Critical Condition - Where Bad Movies Go To Die

December 18th, 2006 Davis Posted in Movies |

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During my meandering across the world wide web, I stumbled upon a truly horrifying, yet captivating website, for a video store freak like myself. In reading over the site, it’s like watching the aftermath of a terrible car crash that I know is grotesque, yet I still can’t seem to turn away no matter how much worse things seem to get.

The site is named Critical Condition and it is a digital musuem set up to preserve the countless bad movies that made their way to the VHS format during the early hey days of the video store. In a rush to capitalize on the growing popularity of home movies, many small time producers tried to cash in on the home movie phenomenon by releasing tons and tons of b-movies that never would have seen the light of day, if we still lived in a world dominated by film. Some of these titles include; Rocktober Blood, Cellar Dweller, and my personal favorite the Nail Gun Massacre to name a few.

While most of these videos are out of print (and even if they were in print you’d never admit to carrying them in your Netflix queue), it’s still a fascinating trip through a graveyard of a forgotten VHS era. While I do reccomend checking out the site, don’t spend too much time there or else you may find yourself trying to add one of these films to your own DVD queue.