Horror Classics 50 Movie Pack Collection - Blockbuster New Releases Information

To be concise and summarize – Great value! 50 movies (I paid about 25 bucks; so 50 cent movies – how can you complain?)
Transfer quality generally awful, most but not all are slightly out of focus (won’t notice on little tv!) but watchable. If you are a perfectionist you will not want this. Some scenes from some movies have been cut but nothing major so far (have seen maybe 26-27 so far). Sound generally poor, mono, (2 were in stereo). The B&W movies generally not so bad but many of the color films have serious quality problems IMHO. All are full screen; no wide-screen (that I have seen). This is OK since all movies before 1954 were approx. FF anyway. The ideal customer wants a sample of the 20′s-60′s Horror/Mystery/Action B movies with 3-4 real classics and 15+ total duds. Still, fantastic value. Absolutely no frills. All movies have small number of selectable scenes, no trailers or ANY other stuff. Packaging is 12 d/s single layer disks each in cardboard cd-type sleeve. None of the disks in my box was scratched (maybe lucky?).

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Sheila Chilcote-Collins “Sheila Renee Chilcot… (Collinswood, Van Wert, OH USA) –

  

  

I purchased this 50 DVD box set this past autumn (for Halloween) and have viewed all of the films. There are some GREAT CLASSICS mixed with fabulous SCHLOCK for a price that can’t be beat!

Different horror genres including:

Crusty, Creepy Creatures
Descend to the depths of the deep, dark ocean and encounter the “Phantom From 10,000 Leagues” and “Creature From The Haunted Sea”. Check out the cheesy and quite primitive special effects in “The Giant Gila Monster”. Rediscover terror of dogs dressed up in fur playing “The Killer Shrews”. Hold your breath to see which hick from the backwoods will actually survive “The Attack of the Giant Leeches”! Also the great “The Hunchback Of Notre Dame” with the fabulous Lon Chaney, Jr., “The Gorilla”, “Swamp Women”, “Atom Age Vampire”, “Beast Of yucca Flats”, “Black Dragons”, “Invisible Ghost”, “The Vampire Bat” with Fay Wray, “White Zombie” with Bela Lugosi and “The Bat” With Vincent Price!

Majorly Maddening Madmen
Descend into insanity and weird funereal rites in Francis Ford Coppola’s first full-length feature “Dementia 13″. Be astounded at the scientific perversity of Jason Evers as he keeps the severed head of his fiancée alive in “The Brain that Wouldn’t Die”. Also includes, “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde”, “The Monster Maker”, “Maniac”, “The Amazing Mr. X”, “The Tormented”, and “Bluebeard”.

Cult Classics
Watch when Audrey II cries “feeeed me” in “Little Shop of Horrors”. Fear for the fate of humanity as flesh-eating zombies roam the earth in Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead”. Find out what it’s like to be “The Last Man on Earth” with Vincent Price and “The Last Woman On Earth” with Robert Towne. Go to the “Carnival Of Souls” with Candace Hilligoss, even!

Silent Horror Classics
Watch the amazing Lon Chaney in “Phantom of the Opera”, slinking through the cellars of the Paris Opera House. Marvel at the chilling Max Schreck in “Nosferatu”, giving a truly mesmerizing performance and the classic and futuristic, “Metropolis”.

AND MUCH, MUCH MORE! I highly recommend this very cool and inexpensive box set for anyone who likes classic horror, cheesy schlock, Bela Lugosi or stylings of the great Ed Wood!

Happy Watching!

