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Rating:  - Nice collection. Poor quality with most of the older films.
It is a great collection to have for the price if you're willing to get past the poor quality of most of the films, especially Metropolis. The formatting of some of the movies don't fit your screen so you lose some of the subtitles and parts of the shot are cut out on the sides. Grainy quality and poor sound.
Rating:  - Buy this set. You might find something you like.
I really enjoyed this box set. I've seen a couple of these moves but most of these were new to me and I found quite a few that I liked and very few that I didn't. All in all a great set. Below I'm going to list the title of the movie as it appeared in the set a rating and a brief synopsis. All movies rated out of 5 stars.
1=Awful,2=Poor,3=Fair,4=Good and 5=Great
1.Carnival of Souls 5/5 A woman and her two friends are drag racing when there car goes off a bridge into the river but somehow she manages to survive. Creepy and fun a must see.
2. Atomic Age Vampire 3/5 A scientist makes a serum using female glands that can make a woman beautiful again after she's scarred in an car accident,but to make it permanent He must kill to get more glands for the serum. Good concept but could be dull at times.
3. Creature from the Haunted Sea 1/5 A revolution breaks out on a carribean island and a mobster offers some nationalists (and the government's money) protection on his boat all the while planning to kill the nationalists and take the money blaming it on a sea monster. He soon finds out that the sea monster is real. I usually like Roger Corment's movies but I just couldn't get into this one. It seemed to drag forever. I will say one good thing though the moster was good for a laugh. (It looks like something off of Sesame Street!)
4. Nightmare Castle 4/5 A count finds out that his wife has been unfaithful and tortures her and her lover to death. About a year later the count remarries and his new wife immediately starts having terrible dreams. Barbara Steel was great in the dual role of the first and second wives and the atmosphere was creepy. Good
5.Black Dragons 3/5 More of a Crime-Drama\Mystery than Horror. American leaders are being murdered and all have a Japanese dagger in there hand when they're found. The cardboard sleeve gives it all away. Ok but not really horror.
6. The Invisible Ghost 4/5 A good man is driven to kill by what He thinks is his wife's ghost. One of Lugosi's better B movies. Good
7. One Body Too Many 3/5 An insurence agent comes to a house to sell a life insurence policy and discovers that the owner is already dead and that the relatives have to stay at the house until the body is picked up. Lugosi plays a small part as a butler in this one. Ok
8. White Zombie 4/5 A man is furious after the woman He loves rejects his marriage proposal and enlists the help of a voodoo priest (Bela Lugosi) to make her a zombie. Good
9. Attack of the Giant Leeches 2/5 A game warden is skeptical when the locals start telling stories about a bloodsucking creature but later becomes convinced when more and more bloodless bodies start turning up. This movie was pretty slow and dull but at least the giant leeches sort of looked like leeches eventhough you could tell they were made of rubber. Good for a laugh.
10. The Screaming Skull 4/5 Newlyweds move into the husband's house that He shared with his first wife and his new wife starts seeing a skull everywhere. This one was fun but a little predictible.
11.Beast of Yucca Flats 1/5 A man is exposed to massive dose of radiation when a nuclear bomb explodes and is turned into a hulk like monster. Would have been so much better without the stupid narration!
12.The Terror 3/5 Jack Nicholson plays a french military officer in the 19th century who gets lost along the coast and comes upon a mysteries girl who helps him find his way then disappears. Nicholson then finds his way to a castle were the girl may live. A little strange but not too bad.
13.Revolt of the Zombies 1/5 After WW I a count hidden in Cambodia has discovered how to re-animate corpses and turn them into zombies,He then plans to expand his empire using an army of zombies. A expedition is sent to the capital city of Angkar to stop him but one of the members of the expedition has plans to steal the secrets of zombie making for his own purposes. Good concept but extremely dull movie. I had trouble sitting through this one.
14.The Giant Gila Monster 2/5 A machanic with dreams of becoming a singer must save his little sister and others from a giant gila monster. Would've been better if the guy wasn't singing though half the movie. Is this a musical or a horror movie?
15.The Fatal Hour 3/5 This isn't a horror movie it's a crime/detective movie. Mr.Wong(Boris Karloff) investigates the murder of a police officer with a police capitain and a reporter. Ok mystery
16.Dead Men Walk 4/5 George Zucco plays the clayton twins. Lloyd Clayton murders his evil brother Elwyn who is into the dark arts and returns from the grave to get revenge. Good
17.The Mad Monster 2/5 A scientist who has been discredited in the academic community as mad discovers a formula that turn his assistant into a werewolf. Boring
18.Maniac 1/5 A mad scientist is attempting the re-animation of dead tissue when he dies and his assistant assumes his identity. As the assistant slowly descends into madness clips from the silent films Witchcraft through the Ages and Siegfred are cut into the story. Good premise but dull.
