Physical Media Haul: Mid-Year Collection Update/New Additions! Blu-ray, DVD, Books | Horror etc.

Deepest thanks to Posty, The Gordonite, TheatreOf, Craig, Celluloid Dreams, and YOU! It's been 6 months since I last posted about physical media acquisitions, so I have a few things to share! I ramble a bit here but hope you enjoy!
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Search terms: horror, exploitation, vincent price, edwige fenech, rosalba neri, roger corman, barbara bouchet, stuart gordon, the exorcist, ken russell, albert hitchcock, bloody iris, celluloid dreams

[@MadmanReadsRocks]

Fargo and Carlito's Way are awesome and you can't go wrong with anything Hitchcock!

[@kieronball8962]

Theatre Of Blood is an awesome and gruesome horror / comedy movie from 1973 and features an amazing cast of famous British actors, who are all out-acted by the incredible Vincent Price.

[@mal-bp5jq]

Theatre of Blood is a classic !

[@ebr66]

Society is a Brian Yuzna film...frequent collaborator with Stuart Gordon.🎉 Lair of the White Worm is also weird fun. Fargo is excellent. Mask Red Death great Vincent Price Poe movie.

[@TheTVisions]

And Gordon directed Daughter of Darkness (1990) which is in the Haunted set Katie got there.

[@bigboss-yv2nr]

Nice lookin good great flicks

[@thegordonite]

Man that's a high quality haul! I was just looking at that Lair Of The White Worm, gorgeous case and really a fun movie with Hugh Grant and "that guy that looks like Hugh Grant" 😂

[@dudemcmann6936]

Society is so weird! Its more gross-out than disturbing. Can't wait to hear your take on it. I love seeing physical media hauls! Streaming is nice & convenient but its nice to actually own & handle the movies we love to watch and there's always the danger of them removing it when the license runs out. We need to keep physical media alive so we can control what we have access to instead of the streaming services controlling it.

[@KatieoftheNight]

YES I guess I have equal love for them both. Well i like streaming so that I can explore and test things out, and then physical media is when I'm ready to commit. (but it's also the option when streaming is unavailable of course!)

[@themayor1716]

Ohh those are 2 of my favorite Vincent Price movies.

[@markalexander3659]

Ohhh, Society...looking forward to hearing what you thought of The Shunting lol Carlitos Way has been on my TBW for a while, but I can't remember why. I think maybe somebody I like is in it? Spirited Away, too. Theatre of Blood is really interesting

[@KatieoftheNight]

see, this is why I wish i could add a note when i add something to my watchlist on letterboxd. like "note to self: so n so is in this, or so n so recommended it"!

[@rythehorrorguy2851]

I hope you do a review or two on some of those Hitchcock films. He has such a great library of movies.

[@glenmcculla6843]

I'd be up for a review of Top Sensation, but I think you've pretty much summed it up with "goat moment"! I really need to rewatch Society and Lair of the White Worm again soon too.

[@glenmcculla6843]

Also, I think 'Edwige Fenech's Goat Moment' would make a cool band name.

[@KatieoftheNight]

HAHA man... well if I do review it maybe i'll title it "edwige's goat moment'

[@paulconway384]

@@KatieoftheNight Check out Emanuelle in America for the 'horse moment' 😂👍

[@adam-l74]

Great haul! ❤ The four movie horror collection is neat, I think some of those are tv horror films or at least I remember watching them on tv.

[@thegordonite]

I know Daughter Of Darkness was made for TV and Bay Coven looks like it was. Bay Coven is pretty good and features a very young Woody Harrelson!

[@davidmajer3652]

Always enjoy your hauls. and thank you for creating this community and giving us a reason to come back.

[@KatieoftheNight]

thank you for coming back! :)

[@DoomedMoviethon]

Masque of the Red Death was life changing as a kid. Stone cold classic. Spirited Away is top 3 Miyazaki for me. Also, I love LOVE Drop Dead Gorgeous.

[@KatieoftheNight]

yep, that checks out, you have great taste.

[@jamestownsend5828]

Fantastic Haul Katie...... enjoy Carlitos way it's a classic 😊😊

[@kevinsplinter8595]

Cool. Thanks for sharing

[@GuideToTheVideoStoreChris]

What a haul you have there, Katie! Those are some great choices I've seen & love dearly... 👍

[@kieronball8962]

The Lair Of The White Worm Steelbook looks amazing and so is the film. Directed by Ken Russell, loosely based on a Bram Stoker novel and starring Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg and Peter Capaldi, it's a great horror film with a British twist. :)

[@KatieoftheNight]

looking forward to it!

