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) | |
 enlarge | Director: The Two Faces Of Dr. Jekyll Directed By Actors: Paul Massie - The Two Faces Of Dr. Jekyl, Terence Morgan - The Curse Of The Mummy', Peter Cushing - The Gorgon, Susan Strasberg - Scream Of Fear Studio: SONY PICTURES Category: DVD List Price: Buy New: $16.99 You Save: $7.97 (32%) New (39) Used (7) Collectible (1) from $16.99 Rating:  24 reviewsSales Rank: 2681 Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Ntsc Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Unrated Region: 99 Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Number Of Discs: 2 Running Time: 324 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3 Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 MPN: COLD27107D UPC: 043396271074 EAN: 0043396271074 ASIN: B001B9ZVVC Release Date: October 14, 2008 Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping Promotion: Save $10.00 when you spend $50.00 or more on Qualifying Items offered by Amazon.com. Enter code BMLSAVES at checkout. Terms and Conditions Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Customer Reviews: Read 19 more reviews... Superb Hammer set from Sony. November 17, 2008K. W. Wardle This is a superb Hammer horror DVD set from Sony. The studio is really doing a great job with classic titles at the moment, and this set is a prime example! Four classic Hammer films and a great looking cover (yes, I was one of the fans who voted for it..). Recommended!!!  Good transfers, o.k. movies. November 12, 2008zepol The transfers are very good of these movies. The trailers are the only extras. The movies themselves are o.k. nothing that you will want to watch over and over again. good nonscary monster movies November 10, 2008worth Ferguson (central Texas, USA) These old Hammer movies are good films, not very scary to today's movie watcher. They all offer interesting takes, especially the Jekyll/Hyde tale. I found them all enjoyable and so did my wife. It is hard to find horror movies we can watch together since she is not a fan. The "Scream of Fear" is a very different Hammer film. It is a suspense mystery with some good twists. It is the only B&W film in the package. Four horrors from Hammer November 9, 2008mrliteral While Universal succeeded in making horror a successful film genre in the 1930s with their series of flicks featuring Dracula, the Wolf Man and other monsters, by World War Two, its output had declined both in quantity and quality. In fact, in the 1940s, outside of Val Lewton's films (Cat People, I Walked With a Zombie, et al), horror was pretty much a spent genre. In the 1950s, however, Hammer Films in England resurrected horror in a big way, bringing back the Universal monsters in new versions of familiar tales. Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee took the place of Lugosi, Karloff and Chaney; perhaps more significantly, color replaced black-and-white, allowing a more vivid depiction of violence that may seem tame nowadays, but was shocking at the time. The biggest of these Hammer horror films include Curse of Frankenstein, The Mummy and The Horror of Dracula. The Hammer Films - Icon of Horror Collection, however, contains some lesser known efforts, with four movies on two discs. Disc One has The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll and The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb. The former movie is another re-telling of the familiar Jekyll-and-Hyde story; while it pales in comparison to the Frederic March version, this movie does offer a couple twists. In particular, in this case Hyde is actually the better-looking of the pair, a suave though completely amoral playboy. Jekyll is married to a faithless wife who loves Christopher Lee, another suave and amoral playboy who is also Jekyll's best friend, setting up an interesting triangle (or is it a square?). The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb is another version of the familiar mummy tale with the mummy wreaking vengeance on those who violated its tomb. The twist regards the human villain who guides the mummy; though most viewers will have this character pegged quite early, his motives take a while to be revealed. This movie is also the only one in the set not to have Lee in the cast. Disc Two has The Gorgon and Scream of Fear. The Gorgon has not only Lee in a rare heroic role, but also Peter Cushing. The title monster is a sister of the more famous Medusa but with a similar look and powers. Similar to a werewolf, the Gorgon only appears at the full moon. Cushing is the local doctor who knows more about the Gorgon than he is willing to say, and Lee is a professor who helps solve the mystery. While these three films fit into the standard Hammer monster stories, Scream of Fear is distinctly different, a non-supernatural horror mystery. Hammer did several of these movies that were all in black-and-white and were reminiscent of Hammer's pre-horror days when it made B-film noirs. Other examples include Nightmare and Paranoiac. In Scream of Fear, Susan Strasberg plays a young wheelchair-bound woman moving back to her father's home after a decade abroad. When she gets back, her father is gone on a trip, leaving her only with his new wife. After some strange goings-on, including seeing what she believes is her dad's corpse, she suspects something sinister afoot; can she, with the help of the chauffeur, figure out what's going on? Lee is in this movie as a local doctor who seems to get along a little too well with the step-mother. Though it is the atypical member of this set, Scream of Fear is also the best in the set. As seems typical with most Hammer DVD releases, these films come with little in the way of extras, merely the theatrical trailers. None of these movies are bad, though the Disc One films are slower-moving; the Disc Two films, however, are pretty good. In fact, though these are clearly lesser Hammer movies, this is still a fun set that should be enjoyed by most Hammer fans. CHRISTOPHER LEE AS THE GOOD GUY November 4, 2008JESSICA YVONNE VARMA (Trichur East, Kerala State, India) 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) Hammer added another 'classic' monster with Terence Fisher's THE GORGON (1964). Filled with chilling menace, the film is set in the Transylvanian village of Vandorf, terrorized by a series of killings in which the victims have turned to STONE. The Gorgon, Magaera, is found in the nearby ruins of the Castle Borski, but the discoverer is himself turned to stone, having just time to summon help in the form of his son and his son's tutor, Professor Meinster ( Christopher Lee, in a fine set of whiskers and playing for once, the avenger )! Eventually the Gorgon, is found to be in possession of the beautiful Carla Hoffman (Barbara Shelly) assistant and ex-patient of the sinister Professor Namaroff ( Peter Cushing ). Roy Ashton's make-up for the Gorgon, haloed with a hissing, striking frieze of serpents, makes Megaera, a true and unique female monster | |
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