booby trap

The Brides of Dracula starring Peter Cushing
The Curse of the Werewolf starring Oliver Reed
Phantom of the Opera starring Herbert Lom
Paranoiac starring Oliver Reed
The Kiss of the Vampire starring Clifford Evans
Nightmare starring Jennie Linden
Night creatures starring Peter Cushing
The evil of Frankenstein starring Peter Cushing

this is a collection of rather obscure hammer films that include both horror and thrillers.
"curse of the werewolf."
has been fully restored after spending years being broadcast minus about 5 minutes or more. now running at approximately 92 minutes, the film makes more sense.

These are on double sided disc's region 1 and wide screen and priced at £11.81, has anyone got this set, and is it good.

smudge

This set is very good value IMHO, esp. when you consider that (IIRC) PARANOIAC and NIGHTMARE were only ever released on Laserdisc.

Smudge

Welcome to my house. Enter freely, and of your own will...

Dave Rattigan

It's an excellent set if you get discs that work!

The discs were notoriously flawed, and tons of people found their discs were not working, or were skipping or whatever. However, it is a great price, and if you get a set that works fine, it is excellent.

They are all very good-looking prints, all in anamorphic widescreen.

As for the films, my favourite of all of them is Captain Clegg/Night Creatures. Top performance from Cushing. It definitely deserved to be brought out of obscurity.

The Brides of Dracula, The Curse of the Werewolf and The Kiss of the Vampire are all classics. The Phantom of the Opera is flawed, but worth watching. Nightmare and Paranoiac are similar; both black-and-white psychological thrillers, well-filmed. The Evil of Frankenstein is kind of awful, but enjoyable for Hammer fans. For the first time in their history, Hammer were given permission to copy elements of the Universal Frankenstein series, and the film feels like a parody of those old movies, right down to the (atrocious) makeup.

boznia

I have bought a dew defect DVDs so far, it would be very frustrating to pay for a box set and get defect ones.

Dave Rattigan

I ordered mine from amazon.com. Because of the distance, they told me not to bother sending it back when I discovered some of the discs were faulty. They just sent me a second set.

batman

Amazon have been doing that for a while .... I received damaged copies of both Dead of Night and Sea Devils and they sent replacements without wanting the old ones back.

Bats.

I wish I had claws.

wearysloth

I vidcapped from this set recently
Paranoiac
Night Creatures
Phantom of the Opera
Evil of Frankenstein

Warner have done a good job.

Another excellent deal available on Region 1 from Warner:
Draculas: 4 Film Favorites - Horror of Dracula / Dracula Has Risen from the Grave / Taste the Blood of Dracula / Dracula A.D. 1972 (2DVD) ~ Christopher Lee, et al. (DVD - 2007)

for $12.49

DB7

Has there been any word yet on the aborted Columbia Hammers? I was especially looking forward to them.

wearysloth

Not much life over at DD Home Entertainment - no website, the email address returns a delivery failure.

Camp on Blood Island
from an off air recording...

Update
Have found a better eMail that hasn't rejected (so far)
Watch this space (the one between the two letter s's)

DB7

Had a look on SHE coming soon list and it's mostly pastime dvds and tv material, plus the odd film like Captive Heart and Light up the Sky.

John Hodson

Universal. Universal did an excellent job.

filmjournal.net/john