[@Steve_281]

Weirdly I picked up the Arrow blu ray of Society last week. Such a great 80's film with some incredible work by Screaming Mad George. Be interested to hear your take on it

[@jfly1705]

Fargo is a great movie and just tells a simple story but does it effectively.

[@kieronball8962]

I hope you enjoy watching those Hitchcock movies and if you do, might I recommend the Hitchcock movies The 39 Steps, Rear Window, The Birds and To Catch A Thief. And keep an eye out for Alfred Hitchcock's famous cameo appearances, that he makes in his movies. :)

[@LarryFleetwood8675]

The 39 Steps (1935) is just about as perfect as any movie can get, a thrilling story and great direction it's basically my favorite Hitchcock movie. Why it's so rarely mentioned these days, is a mystery to me people seem to swoon mainly over his later Hollywood period beginning with Rebecca (1940).

[@kieronball8962]

I love all three versions of The 39 Steps, but the original is still the best. :)

[@ChrisBlake]

You'll love society! Also great look and lighting in this vid 👍

[@KatieoftheNight]

thank you so much. I've decided I never want to film in my black room again bc the lighting in the purple room is SO MUCH BETTER lol.

[@bnchile1]

Lair of the White Worm is the weirdest dang movie I've ever seen.... I've seen it like 6 times and I still have no idea what's going on....love that steelbook though, so sweet looking

[@KatieoftheNight]

oh man i better prepare for a wild ride!

[@markalexander3659]

OMG, imagine if you'd gone to check out the scratching sounds at the window and it was an "Owl"! I'd have noped out of there so fast haha

[@KatieoftheNight]

omg...... RIGHT?~! i was just thinking human or alien for some reason lol.

[@cfroberts62]

I do recommend "Carlito's Way" good mob-style tragedy....you know any of those "friends" who are total parasites that drag people down with them...? Yeah. THAT kind of tragedy. Better than just a "Boy Movie". "Society", I absolutely love. Rip-roaring gross satire....funny and disturbing!

[@squashchefan]

I'd love to see a reaction video to Society. And hopefully you have Frenzy on that Hitchcock set. A giallo girl will enjoy the heck out of it

[@TheTVisions]

Absolutely, I love Frenzy too it's a must watch for sure.

[@KatieoftheNight]

I don't know why I didn't think to share what movies are in the hitchcock set! lol.

[@madcoolclips2800]

❤Coolness ❤

[@metaldams78]

I did manage to find Top Sensation online on some, shall we say, unofficial site. I watched it on my IPad. I agree it’s not good, but it has Edwige and Rosalba, who make it watchable. If you substituted those two for any average Jane, I’d have no interest in that film at all. But I love those two. 😂 Looking forward to your reviews of these films. I’m getting the new Spanish horror set from Severin, which ironically enough with what you said about six months, is my first major purchase in six months.

[@KatieoftheNight]

YES that is so true... it's worth it for those 2. and the music. congrats on ur new purchase!!!

[@Jaykilljoy-tt9tt]

