Actors & Directors
- Mantan Moreland
- Bob Steele
- John Carradine
- Gale Storm
- Robert Lowery
- Steve Sekely
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.
Actors & Directors
- Terry Walker
- Joseph H. Lewis
- John McGuire
- Bela Lugosi
- Polly Ann Young
- Clarence Muse
Release date: 1998-09-07 Run time: 60 min. Creator: Helen Martin RRP: £9.99 Price: £6.59
Review Invisible Ghost [1941] / Orbit Media Ltd.:
Actors & Directors
- Wes Craven
- Mike Mendez
- Dave Parker
- John Carpenter
- Bruce Campbell
- David Cronenberg
- Dario Argento
Release date: 1998-10-26 Run time: 219 min. Creator: Gary Shenk Price: £10.99
Review Masters Of Horror [1940] / Delta Visual Entertainment:
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