Review for The B-Movie DVD Collection

Boulevard Entertainment proudly introduces 'The B-Movie Collection', 12 of the best-loved B-movies available together for the first time in a collectable £16.99 DVD boxset (17.99 for the limited edition version). Alternatively, you can buy the films separately for £3.99 each - the DVD spines create a picture when the whole set is collected together…

Creature (1985)
Directed by William Malone

A marine research station experiences shark attacks. When the family probe, they learn that it is a half-man half-shark like creature (based on the novel by Peter Benchley, author of Jaws).

The Stuff (1985)
Directed by Rob Cohen

A satirical horror movie about a designer foodstuff that takes the public by storm... but are they eating it or is it eating them? Another cult classic from director Larry Cohen (It's Alive, Black Caesar, Q - The Winged Serpent).

Return to Horror High (1987)
Directed by Bill Froehlich

Producer Harry Sleerik wants to recreate the notorious Crippen High killings for the big screen using some of the school's original employees to play themselves. But filming starts to go horribly wrong when, one by one, cast and crew begin to disappear.

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (1988)
Directed by James Signorelli

Meet Elvira, the notorious American cult heroine! This wisecracking vamp wishes to open a show in Las Vegas but needs $50,000. Suddenly her great aunt dies and Elvira goes to a conservative mid-west town to hear the reading of the will. Elvira discovers the evil force in the town and finds that only she has the power to stop it!

Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988)
Directed by Donald G Jackson

Hell is a prisoner of the women who now run the USA after a nuclear/biological war that leaves the human race in danger of extinction due to infertility. Hell is given the task of helping in the rescue of a group of fertile women from the harem of the mutant leader.

Octopus (1988)
Directed by Gou Suzuki

An unknown object attacks the US submarine Roosevelt with devastating force and drags the vessel to the bottom of the ocean. What lies on the ocean bed beggar's belief: dozens of wrecks... Whatever was on board has fed a creature of unbelievable size and strength!

Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988)
Directed by John De Bello

20 years on from the Great Tomato Wars, red skins are still banned. But Professor Gangreen has made a fiendish discovery - how to turn tomatoes into perfect replicas of people. These tomatoes are really stewed and dangerous!

Slugs (1988)
Directed by Juan Piquer Simon

An idyllic country community is shocked following the discovery of a mutilated corpse covered in slime. As the days go by, more deaths that are horrific take place, each one more repulsive than the last. They must discover the cause of these brutal murders before it is too late…

Crocodile (2000)
Directed by Tope Hopper

High school sweethearts Brady, Claire and six of their college friends board a houseboat for a fun-filled spring break vacation. But when they discover a nest of large eggs in the marshlands -- and one of them can't resist taking one back to the party -- their weekend of fun-in-the-sun will turn into a weekend of terror!

Spiders (2000)
Directed by Gary Jones

College newspaper reporter Marci and her colleagues head out to a restricted area of the desert to prove the existence of aliens. When the shuttle crash-lands nearby, they sneak into headquarters and stumble upon a secret, unauthorized experiment that has gone wrong: a spider on board that was injected with alien DNA is now on the loose...and each time it kills, it gets bigger and hungrier!

Rats (2003)
Directed by Tibor Takács

The Brookdale Psychiatric Hospital is a crumbling institution which barely has enough money to remain open. Formerly a prison, it sits on top of a warren of tunnels and sewage system viaducts. But Brookdale has a secret, only known by one person. There is something living in the tunnels and it has developed a taste for human blood.

Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Directed by George A Romero

A spill of radiation causes the recently deceased to rise from the grave and feast on the flesh of the living in this chilling classic. Now the dead and the living must fight against each other in a struggle for survival.

Verdict: If you are a fan of low-budget B-movies this is the box set to beat all other box sets, twelve classic cult movies for only £16.99 - what more can be said?