19.Metropolis (Silent) 4/5 More sci-fi than horror. In a futuristic society the technocrats (upper class)live in luxury above ground while the lower class are made to live under ground as slaves and run the machnes that make the metropolis run. When the son of one of the leaders of the technocrats falls in love with a slave girl,He is confronted by the intolerable conditions that the slave laborers must live in and tries to help them. A story that really makes you think.
20.The Vampire Bat 2/5 A detective is asked to investigate numerous gory deaths thought by the locals to be the work of vampire bats that can become human. Boring
21.The Ape 4/5 A researcher tring to create a polio vaccine disquises himself as an ape to kill people in order to get enough spinal fluid to create the vaccine. Good
22. The Monster Maker 4/5 A mad scientist injects a famous pianist with a horrible disease without his knowledge that leaves him horribly deformed. In exchange for an antidote the scientist wants money and the pianist's daughter's hand in marriage. Good I felt so sorry for that poor man.
23.The Killer Shrews 2/5 On a remote island giant rat-like creatures escape a lab during a hurricane and eat all the other animals on the island then go after the humans. Good for a laugh. It's obvision that the "shrews" are dogs.
24. The Brain that Wouldn't Die 4/5 A doctor who's been experimenting with transplantation and electric shock to try to bring the newly deceased back to life, manages to keep his fiancee's head alive after a car accident decapitates her. Good
25.King of the Zombies 3/5 While looking for a missing admiral whose plan had crashed on an island (during World War II). An American special agent,his valet and a pilot also crash on the island and are helped by a strange doctor. Ok
26.Dr. Jeckyll & Mr.Hyde (Silent) 4/5 Kind Dr.Jeckyll discovers a formula that turns him into his complete opposite Mr.Hyde. John Barrymore does a good job playing Jeckyll/Hyde He made them both unique characters. Good
27.Bluebeard 3/5 A successful 19th century puppeteer in Paris lives a secret life as a serial killer named Bluebeard who kills beautiful women who fail to meet his impossible standards. His assistant Lucille soon learns the truth and vows to bring him to justice. Ok
28.The Corpse Vanishes 4/5 A doctor's aging wife needs glands harvested from virgins in order to retain her eternal youth and beauty so the doctor kidnapes brides before they can complete there vows. Good
29. Night of the Living Dead 5/5 Radiation causes the dead to rise and start feeding on the living. Seven people are held up in a farmhuse tring to survive. Great a must see for any horror fan.
30. Doomed to Die 3/5 Boris Karloff returns in another detective story about the detective Mr. Wong. This time when the ship "The Wentworth Castle" catches fire killing several people the owner of the ship Cyrus Wentworth is found shot to death. Captain Bill Street and Bobbie Logan from "The Fatal Hour" must help Wong find out what happened. Ok
31.The Phantom of the Opera (Silent) 4/5 Erik is a disfigured man who haunts the Paris opera house, calling himself the phantom. He falls in love with a beautiful understudy (Christine) and frightens the lead saprano into quiting hoping that Christine will return his love. Good I felt sorry for the phantom at the end.
32. The Indestructible Man 3/5 Charles "Butcher" Benton is an executed man who is brought back to life by a scientist and goes after his lawyer who wants to get his hands on $600,000 in robbery money that he hid. Ok
33. The Hutchback of Notre Dame (Silent) The beautiful Esmerelda is accused of tring to kill her boyfriend and is sentenced to death and Quasimodo Notre Dame's bell ringer gives her sanctuary until she can get an appeal. There's alot more leading up to this but I don't want to give the whole story away. Good
34.Nosferatu (Silent) A German version of Dracula. A real estate agent goes to Transilvania to close a sale with Herr Orlok and discovers that he's a vampire. One of the best vampire's ever. Maz Schreck does a great job playing Nosferatu.
35. Swamp Women 2/5 Another crime-drama. Three women along with an under cover cop pretending to be a convict escape from prison and go into the swamp looking for thousands of dollars worth of jewels that they've hidden there. Pretty lame,but there was one scene of a woman getting eaten by an aligator.
