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Beauties & Beasts Box (Night of the Bloody Apes/ Feast of Flesh / Mighty Gorga / One Million AC/DC / The Beast that Killed Women / The Monster of Camp Sunshine) (Something Weird)

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This is quite possibly the best box set deal of the year! All of the films are great, if you like bad drive-in fare, which i love! The extras really make this worth while! About and hour and a half of trailers, 2 hours of shorts, drive-in intemission spots and comic and poster art with music from the great horror surf band, The Dead Elvi! ... Buy now or be forever sorry! p.s.- the movies offered are 25 dollars each , so yopu are getting 75 dollars worht of moives for like, 40 bucks off, plus the disc of trailers and full color booklets for each film! Awesome, totally awesome!

The cover art of IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT's BEAUTIES & BEASTS BOX SET only hints at what's in store for you on these four very unusual DVDs. Besides five vintage raunch and gorefests, also included are:

Trash-o-rama exploitatiion art and '60s se×ploitation art
Drive-in intermission shorts
Theatrical trailers for all five films
SHORT SUBJECTS: Artists' Paradise/Back to Nature/Beauty and the Beast/Bring 'em Back Nude/Diane the Jungle Girl and Her Gorilla of Love/The Exposé of the Nudist Racket/Gorilla and the Maiden/Nightmare/Prehistoric Daze/Nude Ranch/Nudist Fashion Show/White Gorilla/The World's Championship Women's Wrestling Contest
Vintage radio spots
Gory outtake footage
BONUS TRAILERS: The Cyclops/Equinox/Eves on Skis/Face of the Screaming Werewolf/The Flesh Eaters/Goldilocks and the Three Bares/I Dismember Mama/Invasion of the Flesh Hunters/Island of the Dinosaurs/The Loch Ness Terror/Lost Continent/Nudes on Tiger Reef/Nudist Life/Pussycats Paradise/Sound of Horror/Tender Flesh/Tom Thumb/Valley of the Dragons

Can you stand the excitement? Want more? Then check out FEAST OF FLESH (aka "Blood Feast"), the first-ever splatter movie from the genre's legendary creator, Herschell Gordon Lewis! Filmed in Miami in 1963 for a buck-and-a-half, this is the nightmarish tale of a homicidal Egyptian caterer who dismembers his victims, using their body parts to reanimate a long-dead goddess.

THE MIGHTY GORGA is the film's writer/director David L. Hewitt in a cheap gorilla costume. Surprisingly OK cast quickly sinks into an ad-libbed miasma. The subtitle of THE MONSTER OF CAMP SUNSHINE was obviously influenced by Dr. Strangelove-- any similarity ends there, however. In this one, a nudist camp's gardener drinks water tainted with toxic waste and transforms into a ghastly creature that attacks the unclothed campers.

The "highlight" of the Mexican-made NIGHT OF THE BLOODY APES is probably footage of actual open heart surgery. A mad scientist tries curing his son's leukemia by giving him the heart of an ape (pronounced "gore-EEE-yah"). The boy predictably turns into a gnarly monkeyman and goes on a bloody rampage. ONE MILLION AC/DC was scripted by Ed Wood! (Big deal...) The movie's tagline says it all: "See...Vala, the voluptuous cave babe! See...Mota, the mighty war-lard! See...Dino, the plastic-eating dinosaur!"


For five more examples of classic splatter, check out IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT's HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS COLLECTION.


Parenthetical numbers preceding titles are 1 to 10 viewer poll ratings found at a film resource website.

(4.2) Feast of Flesh ("Blood Feast") (1963) - William Kerwin/Mal Arnold/Connie Mason/Lyn Bolton/Scott H. Hall

(2.5) The Mighty Gorga (1969) - Anthony Eisley/Megan Timothy/Scott Brady/Kent Taylor/David L. Hewitt

(2.0) The Monster of Camp Sunshine ("or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Nature") (1964) - Ron Cheney/Sally Parfait/Deborah Spray/Harrison Pebbles

(4.8) Night of the Bloody Apes (Mexico-1969) - José Elías Moreno/Carlos López Moctezuma/Armando Silvestre

(2.7) One Million AC/DC (1969) - Susan Berkely/Gary Kent/Billy Wolf/Sharon Wells/Jack King/Natasha