Mill Creek Entertainment
has tabbed Oct. 17 for a Blu-ray presentation of the late George A. Romero’s
1968 horror classic (and Library of Congress selectee), Night of the Living Dead: 50th
Anniversary Edition.
In other
priced-to-collect selections that will also be retailer-ready on Oct. 17 Mill
Creek Entertainment has in place the nine-disc DVD collection titled Horror
Hall of Fame.
Included in this 26-film
collection are six films starring screen legend Boris Karloff.
These horror selections begin with director Roy
William Neill’s 1935 twist-ending horror tale, The Black Room, which
features Karloff in the duel role of Anton and Gregor de Berghman, with Marian
Marsh as the object of lust of the evil twin.
Director Nick Grindé
delivers the 1939 mad scientist tale, The Man They Could Not Hang, which
stars Karloff as Dr. Henryk Savaard, the inventor of a life-restoring
machine. When the police barge in on a
“work in progress,” Savaard is charged with murder, convicted and hanged in
short order … but that’s not the end of the story!
The theme of mad
scientists and death by hanging are repeated the following year, 1940, when
once again director Nick Grindé teams with Boris Karloff for the film release
of Before
I Hang, which had Karloff as the sympathetic Dr. John Garth, who is
sentenced to death for a mercy killing.
He perfects a live-forever serum moments before he is to be put to
death, injects himself with it, but then the governor calls and commutes his
sentence to life!!!
So you think that’s the
end of it … the drug has a side effect, he becomes a Jekyll and Hyde like
creature, with an impulse to kill. The
irony continues when the good doctor is released from prison when his “good
deed” is revealed, but now you have a mad man loose in the world!
The other three films
starring Boris Karloff in this Horror Hall of Fame collection find Grindé
and Karloff teaming again in 1940 for The Man With Nine Lives, the 1941
release of The Devil Commands (direction by Edward Dmytryk) and Peter
Lorre teams with Karloff for the 1942 horror/comedy, The Boogie Man Will Get You
(Lew Landers was the director).
The Vincent Price Collection — announced last week — is also included in this
collection and includes The Bat, The Last Man on Earth, The Jackals,
Shock and House on Haunted Hill.
Horror legend,
Christopher Lee, is showcased in four films — director Terence Fisher’s 1960
Hammer Films production of The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (with
Paul Massie as the Jekyll and Hyde character); from 1961 the double-twist Hammer
Films thriller, Scream of Fear, starring Christopher Lee as a bad guy, or is he
a good guy (with Susan Strasberg, Ann Todd and Ronald Lewis); The
Terror of the Tongs (1961 with Lee as the evil Chung King) and from
1964 director Terence Fisher teams with both Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing
in The
Gorgon.
And speaking of Peter
Cushing, he stars in director Terence Fisher’s 1958 horror gem, The
Revenge of Frankenstein.
This is just a sampling
of what can be found in the Horror Hall of Fame … for more selections
please find the Mill Creek Entertainment web site at millcreekent.com.
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