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Review Warner Home Video / The Mummy [1959]
Actors & Directors
  • Terence Fisher
  • Christopher Lee
  • Felix Aylmer
  • Eddie Byrne
  • Peter Cushing
  • Yvonne Furneaux
Release date: 2000-05-01
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Jimmy Sangster
RRP: £5.99
Price: £12.00

Review The Mummy [1959] / Warner Home Video:

Hammer's remake of the horror classic has been accused of falling between the simple integrity of the Karloff original and the swashbuckling, SFX romanticism of the 1998 version, but it has real strengths of its own. Principal among these is Christopher Lee, haughty and brutal as the High Priest and sorrowful, pathetic and menacing as the living mummy he has become for his crimes; his eyes convey a depth of dumb suffering and passion. Peter Cushing has rarely been so charismatic and elegant as he is in his role as the lame Egyptologist Banning, and veteran Felix Aylmer is touching as his doomed father. In the underwritten role of Banning's wife, with her strange resemblance to the dead Egyptian princess whose unearthing the Mummy is avenging, Yvonne Furneaux has at once charm and authority-she is plausibly a woman who might stop the avenging Mummy in its tracks. Terence Fisher directs with his usual efficiency and Gerard Schurmann contributes an atmospheric score, as effective in its high Egyptian pomp as in its sense of the English countryside. -Roz Kaveney.

Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Revenge Of Frankenstein, The / The Curse Of The Mummy's Tomb [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Cushing
  • John Welsh
  • Michael Gwynn
  • Francis Matthews
  • Eunice Gayson
  • Terence Fisher
Release date: 1993-08-09
Run time: 164 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Revenge Of Frankenstein, The / The Curse Of The Mummy's Tomb [1958] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

The Revenge of Frankenstein was an inevitability after Hammer Films had made an international star of Peter Cushing in The Curse of this sequel-rich franchise. The plot here is a braver twist on the story than the many follow-ups would take. The Creature doesn't make its presence known until the final reel, up to which point the only sense of lurking menace comes from Cushing's deliciously mannered performance as a disguised Dr Stein. A new name and a new town is a gamble sure to fail, and circumstances almost immediately conspire against the deceit. Also rattling around the brilliantly lit studio sets are Eunice Gayson and Francis Matthews, while Michael Gwynn gives everything he's got in stiff competition to predecessor Christopher Lee in the Creature role. It's subtle and simply screams out for enfranchisement-so of course Hammer dutifully made another five in the series. On the DVD: The Revenge of Frankenstein comes with mono sound (all you're going to get from Hammer and 1958), but the 1. 66:1 ratio is a treat. You also get a trailer (and a surprise additional movie trailer) plus 10 photos. -Paul Tonks.

Actors & Directors
  • Richard Derr
  • Barbara Rush
  • Peter Hanson
  • Rudolph Mate
Run time: 79 min.
Price: £10.99

Review When Worlds Collide [1951] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • Niall MacGinnis
  • Jacques Tourneur
  • Maurice Denham
  • Athene Seyler
  • Dana Andrews
  • Peggy Cummins
Release date: 1996-03-25
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: M.R. James
Price: £12.99

Review Curse Of The Demon [1957] / Encore Entertainment:


Review 4 Front Video / This Island Earth [1955]
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Arnold
  • Rex Reason
  • Faith Domergue
  • Jeff Morrow
  • Russell Johnson
  • Joseph M. Newman
  • Lance Fuller
Release date: 2000-03-06
Run time: 83 min.
Creator: Raymond F. Jones
RRP: £5.99
Price: £11.78

Review This Island Earth [1955] / 4 Front Video:

A mysterious, pilotless plane carries scientist Rex Reason to a colony of America's best and brightest minds. They have been kidnapped by a dying alien race, the Metalunians, to repair their defence shield before their enemies destroy their world completely, and are to be found toiling under their spying eyes and futuristic security cameras (two-way TVs that dominate every room). Jeff Morrow, under a raised forehead, bronze tan, and snow-white hair, philosophises as Exeter, the thoughtful Metalunian torn between his duty and his morals as he forces the plucky humans to labour in his race's defence. The moody mystery of the first half turns to pure pulp adventure when the humans are transported across the galaxy to the battle-scarred world of Metaluna, under the threatening watch of a monstrous bug-eyed monster with a giant brain for a head and massive claws for hands. There is a genuine sense of wonder to Joseph Newman's intergalactic adventure, one of the most ambitious science fiction films of the 1950s. The story is simple space opera, but the futuristic designs of glass and metal, the marvellous alien makeup, and grand-standing special effects invest the film with a Technicolor splendour. Faith Domergue co-stars as a nuclear physicist and Gilligan's Island's Russell Johnson makes his first professorial appearance as a scientist. Science-fiction auteur Jack Arnold was an unbilled co-director. -Sean Axmaker.

