Netflix Offers Tips To Unlock Hidden Content On Your DVDs

January 18th, 2007 Davis Posted in Movies, DVDs, Disclosure - I own stock in co. mentioned, Netflix |

I’m not sure how I found this, but I was clicking away like crazy on the internet today and somehow I ended up at a page where Netflix is keeping a list of DVDs that contain hidden Easter eggs on over 50 films. I had no idea that DVDs even used Easter eggs to begin with, let alone that they were this many popular titles that included the hidden content. Looking over the list, I was a little disappointed to see that I’ve rented many of these films already, but didn’t know that the hidden content was there.

Some of the eggs sound pretty interesting. You can unlock a one minute animated clip buried on the Hair DVD or you can activate the panic button on the Chicken run DVD, that lets you get the chickens all riled up. The one I’d like to see the most though, is the hidden horror movie on the Sixth Sense DVD, that was shot by it’s Director when he was only 11 years old.

Making use of bonus content is one of the things I like about DVDs. I used to never check out the commentary or extra clips that they included, but over the last year I’ve started taking advantage of these features more and have found that I really enjoy most of the extra content that they include. Secretly, I was hoping to see the Mystery Science Theater guys reunite to do the commentary for Snakes on a Plane, but sadly it never happened. In the meantime though, I’m still hoping that Mike Nelson will release a RiffTrax for the film, because it would be a fun film to see mocked.