In this page I list the movie titles I have watched from the box sets published by Mill Creek Entertainment. The links have the more detailed reviews. I will not guarantee that I will watch each and everyone of the movies in the boxes. Notice also that the newer editions of these box sets may have different contents. Also some titles are present in other Mill Creek boxed sets. As most of the titles are in public domain, many of them can be watched in archive.org or Youtube.
Quick links:
Chilling Classics 50 Movie Pack
Classic Musicals 50 Movie Pack
Family Classics 50 Movie Pack
Family Holiday Film Collection 20 Movies
Fast As Hell (3 Movie Collection)
Fuel Injected Films 20 Movie Pack (Completed!)
Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack
Horror Classics 50 Movie Pack
Martial Arts 50 Movie Pack
Nightmare Worlds 50 Movie Pack
Sci-Fi Classics 50 Movie Pack
Sci-Fi Invasion 50 Movie Pack
Ten Thousand Ways to Die 12 Movie Pack (Completed!)
Ten Thousand More Ways to Die 12 Movie Pack
Warriors 50 Movie Pack
Chilling Classics 50 Movie Pack (2005 Edition)
Progress (3/50)
The Alpha Incident
Surprisingly good small-scale scifi about space organism infected quarantined people.
Rating: Good
Oasis of the Zombies
How can a film about Nazi zombies be so boring?
Rating: Bad
War of the Robots
Hilariously bad Italian "Star Trek"-clone
Rating: So bad it is good
Classic Musicals 50 Movie Pack (2011 Edition)
Progress (0/50)
Family Classics 50 Movie Pack (2011 Edition)
What does the box contain: Classic adventures, comedy, silent films.
Progress (1/50)
Lost World
Expeditioners visit the plateau where dinosaurs live. Silent movie classic.
Rating: Excellent
Family Holiday Film Collection 20 Movies
What does the box contain: Christmas themed films and animation.
Progress (7/20)
The City That Forgot About Christmas
Christian animation about the meaning of Christmas
Rating: Subjective
The Littlest Angel (1969)
Little shepherd boy becomes an angel
Rating: Good
The Miracle on 34th Street (1955)
Condensed TV-version of the classic
Rating: Good
Santa and the Three Bears
Sweet Christmas animation
Rating: Good
Santa Claus (1959)
Santa Claus meets the Devil in a bizarre Mexican film
Rating: Good (as a weird Christmas movie experience)
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Martians kidnap Santy Claus. Campy movie with some clumsy charm.
Rating: Average or So bad it is good
Scrooge (1935)
First sound version of the classic tale
Rating: Good
Fast As Hell (3 Movie Collection)
Progress (3/3) Completed!
Deadline Auto Theft
Halicki rips off his own previous films with very little new footage.
Rating: Bad
Gone In 60 Seconds II
Halicki's last and unfinished film.
Rating: Not applicable
Junkman
Stunt show style fun with Guinness Record worth of car crashes.
Rating: Good
Fuel Injected Films 20 Movie Pack (2013) renamed later to Collision Course (2014)
What does the box contain: Car movies, action films, spy thrillers.
Progress (20/20) Completed!
Bail Out
Cheezy 80s action with amusingly stereotyped characters.
Rating: Average
Beyond Justice
Kind of western with automatic rifles and camels.
Rating: Average
The Big Wheel
Fun racing movie with romance, comedy and drama.
Rating: Good
Blonde Comet
Female driver challenges men on race tracks. Some fun moments and classic car races.
Rating: Good
Born to Be Wild
Fun Great Depression era trucker adventure.
Rating: Good
The Cape Town Affair
Slowly moving spy thriller with young Jacqueline Bisset.
Rating: Average
The Choppers
Enjoyable juvenile delinquent carsploitation flick.
Rating: Good
CIA: Exiled
Down-to-Earth style spy thriller on a small Caribbean island.
Rating: Average
Cold Blood
This is quite good low budget crime thriller with young Rutger Hauer.
Rating: Good
Cross Mission
This is a weird Italian action film with high cult value.
Rating: Good or Bad
The Devil on Wheels
Early juvenile delinquent drama warning about the evils of speeding.
Rating: Good
Double Nickels
Fun but almost forgotten car film of the 1970s.
Rating: Good
The Fast and the Furious
Early Corman production about a falsely acquitted fugitive who kidnaps a woman and her race car.
Rating: Average
Hot Rod Girl
Not the best Hot Rod movie ever made it has all the elements the 1950s Hot Rod movie should have.
Rating: Good
In Hot Pursuit
Redneck crime flick with crazy car chases.
Rating: Good
A Killing Affair
Fans of "Fried Green Tomatoes" might want to check out this little suspense flick too.
Rating: Good
Killing Cars
Messy tale about inventor of electric car and industrial espionage.