I'm not a big Hitchcock fan. I've seen around 4 of his movies. Two of his 1920's silent films, then psycho, and my favorite Hitchcock film The birds. The only Hitchcock films I actually really like and love actually. The birds is an awesome movie. I saw The lair of the white worm. I honestly can't really tell you what I thought of it, but I do plan on giving it a rewatch. My Hayao Miyazaki movie is and always will be Kiki's revenge. Which is my favorite anime movie. I'm actually not a fan of The exorcist, but been meaning to give it a rewatch to see if I still would not like it. My number one biggest issue with The exorcist is....the fact that it's an exorcist movie. It's just not my genre. I don't really like religious horror movies, except in some minor ways like Alucarda, Alice sweet Alice, and probably several other movies. I have several hobbies. The big 4 are Cinema, history, true crime, and the satanic panic. I have been interested in the satanic panic for a long while, but in 2016 I finally started to truly deep dive into it and I keep filling in more and more blanks, more context, more stories, and I've thought about the satanic panic in other contexts. Like satanic panic in relation today. I've studied the satanic panic extensively and of course everything related to the satanic panic. The satanic panic was in the 80's, but it really began in the 70's and the reasons are many; the 60's counter culture, the hippie movement, the fear and rise of cults, Charles Manson; which was literally all of those combined. The 70's had the trend of "satanic cult" movies along with The exorcist. All of this created a right wing christian conservative backlash. This was also during the "tent revivals". Marjoe Gortnor, was an admitted con artist did a documentary exposing the tent revival ministry. Gortnor was basically raised to be a preacher from birth. He actually became a minister when he was 4 years old, went on a preaching circuit. When that "child preacher" GIMMICK wore thin, he basically left to do his own thing and then came back for the money and as a result he talked about how he basically did his job. At the end of the documentary he out right mocks his own christian audience. But he talked about some of the "tricks of the trade" and what he said I find very interesting "This is a business and you don't get meetings or you don't get book back unless you have a GIMMICK or as the evangelist say - it's a ministry. it's incredible. They'll say brother so and so has a ministry of laying on of hands or he's got the ministry of prophecy but that's a gimmick and the guys who have the gimmicks get the big meetings and do good." I find this interesting because when I look at some of the FRAUDS, our right con artists who were the first to really push this narrative and were putting this satanic cult paranoia into the fringes of christian culture, which then became mainstream in the 80's with the mainstreaming of the christian right - that is EXACTLY what I see and undoubtedly what happened. Two of the frauds come to mind. John Todd and Mike Warnke. Todd was in the military during vietnam, claimed he was in vietnam, but never went, but kicked out on a psyche evaluation. He claimed that Star wars and any and all rock music was "demonically possessed." that "witches" literally put "curses" on albums and movies and that he was a former member of this giant secret satanic elite cabal. He was later arrested for SAing a teenage girl and a few kids and died in the prison mental hospital. Before this, he actually went to a Mike Warnke meeting and got into a physical fight, with Todd screaming at him "YOU STOLE MY ACT!" According to his military discharge Todd "couldn't distinguish fiction from reality." and was a "compulsive liar". All that stuff you've heard about "that music is satanic" "it's literally evil of satan and if you listen to it you will change and it will possess you" all of that came directly from John Todd. Mike Warnke was a compulsive pathological liar from elementary school. Literally EVERYBODY who ever knew him, his teachers, his class mates all said "he's a big fat liar." He claimed that in college he became a member of a secret satanic cult. Even claimed to have met Charles Manson. He even went so far as to claim he would shoot literal FIREBALLS out of his hands at people. He also claimed that he did human sacrifices. He wrote a book about this fictionalized story and went around the U.S telling his story "I was a former high priest of a satanic cult BUT THEN I BECAME A CHRISTIAN. BUY MY BOOK. BUY MY CASSETTE TAPES. BUY MY ALBUMS." He also claimed that he looked "like Dracula" during his college days, with scars on his face and his finger nails super long. Long hair, etc. Now his college friends once again said he was a pathological liar who liked to tell stories and they were "total squares" in college and he never ever "looked like Dracula" never had scars, never had long hair, or long nails and they have photos to prove it. Mike Warnke was literally incapable of telling the truth. He went on tours with a christian band, the band members said "I had been sober and celibate the entire time I was in the band...until Mike." Mike was a womenizer who cheated on his wives, slept with groupies and did drugs while on tour. Reading his biography, I kept being shocked at how sleazy this guy was and so blatant of a compulsive liar this guy was. One of the most disturbing moments for me was when Mike was cheating on his wife OPENLY, was actively trying to force his wife into divorcing him. The mistress lived with this other family and this family were best friends with Warnke and his wife. The wife saw them openly kissing, flirting and dating. Apparently Warnke would cry and plead with his friend about his wife "I don't know what to do. Please help me. I love my wife so much." and so his friend told his own wife "You got to talk to her [Mike's wife]. She doesn't care about this relationship" which enraged the guy's wife who yelled at him "MIKE IS THE ONE WHO DOESN'T CARE ABOUT HIS MARRIAGE!" this guy's wife later tried to plead with Mike "why are you doing this? This is terrible. Your destroying your wife. Your wife is crying all the time. Your destroying your marriage." and Mike's reaction? To get her to SHUT UP was to try and get in a relationship with her. "I don't want my wife or her. I want you" and he tried to kiss her....when I read that, I was like "this guy is a massive manipulative sociopath." He also tried to use her once during a christian event. He claimed he had "saved her" Made her a christian and that she was a former drug addict and prostitute. She went on stage but soon after behind stage she was like "What the hell, Mike?! You didn't turn me into a christian and I was no dang prostitute!" Soon after that he divorced his wife, ditched his mistress and got wife number 4 and he would go around asking for charity money...for sick children, drug addicts, and to stop 'satanic cults". Of course all of the money went to him and his wife was a shopping addict. She was spending thousands of dollars. So that tells you how much they were making off their scams and I find it interesting, because in the 80's he was interviewed despite being exposed as a fraud, oh and by the way, he never ever met Charles Manson. Manson was in prison when he supposedly "met him" and they were in two totally different states at the time as well. Warnke said this "it wasn't a demon that grabbed me by the face and dragged me down the road and forced me to join the church of satan, but it was just that there were certain things in this program [Fictionalized movies in the 70's; satanic cult movies] that piqued my interest and I decided to study more on my own and if the devil does have PR, it is definitely cinema." In this same exact interview, the news man literally says "the zeal of these FICTIONAL devil worshipers is strickingly similar to that of real satanists." Ya....because Mike Warnke and others out right stole their fictionalized story from fictionalized movies!!!! To quote a real life satanist, the daughter or Anton Lavey "Everything that you've described is entirely from a CHRISTIAN perspective and would not be described as satanic in my view or my definition." and of course history tells us where these claims largely came from....the medieval ages during the infamous witch hunts. Seriously...if you actually look at all the claims about witches in the 15th and 16th century to the claims made in the satanic panic by Warnke and others it is practically identical and of course those claims in the 15th and 16th century were SLANDEROUS LIES used to justify the MASS SLAUGHTER OF HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE. Thousands actually. To quote a video short about the satanic panic "A more simpler explanation is that real life satanists like Warnke were simply crafting stories based on more popular stories from the cinema. Since Warnke's book is clearly a work of fiction and most of the claims on this ABC broadcast are false or sensationalized it would seem that Warnke and ABC are neither separate from the fiction they claimed was impacting society. It would seem that rather then fiction leading to a widespread occurrence of real satanism at the time, other forms of fiction - at the cinema and HOAX STORIES claimed as real by the likes of ABC and Mike Warnke actually led to a paranoia that didn't have any basis in reality [other then isolated incidences of some teens pretending they are satanists and writing 666 or "satin" on a wall or whatever. Or some metal head killing a friend "in the name of satan" or while listening to 80's metal music]. The real widespread network of true believers did real damage in the form of hysteria and witch hunts."

