You may not know this, but when I troll through the new releases at Amazon, I wishlist all the DVDs which look like they have genre content, but don’t have any product image — just that curving arrow that looks like a smile. This DVD, Kill With the Dance, has been sitting coverless on my wishlist since April 5 of this year.
I just found the cover on Buy.com. Suddenly I know why Amazon thought it had a better shot at sales without it.
Camera phones have many great uses. Taking the shots for the front of your DVD cover is not one of them.
#1 by RogerBW on October 11, 2011 - 3:24 pm
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Still photographers and cover designers cost, like, money, man…
#2 by Naomi on October 12, 2011 - 8:32 am
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Not if you hand the cover design duties to Aunt Hilde, who did such a good job with last year’s Christmas letter. She even got to re-use the same template.
#3 by The Rev. on October 11, 2011 - 8:42 pm
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That bottom shot is quite daring.
In that I can’t believe they’d dare use such a blurry shot for their DVD cover.
#4 by Gentle Benj on October 11, 2011 - 8:51 pm
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Wow, “Taylor Hayden.” Not one, but TWO stereotypically millennial names. Makes me feel old, knowing that these kids are now old enough to be multi-hyphenates on no-budget horror vids. Next we’ll be seeing a suburban zombie opus by Mercedes Dakota.
#5 by Braineater on October 12, 2011 - 5:13 pm
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Hmm… Mercedes Dakota? Oh, yeah: Brittany Caitlyn’s granddaughter!
#6 by Richard on October 24, 2011 - 12:19 pm
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Hmm… Is that the same Taylor Hayden from “Gives Me Chills Part X”?
#7 by Nathan Shumate on October 24, 2011 - 1:15 pm
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I would hate to think there are two such individuals.
#8 by RogerBW on October 24, 2011 - 1:49 pm
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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3111034/ lists both this and the title from Part X.
#9 by Krillion on October 26, 2026 - 1:15 pm
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The detail about Amazon’s curving-arrow placeholder standing in for a coverless DVD for months is a nice bit of observation—it says something about how much storefronts quietly shape what we judge before we even see it. Cover art shot on a camera phone is its own small genre of comedy, and I’ve fallen down similar rabbit holes hunting down better images at Buy.com. When I need a break from that kind of browsing, I’ve been poking at krillion.me, a free browser party word game you can play with friends.
#10 by Mimic Party on October 26, 2026 - 1:40 pm
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The detail about Amazon’s curving-arrow placeholder image standing in for a real cover is a funny one, and the point about camera-phone shots on DVD fronts lands — a blurry snapshot really does undercut a release before anyone’s watched it. I’ve had the same wishlist limbo with coverless listings, waiting months for an image to finally appear. When I need a break from cover-hunting, I’ve been killing time on mimicparty.me, a free browser bluffing game.
#11 by Noillirk on October 26, 2026 - 2:00 pm
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The detail about Amazon’s coverless “smile” arrow is a good one — it’s funny how a missing product image can almost work in a title’s favor, and finding the real cover on Buy.com only confirms the suspicion that the camera-phone shot was doing more harm than good. I’ve had a similar wishlist graveyard of genre DVDs waiting on artwork. Days when I want a quick mental break from cover-hunting, I’ll spend a few minutes on noillirk.app, a daily word-guessing game.
#12 by Baper Rasta on October 30, 2026 - 3:04 pm
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Solid point on This DVD, Kill With the Dance, has been sitting coverless on my wishlist since April 5 of . I would not force a connection to games/AI here — just noting baperrasta.app (free browser Dhaka driving game) as a light break tool.