Product Details

• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Bfs Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: July 15, 2003
• Run Time: 271 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00009KNVD
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #215,574 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Squeeze too much stuff on a DVD and the picture degrades, September 5, 2005

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D. L. Hall (Eureka, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Classic Disaster Movies (Virus / Hurricane / Deadly Harvest) (DVD)

This DVD taught me that if you squeeze too much stuff on a dvd, the picture degrades. All three of the movies on this DVD have terrible resolution, which diminishes any opportunity for enjoyment. The resolution competes with the silly plots and terrible acting so I don't know what's worse.

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disasters, all right! Disasters of the cinema arts!, April 22, 2005

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Bunny Man! "mallard6" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Classic Disaster Movies (Virus / Hurricane / Deadly Harvest) (DVD)

These, folks, are cheesy shows. You watch the first (Virus) and wonder how a film could be worse. But you watch the second (Hurricane) and realize that yes, it is possible to make an even worse movie than Virus. But boy oh boy, when you get to number 3 (Deadly Harvest) you realize that the impossible has been made manifest! It is also stunningly awful!

In short (the films aren't worth more than that), the productions are cheap and sleazy, the actors are off their feed (if indeed, they'd eaten from the apple of talent at all), the settings are lousy, most of the footage is stock footage, and some shots are even repeated. The scores match all of this in quality. But the DVD presentation equals the worst I have seen on the medium (a cheapo early DVD of Metropolus, where all the subtitles were trimmed off left and right). The film is grainy, they are too dark, etc. etc. etc.

The reason to own these epics? If you are an exhaustive collector of the

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars 3 hardly known TV quality disaster films, December 12, 2004

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X. Allen Smith (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Classic Disaster Movies (Virus / Hurricane / Deadly Harvest) (DVD)

This DVD set is definatly not the best in the world. It features three minescule entries into the disaster film genre of the 1970's. All three films are television quality, both in script and in picture. The best of these three by far is "Virus" (1980 starring Chuck Connors and George Kennedy) AKA "Day of Ressurrection" or "Fukkatsu No Hi" in Japan. The other two films are "Deadly Harvest" about a world food shortage due to the disintegration of the ozone layer or something, anyway it's really quite a bore. The film is set in the late '70's on a farm where a family has to protect their food from "city folk" who keep trying to steal it. Then there's "Hurricane" of 1974 starring Larry Hagman. This film was okay, the quality is pretty bad and the story and acting is VERY campy. There is a lot of hurricane stock footage from the 1960's-70's in it as well. "Virus" is also presented pretty poorly and this edition features the American TV version of the film that is short nearly an hour of footage, but it's still a pretty interesting film without it.

There are also some pointless special features like a Trivia section that really doesn't have a whole lot to do with the actual films shown as it does with the pretty famous actors that are for some reason in the films. And that is really all there is to say about this very unimportant set of films.