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| Monster Kid Home Movies | 
 enlarge | Director: Various
Actor: Bob Burns; Frank Dietz; Kerry Gammill; Joe Busam; Robert Tinnell; Tom Weaver; Allan Upchurch
Studio: The PPS Group
Category: DVD
Buy New: $19.99
Buy New/Used from $14.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  (5 reviews)
Sales Rank: 51961
Format: Ac-3, Black & White, Color, Director's Cut, Full Length, Full Screen, Restored, Special Edition, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 150 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 859246001032
EAN: 0859246001032
ASIN: B000CEX30S
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Theatrical Release Date: June 24, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Description
In the days before home video and camcorders the only way to capture family events and vacations was with 8mm & 16mm movie cameras and projectors. It wasn't long before imaginative kids & teenagers were borrowing Dad's camera to shoot their own cinematic epics. The Monster Kids of the era, inspired by Famous Monsters magazine and weekly showings of classic films on Shock Theatre began making their own little horror and sci-fi epics in backyards, basements and vacant lots. This DVD brings together THIRTY of these charming and sometimes scary films and helps preserve them for future generations to inspire and enjoy. Monster Kid Home Movies is a collection of 8mm movies made by Monster Kids from the 50's to the 80's. This collection features not only these fun films but audio commentaries by the filmmakers plus lots of extras including biographies and photo galleries. You'll find them scary, funny, charming, endearing and entertaining. You'll be astounded by their inventiveness and imagination in bringing their young visions to cinematic life. A varied and talented group of Monster Kids have contributed their precious films to this amazing collection. Among the contributors are such well known talents as comics artist Kerry Gammill, author & historian Tom Weaver, Disney animator Frank Dietz, filmmaker Robert Tinnell & the original Monster Kid himself, Bob Burns.
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We Were Not Alone! December 23, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My friends Mark and Michael made their first Monster Kid movies when they were 10 or 11 (1965/66), before I knew them in Junior High (69/70). They showed them to me then with such pride in that achievement that I somewhat innocently said, " Hey, lets make our own movie!". One year later as we entered High School, we spent the summer of 1971 making our 35 minute "epic" DRACULA MADE ME DO IT!, a spoof of the Universal/Hammer films which also managed to become an homage to the experience we had watching these films on TV ( the only way to do it back then, pre-VHS!) We used the same Kodak Brownie camera..a spring-wound metal box with a flip-up plastic viewfinder that cranked out a 3.5 minute reel of teenage movie magic! We spent countless hours carefully working out our scenes...rehearsing...shooting...only to discover that the light was too low and that 3.5 minutes turned out as pitch black! But we learned and improved, and many, many reels later in 1972 our film ( complete with slightly out-of-sync reel-to-reel tape soundtrack) was premiered for the whole school, projected on the assembly hall movie screen, and in an instant we were recognized filmmakers! Over the next 3 years we produced three more mini-epics, and 75% of the mega-opus 90 minute feature film which we hoped would be our ticket into film school. But as all things go, our cast slowly graduated High School and went off to Colleges far away...and we three, who had started it all went our separate ways as well...leaving behind the reels of 8mm film to molder in shoe boxes while we pursued careers ( one of us became an award winning Theatrical Designer and one an aclaimed Actor/Puppeteer/Director, so the experience wasn't just wasted effort). We learned our craft with those movies...learned to experiment...learned to compromise...and most importantly learned the boundless limits of our own creativity.
Watching this DVD ( and most importantly LISTENING to the commentary of the "Kids" who made these wonderful films) brought everything flooding back for me a full 30 years after it was all left behind! I had thought that my friends and my experience had been unique, but I was amazed to discover that we were actually a part of a much broader and older tradition... a band of "Kids" who were forever altered by their impressions of watching the medium of film, and who felt compelled to emulate that expression in their own ways.
I have always been proud of the filmaking efforts we attempted as teenagers, but never so much as I am now...After seeing the MONSTER KID HOME MOVIES, I feel as if I have truly come home!
Great DVD GREAT LITTLE movies. February 7, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I must agree, this is a great collection. But is this all they could come up with. There must be hundreds more of these things. I even made some myself , but no one asked me. This should have been a two disk set.
Maybe there will be a volume 2 (with superheroes I hope)
Have to agree about the "Play All " feature. It really needs one. especially when playing it with the commentary track.
Like the one where the Cygnus from "The Black Hole" fights the dinosaur on the asteroid.
The animation was very good.
The NIght Stalker one was very ambitious but had me snoozing. OH well, thats just prt of the fun. kinda like
when yould stay up all night to watch "Frankenstein Conquers the World" or "Werewolf of London" only to fall asleep halfway through and wake up Saturday or sunday morning wondering what the heck happened.
Yes tho music was cheesy but thats ok. They should have put more effort into the sound effects though.
I think that can be even more important than music when dealing with monsters.
I highly recommend this disc. If you like it, then you should also get " I was a Teenage Movie maker by Don Glut." "The SCI FI BOYS" and "EQUINOX"
About time someone got it right... May 31, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
...it's about time respect was paid to all those "monster kids" of yore that actually had the imagination, creativity and energy to actually make their own movies, emulating the subject they loved the most: monsters! This is a highly entertaining DVD that works on many levels. In the 1970's I was one of these kids myself, and so kids that grew up making these sorts of films will relate to it on that level. In addition there's something uplifting and hopeful about the films too; they demonstrate to us all to never underestimate the youth, and I think anyone would enjoy watching these amatuer efforts. A few of these films are sheer genius. Some of the kids ingenuity and acting, pacing and direction efforts will probably surprise you; some are incredible (ecspecially in the area of makeup and effects).
It's my hope that possible future volumes feature the homemade efforts of a wider array of kids out there in america. Most of these children grew up to work in the film industry, and while there's nothing wrong with that, and it doesn't change a thing, I'd like to see future dvd's that contain films made by people who are from the regular sector of the American community. It would allow for a bigger perspective on just what it was like for all of kids swept up in the phenomenon of the monster craze of the '60's and '70's.
I agree with the above review as well: there really should be a "play all" button on this dvd...it gets a little annoying having to negotiate thru the main menu everytime a section ends. The introduction to the dvd is a bit shallow and cheesy as well, but that's nitpicking, who cares this is REALLY a "one of a kind" dvd that is likely to become a rarer thing in an industry that tends to focus on the "fastbuck" and "sure thing".
If you enjoy amatuer Super 8 and 8mm film format homemade movies you might look into picking up Something Weird Video's "Carnival of Blood"/"Curse of the Headless Horseman" dvd. In the bonus area on the disc (and SWV is great about giving the bonus material), there's a couple of monster kid type movies (quite gory in their ingenuity!)
 Fun and nostalgic... April 14, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a really great DVD. The films on here, for the most part, are a lot of fun to watch. My one gripe about it is this,there is no "play all" feature. With thirty films on this disc it becomes rather annoying to have to click through all of the menus and films one at a time. This could have been a five star DVD but the lack of a "play all" feature bugged me that much that I have to dock it one star. Other than that this is a great DVD that I am happy to have as part of my collection.
A great DVD-- it brings me back! December 22, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Watching these films is like reliving a perfect time in American history. My friends and I would borrow my dad's 8mm camera and shoot movies like this (only not as good) dreaming of becoming directors some day.
These films are great and you can see the raw talent of some of the people who went on to careers in film and television.
I give it 5 silver bullets (or garlic cloves, depending on the moster!)
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