Great Halloween Sale at Amazon!

Updated on October 3, 2009 By Ken Begg 7 Comments

It’s that time of year, when Amazon offers a lot of great horror DVDs at up to 60% off. Especially great are the remaining MGM Midnite Movie double bills and Something Weird DVDS for five to six bucks. Supplies of these aren’t going to last forever, so I’d grab while the grabbing was good. (Except that I pretty much own all these already.) Some of the best stuff from last year, like the Doctor of Doom/Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy double bill, are now sold out.

Remember, too, that (believe it or not), Christmas isn’t that far off. These are great stocking stuffers.

Sadly, they don’t have a banner for their Halloween sale page, but use the above link, look right beneath the product info at top, and you’ll see a section entitled Halloween Sale. Click the Shop the Sale link and Bob’s your uncle.

Suggested essential buys (there are TONS more):

5.49 and under
Fall of the House of Usher/Pit & the Pendulum
Iron Giant
IT! The Terror from Beyond Space/Monster that Challenged the World
Invaders from Mars (’53)
Plan 9
Basket Case
Phantom from 10,000 Leagues/Beast with a Million Eyes
Astro Zombies
Zombie Lake
Terror in the Midnight Sun/Invasion of the Animal People
Death Curse of Tartu/Sting of Death
Panic in the Year Zero/Last Man on Earth
Strangler of the Swamp
Mortuary/Prom Night (’80s)
Gallery of Horrors
Horrors of Spider Island
Monsters Crash the Pajama Party (GREAT HALLOWEEN SHORTS COLLECTION!!!)
Bloody Pit of Horror
Giant from the Unknown

5.50-7.00

Shaun of the Dead
Little Shop of Horrors (musical)
Fright Night
Jason and the Argonauts
House of Wax
The Mummy (Cushing, Lee)
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
The Beast 2-disc edition (well, if you’re going to have it…)
Return of the Vampire (great Lugosi flick)
Eight Legged Freaks
Exorcist II The Heritic (A MUST BUY!!!)
Nightmare City (gets the Sandy Petersen wacky Italian Zombie Movie seal of approval!)
Heroes of Horror (five episodes of Biography: Karloff, Lugosi, Chaney Jr., Lorre, Price)
The Pit/Hellgate (The Pit is just awful)
Beast that Killed Women/Monster of Camp Sunshine

And then there’s the somewhat more expensive stuff, much of it just great. Seriously, hundreds of more choices. Aside from those looking for one or two items or gifts, this is the rare chance these days to blow a couple of hundred bucks and in one feel swoop build up a pretty massive cult movie collection in one fell swoop. You could do a lot worse than just buy (particularly) all the MGM Midnight movie double bills, and tons of the Something Weird ones.

Remember, no tax, and once you hit $25, free shipping on your order, even if you buy 50 DVDs.

When you get to the over $14 stuff, there’s a lot of Blu Ray discs too.

Good hunting!

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  • The Rev. D.D.

    The Pit…is that the movie of that name with the Tra-la-logs? I seem to recall El Santo saying Hellgate was pretty crap…that’s quite a duo there.

    I know my seal means jack, but I’d put it on Nightmare City too.

    Looks like a good time to finally pick up Basket Case, Bloody Pit of Horror, Zombie Lake, and Monsters Crash the Pajama Party. I also admit that the very last DVD listed there draws my interest for reasons I really cannot explain…

  • BeckoningChasm

    No one should ever watch Horrors of Spider Island, I don’t care how cheap it is.

  • Theodine

    Not even the MST 3000 version of Horrors of Spider Island? I found it funny.

  • Henry

    “IT! The Terror from Beyond Space” is a definite must own. It was one of only a handful of DVDs that I brought with me to the Philippines. That and “The Return of Dracula” starring Francis Lederer (who, in my opinion, was one of the best Draculas EVER – Rod Serling seemed to think so, too, when he cast one of his “Night Gallery” episodes). “Return of the Vampire” was a cool vampire/werewolf flick – but a bit “by the numbers”. The British actors were top notch, though – and, of course, there was Lugosi…

  • Yes, Lederer played the Count in The Devil is Not Mocked, from a story by Manly Wade Wellman.

    Man, I’ve crammed my head with a lot of useless crap.

    The IT! disc is a must buy because Monster that Challenged the World is also one of the better giant bug movies. (Well, OK, mollusk movies. Pretty close, though.) Getting both those movies for like five bucks is one of the best movie deals ever.

  • BeckoningChasm

    “Horrors of Spider Island” is probably a good film to mock, since it has absolutely notthing any good in it at all. I haven’t seen the MST3K version, but the one I did see was…terrible beyond words. It made me envy Helen Keller.

  • P Stroud

    I saw Bloody Pit of Horror off of Netflix a few months back and I have to say that the combination of Euro-trash incoherency and Mickey Hargitay’s over the top (to put it mildly) scenery chewing made it quite the entertainment value. It makes a great drinking game too. Just take a drink every time Hargitay refers to himself as “The Crimson Executioner” oe mentions hie perfect body. I doubt even Richard Burton has met Hargitay’s level of the munching of the stage props. Certainly it set a very high standard. I may just pick up a copy.