The Creature From the Black Lagoon ~ DVD ~
Ancient Evil: Scream of the Mummy
The Blair Witch Project 2: Book of Shadows
Doctor Gore
THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON ON DVD

Just yesterday I bought a copy of the Creature From The Black Lagoon (Universal Studios Classic Mosters Collection) on DVD and I'm glad I did! The DVD has an awesome Special Features bonus material section, including "Back To The Lagoon" a short documentary on the making of Creature. The "Production Photographs" segment is also fun, featuring posters, lobby cards (including foreign versions), stills, story board drawings, behind the scene and on set photos of the cast, all viewed while the theme from Creature plays in the background.
Other features are Theatrical Trailers, Cast and Filmmakers and Production Notes. Options include English and French subtitles.
What I found really interesting also was the segment in Back To The Lagoon explaining how the 3D process works and is filmed.
The quality of the film itself is the best I've ever seen -- a very crisp, sharp picture. And, as we all know, the Creature ROCKS!

ANCIENT EVIL: SCREAM OF THE MUMMY
(Rapid Heart Pictures) Directed by David DeCoteau

Synopsis:
Six archaeology students are spending the summer at an isolated rural compound with their college prof, working on an exciting discovery: an ancient mummy found in the ruins of a temple.
Little do they realize that the mummy was the servant of the RAIN GOD, and that one of them has the ability to bring it back to life to exact its master's deadly revenge. Trapped inside the compound with the murderous, unstoppable creature, they must join forces to destroy the monster, or allow it to carry out its plans to annihilate mankind.

  

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I just recently unearthed this raw gem, ANCIENT EVIL, from the bargain bin of my local video store, among row upon row of previously viewed copies of SCREAM 3.
An Aztec mummy story filmed in Mexico, Ancient Evil is an entertaining romp with a Monster On The Campus meets the Aztec Mummy (without the wrestling women) with irresistible Schlock appeal. The lion's share of the budget must have gone into the make-up department, because the mummy is a remarkably detailed with a hideously decayed death grin, and carrying a razor sharp Aztec ritual blade which he uses to slash and splatter his victims.
The acting is at best passable and the characters are one-dimensional props to be disposed of by the mummy and his vengeful master, Norman the taunted bespeckled vengeful nerd on campus and highly improbable descendent of an ancient bloodline of Aztec High Priests.
No -- I'm not making this stuff up folks. If you have nothing better to do and want to spend a couple of mindless hours soaking up some fun shlock, l recommend Ancient Evil.

THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT 2:
BOOK OF SHADOWS

The Blair Witch Project 2 is a genuinely frightening movie which, unlike the original Blair Witch Project using hand held cams with a pseudo-documentary format, uses lush cinematography and graphic scenes of ritualistic slayings & spooky atmospherics.
The ghosts of the long ago slain children mentioned in The Blair Witch Project make their appearance, in period costumes, with some disastrous consequences.
Without spoiling it for anyone by giving away vital details, imagine having murdered some tourists in the woods, not remembering having done it, and seeing yourself hacking away at the victims on video tape, right in front of the police while your under interrogation? Even for the viewer, it's disorientating & grisly to the point of being unnerving.

DOCTOR GORE
Starring J.C. Patterson / Produced & Directed by J.C. Patterson
90 mins / color /1975
Special introduction by Herscell Gordon Lewis

A lost film from the time of J.C."Pat" Patterson's death in 1974 until 1987, when it was found and transferred to video tape, DOCTOR GORE is the genus opus of gore by J.C."Pat" Patterson.
The film has a fascinating introduction by Patterson's long-time friend, H.G. Lewis, well worth seeing all by its own. DOCTOR GORE has become one of my all-time favorite gore films, made on a shoe-string and laced with genius. Folks, this film is FUN!
"Pat" Patterson plays a demented scientific genius, tormented by the untimely death of his beautiful wife. Thus he sets out, with the aid of his hunchback assistant John, to create the perfect women by first murdering the women he seduces with his charms, or if in a hurry with his powers of hypnosis, then harvesting only the choicest body parts in the making of his bride. His bizarre experiments are finally successful after a series of disappointing failures, and his "perfect" bride is brought to life, a ravishing beauty, who turns out to be a nympho-maniacal monster!