Lionsgate Finds a Lost DVD Collection

By Foywonder
January 22nd, 2009

It seems Liongate is coming out with a new collection of DVD releases under the banner of it being "The Lost Collection: The best movies you totally forgot about".

The horror side of this collection will include the likes of Slaughter High, Repossessed, and My Best Friend is a Vampire. Would it really be the worst thing in the world if Repossessed had remained lost and forgotten?

April 14th, 2009, is the date that Lionsgate will reintroduce the world to these allegedly "best movies you totally forgot about". For those that need their minds refreshed...

Slaughter High is a 1986 slasher starring the lovely Caroline Munro as one of several high school class reunion attendees being stalked by a former bullied classmate seeking bloody vengeance for the awful prank they pulled on him back in their formative years. The DVD release will be the R-rated cut of the film.

The inclusion of Repossessed immediately makes me call into question this whole "best movies you totally forgot about" concept because I've been trying to forget this turd for years. The 1990 Zucker/Abrams styled spoof film stars none other than Leslie Nielsen as a priest called into to once again exorcise the devil from an adult woman, no less than Linda Blair herself, who he saved from the devil as a child. Get it? She's been repossessed? If you think that's funny, Nielsen's priest is named Father Mayii; characters keep saying "Father Mayii..." and before they can finish the sentence he'll respond, "Yes, you may." If you think that's funny then just wait until you've heard that joke for the 20th time. Ever noticed that spoof movies starring Leslie Nielsen not titled Airplane or Naked Gun tend to suck?

And then there's My Best Friend is a Vampire, a 1988 teen horror comedy I've personally never seen, probably because it was called My Best Friend is a Vampire. It stars Robert Sean Leonard of the show "House" as a horny teen (Is there any other kind?) that loses his virginity to a sexy vamp who turns him into a vampire. This leads to much shenanigans involving his best friend and the female classmate he's long had a crush on.

All the DVDs will include a pop-up trivia option.

Other non-horror forgotten films being released in the "Lost Collection" on the same day include the young Drew Barrymore comedy drama Irreconcilable Differences, the Keanu Reeves comedy The Night Before, two Jon Cryer Eighties comedies: Hiding Out and Morgan Stewart's Coming Home, and Homer & Eddie, a comedy I'd previously never heard of starring Jim Belushi as a retarded man on the road with a sociopathic woman played by Whoopi Goldberg. That last one sounds like a whole different kind of horror.

- The Foywonder