Mill Creek Entertainment has an eight-film Blu-ray collection set to street on Dec. 13 that will certainly tickle the fancy of film buffs and classic horror and sci-fi lovers.
Titled Thrillers from the Vault: 8 Classic Horror Films, the four-disc Blu-ray collection showcases the iconic talents of Boris Karloff in not one or two, but six of his horror/sci-fi gems. We kick-off with the Blu-ray debut of director Roy William Neill’s 1935 horror tale, The Black Room. This film has been out on DVD, but not since the fall of 2015 and never before as a Blu-ray product offering.
Another film vault treasure starring Boris Karloff that is also making its Blu-ray debut as part of the Thrillers from the Vault: 8 Classic Horror Films collection is director Nick Grinde’s 1939 back-from-the-dead chiller, The Man Could Not Hang. So successful was this director/actor combination that the pair joined forces in the spring of 1940 for The Man with Nine Lives and once again in the fall of 1940 for Before I Hang.
Shifting to 1941, we have director Edward Dmytryk’s film adaptation of the William Sloane novel, “The Edge of Running Water,” which reached the screen in February of that year as The Devil Commands.
Coming into the Halloween-season of 1942 (World War II was in full swing and it was a dark time), Karloff would team-up with Peter Lorre to have some fun in the haunted house tale titled The Boogie Man Will Get You … with direction by Lew Landers.
And speaking of prolific filmmaker Lew Landers, the following year he would guide Bela Lugosi in the bloodsucker tale, The Return of the Vampire … Lugosi’s first vampire outing since Mark of the Vampire in 1935 (he could not be Dracula as Universal owned the rights to the character at the time).
Rounding out this stunning Blu-ray collection is director Arch Oboler’s 1951 indie sci-fi tale, Five, where five survivors of a nuclear Armageddon find themselves isolated at a remote house … seemingly the only ones alive on earth.
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