Hall of Fame! There is a baseball, basketball, football, rock-n-roll and many more Halls of Fames! So why not a Horror Hall of Fame? Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney and so on! There are some horror actors that just stand out of the Mount Rushmore of horror films! Whose on your list?!
Well, the fine folks at Mill Creek Entertainment have released there list! With The Horror Hall of Fame box set of movies! In their Mount Rushmore of Horror is truly some of the best of the best in horror! Lets take an in depth look at what is included in this absolute amazing epic horror collection.
Our Rating System:
**** = Don’t Miss it!
*** = Worth a look.
** = An OK way to spend an evening.
* = You haven’t missed anything.
The Boris Karloff Collection
The Black Room (1935) Ignoring an ancient prophecy, evil brother Gregor seeks to maintain his feudal power on his Tyrolean estate by murdering and impersonating his benevolent younger twin. ***
The Man They Could Not Hang (1939) When Dr. Savaard’s experiment in cryonics is interrupted by the short-sighted authorities, his volunteer dies, and he is condemned to death. He vows vengeance if he can survive his own hanging. ***
The Man With Nine Lives (1940) A medical researcher visits the deserted home of a pioneer in cryogenic science who disappeared 10 years earlier and finds him frozen in ice but still alive. ***
Before I Hang (1940) A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals’ blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he’s become a Jekyll-&-Hyde. ***
The Devil Commands (1941) A scientist becomes obsessed with the idea of communicating with his dead wife. ***
The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942) A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar. ***
The Vincent Price Collection
House on Haunted Hill (1959) A wealthy man offers $10,000 to five people if they spend the night in a haunted house. ***
Last Man on Earth (1960) A disease changes people into vampire like creatures, and the last man left on earth is forced to set out as a vampire hunter. ****
Shock (1946) After a woman witnesses a man commit murder, she is locked in asylum to face her psychological issues – but the one who admitted her may be the one who indefinitely needs help. ***
The Bat (1959) When psycho killer, “The Bat,” escapes, he runs loose in a mansion filled with people. ***
The Jackals (1967) Bandits target a gold miner and his granddaughter in 19th-century South Africa. ***
Hammer Horror Collection Volume 1
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960) This is a truly unique take on the classic tale! This is a must see! ***
Scream of Fear (1961) A young wheelchair-bound woman returns to her father’s estate. She keeps seeing his dead body even though he’s away on business. ***
The Gorgon (1964) A rural village has been the scene of a series of murders where each victim was turned into stone. A local professor investigates and finds an evil Gorgon haunting a nearby castle. ***
Stop Me Before I Kill! (1961) Alan Colby a race car driver survives a car crash. Alan and his wife goes on vacation, but he suffers blackouts and violent outbursts. **
The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb (1964) An American showman disrupts the coffin of a mummified Pharaoh only to find it empty. The mummy has escaped to fulfill the dreadful prophesy and exact a violent and bloody revenge. ***
Hammer Horror Collection Volume 2
The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958) Peter Cushing stars in the sequel to The Curse of Frankenstein as Baron Victor Frankenstein who has been rescued from the guillotine by his devoted dwarf Fritz, and continues his evil work under the name Dr. Stein. ***
The Snorkel (1958) Paul Decker arranges the perfect murder of his wife. Sealing the room and filling it with gas making it look like a suicide while he hides beneath the floorboards using a diving snorkel to breath air from the outside. But his perfect plan has a hitch. ***
Never Take Candy From a Stranger (1960) A small town is terrorized by an elderly child molester luring young girls into his mansion with sweets, but no one will stop him because of his powerful family. ***
Maniac (1963) While vacationing in France, an American artist becomes romantically involved with an older woman, Eve, and her teenage stepdaughter, Annette. Pulled between them, a plot is hatched to free Eve’s husband from jail but Eve has a different plan in mind. ***
Die! Die! My Darling! (1965) Young Pat Carroll goes to the home of her dead fiancé to meet his beloved mother, Mrs. Trefoile (Tallulah Bankhead). She soon discovers that Mrs. Trefoile is not the loving mother, but rather a grieving psychopath who blames her. ***
Creatures the World Forgot (1971) Set in the Stone Age, a pair of twin brothers become rivals for leadership of the cave tribe following the impact of a devastating earthquake. **
Classic Horror Collection
Five (1951) After a nuclear bomb destroys the world, only five survivors remain. They seek shelter in an abandoned house. As the last of their kind, they must work together. However, each have differing vision of the future. ***
The Mad Magician (1954) Gallico the Great, a magician and master of disguise, turns into a homicidal maniac when his manager closes his show and gives his tricks to a rival magician. ***
The Man Who Turned To Stone (1957) The prison warden and doctor at a women's prison are behind a centuries-old evil plot to steal the life force of young women to extend their own unnaturally immortal lives. **
The Terror of the Tongs (1961) A British sea captain seeks revenge from a gang of Hong Kong drug and slave traders, know as the Red Dragon Tong, for the death of his daughter. ***
This horror collection features great actors such as Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Donald Sutherland, Eva Gabor, Victor Gory and many, many more! All of the films on this huge collection have some good entertainment value! There is not a bad film in the bunch, even if the film isn't 4 stars!
This big box set of classic horror includes 9 DVDs in DVD cases. The films included in this collection are very good quality prints. The DVD menus are easy to navigate. Than the collectors cardboard slipcover is just awesome! It has four horror icons, Boris Karloff, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and my personal favorite Vincent Price emblazoned on the cover in classic black and white with gold lettering. I wish I could really put into words how impressed I was with this box set. It is just awesome!
So if you or someone in your life is a fan of classic horror films with Christmas right around the corner this would make such a great Christmas gift. I highly suggest heading over to Amazon.com and get your copy today!
Moral Rating: violence, some images may not be suitable for young viewers
Audience: teens and adults
Genre: horror, adventure, drama
Length: Over 35 hours
DVD Released: 2017
DVD Rating: A+
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