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The star of this double bill is I Bury The Living
This transfer of I Bury The Living is OK, if a tad dark and contrasty. --Nowhere near archival quality, but there's nothing in this particular transfer to destroy the experience.

The basic plot involves a man's discovery that people seem to die every time he marks their plot with a black pin on a caretaker's map of the cemetary. Richard Boone is memorable as the inheritor of the position of cemetary caretaker. Boone was notable among actors of the '50s for being able to generate deadpan credibility without being either too Method on the one hand or too Jack Webb on the other. And although it is jarring at first, after a couple of viewings, even Theodore Bikel's thick and near-vaudevillian Scottish brogue may grow on you.

I Bury The Living is really about the ordeal the Boone character suffers through his encounter with The Unknown. The dis-ease it achieves with minimal means is impressive. The score infuses every frame with a subtly eerie mood, and for film history buffs, the fx may at times make the film feel like a flashback, believe it or not, to high German Expressionist cinema of the 20s.

Recommended. This is definitely not just another 50s drive-in flick. Director Albert Band made one other thoughtful late 50s mood study --usually bundled in TV movie packages as a horror film, too-- entitled Face of Fire, based on a short story Stephen Crane. Find that if you can. (As for The Killer Shrews, which shares this DVD, it IS pretty much just another 50s drive-in flick. But we won't dwell on it.) ... Read more

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Succeeds as a traditional western
Traditional western fans will appreciate this european-adapted tale of a father and band of brothers toting a coffin around the desert full of yankee cash, with the intended goal of restoring the financial fortunes of the civil war South, post-defeat. Even though the plot is incredibly thin and contrived the film works well and traditional western fans will appreciate this story but of course spaghetti western fans will love this 1967 Sergio Corbucci creation even more! This film is a Spanish-Italian co-production and some of the ideas were evidently borrowed by Sergio Leone for 'The Good, Bad, and the Ugly' which was produced the same year. While it is tempting to think of this cross-pollination of ideas as plagiarism, it is clear that tremendous creativity was pandemic in Cinecita and it's associations during a 60's explosion of ideas, when Fellini was contemplating 'Never Bet your Head with the Devil' and 'Satyricon'. Any chance the media corporations and Big Bux producers can step aside and allow a period of creativity to return in the year 2003? Ziiinggg or as 'cheyenne' might say, 'rap 'em on a stone and they go -- "diiiiiinggg"' guess that says it all about today's movies! Be sure to watch this one: 'Hellbenders' -- you won't regret it!

Superb Spaghetti Western!!
This movie is a superb spaghetti western about an ex-confederate soldier using stolen money to revive the confederacy.It's a must see!! ... Read more

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Succeeds as a traditional western
Traditional western fans will appreciate this european-adapted tale of a father and band of brothers toting a coffin around the desert full of yankee cash, with the intended goal of restoring the financial fortunes of the civil war South, post-defeat. Even though the plot is incredibly thin and contrived the film works well and traditional western fans will appreciate this story but of course spaghetti western fans will love this 1967 Sergio Corbucci creation even more! This film is a Spanish-Italian co-production and some of the ideas were evidently borrowed by Sergio Leone for 'The Good, Bad, and the Ugly' which was produced the same year. While it is tempting to think of this cross-pollination of ideas as plagiarism, it is clear that tremendous creativity was pandemic in Cinecita and it's associations during a 60's explosion of ideas, when Fellini was contemplating 'Never Bet your Head with the Devil' and 'Satyricon'. Any chance the media corporations and Big Bux producers can step aside and allow a period of creativity to return in the year 2003? Ziiinggg or as 'cheyenne' might say, 'rap 'em on a stone and they go -- "diiiiiinggg"' guess that says it all about today's movies! Be sure to watch this one: 'Hellbenders' -- you won't regret it!

Superb Spaghetti Western!!
This movie is a superb spaghetti western about an ex-confederate soldier using stolen money to revive the confederacy.It's a must see!! ... Read more

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Succeeds as a traditional western
Traditional western fans will appreciate this european-adapted tale of a father and band of brothers toting a coffin around the desert full of yankee cash, with the intended goal of restoring the financial fortunes of the civil war South, post-defeat. Even though the plot is incredibly thin and contrived the film works well and traditional western fans will appreciate this story but of course spaghetti western fans will love this 1967 Sergio Corbucci creation even more! This film is a Spanish-Italian co-production and some of the ideas were evidently borrowed by Sergio Leone for 'The Good, Bad, and the Ugly' which was produced the same year. While it is tempting to think of this cross-pollination of ideas as plagiarism, it is clear that tremendous creativity was pandemic in Cinecita and it's associations during a 60's explosion of ideas, when Fellini was contemplating 'Never Bet your Head with the Devil' and 'Satyricon'. Any chance the media corporations and Big Bux producers can step aside and allow a period of creativity to return in the year 2003? Ziiinggg or as 'cheyenne' might say, 'rap 'em on a stone and they go -- "diiiiiinggg"' guess that says it all about today's movies! Be sure to watch this one: 'Hellbenders' -- you won't regret it!

Superb Spaghetti Western!!
This movie is a superb spaghetti western about an ex-confederate soldier using stolen money to revive the confederacy.It's a must see!! ... Read more

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They're the World's Oldest Party Animals!
I first saw "Prehysteria" on "The Disney Channel" in the early nineties. Since then, it's become one of my favorite movies of all time. The plot evolves around a greedy mueseum curator named Rico Sarno (Stephen Lee) who steals five sacred pygmy dinosour eggs from a tribe in South America. Hoping to make history, he brings them back to North America. But his plans are ruined when the eggs accidentally drop into the hands of Frank Taylor (Brett Cullen) and his kids pre-teen Jerry (Austin O'Brien) and teen Monica (Samantha Mills).

Frank is an archeologist who just barely makes a living by finding fossils and selling them to the mueseum Rico is in charge of. When the eggs are hatched by the Taylor's lonely dog they all try to keep the kind, cute and curious pygmy dinosaurs a secret. But Frank is falling in love with Vicki (Colleen Morris) an innocent young woman who works for Rico, and finds his life complicated when the dinos begin trashing his house and Rico finds out that they are in the Taylor's hands and he attempts to get them back.

"Prehysteria" is an all time favorite of mine because of the plot, the acting and the humor but especially because of the adorable pygmy dinosaurs. They look so life like and they make you wish they were your own. A big hand to the creator of them!

Though "Prehysteria" was a huge hit when it had it's direct-to-video release in 1993, it has been given thumbs down reviews by a bunch of critics. I don't see how that could possibly happen as it is a completely refreshing, cute and smart nineties family movie. I highly reccomend it to all!

Prehysteria is hysterical
This video is excellent for kids. There is no violence, though there are some uses of words of doubtful taste. There is an explanation of how the movie was made, how the dinosaurs were designed and created. Very creative and a cute vision of those violent animals that is not scary for the young children. ... Read more

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They'll Get you in the end! AGAIN!
The little creatures return in this low-budget horror flick.This is a really great horror film for all to enjoy.You will scream,laugh and be scared. ... Read more