Boneyard Collection 4-Movie Pack (Mill Creek Entertainment DVD Set)

 

Picture: D    Sound: D     Extras: D     Features:

 

Manje – D

Bleeding Rose – D

Asylum Night – D

The Sorority – D

 

 

It almost makes sense, when you have four awful genre movies, to package them all together so the consumer can at least pretend that they’re getting a good deal.  Almost.  But honestly, it’s really no better to have four awful movies that you’ll never watch again than to have one awful movie you’ll never watch again.

 

Manje:  Of the four movies on this disc, Manje is the best written (though the dialogue is still terrible) and the best produced.  It at least looks semi-professional and has a real (stilted, trite, and mostly superfluous) plot.  A group of friends go camping in the woods and as their angsty dramas unfold, a creature from beyond the grave is hunting them down, one by one.

 

Bleeding Rose:  Ebony returns home to New York after a bad breakup and runs into an old friend, Cedric the streetwise music producer.  Cedric recruits Ebony to sing for his new album and the future looks bright with her fantastic singing, the music’s excellent lyrics, and their friendship quickly turning into romance.  Unfortunately, Cedric’s streetwise attitude just comes off as arrogant and uneducated, both the singing and the lyrics are horrendous, and Ebony’s ex has decided to stalk and kill her.

 

Asylum Night:  While Manje may be the best produced film of the four, Asylum Night is by far the most watchable.  For those with patience for hilariously awful movies, the prospect of vampires in an insane asylum is pure gold.  Asylum Night is badly shot, badly written, badly acted, and has horribly bad special effects.  This is B-horror approaching Ed Wood proportions.

 

The Sorority:  Devil worshipping sorority girls are the focus of this horrendous piece of crap with bad effects (they could have bought better vampire fangs at a drug store for $5) and an absurdly trite plot (woman investigating her sister’s murder, soon becomes the next victim).

 

The picture quality and aspect ratios vary from really bad (Manje) to “looks like a YouTube video shot on a cell phone” (The Sorority).  The audio quality is only slightly better, and the on-set recordings are full of echo and room tone.

 

All four movies are on one disc, two per side, which is packaged in an absurdly large case as though each film had its own disc.  There are no special features, but no one would watch them anyway and as previously stated, Asylum Night is the only movie out of the four that you should even consider watching.  Even that only if you take a particular joy in ridiculous B-horror.  The other three, and in particular Bleeding Rose and The Sorority, are a special kind of awful, the kind that causes stomach ulcers, makes puppies go blind, and not even veteran schlock fans can find joy in.

 

 

-   Matthew Carrick