Get an instant library of some of the greatest horror classics and stars ever to come out of Hollywood on twelve DVDs. View chilling performances from the great horror legends including Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., Alfred Hitchcock, Margaret Lockwood, Peter Lorre, Barbara Steele, Tod Slaughter, Vincent Price... and more! The Legends of Horror 50-MoviePack has something for everyone. This comprehensive collection of great classic horror films has been assembled in one exciting package, all for an amazingly low price!
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Not Strictly Horror Movies - but a Wonderful Collection of Mystery, Horror & Suspense!
I would say this movie collection is about Terror or Suspense movies - rather than classifying it as "Horror." "Legends of Horror" is rather misleading - however, all your favorites are there - ie Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Boris Karloff,etc. Even some Euro Horrro Movie greats ie Barbara Steele and Paul Naschy aka Jacinto Molina. The mix becomes a little muddled by including Alfred Hitchock - who's movies are more along the lines of Suspense or Dark Mysteries.By checking with the Vendor - I was able to get the Black and White Cover with Bela, Karloff and Lee on the cover...and I have to say for the price the packaging was excellent. A lot of care went into presenting a lot of movies for very little money. Each movie has a logo on each disc, each disc has a sleeve, every sleeve has a description of each movie.All in all - I am very pleased with the whole effort. I even got to watch some of the early Todd Slaughter movies who was the King of Ham when it comes to portraying bad guys - lots of mustache twirling and cackling as he dispatches his latest victim.In regards to this entire collection - well worth the money spent...and Fun!
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Horror legends
I am sure these movies are on many packages ,However this set seems to be great. Its Horror at its best when it was made so long ago.The new todays so called horror may seem exciting, but its all hype and computer generated..these are actors playing roles and using skills to make you shiver..not Computer animation we see way to much of in todays movies.They make the movies today an impossiblity, those like these of yesteryears seem more real like they could actually be true.Not a little man growing in a giant wolf or some creature mad on a screen, but real humans with real hair and or real teeth not fangs hanging to their waist like some of the crazy things we see today being made.A werewolf is man like...not some giant wolf from a little boy...come on..it may look good but its not a actuality.Wolfman Lon Chaney Jr coud be reality for example the twilight stuff although may appear neat...can not be true to form and neither can underworld we see today Yes they are good movies..but the older ones allowed you to "THINK" it could be a real possiblity...Horror at its best.....Think About that !!
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This is a good deal for old movie lovers
The set arrived on time as stated. Collectors item hard to find movies.I enjoy it.
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Most Films Can Be Found in other Mill Creek 50-Movie Packs
Mill Creek's Legends of Horror 50-Movie Pack continues the distributor's recent disturbing trend of recycling movies previously offered in their other 50-Movie Packs. Of the offerings in this boxed set, 31 of the 50 pictures can be found in other 50-Movie Packs, let alone their 100-Movie Packs, 250-Movie Packs and various other offerings. Thirteen of the films can be found in their Tales of Terror 50-Movie Pack, 3 in Drive-In Classics, 5 in Chilling Classics, 5 in Nightmare Worlds, 4 in Night Screams and 1 in Sci-Fi Classics. In fact, three films, Island Monster (1954), The Phantom Creeps (1949) and Shock (1946) can be found on 3 different 50-Movie Packs.On a positive note, most of the new releases are films directed by Alfred Hitchcock early in his career - including such classics as The Lady Vanishes (1938), The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935), Sabotage (1936), Secret Agent (1936) and the Man Who Knew Too Much (1934). A number of Hitch's silent films from the 1920s, some of them quite good, can be found in this set. Although Hitchcock later produced some classic horror films, most of the public domain films in this set are straight dramas or even comedies. Juno and the Paycock (1930), for example, can hardly be considered to be a horror film.As with most Mill Creek offerings, the quality of the prints ranges from mediocre to quite good. The films in the boxed set are listed below, along with the stars and the movie's rating on a 10 point scale gleaned from a popular movie database:Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Cheney Vase (1955) - Darren McGavin, Carolyn Jones (7.2)Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1962) - Brandon DeWilde, Diana Dors (7.7)The Ape Man (1943): Bela Lugosi, Louise Currie (4.0)Blackmail (1929): Anny Ondra, John Longden (7.0)Bowery at Midnight: Bela Lugosi, John Archer, Wanda McKay (5.3)Champagne (1928): Betty Balfour, Gordon Harker (6.2)Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride (1973) aka The Satanic Rites of Dracula: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Joanna Lumley (5.2)Crimes at the Dark House (1940): Tod Slaughter, Sylvia Marriott, Hilary Evans (6.9)The Crimes of Stephen Hawke (1936): Tod Slaughter, Marjorie Taylor, D.J. Williams (5.4)The Demon (1979): Cameron Mitchell, Jennifer Holmes (3.2)The Devil Bat (1940): Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O'Brien (5.1)The Devil's Messenger (1961): Lon Chaney Jr., Karen Kadler, Michael Hinn (4.2)Easy Virtue (1928): Isabel Jeans, Franklin Dyall (5.8)End of the World (1977): Christopher Lee, Sue Lyon, Kirk Scott, Lew Ayres, Dean Jagger (3.1)The Face at the Window (1939): Tod Slaughter, John Warwick, Marjorie Taylor (6.1)The Farmer's Wife (1928): Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davis, Gordon Harker (6.3)Fury of the Wolf Man (1972): Paul Naschy, Perla Cristal, Veronica Lujan (2.5)The Ghost (1963): Barbara Steele, Peter Baldwin (5.7)Horror Express (1973): Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Telly Savalas (6.3)The Incredible Petrified World (1957): John Carradine, Robert Clarke, Phyllis Coates (3.0)The Island Monster (1954): Boris Karloff, Franca Marzi (2.1)Jamaica Inn (1939): Robert Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Leslie Banks, Robert Newton (6.3)Juno and the Paycock (1930): Barry Fitzgerald, Maire O'Neill (4.8)The Lady Vanishes (1938): Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas (8.2)Legacy of Blood (1971) aka Blood Legacy: John Carradine, Rudolfo Acosta, Merry Anders (1.8)The Lodger (1927): Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney (7.4)The Long Hair of Death (1964): Barbara Steele, George Ardisson (5.8)The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934): Peter Lorre, Leslie Banks, Edna Best (6.9)Manfish (1956): Lon Chaney Jr., John Bromfield, Victor Jory, Tessa Prendergast (4.5)The Manxman (1929): Carl Brisson, Anny Ondra (6.4)Maria Marten or The Murder in the Red Barn (1935): Tod Slaughter, Sophie Stewart, D.J. Williams, Eric Portman (6.0)Never Too Late to Mend (1937): Tod Slaughter, Jack Livesey, Marjorie Taylor (5.8)The Nightmare Never Ends (1980) aka Cataclysm: Cameron Mitchell, Richard Moll, Marc Lawrence, Faith Clift (3.8)Number Seventeen (1932): Anne Grey, John Stuart, Leon M. Lion (6.0)The Phantom Creeps (1949): Bela Lugosi, Robert Kent, Dorothy Arnold (3.8)Rich and Strange (1931): Henry Kendall, Joan Berry (6.0)The Ring (1927): Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis, Ian Hunter (6.3)Sabotage (1936): Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka (7.2)A Scream in the Night (1935): Lon Chaney Jr., Sheila Terry (5.0)Secret Agent (1936): John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll (6.7)Shadow of Chinatown (1936): Bela Lugosi, Herman Brix, Joan Barclay, Luana Walters (4.3)The Shadow of Silk Lennox (1935): Lon Chaney Jr., Dean Benton, Catherine Cotter (4.4)The She-Beast (1966): Barbara Steele, Ian Ogilvy, John Karlsen (3.6)Shock (1946): Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Reed Hadley (6.2)Silent Night, Bloody Night (1974): Patrick O'Neal, John Carradine, Walter Abel (4.9)The Skin Game (1931): C.V. France, Helen Haye, Edmund Gwenn (5.9)The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935): Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll (8.0)The Ticket of Leave Man (1937): Tod Slaughter, John Warwick, Marjorie Taylor (6.0)The Werewolf vs. Vampire Women (1971): Paul Naschy, Gaby Fuchs, Patty Shepard (4.1)Young and Innocent (1937): Derrick DeMarney, Nova Pilbeam (7.1)
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Can't go wrong with the 50 packs!
You can't go wrong with any of the 50 packs! You may get a couple of duds, but who cares! Show me a better deal! Some reviews mentioned picture or sound quality being an issue. Hey! This is before they had dolby, hi-fi and all that! I assume most of the negative reviews come from younger folks who were raised on HD TV! I haven't had any problem listening or watching any of these movies! Sure there are a few places where there might have been a film splice, or the sound may be less than 2015 standards, but it's nothing that's really going to bother anyone except for the spoiled younger generation! I own close to 20 of these 50 packs and I'm glad I bought every single one of them!
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