Ultimate Shockfest (Horror Express / Alien Contamination / Night Of The Living Dead / Deep Red / Oasis Of The Zombies / City Of The Dead / Messiah of Evil / Creepers / Satanic Rites Of Dracula / Dementia 13 ... ) [US Import]

This is a very reasonably priced set for the amount of films included, however, some or all are heavily edited.

In particular Tenebrae (aka Unsane) has almost all of the gore edited out and a large amount of character development scenes removed or shortened. The version included in this set renders the film confusing and jumpy.

Only buy this if you're happy to get CUT VERSIONS of one or all films.

Set features 20 movies on 10 DVD's with 12 page booklet and giant A1 double-sided poster (as pictured). Below text from synopsis.

THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY

The Ultimate Gorehound House Party From The Director Of ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS And THE BEYOND

Catriona MacColl (CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD), Paolo Malco (THE NEW YORK RIPPER), Ania Pieroni (TENEBRE) and Dagmar Lassander (FORBIDDEN PHOTOS OF A LADY ABOVE SUSPICION) star in this outrageous Italian shocker from Lucio Fulci, `The Godfather of Gore.' Considered to be one of the master's last great films, THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY features a mind-blowing onslaught of throat-ripping, skull-knifing, maggot-spewing and more! [IT/1981/COL/2.35:1/82MINS]

OASIS OF THE ZOMBIES

During WW2, a small German squadron was assigned the task of carrying a shipment of Nazi gold across the Sahara desert. Along the way, the squadron was ambushed by the allies, and only one American soldier survived...

Now, his son bands together three fellow treasure hunters to reclaim the $6,000,000 in Nazi gold that remains buried at the oasis... guarded by the restless, rotting souls who died protecting it.

Nazi zombie mayhem from Jess Franco (Vampyros Lesbos; Dracula; Women Behind Bars). [FR/1981/COL/1.33:1/82MINS]

HORROR EXPRESS

China 1900, an anthropologist (Christopher Lee) unearths what he believes to be the scientific find of the new century: the centuries-old frozen body of a gigantic ape-like man, a veritable "missing link."

With his souvenir crated-up, he boards the train back to Europe unaware his ancient fossil is still alive -- a red eyed monster that boils its victims brains by absorbing their intelligence, turning them into zombies possessed by the creature's evolving personality!

Pretty soon even Telly Savalas (as a power-mad Cossack) is raving among the train full of zombies, and it's up to Lee and rival anthropologist Cushing to destroy them... or die! Thrills and chills aplenty in Eugenio Martín's sharp, fast-paced Spanish-British zombiefest. [UK/1972/COL/1.78:1/84 MINS]

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

They keep coming back in a bloodthirsty lust for HUMAN FLESH!

George A. Romero's original zombie-fest returns digitally re-mastered and presented in theatrical widescreen, retaining all the blood, guts and mayhem!

Following a mission to Venus, radiation from a fallen satellite has contaminated the Earth causing the dead to rise from their graves as flesh-eating zombies. Trapped in a farmhouse and surrounded by hoards of the un-dead, several people begin their fight for the future of the human race... But will anyone survive the Night Of The Living Dead? [US/1968/BW/1.78:1/96 MINS]

SLAVE OF THE CANNIBAL GOD

Prepare yourself for the notorious shocker...

When her anthropologist husband disappears in New Guinea, Susan Stevenson (Ursula Andress of DR. NO) convinces her colleague Dr. Edward Foster (Stacy Keach of PRISON BREAK) to lead her into the dark heart of the deadly jungle. But while exploring the forbidden mountain of Ra-Rami, the expedition is attacked and captured by a tribe of primitive natives. Even if they can escape the barbaric tortures of these flesh-eating savages, can Susan survive the depraved lust of their Cannibal God? AKA Mountain Of The Cannibal God. [IT/19??/COL/1.85:1/96MINS]

PIECES

One of the sickest and most violent slasher movies of all the early '80s...

A psychopathic killer stalks a Boston campus, brutally slaughtering nubile young college co-eds, collecting body parts from each victim to create the likeness of his mother who he savagely murdered with an axe when he was ten years old! PIECES is a wild, unrated gorefest, with enough splatter and sleaze to shock the most jaded horror fan. [SP/1982/COL/1.78:1/82MINS]

BLIND DEAD III

THE BLIND DEAD RETURN TO HUNT TENDER FLESH ON THE HIGH SEA!

In what many fans consider the most surprising of the four films in the series, Maria Perschy (CASTLE OF FU MANCHU) and Jack Taylor (EUGENIE) star in writer/director Amando de Ossorio's chilling tale about a boatload of stranded swimsuit models who discover a mysterious ghost ship...

But this phantom galleon carries the coffins of the satanic Templar, eyeless zombies who hunt humans by sound. Even if these frightened lovelies can survive their own forbidden desires, will they escape the insatiable hunger of the BLIND DEAD? Aka Horror Of The Zombies & The Ghost Galleon. [IT/1974/COL/1.33:1/76MINS]

CITY OF THE DEAD
On 3rd March 1692, Whitewood, Massachusetts, Elizabeth Selwyn is condemned for witchcraft and burned at the stake, her followers asking Lucifer to save her...

