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Platform: DVD MOVIE
Publisher: TREELINE FILMS
LTD
Packaging: RETAIL BOX
An instant library of 50 horror
classics assembled on 12 DVD's. Silent classics include:
Phantom of the opera, Nosferatu and Metropolis. Cult
favorites include: Night of the Living Dead and House on Haunted
Hill plus many more!
Specifications:
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12 DVD Disc set
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Region 0
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Full Frame
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Audio - English
Complete List of Movies:
1. Carnival of Souls - Mary Henry’s life is
turned upside down when a pleasant daytrip with two friends turns
sour when they accept a challenge to drag race and their car is
forced off a bridge. When the car sinks into the murky depths, all
three women are assumed drowned. Instead, to everyone’s
amazement, Mary emerges unscathed from the river quite some time
later. Trying to get a new start as a church organist, Mary finds
herself haunted by a ghostly figure that arouses fear and dread in
the tormented young woman. Star: Candace Hilligoss.
2. Atom Age Vampire - A deranged scientific genius
invents a breakthrough treatment to restore the beauty of a
stripper who has been tragically mutilated in a car crash. When he
falls in love with his patient, he must maintain her treatment by
using the glands of women that he has murdered. In the process he
is transformed into a hideous creature. Inevitably a noose tightens
around him as the police and the stripper’s boyfriend begin
to ask uncomfortable questions. Star: Alberto Lupo
3. Creature from the Haunted Sea - When a
Carribean island is engulfed by a revolution, an unscrupulous
American mobster, Renzo Capeto plans to clean up with a get rich
quick scheme. His diabolical plan is to provide refuge to the
loyalists, and the contents of the government coffers, on his boat,
and then murder his passengers and escape with a fortune. Planning
to blame their deaths on a mythical sea monster, no one is more
surprised than Renzo, when the real monster appears with its own
agenda. Star: Robert Towne.
4. Nightmare Castle - When a brutal count finds
that his wife has been unfaithful, he tortures her and her lover
and puts them to death, removing their hearts from their bodies in
retribution. Time passes, and he remarries a beautiful and
unsuspecting young woman. Soon she is experiencing horrendous
dreams and apparitions. It becomes apparent that the spirits of
slain lovers have returned to exact their bloody revenge. Star:
Barbara Steele
5. Black Dragons - It is prior to the commencement
of World War II, and Japan’s fiendish Black Dragon Society is
hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant
scientist, Dr. Melcher (Boris Karloff) to travel to Japan on a
secret mission.. There he operates on six Japanese conspirators,
transforming them to resemble six American leaders. The actual
leaders are murdered and replaced with their likenesses and Dr.
Melcher is condemned to a lifetime of imprisonment so the secret
may die with him. Star: Bela Lugosi.
6. Invisible Ghost - Meet Kessler (Bela Lugosi), a
seemingly normal man who is overcome by insanity when he dwells on
the tragic fate of his late spouse. Soon he is captured in a
hypnotic spell, apparently cast by his wife’s spirit that
leads him to commit a series of murders. Kessler avoids detection,
and an innocent man (John McGuire) is executed in his stead for the
first murder. The victim’s twin brother enlists
Kessler’s daughter in a quest to determine the true killer,
and to clear his dead sibling’s name. Star: Bela
Lugosi
7. One Body Too Many - Unassuming insurance agent,
Albert Tuttle (Jack Haley), ignores his instincts and makes a sales
call at a creepy mansion, hoping to sell a policy to the owner. His
plans go awry when the owner turns up dead. The heirs of the
deceased infest the premises, held there by the conditions of the
will which require their presence until the body is claimed. Albert
recognizes that the dead man’s niece, Carol (Jean Parker) is
at risk, and decides to assume the role of her protector. When Bela
Lugosi turns up in the role of the butler, mayhem ensues. Star:
Bela Lugosi.
