Guy With World's Largest Movie Collection Complains He Can't Find Anything to Watch

Phoenix, Arizona -

“It’s just the most obnoxious thing, really,” said Derek Davis, Guinness World Record holder for most DVDs in a private home library. “I own more movies than anyone on the planet, yet I just can’t find a thing to watch. It’s really frustrating.”

Davis’ love of collecting movies started nearly a decade ago, when he ran across a video store that was going out of business. He ended up walking out with over 200 movies in that one day, and because of the liquidation pricing, he paid only about $7.

“It was really dumb luck, you know? It kicked off one hell of a movie adventure, though," joked Davis. "I wish someone would make a movie about my movie collection, then I'd have another to add to it."

Davis' collection, which is organized by genre and then listed alphabetically, compromises many different forms of media, including old-school VHS and Betamax, as well as Laserdiscs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. His collection has been ranked by Guinness as the biggest private collection in the world, at just shy of189,000 films. His favorite genre is horror, of which he owns 78,948 films. 

"I've counted them all many times, and every time I add a new one, I catalog it," said Davis. "I'm pretty meticulous like that. My all-time favorite horror movie is The Willies. It's the pride of my collection, honestly, even though it came from a dollar store dump bin."

Sadly, because of the sheer size of his collection, Davis says he hasn't even been able to find anything to watch. 

"I own more films than God himself, yet haven’t watched a movie in nearly two years. I just keep buying new ones, cataloging them, and putting it into the collection," said Davis. "Honestly, whenever I want to put something on, I just throw on some show on Netflix or whatever."