Centuries later, the Ravens Inn stands on the place of execution and where residents find themselves disturbed by strange chanting in the night and guests who only appear when it's dark. The terror unfolds for one resident who discovers Elizabeth Selwyn and her coven of witches and their sacrificial rite, to preserve their immortality.

Christopher Lee stars in this classic British shocker from Amicus, the studios that dripped blood. [GB/1960/BW/1.78:1/76MINS]

DEEP RED aka PROFONDO ROSSO
Considered by many to be Dario Argento's first masterpiece, DEEP RED stars David Hemmings (Blow-Up) as an English jazz pianist living in Rome who witnesses the brutal hatchet murder of a renowned psychic and is quickly drawn into the savage crime.

With the help of a tenacious female reporter, the pair track a twisted trail of deranged clues and relentless violence towards a shocking climax that has ripped screams from the throats of audiences for more than 30 years! [IT/1975/COL/1.78:1/106 MINS]

DON'T OPEN TILL CHRISTMAS
Only Three More Killing Days Till Christmas!

A killer is loose in London and his sights are set on one target, Santa Claus... dozens of them! Jolly old Saint Nick is stabbed, beaten and electrocuted in department stores, at parties and even on crowded street corners.

What sort of twisted mind is behind these barbarous acts of violence? Scotland Yard is on the trail but every clue points them in a different direction. The culprit is right under their noses but will they come to this climatic conclusion in time? [UK/1984/COL/1.33:1/82MINS]

ALIEN CONTAMINATION
In Director Luigi Cozzi's science fiction gorefest, two astronauts returning to Earth from Mars carry with them deadly bacterial eggs, the size of footballs, which have the lethal potential to destroy the Earth's entire population. When their ship, along with its slaughtered crew, arrives in New York City, a government task force must discover a way to stop the alien invasion before it's lethal contaminant causes all the city's residents to explode!

Banned in the UK after being named in the "video nasty" debacle of the early '80s, Alien Contamination should be a welcome addition to any cult collector's cache. [UK/1980/COL/1.78:1/84MINS]

DEVIL'S NIGHTMARE
One of the few horror movies shot in Belgium this deliriously sexy spooker has a coachload of tourists arriving one stormy night to seek refuge in a spooky old castle. They should have held out for the Holiday Inn, because they soon meet gory deaths by quicksand, guillotine and iron maiden.

It's all down to the presence of a sexy succubus (played by Erika Blanc), who is one hot babe, showing off her belly-button in a slinky, kinky outfit! She likes to make love to men and suck out their souls, and we can certainly think of worse ways to go... [BE/1970/COL/1.78:1]

DEMENTIA 13
A family gathers at the ancestral home to remember their dead sister, Kathleen, who tragically drowned in the lake... But, when Kathleen's body shows up and an axe-murderer begins steadily picking off the remaining relatives... the chills start coming thick and fast in Francis Ford Coppola's (GODFATHER, DRACULA) original slasher-flick, co-written with blaxploitation legend, Jack Hill (FOXY BROWN), and produced by the grand-master of independent cinema, Roger Corman (PIT AND THE PENDULUM).

Presented here in an all new 35mm transfer and digitally re-mastered in widescreen. [US/1963/BW/1.78:1/75MINS]

UNSANE aka TENEBRAE
Following the worldwide success of SUSPIRIA and INFERNO, Master Of Horror Dario Argento returned to the giallo genre with the shocker that remains one of the director's greatest...

Anthony Franciosa stars as an American mystery novelist on a promotional tour in Rome who finds that his most recent book has inspired a copycat serial killer. When the psychotic impulse becomes irresistible, does freedom await in the simple act of annihilation?

John Saxon (A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET), Daria Nicolodi (DEEP RED) and John Steiner (CALIGULA) co-star along with a nerve-shredding score by Goblin and a mind-blowing twist ending in this classic of sexual corruption, savage bloodshed and virtuoso filmmaking that fans and critics hail as an Argento masterpiece. [IT/1982/COL/1.78:1/91MINS]

THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA
Ingeniously brought up-to-date, Dracula is undead and well and living in London, with a plot to bring about the extinction of mankind with a deadly plague virus in Hammer's final Dracula outing...

Dracula and his adversary Lorimer Van Helsing reach the end of the line amidst the desolate, rain-streaked concrete city scapes of the early 1970s. Dracula has, it seems, allowed his contempt for humanity to reach its logical conclusion: no longer content with drinking blood, he has gathered together a group of scientists and created a plague which will eradicate all life on earth. [UK/1973/COL/1. Read more ›

I was surprised with the quality of this set. They did a great job with it's presentation, even providing a double sided poster. The movies themselves are better copies in this set than they are in other sets I own. This product is a limited edition, numbered on the back of the box. If you can find this set, it's a great purchase to add to your collection.