Rating: Bad
Night of the Sharks
Silly movie with sharks and gangsters.
Rating: Bad or So bad it is good
Special Ops
Average action tale with some good martial arts but suffering from terribly bad audio.
Rating: Bad
Seal Team VI: Journey into Darkness
Poorly made love letter to Navy SEALs.
Rating: Bad
Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (2005 Edition)
Progress (3/50)
David and Goliath
This is a very free adaptation of the biblical story, the story goes on very slowly.
Rating: Average
Scrooge
First sound version of the classic tale.
Rating: Good
Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators
Hunky heroes help revolting slaves. This movie is quite entertaining and fun sword and sandal adventure.
Rating: Good
Horror Classics 50 Movie Pack (2005 Edition)
Progress (13/50)
Attack of the Giant Leeches
Just as the title says. The movie is quite traditional, but gritty monster film in Deep South.
Rating: Average
Beast of Yucca Flats
Tor Johnson as a radiated scientist. I must admit that this is one of my favourite bad movies.
Rating: So bad it is good
Carnival Of Souls
Scary visions haunt a girl. The movie has a great uniquely nightmarish atmosphere.
Rating: Excellent
House on the Haunted Hill
Vincent Price horror classic with few but quite effective scares
Rating: Good
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
Iconic adaptation of Hugo's book
Rating: Very good
Indestructible Man
Not one of Lon Chaney Jr.'s best but still quite entertaining
Rating: Average
The Last Man on Earth
Melancholic movie about a lonely vampire hunter.
Rating: Good
Nosferatu
One of the most important silent horror films
Rating: Excellent
The Phantom of the Opera (1925/29)
Romantic horror classic with Lon Chaney's iconic Phantom
Rating: Good
Revolt of the Zombies
Scientist finds a zombie formula and tries to take over the world. The movie starts quite promising but turns into boring melodrama.
Rating: Bad
The Screaming Skull
A couple moves into a house with a terrible past. The movie has good atmosphere but the campiness wins this time.
Rating: Bad
The Terror
French officer meets a ghost woman in a creepy village. The movie is suspenseful ghost tale with nice gothic atmosphere.
Rating: Good
White Zombie
(Probably the first zombie-film, with Bela Lugosi as the zombie master)
Rating: Good
Martial Arts 50 Movie Pack (2007 Edition)
What does the box contain: Martial arts, kung fu, blaxploitation
Progress (1/50)
The Impossible Kid
(Weng Weng's amusing adventures in Filipino midget-spy film)
Rating: Very good or So bad it is good
Nightmare Worlds 50 Movie Pack (2009 Edition)
Progress (11/50)
Alien Contamination
Alien eggs cause humans to explode. Suspenseful Italian horror scifi.
Rating: Good
Alien Species
Aliens attack Earth in terrible "Independence Day" clone.
Rating: Very Bad
The Alpha Incident
Surprisingly good small-scale scifi about space organism infected quarantined people.
Rating: Good
Atomic Rulers of the Earth
Fun Starman adventure, but should have more space creatures.
Rating: Average
Lost City
Evil scientist creates giant zombies in jungle. Quite dull serial adventure with some hilariously bonkers ideas.
Rating: Bad
Lost World
Expeditioners visit the plateau where dinosaurs live. Silent movie classic.
Rating: Excellent
Maciste in Hell
Maciste conquers Hell in this underrated silent classic.
Rating: Very good
Menace from Outer Space
Crystal rockets are launched to Earth, Space Rangers try to find out why. Hilariously campy Rocky Jones adventure.
Rating: Average
Mistress of Atlantis
Desert queen abducts men. Atmospheric but slow desert adventure, not one of G.W. Pabst's best.
Rating: Average
Night Fright
Space mutant kills teens. Zero budget monster dullness, nice 1960s atmosphere though.
Rating: Bad
This is Not a Test
Deputy Sheriff tries to save a group of people from nuclear attack. Low budget nuclear war movie.
Rating: Good
Sci-Fi Classics 50 Movie Pack (2009 Anniversary Edition)
What does the box contain: Scifi, peplums.
Progress (6/50)
The Alpha Incident
Surprisingly good small-scale scifi about space organism infected quarantined people.
Rating: Good
Colossus and the Amazon Queen
Colossus meets a tribe of feminist women. The movie is not a good film but it has some originality and fun moments.
Rating: Average
Hercules Against the Moon Men
Spacemen in ancient Greece. This is weird low budget mix of peplum and scifi genres but strangely entertaining.
Rating: Good
Hercules Unchained
Hercules loses his memory. The movie is a fun and entertaining adventure, being one of the better sword and sandals movies.
Rating: Good
Rocky Jones Space Ranger: Menace from Outer Space
Crystal rockets are launched to Earth, Space Rangers try to find out why. Hilariously campy Rocky Jones adventure.
