Tales of Terror 50 Movie Pack Collection

Tales of Terror 50 Movie Pack Collection
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Tales of Terror 50 Movie Pack Collection

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Actor: Jack Pickford
Director: Vincent Price
Brand: Mill Creek Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Content/Copy-Protected CD, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 3694 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-15
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Mill Creek Entertainment

DVD Reviews of Tales of Terror 50 Movie Pack Collection

DVD Review: Cannot recommend
Summary: 2 Stars

I have purchased other 50Packs including Nightmare Worlds and Chillers and enjoyed quite a few movies from each of those sets. This set, however, the Terror 50Pack had at best a very few movies which I would ever want to watch again. Most I would never want to watch once!

It seems too that more of the movies on this set from MillCreek are older and I personally find more of the 50's and 60's movies, maybe 70's, to my liking. The movies from the 30's and 40's usually are a little too old for my taste. At $15 or so a set, you do not have much to lose with these 50Packs but I would not recommend this selection.

DVD Review: VOD: The Future of B-Movies
Summary: 5 Stars

The digital age has snuck up on us, and physical media is rapidly becoming the first casualty. Think about it: you stopped buying CDs when you got your MP3 Player--now you just download music. You stopped watching live television when you got your DVR--now you record your own digital copy. Growing numbers are turning to streaming video over the internet. You stopped rushing out to buy the latest videogame, because you can download them more conveniently over Steam, XBOX Live or PSN. Finally movies are catching up, and why shouldn't they?

The increasing ubiquity of digital cable and its robust pay-per-view features slowly slew the video rental business, but the increasing prices of these cable and satellite provider features, along with their extremely limited libraries make them unacceptable, particularly when compared to the robust potential offered by internet video distribution. Services like Amazon VOD.

The Devil Bat is the very sort of movie that gets left out in a pay-per-view world. It's neither mainstream nor new enough to justify its inclusion in a limited pay-per-view catalog, but is just as deserving (if not more so) than some of the garbage we're spoon-fed. Amazon leaves room for classic movies like this to thrive. They may not be the most popular titles around, but gosh darn it when you need to laugh at horrifyingly bad special effects, scripting and acting in your underwear at 3 AM, there's just no better way to get your fix than you download it and watch on your PC.

In my case, the rental option is roughly 50% cheaper than it would be to pay-per-view it and the purchase option is a cheap alternative to wasting gas/tax/shipping/etc. to get a physical copy at the store.

Admittedly, you probably should be amenable to watching movies on your computer in order to fully enjoy VOD products. I essentially spend all of my waking moments at one computer or another, so this is fine by me, but your mileage may vary.

DVD Review: Many, many hours of viewing....Ahhhhhh!
Summary: 4 Stars

This collection has terror/"horror" films dating from the 1930's B&W up to 1980's. I use the term "horror" loosely here because some of the horror may be simply the appearance of a guy in a rubber suit for a few seconds or some shadowed figure commiting horrible acts behind drapery. However, if you have not seen samples of horror/terror movies of the early days of cinema, I would highly recommend this boxed-set; especially at the low price here. There are some notable actors such as Bela Lugosi and Todd Slaughter (from days of old) that appear in more than one of the films. The older films seem to move quickly. The Sadist will make your skin crawl despite it's black and white, 1950's feel. There are also some Giallo films in this set (the Night Evelyn... and some Barbara Steele in Europe flicks), but no modern slashers like Friday the 13th or Elm Street.
Definitely worth buying and watching if you have seen alot of new stuff and are hungry for some a slice of terror from the past.

DVD Review: This may be the best MIll Creek collection
Summary: 5 Stars

I bought this the other day at a Half Price Books. I don't know if they have this store outside of the Pittsburgh area, but its great. Anyhow, I already own a couple of these collection, the first being the "Chilling" one. I should have gotten this one first. Why? The movies on this collection are the best! Most of these are from the thirties through the fifties, with only a couple from the seventies! Also, a few of these films are silent, and I love the silent age.

I'm a big B Movie buff, but my taste seems to wan in the seventies, with the exception of just a few titles. This collection was much more in line with the type of B Films that I look for. Oh! There's a good Japanese flick in here too!

If you're debating between this and the "Chilling" collection, get this. That is, unless you prefer the seventies and eigthies style of B Film.

DVD Review: 50 Terror Movies of Public Domain Goodness
Summary: 5 Stars

Tales of Terror is a collection of 50 scary movies that only have one thing in common: they are all public domain and as such it is possible for them to be presented in highly affordable collections. I paid $19.98 for my set and that comes down to about 40 cents per movie. The way that movie tickets cost nowadays, you really cannot complain about this collection.

An added bonus of this collection is the fact that many of these movies are not available on other public domain collections.

Anyways, here is how I rate the movies in Tales of Terror:

Great:

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Crimes at the Dark House
The Head
Ironbound Vampire
The Phantom of Soho

Good:

The Bat
The Night Evelyn Came Out of Her Grave
Night Fright
One Frightened Night
Phantom Creeps
Scared to Death
She Beast
Shock
Sound of Horror
A Strange Adventure
Tales of Frankenstein

Average:

Bowery at Midnight
Chloe, Love is Calling You
Condemned to Live
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
Crypt of the Living Dead
The Curse of Headless Horseman
The Demon Barber of Fleet
The Devil Bat
Devil Monster
Devil's Daughter
The Devil's Messenger
Devil's Partner
The Ghost Walks
The Island Monster
It's Never Too Late to Mend
The Long Hair of Death
Louisiana
The Manster
Midnight Shadow
Murder in the Red Barn
Man with Two Lives
Rogues Tavern
Torture Ship

Bad:

The Ape Man
I Eat Your Skin
Manos: The Hands of Fate
The Sadist
Teenage Zombies
Terror Creatures from the Grave
Vampire Happening
Vampires Night Orgy
A Walking Nightmare
Werewolf of Washington
The White Gorilla

Description of Tales of Terror 50 Movie Pack Collection

Introducing a chilling compilation of fifty classic horror films ranging from gore fests like "I Eat Your Skin", "The Sadist" and "Vampire's Night Orgy", to classics like "The Head", "Tales from the Dark House" and "The Phantom of Soho". There are features old and new, classic and contemporary, to please horror fans of all tastes and ages.

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