you thought RENTING this for a dollar was bad.I would rather watch a close family member being autopsied than to see this movie again.I think the director made the plot as he went along.He probably asked the cast members to help him out as he went.The crazy old guy in one of the opening scenes that looked like Grandpa from the Munsters actually said" I don't mind dying,I just don't want to be there when it happens".That is a joke they stole from Woody Allen.Give me a break.I spent the whole 2 dreadful hours trying to figure out the plot and how to connect the short film clips and the other bad acting into some form of artistic merit.Couldn't do it.I will lend the DVD to my friends to watch but will warn them in advance.

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.

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.