8. White Zombie - This chilling tale features Bela
Lugosi as the dark Voodoo prince, Murder Legendre, a supernatural
force who holds his Haitian worshipers in his thrall. He joins
forces with Robert Frazier who is furious at the rejection of his
marriage proposal by the exquisite Madge Bellamy. They strike an
unspeakable pact that results in Madge’s death and
resurrection as a zombie and love slave to Frazier. The evil
Legendre reneges on his bargain and holds Madge’s soul in
captivity. Star: Bela Lugosi
9. Attack of the Giant Leeches - A local game
warden remains skeptical when confronted with tales of
blood-sucking creatures from the swamp. Even the evidence of the
bloodless body of a dead hunter, and a local’s witnessing of
his unfaithful wife and her lover being dragged into the marshy
depths, leaves him unconvinced. Only when the body count keeps
mounting does he become a believer and take matters into his own
hands. Star: Ken Clark.
10. The Screaming Skull - John Hudson stars as
Eric, the central character in this tale of intrigue and madness.
Eric is the husband of Jenni, an extremely neurotic millionairess
with a firm grip on her fortune. Soon he hatches a diabolical plot
to take control of her wealth by filling the house with miniature
skulls designed to drive her into madness. Star: John Hudson
11. Beast of Yucca Flats - Exhibiting early
strains of the Incredible Hulk, this story focuses on a Russian
scientist who is pursued by unscrupulous agents into an atomic test
site. There he is exposed to a massive dose of radiation when a
nuclear bomb is exploded. His body undergoes horrific changes,
transforming him into a rampaging monster that terroizes the
populace. Star: Tor Johnson.
12. The Terror - In an early career appearance,
Jack Nicholson stars as Lieutenant Duvalier, a nineteenth century
military officer whose dreams are haunted by a mysterious beauty
(Spencer Knight) . Those same dreams draw him to the sinister
castle of Baron Von Leppe (Boris Karloff), but is it really the
Baron or an imposter? Before he knows it, he finds himself a
prisoner and frantically tries to solve the mysteries that
surround. Director Roger Corman collaborated with other directors,
including Francis Ford Coppola, in the filming of this horror
classic. Star: Jack Nicholson.
13. Revolt of the Zombies - Following the end of
World War I the despicable Count Mazovia (Roy D’Arcy) remains
hidden from the world in the depths of Cambodia where he has
perfected a process that transforms corpses into re-animated
zombies. Utilizing his powers to create an army of undead slaves,
he plots to expand his empire, but an expeditionary force is sent
to the ruined city of Angkor Wat in an effort to thwart his plans.
Unfortunately, Armand (Dean Jagger), one of the members of the
expedition, has his own agenda. Star: Dean Jagger
14. The Giant Gila Monster - The movie features a
group of hot-rod fanatics, led by our singing hero Chace Winstead
(Don Sullivan). Soon havoc reigns when an extremely oversized Gila
Monster appears, demolishing buildings, transportation, and
anything else that has the misfortune to get in its way.
Chace’s little sister is at risk of being devoured by the
loathsome creature, when our hero intervenes and events quickly
become explosive. Star: Don Sullivan.
15. The Fatal Hour - Starring as Hugh
Wiley’s inimitable oriental detective, the illustrious Mr.
Wong, Boris Karloff investigates the murder of a police officer,
aided by Grant Withers as a long-suffering police captain, and
Marjorie Reynolds as feisty cub reporter Bobbie Logan. Mr. Wong
must face the prospect of his own death before the villains are
brought to justice. Star: Boris Karloff
16. Dead Men Walk - The marvelously theatrical
Georg Zucco plays a dual role as the dysfunctional Clayton twins
who also happen to be doctors. Predictably one Twin is good, and
the other evil. Lloyd Clayton murders his brother Elwyn,.who
happens to be well versed in the dark arts. Returning from the
grave to exact his vengeance, Lloyd viciously slays Elwyn’s
colleagues, leaving a mounting trail of evidence that points to the
surviving sibling. Lloyd is aided in his evil acts by a hunchbacked
assistant played by Dwight Frye. Star: George Zucco.
