Elviras Movie Macabre: Coffin Collection [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

I noticed that not one single review talked about the film quality and sound quality for the films in this set. As far as i know, these are all B movies that are in the public domain. I have most, if not all these movies as part of those box sets put out by Mill creek Entertainment, among others. Mill Creek has two ends to its company. Some of their movies are in partnership with Columbia Pictures, and that end of their business puts out top notch versions of those movies. Those are usually not in the public domain. Then there is the other end where they put out the so bad they are good movies. They do their best to offer decent looking prints but this Elvira sets prints are exceptionally good. Especially noticeable is the movie EEGAH. On the Mill Creek version the color is all washed out and everything looks kinda bluish. This Elvira version looks amazing! All the colors are nice and much better than any other prints i have seen. I have never seen this movie look or sound so good! No its not HD quality but its very very watchable. The Night Of The Living Dead version here is SUPER GOOD! They really tried hard to give us some truly remarkable quality sights and sounds. I'm glad i got this set. So for all of you wondering if this is worth the double dip, In my opinion its way worth it!! I have only checked out 2 of the movies so far, but chances are good the the rest will follow the same pattern. They tried hard to give us a good high quality product. The tin is also nice, and just a tad bit smaller than i was expecting. Its about 8 inches tall and around 5 inches wide. Looks nice on my shelf and fits right into my display of other box sets. This set wont be available forever. It looks like one of those items that will be high priced and rare 5 years from now. Grab em while the price is reasonable.

Though a tad pricey, I will say that the movies are super fun to watch and this incarnation of Elvira's Movie Macabre is more in line with MST3K than the original version of the show with Elvira only riffing on the movies during the host segments. In this version she comments during the movies in a pop-up video style with a small bubble popping up with Elvira making wise cracks and then popping back out. My only negative is about the packaging. The tin is very nice, but unwieldy when it comes to storage and the discs are not on a spindle or in sleeves. Rather they are stacked on top of each other in a circular divot in a foam encasement.

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Elvira has a great set on her hands--set of movies that is. Sure many of these (Haven't been able to watch them all yet!) are turkeys but Elvira spices things up and adds entertainment where there isn't any. I first saw Elvira's show when I was stationed at Vandenberg AFB in California in the1983. Geez, seems like such a long time ago. She was over the top then and still over the top. I always enjoyed the show she put on. The coffin of dead movies is a cool idea. However, be aware that the DVDs inside are not even slip protected. Just stacked on top of each other like a bunch of dead bodies. You can expect them to decompose, er, get scratch in short order, if you actually watch these movies. What made this even better is that I didn't even pay close to the retail price. Thanks Amazon!

First a list of the 26 movies: Night Of The Living Dead 1968, I Eat Your Skin 1964, The Satanic Rites Of Dracula 1973, The Werewolf Of Washington 1973, The Terror 1963, Edgah! 1962, The Brain That Wouldn’t Die 1962, The Manster 1959, Scared To Death 1947’ Tormented 1960, Untamed Women 1951, The Wild Women Of Wongo 1958, Hercules And The Captive Women 1961, The Wasp Woman 1959, Lady Frankenstein 1971, Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter 1966, Santa Claus Conquers The Martians 1964, Beast From Haunted Cave 1959, The Giant Gila Monster 1959, Attack Of The Giant Leeches 1959, Teenagers From Outer Space 1959, Monster From A Prehistoric Planet 1967, A Bucket Of Blood 1959, The Killer Shrews 1959, Manos: The Hands Of Fate 1966, Don’t Look In The Basement 1973. All movies are full screen, some color & some B&W, and only some have subtitles. The case is only cute and not functional other then for shipping. The case is taller then normal disc case so it does not fit on a media shelf. It also holds all 13 discs in one hole in the foam with no separation between discs. If you want to watch the last disc, they all have to come out. A simple solution is to buy a small disc case (when you order this collection) that holds at last 13 discs and fits your shelf. Case Logic makes excellent multi disc cases. The foam does provides good protection for the original shipping so they do not arrive scratched.