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Originally Posted by Demdike  I quite like the Katrina / Maria hosted material. Its not as if you have to watch it, just don't bother with that option.
The Scorpion discs i have all have reversible covers so i don't see your problem there. |
I'm assuming Scorpion does Katrina. I held off on getting any of those at first since it looked like a hack job to me. I didn't know the quality of the print but based on the horrendous cover, I didn't want to find out.
It wasn't until I saw through the clear case that I was able to reverse it.
On the other hand, the Code Red titles are all black cases, so unless one normally checks for hidden artwork, you can't tell.
My point is that if you don't follow these types of things and the first time you ever encounter these at a store or online looking at the cover, it's easy to lose a potential customer. As a newcomer to those series, my first impression was that they're trying to replicate Elvira. I've seen lots of horror hosts doing the same in the past and they've usually been hack jobs. I don't want to pay $15-20 just to find out how bad they've hacked up the movie to get some generic boob girl to host it. I can get that stuff for free locally on cable access.
Now I own some but haven't sat down to watch any of them. I have a backlog of movies on DVD and blu-ray I haven't watched that is somewhere between 2,000-5,000 movies. It probably won't be until next month to when I get around to watching some when I participate in a b-move/cult/exploitation type movie challenge.
I'm not trying to say the end product is all bad, I'm just giving my impressions from when I first saw these things. I honestly don't know of anyone that would look at those covers and say "I must have that. That is such an amazing cover and the insides of the case must be filled with horror hostess goodness".
edit: I guess it's Katarina. I find her cover's to be less gaudy than Maria's.