Mill Creek Stikes Gold Again!I would have to say that by now, Mill Creek Entertainment must be one of my favorite DVD releasing companies. Sure, they started off with public domain movie packs that were not remastered in any way, but the prices were impossible to beat, and helped some of us to discover some truly hidden gems and some films that have never been released at all on DVD before. But Mill Creek refused to just be a public domain movie outlet. They've continued to grow, and their releases have become better, transfers have become much nicer, and the movies they've got hold of are more popular, and more recent. That's the thing about Mill Creek that lets me rank them up there with the best. They have no intentions of resting comfortably with what they've already made money on. They want to continue to entertain, and they want to do it at a price that everyone can afford. The only fault I can give this set is that it should have been called "Horror Hits", instead of "Hollywood hits". Here's a brief...
Three Classic Films with One Other Tolerable Horror FlickI've been a die hard horror fan since around eight or nine-years-old, which I don't recommend for anyone at the age, but I somehow connected with scary films, good or bad. I was more than excited when Mill Creek Entertainment recently released four classic Columbia Pictures horror movies onto a 2-disc set, which I received free of charge in exchange for my honest review.
The most famous Dracula movie was the 1931 version starring Bela Lugosi, which launched a franchise for Universal Studios; though Bela only appeared in one film (I'm not counting the Abbot and Costello movie). He returned as a Dracula-like vampire named Armand Tesla in the 1943 The Return of the Vampire. The movie was attended to be a direct-sequel to Dracula, but Columbia Pictures didn't own the franchise, therefore the character's name was changed. The plot focuses on two scientists driving a railroad stake through the vampire's heart. He is entombed for nearly two decades, along with his werewolf...
4 Different Titles from 3 single packs all together!It's pretty stunning to see a classic picture of Bela Lugosi ready to have dinner (or is it breakfast) on the throat of an actress in a trance! But that's the first thing that caught my eye about this 4-Horror Feature Package. Unfortunately, all 4 have little to do with one another!
Let's start by admitting that RETURN OF THE VAMPIRE + REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN were released as single DVDs while MR. SARDONICUS & BROTHERHOOD OF SATAN were available in a combo pack.
RETURN OF THE VAMPIRE (1943) is probably the strongest title of the four. Lugosi is portraying Dracula, but due to Universal's Copyright on the name: DRACULA, Lugosi has become Armand Tessla. And yes he has a werewolf by his side (Matt Willis) along with a scientist/mother-in-law trying to keep Lugosi's teeth away from her future daughter-in-law. The picture makes several references to the war..."Here come the Gerrys!" Lugosi takes his part seriously and my overall grade is B+ [Do you suppose that...
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