Help me make a shopping list of horror DVD's

I'm asking for Best Buy gift cards for Christmas so I can build a good sized horror movie library.

Here's what I own already:
Return Of The Living Dead
Re-Animator Millenium Edition
Sleepaway Camp Survival Kit
Last House On The Left
Friday The 13th
The Beyond
Zombie
Pieces
Unhinged
Blood Feast
Jason Goes To Hell

The criteria for my purchases usually boil down to:

has to be Widescreen, needs some sort of extras, HAS to be uncut, R1 or all regions only, and the transfer needs to be decent. The movie can be pure shit, as long as it's gory as fuck, or somewhat sick.

A few things I'm keeping an eye out for are a new verson of I Spit On Your Grave that I read about in this months Fangoria, anyone know if this is out? The Prowler ( I have this on VHS, but I think it's on DVD now), and breaking my own rules, My Bloody Valentine. The disc is bones bare, but I want it mainly out of pure nostalgia as it was one of the first horror movies I saw.


So, what do you guys suggest? Also, it would help to know if something is out of print so I don't search for it all year.

Thanks in advance!

Oh, If anyone happens upon a DVD copy of Bloodtide for cheap (as it should be) grab it for me, and I'll reimburse you.

THE THING
THE EXORCIST (one of the great works of cinema)
EVIL DEAD 1, 2 AND ARMY OF DARKNESS
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (black and white original)
DAWN OF THE DEAD
ALIEN
DEAD ALIVE (gore galore)
You're really missing out if you haven't seen those.
Some other intersting ones-
Audition (japanese movie in region 1, the first half is normal but the second will fuck with you head)
Biozombie (hk movie that plays in region 1, it is a fun zombie flik)
The Devil's Backbone (mexican film in region 1, a good ghost story)
If you like Lovecraft I've heard that Dagon is good, but I haven't seen it.

Okay, I've noticed that there are multiple versions of the Evil Dead trilogy out there. Which one is the best of the bunch? The Book Of The Dead box set, or the individual releases? and what's the Army Of Darkness Bootleg Edition?

Its a bit confusing, try out these sites-
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/

http://www.dvdangle.com/reviews/index.html

NightBreed

Films you HAVE TO have, if you are a horror fan:

Event Horizon
Night Breed
Hellraiser 1&2
Exorcist 3

Peter Jackson films(sure more of comedies than horror, but all good)
Dead Alive
Bad Taste
The Frighterners

Pitch Black
Near Dark
House 3 (Lance Henriksen is good in it :))

Romero Zombie trilogy
Raimi Evil Dead trilogy (dont skip the first, its a classic)

John Carpenter

The Thing
Prince of Darkness (very underrated good horror film)
The Fog

Pet Sematery

Werewolf films

Silver Bullet
Dog Soldiers
The Howling
American Werewolf in London

Vampire Films

Night Flyer
From Dusk till Dawn 1&2
Vampires
Blade 1&2

Stuart Gordon

Dagon
Castle Freak
From Beyond
Pit and Pendulum (Henriksen is good again :))

Brian Yuzna

Society
Bride of Reanimator
The Dentist

David Cronenberg

Scanners
The Fly
Shivers
Videodrome
Rabid
Naked Lunch (not horror, but very weird and surreal)

Lucio Fulci

Zombie
The Beyond
House by the Cemetary
City of the Living Dead

Michele Soavi

Delamore Delamorte
The Church

Demons 1&2

Child's Play series, especially Bride of Chucky (skip part 3)

Nightmare on Elm Street (except Freddy Dead and New Nightmare)



Be back with more :)

I think every horror fan's collection should include The Exorcist, Halloween, Psycho (Hitchcock's), Alien, and The Blair Witch Project. Each of those films is, IMO, a real example of what fear is, without all the ridiculous splatter.

Hey Despair, I'm a huge fan of horror, and I have maybe ten films from your list. ;)

Don't forget In The Mouth of Madness too - probably the best Lovecraftian film to date (until del Toro gets working on Mountains of Madness - I have high hopes for that one).

Dagon is OK - it stays faithful to the story for the most part, but adds in some pretty shameful stuff.

What Despair said...

I haven't heard about the new I spit on your Grave DVD, but the Movie is overrated IMO.

I'd love to know if the Silent Night Deadly Night Movies are on DVD.

Wait you got pieces? isn't that that Chainsaw Massacre rip off? There was one called Junior too.

Wow Last House on the Left is a damn brutal Movie.

I love the Halloween series but it's an aquired taste.

Dont forget Basketcase!

Is that even on DVD?

Nightmare on Elm Street and New Nightmare (#7, which saw the return of Wes Craven in control, though fewer deaths than there should have been).

Dead Alive goes by another name...and the uncut version is suppost to have some wild amounts of gore. Oh, and The Thing is a must have.

I hear the latest release for the Evil Dead films is the best (the one that looks like the Book of the Dead. And ya gotta see the Day/Dawn/Night of the Day flicks. Great stuff.

I thought the first From Dusk Til Dawn was pretty sweet, and Demon Knight (Tales from the Crypt) is pretty under-rated. If they ever release an uncut Friday the 13th 6-7, we'd get some serious gore on screen...

Dead Alive goes by the name of Braindead now (I have a pretty cool Dead Alive hoodie).

Also, since theres alot of horror fans here, I thought Id share that I went to a Horror Con and Tom Sullivan was there (he did the StopMo animations as well as the Book of the Dead designs on the ED series), and they showed Evil Dead 2 (my favorite in the series) while Tom did a live commentary over it...pretty cool...hes working on the film adaptation of Hellboy, and perhaps working on At the Mountains of Madness (one of my most anticipated)

hes working on the film adaptation of Hellboy, and perhaps working on At the Mountains of Madness (one of my most anticipated)

Awesome, Guellermo must know what he's doing.