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Rudolf Schmid “nmnori” (Kensington, CA) –

  

  

?For comments on quality see other reviews. Dates range from 1920-68; all B&W except 4 in color (see 3B, 9A, 10A, 11B).
DISK (12 2-sided disks total):
1A: Carnival of Souls (1962) 84 minutes. Starring: Candace Hilligoss
1A: Atom Age Vampire (1960) 87 minutes. Starring: Alberto Lupo
1B: Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961) 75 minutes. Starring: Robert Towne
1B: Nightmare Castle (1965) 101 minutes. Starring: Barbara Steele
2A: Black Dragons (1942) 64 minutes. Starring: Bela Lugosi
2A: Invisible Ghost (1941) 61 minutes. Starring: Bela Lugosi
2B: One Body Too Many (1944) 75 minutes. Starring: Bela Lugosi
2B: White Zombie (1932) 67 minutes. Starring: Bela Lugosi
3A: Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959) 62 minutes. Starring: Ken Clark
3A: The Screaming Skull (1958) 68 minutes. Starring: John Hudson
3A: Beast of Yucca Flats (1961) 53 minutes. Starring: Tor Johnson
3B: The Terror (1963) COLOR 83 minutes. Starring: Jack Nicholson
3B: Revolt of the Zombies (1936) 65 minutes. Starring: Dean Jagger
4A: The Giant Gila Monster (1959) 74 minutes. Starring: Don Sullivan
4A: The Fatal Hour (1940) 68 minutes. Starring: Boris Karloff
4B: Dead Men Walk (1943) 65 minutes. Starring: George Zucco
4B: The Mad Monster (1942) 77 minutes. Starring: George Zucco
5A: Maniac (1934) 67 minutes. Starring: Bill Woods
5A: Metropolis (1927) 115 minutes. Starring: Gustav Frolich
5B: The Vampire Bat (1933) 69 minutes. Starring: Melvyn Douglas
5B: The Ape (1940) 62 minutes. Starring: Boris Karloff
5B: The Monster Maker (1944) 65 minutes. Starring: J. Carrol Naish
6A: The Killer Shrews (1959) 70 minutes. Starring: James Best
6A: The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962) 92 minutes. Starring: Jason Evers
6B: Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde (1920) 67 minutes. Starring: John Barrymore
7A: Bluebeard (1944) 73 minutes. Starring: John Carradine
7A: The Corpse Vanishes (1942) 64 minutes. Starring: Bela Lugosi
7B: Night of the Living Dead (1968) 90 minutes. Starring: Judith O’Dea
7B: Doomed to Die (1940) 67 minutes. Starring: Boris Karloff
8A: The Phantom of the Opera (1925) 79 minutes. Starring: Lon Chaney
8A: The Indestructible Man (1956) 70 minutes. Starring: Lon Chaney Jr.
8B: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) 100 minutes. Starring: Lon Chaney
8B: Nosferatu (1922) 63 minutes. Starring: Max Shreck
9A: Swamp Women (1955) COLOR 73 minutes. Starring: Mike Connors
9A: The World Gone Mad (1933) 70 minutes. Starring: Pat O’Brien
9B: Little Shop of Horrors (1960) 70 minutes. Starring: Jack Nicholson
9B: Tormented (1960) 75 minutes. Starring: Richard Carlson
10A: The Monster Walks (1932) 60 minutes. Starring: Rex Lease
10A: Monster from a Prehistoric Planet (1967) COLOR 90 minutes. Starring: Tamro Kawaji
10B: The Gorilla (1937) 67 minutes. Starring: The Ritz Brothers
10B: A Shriek in the Night (1933) 66 minutes. Starring: Ginger Rogers
11A: Bloodlust (1961) 68 minutes. Starring: Robert Reed
11A: The Amazing Mr. X (1948) 78 minutes. Starring: Richard Carlson
11B: Last Woman on Earth (1960) COLOR 71 minutes. Starring: Robert Towne
11B: The Bat (1959) 80 minutes. Starring: Vincent Price
12A: House on Haunted Hill (1958) 75 minutes. Starring: Vincent Price
12A: The Last Man on Earth (1964) 86 minutes. Starring: Vincent Price
12B: Dementia 13 (1963) 75 minutes. Starring: William Campbell
12B: Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1956) 80 minutes. Starring: Kent Taylor

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