Mill Creek Entertainment has a sweet deal ready and waiting
for fans of classic sci-fi and horror flicks on July 21. For just $14.98 each (and that’s before
discounts at retail), genre fans can snap-up the four-film collection titled Classic
Horror, or the six-film set titled Vintage Sci-Fi Movies.
Classic Horror contains director Anthony Bushell’s 1961 Hammer
Films release of The Terror of the Tongs, starring Christopher Lee as the
no-mercy Chung King, the head of the Hong Kong-based Red Dragon Tong. Murder and torture for this villain has no
boundries!
Christopher Lee is joined by another icon of horror and the
macabre, Vincent Price, who stars as Gallico the Great in director John Brahm’s
1954 tale of murder, The Mad Magician. Mary Murphy (The Desperate Hours), Patrick
O'Neal and Eva Gabor are his co-stars.
Rounding this four-film collection are director László
Kardos’ 1957 film release of The Man Who Turned to Stone,
starring Victor Jory as the 200-year old Dr. Murdock who sadistically drains
the life out of captive teenagers who are prisoners at the La Salle Detention
Home for Girls and Arch Oboler’s 1951 post-atomic holocaust tale, Five.
The six-film collection titled Vintage Sci-Fi Movies kicks
off with director Fred F. Sears’ 1957 earth-shaking thriller, The
Night the World Exploded (timed perfectly for this summer’s
earth-shaker, San Andreas).
The 27th Day has five members from the United
Nations — including Gene Berry and The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake)
— whisked away by alien invaders and given the ultimate weapon, the power to
destroy millions by just thinking about it.
Will they succumb to this temptation?
Director David Bradley’s 1960 film release of 12 to
the Moon has a international team of scientists locked in deadly
conflict with an alien intelligence that has concluded that mankind is too puny
to continue.
The H-Man is a 1958 (1959 domestic release) and Battle
in Outer Space is from the following year (1960 domestic market) and
are both Japanese imports from Toho Studios that were dubbed in English for
theatrical release and proved to be surprisingly effective and well-received by
the intended audience of the day.
Lastly, writer/director Edward Bernds’ Valley of the Dragons was
released theatrically in November of 1961 near the end of the “Jules Verne
cycle” (From Earth to the Moon, 1958; Journey to the Center of the
Earth, 1959; Master of the World, 1961; and Mysterious
Island, also 1961) … it was the least commercial of the group, but
nevertheless remains an interesting flight of fancy (dinosaurs on the moon? …
who knew!).
For more information on these July 21 DVD priced-to-collect
releases — and more — please be sure to visit Mill Creek Entertainment’s
website at millcreekent.com.
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