17. The Mad Monster - George Zucco is at it again
as the ultimate mad scientist, Dr. Lorenzo Cameron, who is
thoroughly discredited in the academic community. Our totally
insane doctor has found a formula that transforms his assistant,
Pietro (Glenn Strange), into a ravening werewolf. While
superficially positioning his outlandish creation as a defensive
weapon for the nation, he plots the violent deaths of his former
colleagues who drummed him out of the academic world. Star: George
Zucco
18. Maniac - It’s time to encounter another
mad scientist, Dr. Meirschultz (Horace B. Carpenter), who is
attempting the re-animation of dead tissue, when he himself
expires. His assistant (Bill Woods) assumes the deceased
medico’s identity, and walls up the corpse in order to hide
his deception. As he descends into madness, his demented voyage is
portrayed through clips from silent classics such as Benjamin
Christensen's Classic Witchcraft through the Ages and Fritz Lang's
Siegfried. Star: Bill Woods.
19. Metropolis - In this visionary masterpiece,
director Fritz Lang depicts a futuristic society dominated by a
soulless feudal system. In this cold society, the wealthy
technocrats live in sumptuous luxury inside towering glass palaces.
At the foot of these towers the slave labor class toils thanklessly
and endlessly. Freder (Gustav Frolich) is the spoiled son of
Fredersen (Alfred Abel), a leader among the ruling class. When
Freder meets Maria, a beautiful slave laborer, he is drawn into her
harsh subterranean world. There he recoils from the intolerable
conditions that confront him and becomes a crusader for reform.
Star: Gustav Frolich
20. The Vampire Bat - The city of Kleinschloss is
infected with a dark scourge from the past. A legion of
bloodsucking creatures who can assume human form have returned to
prey upon the unsuspecting citizenry. Detective Karl Brettschneider
( Melvyn Douglas) begins investigating the spate of gory deaths at
the request of the burgomaster (Lionel Belmore).. Despite the
obvious evidence, he refuses to accept the existence of vampiric
human bats. But soon their existence proves all too real. Star:
Melvyn Douglas.
21. The Ape - Boris Karloff returns in the role of
a pioneering researcher, Doctor Adrian, who seeks to create a polio
vaccine using highly unconventional and morally flawed methods. The
critical ingredient turns out to be human spinal fluid. To gather
an adequate supply, he disguises himself with the pelt of an ape
and proceeds to slaughter a slew of innocent victims to feed his
research needs. Star: Boris Karloff.
22. The Monster Maker - Now this is a mad
scientist with an ugly agenda! Dr. Markoff (J. Carrol Naish) has
concocted a formula that spreads a hideous disease named
acromegaly-which extends bones and distorts facial features.
Markoff has no moral dilemma in experimenting on unsuspecting human
subjects. His amoral behavior assumes monstrous dimensions when
famed concert pianist Lawrence (Ralph Morgan) is injected with the
doctor's disease-inducing serum. In return for an antidote, Markoff
intends to exact more than his pound of flesh by extorting a
fortune from Lawrence and demanding the hand of the
musician’s pretty daughter Patricia (Wanda McKay). Star: J
Carrol Naish
23. The Killer Shrews - A horde of outsized
rodents run amok on an isolated island. The creation of mad
scientist Baruch Lumet (father of acclaimed director Sidney Lumet),
the monster shrews escape the lab during a hurricane and devour
nearly every other animal on the island before seeking human prey
-- including star James Best and girlfriend Ingrid Goude (1957's
Miss Universe), who are stranded on the island by the same storm.
The survivors manage to escape to safety thanks to some goofy
contraptions constructed from trash cans. Star: James Best.
24. The Brain That Wouldn’t Die - This
classic cult horror gem tells the tale of an egotistical scientist
who plans to bring his deceased girlfriend back to life. In spite
of the protests of his surgeon father (Bruce Brighton), Dr. Bill
Cortner (Jason Evers) performs grotesque medical experiments
involving transplantation and electric shock electric shock to
bring the newly deceased back to life.. When a car crash that he
caused decapitates Bill’s fiancée, Jan Compton (Virginia
Leith), He recovers her severed head and secretes in a hidden
laboratory where he manages to keep it alive. Star: Jason
Evers
25. King of the Zombies - An American special
agent, accompanied by his valet and an aviator, sets off in search
of a missing US Admiral whose plane has crashed on a Caribbean
island during World War II. As luck would have it, our
heroes’ plane also crashes and they are helped by a
solicitous German physician whose wife is more than a little
strange. Star: Joan Woodbury.
26. Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde - Dr. Henry Jekyll
(John Barrymore) is an innovative researcher who conducts
scientific experiments to plumb the depths of his psyche and expose
the hidden contents of the sub-conscious mind. Unfortunately for
him, and an unsuspecting population, a dark alter ego is released
assuming the identity of the murderous Mr. Hyde. Star: John
Barrymore
27. Bluebeard - John Carradine stars as Gaston, a
successful nineteenth century puppeteer in France’s capital.
Gaston, however, lives a secret life as Bluebeard, a demented
serial killer who coldly strangles a series of beautiful young
women who fail to meet his impossible standards. The lifeless
bodies are discarded in the Parisian streets. All is concealed from
the authorities until Lucille (Jean Parker), Gaston’s comely
assistant, learns the awful truth and swears to bring him to his
day of reckoning. Star: John Carradine.
28. The Corpse Vanishes - Bela Lugosi revels in
his role as European horticulturalist Dr. Lorenz in this outlandish
tale of horror and dementia. The good doctor’s aging wife
(Elizabeth Russell) needs fluids harvested from the glands of young
virgins in order to retain her eternal youth and beauty What better
place for the doctor to maintain his supply than at the alter,
where he kidnaps the unsuspecting brides before they can complete
their vows. Sedating them into a coma-like state he brings them to
his mansion to collect his tainted bounty. Star: Bela Lugosi
29. Night of the Living Dead - George Romero, the
legendary director who helmed the Night of the Living Dead series,
brings you a crazed tale of nuclear radiation that raises the dead,
and creates a legion of flesh-eating zombies. Brother and sister,
Johnny (Russell Streiner) and Barbara (Judith O'Dea) visit their
father's grave in a small town Pennsylvania, where a re-animated
zombie kills Johnny. Barbara escapes to a remote farmhouse where a
cross-section of the local citizenry is hiding out. Star: Judith
O’Dea.
30. Doomed to Die - Boris Karloff bows in for one
last time as oriental detective Mr. Wong in the last of this
long-running series. Who set Wentworth Castle Ablaze killing
renowned shipping tycoon Cyrus Wentworth and countless other
unfortunate souls. Dick Fleming (William Stelling) is the prime
suspect in the mind of none-to-bright police captain Bill Street
(Grant Withers). Dick is a business rival, and happens to be in
love with Wentworth’s daughter Cynthia (Catherine Craig).
When cub reporter Bobbie Logan (Marjorie Reynolds) puts Mr. Wong on
the case the result is a foregone conclusion. Star: Boris
Karloff
31. The Phantom of the Opera - This classic horror
feature stars Lon Chaney in the title role as the tragic disfigured
Erik who haunts the corridors and cellars in the decaying depths of
the Paris Opera House. He befriends and secretly coaches a
beautiful aspiring understudy named Christine (Mary Philbin) who
covets the lead role. Through an ever-building campaign of terror,
the Phantom drives the lead Soprano to flee her role, allowing his
protégé to take her place. Convinced that she will now
return his love in spite of his disfigurement, he persuades her to
join him in his subterranean lair, where he plans to confess his
true feelings. Star: Lon Chaney.
32. The Indestructible Man - Lon Chaney Jr. stars
in the role of Charles “Butcher” Benton, a condemned
man who refuses to die, and comes back to exact his vengeance.
Outraged that his unscrupulous attorney Lowe (Ross Elliott) is
trying to get him to reveal the location of his robbery stash of
$600,000, Benton plans to get his revenge on Lowe and his unsavory
cohorts. In the meantime Lowe visits a stripper to whom Benton has
sent a map with the location of his stash in the sewer system. He
manages to steal the letter before she has a chance to open it.
Star: Lon Chaney Jr.
33. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Acclaimed at the
time as the ultimate spectacular this production drew record
audiences and critical acclaim. The role of Quasimodo is played by
Lon Chaney whose interpretation Thiswas a super-duper-spectacular
as only Hollywood of the 1920s could make them, but it is never so
large that it dwarfs the contribution of its star, Lon Chaney. As
the hunchbacked bellringer Quasimodo, Chaney adorned himself with a
special device that made his cheeks jut out grotesquely; a contact
lens that blanked out one of his eyes; and, most painfully, a huge
rubber hump covered with coarse animal fur and weighing anywhere
from 30 to 50 pounds. Star: Lon Chaney.
34. Nosferatu - The film begins in the Carpathian
mountains, where real estate agent Hutter (Gustav von Wagenheim)
has arrived to close a sale with the reclusive Herr Orlok (Max
Schreck). Despite the feverish warnings of the local peasants,
Hutter insists upon completing his journey to Orlok's sinister
castle. While enjoying his host's hospitality, Hutter accidentally
cuts his finger-whereupon Orlok tips his hand by staring intently
at the bloody digit, licking his lips. Hutter catches on that Orlok
is no ordinary mortal when he witnesses the vampiric nobleman
loading himself into a coffin in preparation for his journey to
Bremen. Star: Max Shreck
35. Swamp Women - The title characters - Marie
Windsor, Jill Jarmyn, Beverly Garland and Susan Cummings - comprise
the Nardo Gang, a vicious female crime contigent. The ladies have
stolen some valuable jewels and are making their escape though the
swamp. Joining them is Carole Mathews, ostensibly an escaped
convict but actually an undercover cop. Male lead Touch Connors
later changed to Mike Connors, and still later stared in
Mannix
36. The World Gone Mad - Made closely on the heels
of 1029's stock market crash, this timely tale follows a District
Attorney and a reporter who try to find the killer of a D.A. who
uncovered massive stock fraud. Pat O'Brien portrays the reporter
who uncovers the murder plot.
37. Little Shop of Horrors - Jonathan Haze plays
Seymour Krelboin, a schlemiel's schlemiel who works at the Skid Row
flower shop of Mr. Mushnick (Mel Welles). Experimenting in his
spare time, Seymour develops a new plant species that he hopes will
lead him to fame and fortune. Unfortunately, the mutated plant --
named Audrey Junior, in honor of Seymour's girlfriend Audrey
(Jackie Joseph) -- subsists on blood and human flesh. It also
talks, or rather, commands: "Feed Me! FEEEEED ME!" Before long, the
luckless Seymour has fed his plant the bodies of a railroad
detective, a sadistic dentist, and a flashy trollop. Jack Nicholson
puts in a star turn as the masochistic dental patient. Starring:
Jack Nicholson.
38. Tormented - In this low-budget, campy horror
film, a murderous pianist pays for his crime when body parts from
the lover he pushed from a lighthouse come back to haunt him just
before he is to marry a prominent socialite.
39. The Monster Walks - On a dark and stormy
night, Hero and heroine Rex Lease and Vera Reynolds head to
Reynolds's ancestral mansion to claim her inheritance. Everyone in
the house takes great delight in informing the girl that her
scientist father died suddenly (the word is repeated at least 20
times in the first two reels). Soon our heroine discovers that she,
too, has been marked for death by her maniacal uncle Sheldon Lewis,
who is using his deranged son Micha Auer, Auer's housekeeper-mother
Martha Mattox, and a huge and surly ape as his vessels of wrath.
Star: Rex Lease.
40. Monster from a Prehistoric Planet - An
expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where
the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens
up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is discovered inside.
The natives warn the foreigners to leave the hatching alone, but
they don't listen and take it back to a zoo in Japan. Soon after,
moma and papa Gappa start smashing Tokyo looking for their
kidnapped child. Star: Tamro Kawaji
41. The Gorilla - An escaped circus gorilla has
apparently perpetrated a series of murders. Imperiled lawyer Walter
Stevens (Lionel Atwill) may well be the next victim, so he summons
detectives Garrity, Harrigan and Mullivan (Jimmy, Harry and Al
Ritz) to provide protection. It turns out that (a) the murderer is
human rather than simian, (b) Stevens is hardly a paragon of
virtue, and (c) the person really in danger is young heiress Norma
Denby (Anita Louise). Star: The Ritz Brothers.
