![]() | Night of the Comet
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $7.49 Catherine Mary Stewart plays a big sister valley girl who wakes up one morning to zombies, red dust and one mean group of scientists. Great, quirky camera work keeps making the old tropes new again. Fantastic 80's feel and one of the funniest end scenes from the decade.
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![]() | They Live
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $6.99 This is a late 80's John Carpenter movie set in a stark, apocalyptic LA where people are unemployed and homeless and can only be saved from evil aliens by a sauntering Roddy Piper and a special kind of sunglasses. I like to sing that bad Corey Hart song "Sunglasses at Night" when I get geared up to watch this film.
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![]() | Matinee
Buy used from: $38.74 This is a great Joe Dante film. A loving and clever nod to classic sci-fi horror. It takes place in Key West on the eve of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Paranoia is in the air . . .and John Goodman, playing a delightfully sleezy movie maker, is ready to make a profit.
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![]() | Alligator
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $7.36 A great horror tale of misused mother nature coming back for vengeance! Features a fantastic performance from Robert Forster and a witty script from John Sayles.
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![]() | The Abominable Dr. Phibes/Dr. Phibes Rises Again!
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $5.01 Two for the price of one! Though the first is the best, both are fantatically fun and macabre Vincent Price vehicles. If you like completely over-the-top revenge tales mixed with late 60's psychedelic fashion Dr. Phibes can't be beat.
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![]() | The Wicker Man
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.70 This is the scariest of the movies on this list. In fact, it is truly terrifying in many ways. It combines a remote Scottish village locale with a missing girl case and a city detective who thinks he's both morally and intellectually superior to everyone else. This film is so rich you see it differently every time you watch it.
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![]() | Lake Placid
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $1.45 This is the silliest movie on the list. But look at the cast!: Bridget Fonda, Bill Pullman, Oliver Platt, Betty White... The performances are great. The script is fast and fun. This movie doesn't aspire to cover any new territory. But sometimes it's good to just lighten up and enjoy the swinging cow (don't worry, the cow makes it through ok).
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![]() | The Faculty
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $4.40 Hilarious Rodriguez fare. What would you do if your high school teachers included Salma Hayek, John Stewart, Piper Laurie and Robert Patrick? Especially if you knew they were pod people? Pitch-perfect combination of laughs and scares.
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![]() | Tremors
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $2.78 When Val (Kevin Bacon) and Earl (Fred Ward) try to leave Perfection, Nevada in search of a better life, giant worm monsters block the way!
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![]() | Tales of Terror/Twice Told Tales (Midnite Movies Double Feature)
Buy used from: $15.55 Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne get the Vincent Price treatment in glorious technicolor!
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![]() | A Bucket of Blood
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $0.89 B-movie king Roger Corman goes into the Beat coffeehouse scene with very funny and bloody results. Dick Miller delivers a wonderful performance as accidental-cat-murderer-turned-accidental-artist.
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![]() | The Blob - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $30.99 / Used from: $21.00 Watching Steve McQueen gather police, sparring teen buddies and a military task force together to battle a growing, gucky blob is a delightful experience. Take note of the hilarious Henry Mancini theme song as well.
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![]() | Vincent Price: MGM Scream Legends Collection (The Abominable Dr. Phibes / Tales of Terror / Theater of Blood / Madhouse / Witchfinder General / Dr. Phibes Rises Again / Twice Told Tales)
Buy new: $28.99 / Used from: $59.08 I've already mentioned many of the films in this collection. But even though I own 5 of these movies already, I almost bought this collection to just recognize the amazing value! Also, it looks like Tales of Terror and Twice Told Tales is out of print right now except in this packaging.
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![]() | Frogs
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $1.36 Watch this with Alligator for a great double feature. Ray Milland plays Southern millionaire who gathers his estranged family together on his remote estate that's surrounded by frogs!! Croak, croak.
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