Review, buy 1940s: The Mummy's Curse [1944], Beast With Five Fingers [1947], The Ape Man [1943], The Curse of the Cat People [1944], The Mummy's Tomb [1942], Invisible Ghost [1941], Cat People [1942], Revenge Of The Zombies [1943], Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man [1943], Isle Of The Dead [1945], The Phantom Of The Opera [1943], Bedlam [1946], I Walked With a Zombie [1943], House Of Dracula [1945], The Body Snatcher [1945], The Ghost Of Frankenstein [1942], The Invisible Man's Revenge [1944], The Mummy's Hand [1940], The Dark Eyes Of London [1940], The Corpse Vanishes [1942]

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Review 4 Front Video / The Mummy's Curse [1944]

The Mummy's Curse [1944] (4 Front Video)

Actors & Directors

Lon Chaney Jr.
Leslie Goodwins
Peter Coe
Dennis Moore
Virginia Christine
Kay Harding

Release date: 2001-05-07
Run time: 57 min.
Creator: Ted Richmond
RRP: ~~£9.99~~
Price: £29.99

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Review MGM Entertainment / Beast With Five Fingers [1947]

Beast With Five Fingers [1947] (MGM Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Robert Florey|Robert Alda|Andrea King|Peter Lorre

Release date: 1996-04-22
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: ~~£10.99~~
Price: £44.99

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Review Delta Visual Entertainment / The Ape Man [1943]

The Ape Man [1943] (Delta Visual Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Henry Hall
William Beaudine
Louise Currie
Minerva Urecal
Wallace Ford
Bela Lugosi

Release date: 2000-06-26
Run time: 69 min.
Creator: Karl Brown
RRP: ~~£4.99~~
Price: £2.49

Review The Ape Man [1943] / Delta Visual Entertainment:

One of the areas of human knowledge which has expanded fastest over the last few decades is our awareness of the complexities of human evolution. Ape·Man is a useful summary of the current state of play dealing with such important questions as the divergence of early hominids from the other apes and the final confrontation of modern humans and their Neanderthal cousins. It is a fair-minded handling of some of the crucial debates-at what point, say, is it legitimate to talk of humans and human ancestors starting to decorate their possessions, say, and when did language and the complex innovations in hunting it makes possible start to be a factor? Inventive portrayals of the life of early humans as they wander out of the mists of time alternate with coherent and accessible accounts of fossil evidence, DNA studies and archaeology; this is both an intellectually satisfying series and an emotionally charged one. -Roz Kaveney.

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Review 4 Front Video / The Curse of the Cat People [1944]

The Curse of the Cat People [1944] (4 Front Video)

Actors & Directors

Robert Wise|Gunther von Fritsch|Simone Simon|Kent Smith

Release date: 1999-01-18
Run time: 67 min.
Price: £5.99

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Review 4 Front Video / The Mummy's Tomb [1942]

The Mummy's Tomb [1942] (4 Front Video)

Actors & Directors

Dick Foran
George Zucco
Harold Young
Lon Chaney Jr.
John Hubbard
Elyse Knox

Release date: 2001-05-07
Run time: 58 min.
Creator: Neil P. Varnick
RRP: ~~£9.99~~
Price: £7.95

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Review Digital Video Distribution / Invisible Ghost [1941]

Invisible Ghost [1941] (Digital Video Distribution)

Actors & Directors

John McGuire
Clarence Muse
Joseph H. Lewis
Bela Lugosi
Terry Walker
Polly Ann Young

Release date: 1996-07-08
Run time: 65 min.
RRP: ~~£5.99~~
Price: £19.99

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Review 4 Front Video / Cat People [1942]

Cat People [1942] (4 Front Video)

Actors & Directors

Jane Randolph
Jacques Tourneur
Tom Conway
Simone Simon
Kent Smith

Release date: 1998-06-08
Run time: 73 min.
RRP: ~~£5.99~~
Price: £34.99

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Review Orbit Media Ltd. / Revenge Of The Zombies [1943]

Revenge Of The Zombies [1943] (Orbit Media Ltd.)

Actors & Directors

Bob Steele
Steve Sekely
Robert Lowery
Gale Storm
Mantan Moreland
John Carradine

Release date: 1999-05-03
Run time: 58 min.
Creator: Van Norcross
Price: £9.99

Review Revenge Of The Zombies [1943] / Orbit Media Ltd.:

This value-for-money Zombie Double Feature is billed as "Flesh Creepers, Volume 1", and offers a double billing of George A Romero's classic Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Steve Sekely's rather less fondly remembered Revenge of the Zombies (1943). Night of the Living Dead is a masterpiece, but it has also slipped through a copyright loophole which means it has been issued on video and DVD by a great many distributors in as many variant versions. This one isn't ruined by colorisation or dodgy new footage as a couple of rival releases are, but it is soft-looking print, free of censor cuts but very washed-out-looking. The background notes inexcusably get the date of the film wrong, crassly tagging it "think Blair Witch 1964", and mention the existence of extras-filled special DVD editions, which rather rubs in the fact that this no-frills effort has none of the commentaries or documentaries found on other releases. Revenge of the Zombies is a sluggish hour-long wartime B-picture, with John Carradine underplaying for once as a Nazi scientist creating an army of zombies (ie: a handful of shuffling extras) in the Louisiana swamplands. Comedy relief Mantan Moreland has the best moments and the trudging-around-the-backlot zombies ("things walkin' ain't got no business to be walkin'") are fun, but it isn't especially good of its kind. On the DVD: The Zombie Double Feature presents both films in "horrorscope", which means letterboxing and blurry image. The only extra is a list-like essay about the habits of flesh-eating zombies in Romero films. -Kim Newman.

