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Rating:  - A Great Set
Classic Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection 1 & 2 (Tarantula/Mole People/Incredible Shrinking Man/Monolith Monsters/Monster on the Campus/Dr. Cyclops/Cult of the Cobra/Land Unknown/Deadly Mantis/Leech Woman) For the fans of Monster "B" movies of the past. This 2 volume set includes some of the best of those movies. They are all remastered to an excellect, sharp picture with very good original sound quality. Nothing cheap with this set. More than worth the price.
Rating:  - Sci-Fi Collection
I wanted to write a review on the movie "Monolith Monsters" but this was the only place I coud find it. Upon seeing the titles here, it reminded me of the local Twin Cities show "Horror Inclorporated" which aired on Friday nights when I was a kid. These movies are corny, poorly written and acted, not worth packaging as individual films, but kind of fun to watch.
As said, I'm particularly drawn to Monolith Monsters because I can't help but think of how it is a critique of modern urban society. These monolithic rocks grow to skyscraper height when they come in contact with water. Anyone who touches them turns to stone. How similar it is to our modern culture. We build cities out of nothing (usually based on some nearby natural resource or other reason) with buildings that reach to the sky. The contents of those buildings is the ideas that make our society achieve, though often it can be very impersonal. If one becomes to caught up in the machinations of our society (always striving to get ahead or needed to keep up with the Joneses) you can turn to stone (figuratively, not literally). In time the resource disappears and the reason for the city or the culture disppears as well (think of all the world empires that are now "ruins"). Thus the monoliths move onto somewhere else leaving behind something for the historians or archaeologists to ponder.
Anyway, I realize this is kind of a stretch, but I can't not think of this analogy when I think of "Monolith Monsters" and I'm glad it has been included in this corny movie collection.
Rating: - Still missing a few titles...
I bought all of these films when they first came out on VHS and then on laserdisc, and I got the two previous Best Buy sets. I'm a "completist", but getting the new set would be overkill. My only complaint is that Universal continues to omit "The Thing That Couldn't Die" from release (reason unknown), and while "Curse Of The Undead" did make it out on VHS, they haven't seen fit to release that great film on DVD either. And then there's "Curuccu, Beast Of The Amazon", not a great film but still fun and still unreleased. Perhaps Universal doesn't consider these films as "good" as the ones they have released, but let's face it, a lot of people would consider all of these films to be junk, so to exclude a few on that basis is pretty lame thinking.
Rating: - FINALLY!
After having missed Best Buy's Volume 1 of this series - and seeing that people were charging as much as $250 for it on eBay and Amazon - I was very depressed. Now thankfully, Volumes 1 and 2 are combined here and now I can die a happy man.
Rating:  - Cheated again!!
So now if you want to buy the second set, you have to buy the first set again. Punished for being a little ahead of the trend once again. It's sad that the rights to these great titles are owned by such greedy bastards.
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