Universal Horror Classic Movie Archive (The Black Cat, Man Made Monster, Horror Island, Night Monster, Captive Wild Women)
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DVD: Region Code 1Product features:
- 5 Terrifying Films on 2 discs!
- First time on DVD...ever!!!
- An exclusive, limited run...once they're gone, they're gone!
- Stars Bela lugosi, Lon Chaney, Jr., Basil Rathbone, Lionel Atwill, John Carradine, and Acquanetta!
- All films are in their original aspect ratio (1.33:1), include Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono soundtracks, and are digitally remastered and restored!
Movie Reviews of Universal Horror Classic Movie Archive (The Black Cat, Man Made Monster, Horror Island, Night Monster, Captive Wild Women)
Movie Review: Does Universal ever learn???
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great set of B horror from Universal...that you can't find anywhere unless you pay some scalper who could care less about the films three times what it is worth. The reason? Like the Ultimate Sci-Fi Collection, this was a Best Buy exclusive.
If you can find it for a reasonable price, jump on it because every film is a great B horror classic and the audio and video are very good, not unrestored like public domain packs. My favorite - "Captive Wild Woman". The title has it as "Captive Wild Women" indicating it is possibly some kind of prison film, and nothing could be further from the truth. Instead it seems to be borrowing from Val Lewton's themes about monsters and horror mirroring the human condition. Plus, Milburn Stone ("Doc" from Gunsmoke) is in the film! For those of you who didn't know, Stone toiled away in B horror films for years before he got his career role on TV in Gunsmoke. The Black Cat (1934) is a classic scary old house tale with Karloff and Lugosi. Man Made Monster (1941) has Lon Chaney Jr. as the victim and Lionel Atwell as the mad scientist. I think Chaney gives one of his finest performances here - in my opinion, much better than in his "wolf man" films, and they weren't half bad. Horror Island is an OK film starring a bunch of people I never heard of, still the story is pretty good. Finally there is Night Monster (1942), another scary old house tale with Bela Lugosi and Lionel Atwill getting top billing yet a disappointing amount of screen time considering this. Buried in the credits you'll find Nils Asther as Agor Singh. It's a rather juicy role though Asther doesn't get much screentime. The sad part is that in the late silent era Asther had been a big star at MGM. However, his star fell far after the advent of sound films. He was born in Denmark and raised in Sweden, and his foreign accent was a hindrance in the talkies. By 1949 he was driving a truck.
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Summary of Universal Horror Classic Movie Archive (The Black Cat, Man Made Monster, Horror Island, Night Monster, Captive Wild Women)
From the studio that created the horror genre comes five terrifying films that will send chills down your spine and bring terror to your heart in the "Universal Horror Classic Movie Archive"! Unearthed from the vaults and on DVD for the first time, Universal invites you to journey through fog-filled moors, into haunted mansions and through secret hallways to meet a chilling collection of mad scientists, crazed circus performers, an ape woman and maniacal killers! Prepare yourself for hours of pure terror starring some of the most iconic actors in the history of horror, including Lon Chaney, Jr. and Bela Lugosi! Includes the films THE BLACK CAT (1941), MAN MADE MONSTER (1941), HORROR ISLAND (1941), NIGHT MONSTER (1942), and CAPTIVE WILD WOMEN (1943).DVD Video
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