36. The World Gone Mad 3/5 A district attorney and a reporter try to find out who killed there friend who was the former D.A. who just happened to have uncovered massive stock fraud a short time before. A crime drama Ok
37. The Little Shop of Horrors 4/5 Shy Seymour works in Mr. Muschnick's flower shop and in his spare time works on developing a new strain of exotic plants which He hopes will make him famous some day. He gets Audrey Junior (named after his girlfriend) who must have human blood in order to survive. Funny
38.Tormented 4/5 Up in an old lighthouse a pianist tries to break up with his lover so that he can marry someone else but she wont take no for an answer and when the railing breaks he lets her die and that's when the haunting starts. Good
39.The Monster Walks 3/5 A woman comes home to claim here inheritence after her fathe dies under mysterious circumstances. Her father owed a pet ape and after the girl arrives murders start occuring. It it the ape? Kind of silly but still fun.
40. Monster from a Prehistoric Planet 4/5 When a group of explorers land on a remote island in the South Pacific they discover a tribe of natives that worship a god named Gappa. During an Earthquake a cave is revealed and the explorers find a reptile egg. The egg hatches and the explorers take the creature back to a zoo in Tokyo. We then find out that the Gappa (imagine Godzilla crossed with a chicken) are not gods but the names of the reptiles the inhabit the island and they will stop at nothing to get there baby back. Good in a so bad it's good kind of way.
41.The Gorilla 2/5 A serial killer called the gorilla threatens an attotney and He calls on The Ritz Brthers to act as bodyguards. A comedy/mystery the only really funny person was the housekeeper otherwise pretty boring.
42. A Shriek in the Night 2/5 When a millionaire falls to his death from his penthouse balcony,it's discovered that it may be murder. The buildings residents come under suspcion especially since more people end up dead. An early Ginger Rogers movie before she teamed up with Fred Astaire. Boring
43.Bloodlust! 4/5 A group of teenagers decide to go exploring on what they think is a deserted island,but discover a crazy millionaire who likes to hunt down people for fun. Good
*Note+ The Cardboard sleeve says that Bloodlust! was made in 1959 and runs 89 mins. but mine only ran 68 mins. I checked with a movie data base and the info should read Bloodlust! 1961 68 mins.
44.The Amazing Mr.X 4/5 A young widow thinks that she hears the voice of her dead husband calling out to her from the ocean. While walking along the beach she meets Alexis a man who know much more than he should about her. Good suspense
45. Last Woman on Earth 4/5 Ev,her husband Harold and their lawyer friend Martin are diving while on vacation in Puerto Rico. When they resruface they discover that a temporary interruption of oxygen has killed possibly everyone in the world. Good
46.The Bat 3.5/5 A mystery writer is renting a house from a bank president who has hidden a million dollars worth of stolen money in the house and the killer called "The Bat" will stop at nothing to find tt. Pretty good
47.The House on Haunted Hill 4.5/5 Vincent Price rents out the house on haunted hill and offers 5 people $10,000 each if they will spend the night there. Great haunted house movie but the ending left a little to be desired.
48.The Last Man on Earth 5/5 Vincent Price plays Robert Morgan a scientist who is the last surviving man since a plague has turned everyone else into vampires.
49.Dementia 13 4/5 Lady Haloran tortures herself over the drowning death of her little girl sever years earlier. Francis Ford Coppola's directoral debute. Good
50.Phantom from 10,000 Leagues 2/5 When horribly burned radioactive bodies begin turning up on a beach the government sends a scientist and an agent to investigate. Pretty dull.
I hope this review has helped someone. I would highly recommend this set,with 50 movies your sure to find something that you like. Over half of these movies I had never heard of and i ended up liking most of them give it a try.
Rating:  - Monster Menagerie
Behind the 'Mystery' set, this is the second-best Mill Creek 50 movie pack. Ranging from silent classics to 1968's groundbreaking Night of the Living Dead, this collection is sure to please fans of kitschy B-grade horror. There are even a few for those who prefer the offbeat, such as Carnival of Souls (1961) and the original Little Shop of Horrors (1960) featuring Jack Nicholson. Genre giants Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi make several appearances, while Vincent Price features in the classic House on Haunted Hill (1959).
As with all Mill Creek sets, the quality of the digital transfers is largely dependent on the original source prints. Regardless, these sets are an absolute bargain and this one is definitely in the top tier.
Rating:  - Horror classics
terrible overall, really some poor movies..out of 50 only `1 or 2 are even decent
Rating: - husband made happy
my husband enjoys horror movies so as long as he is happy then this movie was the right choice.
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