42. A Shriek in the Night - The titular nocturnal
shriek is heard just before a wealthy philanthropist falls from his
penthouse balcony to his death. Virtually everybody in the
apartment building comes under suspicion when it is determined that
this "accidental" death was no accident. Rival reporters Pat Morgan
(Rogers) and Ted Rand (Talbot) spend most of the picture snooping
around where they don't belong, the better to out-scoop one
another. Meanwhile, the already baffled police become more
flummoxed when three additional murders occur -- each preceded by a
cryptic letter sent to the victim, stating "You Will Get It!" The
method of execution turns out to be asphyxiation, but how is this
being done? Star: Ginger Rogers
43. Bloodlust - A group of teen-agers vacationing
in the tropics take a boat out to a seemingly deserted island. They
soon find, however, that the island is inhabited by a wealthy
recluse and his staff. While their host is initially hospitable, he
quickly reveals his true purpose: to hunt down and kill each of his
visitors, as he has done with everyone unlucky enough to set foot
on his island. Star: Robert Reed.
44. The Amazing Mr. X - On the beach one night,
Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late
husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark man,
Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly
manifestations, Christine and younger sister Janet become enmeshed
in the eerie artifices of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself
manipulated into deeper deviltry than he had in mind. Star: Richard
Carlson
45. Last Woman on Earth - Ev (Betsy
Jones-Moreland); her husband, Harold (Antony Carbone); and their
lawyer friend, Martin (Robert Towne, who later directed
“Chinatown”), are skindiving while on vacation in
Puerto Rico. When they resurface, they gradually conclude that an
unexplained, temporary interruption of oxygen has killed everyone
on the island - maybe in the world! Star: Robert Towne.
46. The Bat - Agnes Moorehead plays mystery
novelist Cornelia Van Gorder, whose remote mansion is the scene for
all sorts of diabolical goings-on. The "Maguffin" is a million
dollars' worth of securities, hidden away somewhere in the huge and
foreboding estate. Vincent Price is seen committing a murder early
on-but he's not the film's principal villain. Others in the cast
include Gavin Gordon as an overly diligent detective, and former
Our Gang star Darla Hood as a murder victim. Star: Vincent
Price
47. House on Haunted Hill - A perennial favorite
of the "Shock Theatre" TV circuit, House on Haunted Hill stars
Vincent Price as a sinister gent (you're surprised?) who owns a
sinister mansion on a sinister hill. He offers several of his
enemies $10,000 each--if they agree to spend the night in the
crumbling old mansion. Price festively gives each of his guests a
tiny coffin containing a handgun, then he proceeds to set in motion
any number of gadgets and devices designed to frighten the guests
into using their weapons. Star: Vincent Price.
48. The Last Man on Earth – Based on the
chilling Richard Matheson science fiction classic “I am a
Legend”, and later remade as “The Omega Man”
starring Charlton Heston, this classic features Vincent Price as
scientist Robert Morgan in a post apocalyptic nightmare world. The
world has been consumed by a ravenous plague that has transformed
humanity into a race of bloodthirsty vampires. Only Morgan proves
immune, and becomes the solitary vampire slayer. Star: Vincent
Price
49. Dementia 13 - Long before The Godfather saga,
a youthful Francis Coppola traveled to Ireland to film this dark
and eerie production under the guidance of horror maestro Roger
Corman. As was common in Corman productions, the movie utilized the
same sets used by a production that had already wrapped. Meet the
Halorans, the emerald isle’s most tragic family, living in
misery in a creepy dark castle. Lady Haloran (Ethne Dunn) tortures
herself endlessly over drowning death of her daughter seven years
before, morbidly visiting her grave on a daily basis. Star: William
Campbell.
50. Phantom from 10,000 Leagues - An absolute
classic filled with great cheesy special effects. At he bottom of
the ocean a mysterious radioactive rock percolates a stew of
mutation that produces a hideous monster from the depths. The
government sends an agent and a scientist to investigate when
horribly burned, radioactive bodies begin to pop to the
ocean’s surface. The evidence all points to a suspicious
marine biologist. Star: Kent Taylor
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