So i got this : http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EQ2KXA0

I mean the package alone and the price sold me $40 for 50 discs that include 200 movies i said what the hell and blindly bought it. Now, i am not familiar with most of the titles included.

Here's the complete list of all 200 movies : http://pastebin.com/N8r4JEQg

Anyone here who knows and can point out some titles that are potentially worthwhile to be watched as i have more free time and i want to start from this box set.

Well after looking at that amazon page I'd like to get that box set too. The stand-out titles to me would be;

Phantom of the Opera (Lon Chaney)

Metropolis (super cult classic)

Medusa (George Hamilton)

But I spotted others on that list too, but those three are the ones I'd start with.

Would you imagine that, i didn't even realize it included Metropolis :). That one alone redeemed it for me. Thanks!

Well there are other good ones on there as well. I vaguely remember Medusa with George Hamilton, but I recall it was a hoot because it has George Hamilton in it.

One title that should be included, and maybe it is and I'm overlooking it, but Pit and the Pendulum (Vincent Price) needs to be included. I have looked for this movie and have never found it. I've found other dvds with similar titles, but never the Vincent Price film.

bro theres a bunch of gems in there, House by the Cemetery, Night of the Living Dead, Oasis of the Zombies (horribly good), White Zombie (classic)...plus a ton of interesting titles that I have heard of but never had a chance to see. That will be fun digging into that set

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Really nice, a Fulci film, i guess ill kick this off with House by the Cemetery.

I'd do some research on the different versions and run-times of Metropolis. Some versions are missing a lot of scenes. If the box set comes with an incomplete version of Metropolis it might be better to pick up the version released by Kino which has the missing scenes intact.

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I own quite a few of the movies on that list, many of them rare OOPs, but this set looks make up of public domain and bootleg copies from vhs masters.

But why is a bootleg necessarily inferior to a crappy VHS tape? The first thing I do with a VHS tape is make a DVD-R copy that usually looks JUST LIKE a bootleg and that people would probably complain about if I uploaded it to a free pirate site. And many "legitimate" DVDs over the years have been sourced from VHS tapes rather than film prints.

I'm more interested in seeing very obscure movies. The format doesn't necessarily matter that much. Downloads are pretty much free today, but even 15 years ago when people regularly sold DVD-R copies of obscurities for say $10, there were all these people enraged about that, but who insisted on buying "original" OOP VHS tapes for $200 on Ebay. Each to his own I guess, but that just doesn't make sense to me.

I'll buy an expensive, high-quality Criterion DVD of something I like, and I'll do whatever I need to do to track down an interesting obscurity, but I don't get a whole lot of personal satisfaction from owning a $150 VHS tape of "The Granny" (1994), which would be worth about the cost of a blank VHS tape if they ever released that piece of crap on DVD/Blu-Ray. Collectors are a strange breed.

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That's worth it if you don't already have all those movies (I do have most of them). You probably don't want to buy a set like that just for "Metropolis" because there are far, far better versions of that out there. You're better off recording it off TCM frankly.

But if you just want to see a whole bunch of public domain movies and then maybe later buy a better copy of the ones you really like, these kind of set are definitely worth it.