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Rating:  - A lot of entertainment at a good price
Long before slasher movies became popular, studios had to rely on suspenseful writing, good acting, and MOOD to produce enjoyable horror movies. Many of the films in this collection fall into that category.
Other reviewers have listed the titles, so I won't go into those. Most of these are in black and white and are from the 30s, 40s, and 50s. Those featuring Bela Lugosi in his declining years are rather sad, but others are effective at scaring the daylights out of you.
I'm a big Vincent Price fan. He's a treat no matter what role he plays. Boris Karloff, a very underrated actor, makes a couple appearances in this collection too.
Some are so bad they're outright laughable. Remember that there was no computer animation then, so special effects were much tougher. By today's standards, some the monsters are more funny than scary.
You won't find biggies like Dracula, The Wolfman, or The Mummy in this collection, but it's a wide variety of horror films with something for everybody. Expect some undiscovered gems amid the run-of-the-mill and you won't be disappointed.
Rating: - Horrific it ain't
This is an excellent selection of campy old movies, well worth five stars; however, it is not an excellent selection of campy old horror movies. I suppose this depends upon your idea of what "horror" is, but a solid half of these movies do not qualify as horror in my vocabulary. Just because Boris Karloff plays a Chinese detective in a movie does not make it a horror show. In fact, it makes it a detective show with nothing horrible about it. There's several murder mysteries in this package, and most have big names from the legitimate horror genre, but don't expect a good fright with each flick.
The sound quality in many of these selections is as bad as others have mentioned, but surprisingly, I've found that I get used to it within a few minutes and they seem quite audible.
If you're looking for a great mix of (often wacky) old movies, only some of which might be called horror, this is a great choice. Otherwise, you might be better off with the Chilling Classics selection also available from Amazon.
Rating: - REALLY bad, campy movies!! However......
I bought this for my teenage son who enjoys horror movies. I was thinking more along the lines of more recent horror movies (1970-1980's), so when we saw the very old, very campy B movies it was not a hit at our house, so it was bad from that stand point. It certainly is not my idea of "classic" horror movies. HOWEVER, there are plenty of people out there that LOVE really, really bad B movies and I've got to say this is a 5 star pick for those types of movies. (They should change the name of this to "50 really, really bad Horror Classic B movies you'll laugh at for days".) I'm kind of in that catagory and was amazed at how much fun they were from that angle - there were some really pathetic movies in there!! So, hope that helps a bit with your purchase.
Rating:  - wonderful viewing
these are classic horror flix from way back -- they just don't make 'em like this anymore & some of the actors were the best in the biz
Rating:  - Fine package, but defective..
Ok, it's probably pushing it to call these "classics," but there are some gems here nonetheless, no matter how you define "gems." And of course at this price, it's a bargain!
HOWEVER! The set I received contained two defective DVD's out of 12. Amazon was great about replacing the set for free, but even the replacement set had a defective DVD (maybe more than one, but I didn't audition all of them.) I have returned both sets and received a refund. I doubt I will be ordering it again, based on my experience so far.
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