[@KatieoftheNight]

I love when people have distinct hobbies and passions. the satanic panic is a huuuuge undertaking to learn about.

[@paulconway384]

Being thrifty is essential when collecting physical media. You would be bankrupt if you pay for everything full price 😂👍

[@KatieoftheNight]

so true!!

[@Datenschutz_Datenschutz]

i love my NAS HDDs Haul.

[@madcoolclips2800]

❤Awesomeness ❤

[@metaldams78]

….and since you asked for our worldview on The Exorcist. I was raised Catholic and while I have my issues with the current Catholic Church, I still believe in God and think The Bible has a lot of wisdom in it. Probably an unusual worldview for someone who watches Euro Horror and listens to metal. But in addition to the awesome horror elements, I like the story of the Priest having a lapse of his own faith as he’s caring for his dying mother. There’s also the aspect that he’s a doctor and there’s the other few that while science and psychology answer a lot, there are some things in this world they simply can’t explain. So yeah, I enjoy The Exorcist as a horror fan and am moved by it from my Catholic upbringing.

[@metaldams78]

The above should read “he’s a doctor and a priest.” Autocorrect has a mind of its own

[@KatieoftheNight]

Thanks for that! i feel like the exorcist led us bible belt protestants to believe that Catholicism is the ultimate authority, even tho they 'pray to mary', they're still who you call when you need actual HELP (like with demons) lol

[@Nicolas.Vincent]

My comment keeps getting deleted by youtube, and I don't know why...just trying to say Lair of the White Worm is a good movie and I hope you cover it, and Society too...hope that's OK with youtube

[@KatieoftheNight]

Come on, youtube!! well i promise i'm not doing it. lol. sorry you got silenced.

[@Nicolas.Vincent]

@@KatieoftheNight lol I know it wasn't you. KZbin is bafflingly dumb 😭

[@nickcarroll5034]

you never had a steelbook?

[@randomreviews4278]

0:53 dont waste your time 1:15 snooze fest 1:51 great movie 2:03 another great movie 2:15 such a total snooze dont even bother 4:27 best movie here 6:52 ehh alright movie the remake is better 7:10 scratch that best movie here

[@jeremygann3645]

AWESOME HAUL! YES! Do a TOP SENSATION review! Love the film. I actually do think it is a decent film, but that could be because of the cast! What a great cast! And the only people who don't love "Drop Dead Gordeous" are "total fries"! LOL I know what you mean about those of us who "get it". We are a pretty cool bunch. :)

[@KatieoftheNight]

Thanks for the support! Yeah Top Sensation would feel soooo different if it was starring unknowns I'm sure.