Icons of Horror: Hammer Films (2-disc) (The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb / The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll / Scream of Fear / The Gorgon)
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Actor: Paul Massie - The Two Faces Of Dr. Jekyl, Peter Cushing - The Gorgon, Susan Strasberg - Scream Of Fear, Terence Morgan - The Curse Of The Mummy'Director: The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll directed by
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 324 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-14
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: SONY PICTURES
DVD Reviews of Icons of Horror: Hammer Films (2-disc) (The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb / The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll / Scream of Fear / The Gorgon)
DVD Review: Horror fanatic
Summary: 4 Stars
If you love,gothic horror without all the gore, you will love Hammer Horror. My favorite was "The Gorgon". Makeup is a little corny,but you get the picture. Love Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing in all their movies. They were the best.DVD Review: Hammer Films
Summary: 4 Stars
Anything from Hammer is always entertaining. Classic Horror that must be recognized. Highly recommended for any horror fan.DVD Review: Good set of Hammer Horror favorites.
Summary: 4 Stars
Not bad bargain priced set of seldom seen Hammer Horror classics,does not contain the wealth of features available on previous Columbia "Icons" DVD sets,notably there Hammer "Icons of Adventure" set.
Still,this features many favorites and many are glad to see them finally available on DVD,all in letterbox format.
The films are:
Curse of the Mummy's Tomb(1964)-Not bad Mummy thriller,not up to the previous "The Mummy"(1959),but enjoyable enough with a bizarre plot about a Mummy prince who returns with revenge on the mind and a bizarre twist in the plot involving the Mummy's still alive(!)brother who had murdered him many years before.The leading lady is cute and the Mummy sequences are fun,but this is not one of Hammer's best.
Scream of Fear(1962)-Hammer's first and most succesful Psycho rip-off features a twisted tale of a beautiful cripple who returns to see her father after over ten years apart,only to discover him missing and her suspicions of her stepmother.
Black and White and well directed with a particularly surprising ending,this is the biggest surprise of the set.
Christopher Lee plays an effcetive red herring with a french accent!
The Two Faces of Dr.Jekyll(1962)-One of Hammer's few financial disasters of there classic period is a very different version of the classic story.
Hammer's greatest director,Terence Fisher handles admirably the transistion,creating a story revolving around a impotent and old Dr.Jekyll(Paul Massey) who when taking a potion turns into a young,ammoral,Hyde!
Massey is pretty good,but Christopher Lee steals as his friend,a ruthless gambler who is romancing Jekyll's estranged wife.
It was a good idea,but the film just does not rank among the best adaptions of the story,or of Hammer's best Gothics.
Though there is lots of violence and sex,that is pretty showy for the early 60s(Get a load of Hyde's babe of a mistress,an exotic dancer who uses a snake in her act!)
The Gorgon(1964)-A great concept that focuses on the legend of the Gorgon,which was the snake haired woman who turned people to stone in Greek Mythology,is featured here terrorizing a Swiss village.
Peter Cushing,for once,is NOT the good guy and Christopher Lee is a hero!Barbera Shelly is lovely and there are many creepy moments,even if the effects are not always up to par,this is still a must see Hammer.
Overall this is a pleasant set for the Horror fan,particularly the Gothic and British Horror fan who recognizes the great work of this venerable,Horror institution.
DVD Review: Personal Opinion
Summary: 4 Stars
Icons of Horror shows the best and worst excesses of the Hammer studios. The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb while a little confusing is a very well done piece and The Gorgon is worth the value of the whole set in and of itself. However, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll is a very poor and overly drawn out retelling of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, even though it was interesting to see them make Jekyll the uglier of the two and Hyde the suave and handsome member of the pair, placing all of Hyde's ugliness on his inside. Scream of Fear is far too confusing and boring to comment on. All in all a good set if only for the Gorgon.DVD Review: Icons of Horror:Hammer Films
Summary: 5 Stars
Awesome compilation dvd containing some of Hammer Films great horror films. The simply awesome Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee appear in just about all of them seprately & together(The Gorgon). Highly reccomended to everyone!
Description of Icons of Horror: Hammer Films (2-disc) (The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb / The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll / Scream of Fear / The Gorgon)
The Curse of the Mummy's TombWhen European Egyptologists Dubois, Giles and Bray discover the tomb of the Egyptian prince Ra, American entrepreneur and investor Alexander King insists on shipping the treasures and sarcophagus back to England for tour and display. Once there, someone with murderous intent has discovered the means of waking the centuries dead prince...
Scream of Fear
After narrowly surviving an accident in which she nearly drowned, the wheelchair bound Penny Appleby returns home to live with her widowed step-mother Jane on the French Riviera. She begins to question her sanity after several times seeing her father's corpse around the house and its grounds, and enlists the help of the friendly chauffeur Bob while attending Doctor Gerrard acts in a suitably sinister manner. No one is who they seem in this tale of intrigue and suspense.
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
The Gorgon
In early-twentieth-century middle-Europe, villagers are literally becoming petrified. Although the authorities try to hush the matter up it is apparent that at the full moon, Medusa leaves her castle lair and anyone looking on her face is turned to stone. When this fate befalls a visitor, experts from the University of Leipzig arrive to try and get to the bottom of it all.
Though perhaps not as iconic as their Dracula and Frankenstein pictures, this quartet of fright flicks from England's Hammer Films deliver enough Saturday afternoon creature feature thrills to please devotees of the legendary studio's output and vintage horror fans alike. 1964's The Gorgon will be the title to attract the most immediate attention due to the presence of Hammer's biggest stars, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, in its cast, and its most celebrated director, Terence Fisher, behind the camera. It's an atmospheric and offbeat entry in the Hammer canon, with one of its most unusual villains: a snake-haired fiend from Greek mythology who turns men into stone. Cushing and Lee are typically fine (both are on the side of the angels for once), and the picture's sole stumbling block is the lackluster makeup for its monster. Lee is also present in supporting roles in two other films in the collection: Scream of Fear (1961), one of several competent psychological suspense features made by Hammer in the wake of Psycho, with Susan Strasberg as a fragile young woman plagued by terrible visions and a house full of suspicious types; and Fisher's The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960), a revamp of the Stevenson story with Paul Massie as the dour scientist whose personality experiments unleash a virile but unhinged alter ego. Hardcore Hammer aficionados will be thrilled to discover that the DVD version is uncut and preserves much of the (mildly) salacious material trimmed for its release in America under the title House of Fright. The final film on Icons of Horror is Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, with Hammer exec Michael Carreras (son of company founder James Carreras) behind the camera for a featherweight monster romp that doesn't hold a candle to Terence Fisher's Mummy in 1959. Unlike previous Icons of Horror DVDs, the supplemental features here are slim--just the theatrical trailers for each film--though they do offer their own degree of charm, especially the ballyhoo-heavy tone of Mummy and the oddly elegant and unnerving preview for Scream of Fear, which is centered solely around an image of Strasberg's face. --Paul Gaita
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