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Review 4 Front Video / Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man [1943]

Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man [1943] (4 Front Video)

Actors & Directors

Ilona Massey
Lionel Atwill
Roy William Neill
Bela Lugosi
Patrick Knowles

Release date: 2001-05-07
Run time: 73 min.
RRP: ~~£9.99~~
Price: £19.99

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Isle Of The Dead [1945] (4 Front Video)

Actors & Directors

Mark Robson|Boris Karloff|Jason Robards|Ellen Drew

Release date: 1998-06-08
Run time: 69 min.
Price: £5.99

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Review Universal Pictures UK / The Phantom Of The Opera [1943]

The Phantom Of The Opera [1943] (Universal Pictures UK)

Actors & Directors

Claude Rains
Leo Carrillo
Nelson Eddy
Arthur Lubin
Edgar Barrier
Susanna Foster

Release date: 1999-07-01
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Samuel Hoffenstein
RRP: ~~£9.99~~
Price: £4.84

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Bedlam [1946] (4 Front Video)

Actors & Directors

Anna Lee
Richard Fraser
Mark Robson
Ian Wolfe
Boris Karloff
Billy House

Release date: 1998-06-08
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: ~~£5.99~~
Price: £8.99

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Review 4 Front Video / I Walked With a Zombie [1943]

I Walked With a Zombie [1943] (4 Front Video)

Actors & Directors

Jacques Tourneur
Frances Dee
James Ellison
Edith Barrett
Tom Conway
James Bell

Release date: 1998-06-08
Run time: 66 min.
Creator: Inez Wallace
Price: £5.99

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Review 4 Front Video / House Of Dracula [1945]

House Of Dracula [1945] (4 Front Video)

Actors & Directors

Erle C. Kenton
Martha O'Driscoll
Lionel Atwill
John Carradine
Onslow Stevens
Lon Chaney Jr.

Release date: 2001-05-07
Run time: 64 min.
Creator: George Bricker
RRP: ~~£9.99~~
Price: £13.99

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Review 4 Front Video / The Body Snatcher [1945]

The Body Snatcher [1945] (4 Front Video)

Actors & Directors

Robert Wise|Boris Karloff|Bela Lugosi|Henry Daniell

Release date: 1998-06-08
Run time: 78 min.
RRP: ~~£5.99~~
Price: £16.99

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Review 4 Front Video / The Ghost Of Frankenstein [1942]

The Ghost Of Frankenstein [1942] (4 Front Video)

Actors & Directors

Lon Chaney Jr.
Lionel Atwill
Ralph Bellamy
Bela Lugosi
Erle C. Kenton
Cedric Hardwicke

Release date: 2001-05-07
Run time: 64 min.
Creator: Scott Darling
RRP: ~~£9.99~~
Price: £12.95

Review The Ghost Of Frankenstein [1942] / 4 Front Video:

The monster lives in The Ghost of Frankenstein. again. Picking up where 1939's Son of Frankenstein left off, Bela Lugosi's gnarled Ygor survives yet another rampage by torch-carrying angry villagers and frees the monster (The Wolf Man himself, Lon Chaney Jr, taking over from Boris Karloff) from his sulphur grave. The latest cinematic Frankenstein scion, brain surgeon Ludwig (Cedric Hardwicke), wants to dissect the lumbering creature for good until the ghost of his father convinces him to save the monster by giving it a new, "good" brain. Ygor has his own devious plan and enlists Ludwig's shady assistant (Lionel Atwill) in a brain-switching scheme. You just can 't get good help these days. Ably directed by the pedestrian Erle C Kenton, Ghost of Frankenstein gives up the Gothic mood and moral quandaries of the original films for the busy, action-packed plots that defined Universal horror films of the 1940s. The human characters are all rather dull (except for Lugosi's animated, eye-rolling performance) and Chaney has none of Karloff's pathos or subtlety under the make-up, but the film opens with a spectacular bang-the villagers dynamite the castle-and then skips from one inspired scene to another. [+]

The monster rejuvenates himself during an electrical storm with a jolt of lightning, mutely undergoes a courtroom cross-examination (by a ridiculously intent Ralph Bellamy) and finally goes on a blind rampage in the fiery climax. Frankenstein's monster returned (this time with Lugos i under the mask) in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

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