12 Chilling Classic Movies

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The 12 Chilling Classic Movies features hours of chilling entertainment digitally re-mastered on three double-sided DVDs. Begin a library of Classic Feature Films with stars like Bela Lugosi, Rex Lease, Ginger Rogers, Boris Karlof, George Zucco, Tamio Kawaji, Don Sullivan and The Ritz Brother. Including features: The Monster Walks, Monster from a Prehistoric Planet, The Gorilla, A Shriek in the Night, The Giant Gila Monster, The Fatal Hour, Dead Men Walk, The Mad Monster, Black Dragons, Invisible Ghost, One Body Too Many & White Zombie.

Customer Reviews:

Simply Buy It.......2005-10-06

MY REVIEW
I think this is a great purchase for a knockout price. This DVD includes twelve flicks (low budget/B movies) - mystery, murder, suspense, the hokey, sci-fi, kitsch...with some actors and actresses you know (i.e. Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Ginger Rogers, et. al). If you're a Bela Lugosi fan, this is worth checking; there are four films with him especially the classic, "White Zombie." If you want to explore past Bela and "Dracula," for a good price, this is your DVD.
Buy it. Have a party. Invite your friends, family...anyone you like. Or let it just be you and a dark, rainy night. Pop some popcorn. Have a good, frightful, hokey time.

LISTED TITLES: TWELVE FEATURES
1. "The Monster Walks" (1932. Frank R. Strayer)
-It was a dark and stormy night, and in an old, gloomy house lurked a killer ape? Only in Hollywood.

2. "Monster From a Prehistoric Planet" (1967. Haruyasu Noguchi)
-A giant beast - part bird, part lizard.
The special effects are the takeaway here. It's good this set includes a Japanese monster flick.

3. "The Gorilla" (1930. Allan Dwan)
The Ritz Brothers are hired to investigate a killer (a.k.a. "The Gorilla). Mayhem along the way. Bella Lugosi plays Peters, the Butler.

4. "A Shriek in the Night" (1933. Albert Ray)
-Rival, newspaper reporters (also in love with each other) band together to report on mysterious murders occurring in an ritzy apartment building.
-Ginger Rogers and Lyle Talbot (first actor to play Commissioner Gordon from "Batman" and Lex Luther from "Superman" on-screen).
This low budget movie is worth checking out if you're a mystery buff.

5. "The Giant Gila Monster" (1959. Ray Kellogg)
-Fun, fifties sci-fi flick. (Hot rods, teenagers, and a giant lizard).

6. "The Fatal Hour" (1940. William Nigh)
-It's the fourth film from the "Mr. Wong series." (There were six films altogether.) A low budget series that was a (counterfeit?) knock off of the "Charlie Chan series." Boris Karloff reprises his role as Chinese detective, James Lee Wong, investigating mysterious murders and colorful suspects again. Also starring is Marjorie Reynolds; she's best known as Linda Mason in "Holiday Inn" (1942) with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire.

7."Dead Men Walk" (1943. Sam Newfield)
-Good and evil twins. Satanism. Sorcery. Vampires.
I heard it's a good B-movie.
What is it with our fascination with the Devil, witches, demons, and vampire?

8. "The Mad Monster" (1942. Sam Newfield)
-Mad scientist. Werewolf.
A cool, campy movie.

9. "Black Dragons" (1942. William Nigh)
- A low budget, WWII espionage flick.
Bela Lugosi stars in it. For me, it's worth looking for curiosity since I'm a Bela fan.

10. "Invisible Ghost" (1941. Joseph H. Lewis)
-Bela Lugosi is a hypnotic murderer/innocent victim.
It's a bad movie but worth seeing by Joseph H. Lewis' direction. Makes me think, how many B movies like this did Bela Lugosi (and Boris Karloff ) make?

11. "One Body Too Many" (1944)
-It's a mystery where Jack Haley (The Tin Man, "The Wizard of Oz") plays an insurance salesman who's mistaken for a private detective at a creepy house. Bela Lugosi and Lyle Talbot in the supporting cast.

12. "White Zombie" (1932. Victor Halperin)
Voodoo, Zombies, and Lugosi. What more could you ask for?
I believe this is the first Hollywood zombie movie. This DVD set is worth buying for this movie alone. (and it's Bela!)

~These 12 films make me think of a Drive-In.

12 cringing classics.......2005-07-09

if you want a laugh and see how things were done way back when you cannot go wrong with this collection.some are genuine classic's and others are just classic stuff.
one thing with my box i got three discs yet the description on the web page states four discs,cannot see how they got four when all appears on 3.but again my box was missing one disc but replaced with another
i got=the house on haunted hill
=the last man on earth
=dementia 13
=phantom from 10,000 leagues
were i should have got
the giant gila monster
the fatal hour
dead men walk
the mad monster
i don't mind getting another disc but i have 3 out of the 4 on other discs.thats the only problem that i found with the box set.
have fun,enjoy and have a good laugh,remember that years ago these were scary,and in years to come the exocist will be a joke.
martin

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