Rating: Average
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Martians kidnap Santy Claus. Campy movie with some clumsy charm.
Rating: Average or So bad it is good
Sci-Fi Invasion 50 Movie Pack
What does the box contain: Scifi and also some peplums.
Progress (3/50)
Abraxas - Guardian of the Universe
(Jesse Ventura as a space cop in hilariously bad scifi story)
Rating: So bad it is good
Hands of Steel
Fun cheapo cyborg action with pulp violence and arm wrestling.
Rating: Good
R.O.T.O.R.
Robot Police goes on a rampage in hilarious cult turkey.
Rating: So bad it is good
Ten Thousand Ways to Die The Spaghetti Western Collection 12 Movie Pack (2010)
Progress (12/12)Completed!
Beyond the Law
Good Western about thief Lee Van Cleef who becomes the Sheriff of a small mining town
Rating: Good
Four Follars of Revenge
Spaghetti Western version of "The Count of Monte Cristo"
Rating: Good
God's Gun
Badly produced but somewhat entertaining, Lee Van Cleef in dual role
Rating: Average
The Grand Duel
Great later Spaghetti Western with Lee Van Cleef
Rating: Very good
The Great Adventure
Jack London influenced not quite so Great Adventure.
Rating: Average
His Name Was King
Quite formulaic revenge Western with Klaus Kinski.
Rating: Average
It Can Be Done Amigo
Fun Bud Spencer movie, but not one of his best
Rating: Average
Jesse and Lester, Two Brothers in a Place Called Trinity
Weak Comedy Western
Rating: Bad
Johnny Yuma
Good and hard-hitting Spaghetti Western.
Rating: Good
Now They Call Him Sacramento
Enjoyable Hill & Spencer style slapstick Western
Rating: Good
Seven Guns for Timothy
Early attempt to bring comedy to Spaghetti Westerns.
Rating: Good
The Last Gun
Surprisingly "American-style" Spaghetti Western.
Rating: Average
Ten Thousand More Ways to Die Spaghetti Western Collection 12 Movie Pack (2012)
What does the box contain: Spaghetti Westerns, many with Gordon Mitchell or George Hilton
Progress (0/12)
Warriors 50 Movie Pack (2006 Edition)
Progress (18/50)
Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens
Ali Baba fights an evil tyrant. The pacing of the film is awful. Also the acting is bad.
Rating: Bad
Cleopatra's Daughter
Evil counsellor tries to dethrone an Egyptian princess. The entertaining movie combines palace intrigue, romantic adventure and tomb raiding.
Rating: Good
Colossus and the Amazon Queen
Colossus meets a tribe of feminist women. The movie is not a good film but it has some originality and fun moments.
Rating: Average
The Conqueror of the Orient
Prince tries to regain his throne. The movie is not so bad adventure but it uses every trope in the book.
Rating: Bad
David and Goliath
This is a very free adaptation of the biblical story, the story goes on very slowly.
Rating: Average
Duel of Champions
Alan Ladd as Roman hero Horatio. Good mix of romance and action.
Rating: Good
The Giant of Marathon
Persians try to conquer Greece but Steve Reeves fights back. The movie is a good mix of intrigue, romance and action.
Rating: Very good
The Giants of Thessaly
Jason and the Argonauts search for the Golden Fleece. I think this is one of those unrated adventure gems.
Rating: Very good
Hercules Against the Moon Men
Spacemen in ancient Greece. This is weird low budget mix of peplum and scifi genres but strangely entertaining.
Rating: Good
Hercules and the Masked Rider
Muscleman movie with a Zorro-twist. The story is quite average for these kind of adventures.
Rating: Average
Hercules and the Princess of Troy
Hercules battles a sea monster. The production values and special effects are good for a TV movie.
Rating: Good
Hercules Unchained
Hercules loses his memory. The movie is a fun and entertaining adventure, being one of the better sword and sandals movies.
Rating: Good
Hero of Rome
Romans battle against an exiled Tyrant. Again the movie is a good adventure combining some early Roman legends although quite freely.
Rating: Good
The Last of the Vikings
Vikings battle against an evil king. The movie is an entertaining viking adventure.
Rating: Good
Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators
Hunky heroes help revolting slaves. This movie is quite entertaining and fun sword and sandal adventure.
Rating: Good
Thor and the Amazon Women
Thor meets some evil ladies. Strong anti-feminist overtones are present, but the movie is so campy that it is hard to be taken seriously.
Rating: So bad it is good
Two Gladiators
Early version of "Gladiator." The movie is a fun semi-historical adventure with some good combat scenes.
Rating: Good
Ursus in the Land of Fire
Ursus challenges an evil tyrant. The movie is quite silly low-budget peplum, but offers some fun and good action scenes.
Rating: Average
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