DVD : Hammer Horror Series (Brides of Dracula / Curse of the Werewolf / Phantom of the Opera (1962) / Paranoiac / Kiss of the Vampire / Nightmare / Night Creatures / Evil of Frankenstein)
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rated by buyers Unrated
Type of bind: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN num: 9781417059058
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN number: 1417059052
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Quantity: 2
Publishing house: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 06, 2005
Running Time: 682 minutes
Sale Popularity Level: 3430
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: September 11, 1963
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Hammer Films, one of the most celebrated horror studios in the history of cinema, presents 8 classic horror films in one collection. From Dracula to Frankenstein, werewolves to phantoms, the Hammer Horror Series showcases some of the most terrifying monsters in the history of cinema and features legendary performances by Peter Cushing, Oliver Reed and Janette Scott.
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Ok, yes I am a big horror movie fan and I was excited about this set. I have not seen all the movies yet. First, they all LOOK fantastic, whatever they did to restore them - Mazel tov! Beautiful pictures, the lurid "Brides of Dracula" especially. I must admit I fell asleep watching some of these, I guess I've just used to more 'active' camera work or something. They are certainly all earnestly done, but the scripts seem to be rather weak often.
The "Phantom" version is really not very good at all, story is greatly changed from Leroux's original, feels like they're doing all they can to avoid copyright infringement.
"Paranoiac" is upsetting and intense, and a big surprise - really enjoyable.
"Kiss of the Vampire" gets a bit silly at the end, but is an entertaining journey.
"Curse of the Werewolf" gets howling good work from Oliver Reed, mad and intense, but most of the time the film just wanders about being a bit dull.
"Evil of Frankenstein" has put me to sleep three times, and I'm STILL not through it! "Nightmare" and "Night Creatures" have yet to make it to the screen.
All in all, for the $16 I paid for it, a steal, and there is a lot to enjoy here.
But in all fairness, it is hardly a collection of "masterpieces."
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Hammer Horror Series (Brides of Dracula / Curse of the Werewolf / Phantom of the Opera (1962) / Paranoiac / Kiss of the Vampire / Nightmare / Night Creatures / Evil of Frankenstein)
Terence Fisher directed this film. Peter Cushing gave another marvellous performance as the vampire hunter, Van Helsing. David peel plays, Baron Meinster, whose mother, keeps him chained in the castle, and lures young girls there to satisfy his lust for blood. A young girl, becomes a guest at the castle, when she is stranded, at the local inn. Feeling sorry for the young Baron, the girl frees him. The Baron follows the girl back to her school and while 'courting' her, spreads vampirism, all too liberally, among her school friends. The Baroness becomes a vampire as a result of an attack by her son, and one of the finest moments of horror in the film is, when nervous as a school-girl on her very first date, the Baroness removes her veil to show Van Helsing, her hideous vampire-fangs. Van Helsing himself, for a terrifying instant becomes infested with the taint of a vampire after the Baron attacks him. Cushing, superbly conveys the agony of a man suffering not-only the physical, but also, the spiritual pains of the damned, as he burns the vampire's bite, from his flesh, with a white-hot, poker. This IS a scene, which still has, the power, to hold an audience, silent and horror-stricken.
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This Hammer horror collection is a masterpiece. In particular, "The phantom of the opera", a so serious British version for this French classic novel.
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i can enumerate at least four solid reasons to own this unusually reasonable HAMMER collection . "BRIDES OF DRACULA" (**** out of *****) , "CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF" (**** out of *****) , "KISS OF THE VAMPIRE" (**** out of *****) and "EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN" (**** out of *****) . that's only half the pictures you get for this price . even if the other films were scat ? which they're not , find me a better deal in the states (because i'm unaware of it) .
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The movies are as I remember them. Entertaining and no gratuitous violence. Don't go looking for great plot development. Some of it is pretty stupid: In "Brides of Dracula", what kind of stupid vampire would leave his worst enemy alive albeit slightly bitten and go fetch the pretty heroine so that he could bite her in front of his enemy instead of taking her just about any time he could have enroute back.
My only real complaint is that "curse of the werewolf" froze up right at the climactic end and no amount of wiping and cleaning could fix it.
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