Review Orbit Media Ltd. / Voodoo Woman [1956]
Actors & Directors
  • Mike Connors
  • Edward L. Cahn
  • Tom Conway
  • Lance Fuller
  • Marla English
  • Mary Ellen Kay
Release date: 1999-05-03
Run time: 68 min.
Creator: V.I. Voss
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.98

Review Voodoo Woman [1956] / Orbit Media Ltd.:


Review ITV DVD / Night of the Ghouls [1959]
Actors & Directors
  • Edward D. Wood Jr.
  • Tor Johnson
  • Paul Marco
Release date: 1995-06-19
Run time: 68 min.
Price: £9.99

Review Night of the Ghouls [1959] / ITV DVD:


Review Delta Visual Entertainment / Indestructible Man [1956]
Actors & Directors
  • Max Showalter
  • Lon Chaney Jr.
  • Marian Carr
  • Stuart Randall
  • Ross Elliott
  • Jack Pollexfen
Release date: 2000-06-26
Run time: 75 min.
Creator: Vy Russell
RRP: £4.99
Price: £1.75

Review Indestructible Man [1956] / Delta Visual Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • Colin Morton
  • Holly Bane
Run time: 178 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.98

Review Quatermass And The Pit [1958] / Meridian Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Peeping Tom [1960]
Actors & Directors
  • Anna Massey
  • Brenda Bruce
  • Maxine Audley
  • Moira Shearer
  • Karlheinz Böhm
  • Michael Powell
Release date: 1996-02-26
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Leo Marks
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.80

Review Peeping Tom [1960] / Warner Home Video:

Michael Powell lays bare the cinema's dark voyeuristic underside in this disturbing 1960 psychodrama thriller. Handsome young Carl Boehm is Mark Lewis, a shy, socially clumsy young man shaped by the psychic scars of an emotionally abusive parent, in this case a psychologist father (the director in a perverse cameo) who subjected his son to nightmarish experiments in fear and recorded every interaction with a movie camera. Now Mark continues his father's work, sadistically killing young women with a phallic-like blade attached to his movie camera and filming their final, terrified moments for his definitive documentary on fear. Set in contemporary London, which Powell evokes in a lush, colourful seediness, this film presents Mark as much victim as villain and implicates the audience in his scopophilic activities as we become the spectators to his snuff film screenings. Comparisons to Hitchcock's Psycho, released the same year, are inevitable. Powell's film was reviled upon release, and it practically destroyed his career, ironic in light of the acclaim and success that greeted Psycho, but Powell's picture hit a little too close to home with its urban setting, full colour photography, documentary techniques and especially its uneasy connections between sex, violence and the cinema. We can thank Martin Scorsese for sponsoring its 1979 re-release, which presented the complete, uncut version to appreciative audiences for the first time. This powerfully perverse film was years ahead of its time and remains one of the most disturbing and psychologically complex horror films ever made. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

Review Warner Home Video / House Of Wax - Special Collector's Pack [1953]
Actors & Directors
  • Phyllis Kirk
  • Paul Picerni
  • Frank Lovejoy
  • Carolyn Jones
  • André De Toth
  • Vincent Price
Release date: 1995-07-17
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Crane Wilbur
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.99

Review House Of Wax - Special Collector's Pack [1953] / Warner Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / The Curse Of Frankenstein [1957]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Cushing
  • Hazel Court
  • Melvyn Hayes
  • Christopher Lee
  • Terence Fisher
  • Robert Urquhart
Release date: 2000-05-01
Run time: 79 min.
Creator: Mary Shelley
RRP: £5.99
Price: £29.99

Review The Curse Of Frankenstein [1957] / Warner Home Video:

Britain's Hammer Studios had been making films for decades before they suddenly redefined themselves with this lurid remake of the Universal Studios horror classic. Prohibited by Universal from copying their blocky make-up (and their script, for that matter), Hammer returned to Mary Shelley's novel for inspiration and then went in its own direction. Peter Cushing plays Dr. Frankenstein as the rational scientist turned cold-blooded criminal in his campaign to discover the secret of life, committing murder to further his ends or to remove an inconvenient mistress. Christopher Lee is the pitiable creature, a terrified behemoth more innocent new-born than malevolent monster. His pale, pallid, grotesquely scarred face was so thickly applied that he emotes almost exclusively with his eyes and his awkward, stumbling gestures. The not-so-good Dr. Frankenstein is the true monster, a ruthless scientist whose rejection of superstition extends to all moral considerations. Shot in blood-red colour by Hammer stalwart Terence Fisher, the stylish, often salacious film became Hammer's biggest success to date, made horror stars out of the classically trained Cushing and Lee, and transformed the B studio into the Hammer we know and love today: the house that dripped blood. The Horror of Dracula immediately followed, reuniting the winning team of Cushing and Lee, and Cushing returned in four of six Frankenstein sequels. [+]
-Sean Axmaker.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Return Of The Fly [1959]
Actors & Directors
  • Brett Halsey
  • Dan Seymour
  • David Frankham
  • John Sutton
  • Vincent Price
  • Edward Bernds
Release date: 1989-09-28
Run time: 75 min.
Creator: George Langelaan
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.42

Review Return Of The Fly [1959] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • William Justine
  • Lance Fuller
  • Johnny Roth
  • Charlotte Austin
  • Adrian Weiss
  • Gil Frye
Release date: 1995-06-19
Run time: 73 min.
Price: £9.99

Review Bride and the Beast [1958] / ITV DVD:


Review Eclipse / First Man Into Space [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Marla Landi
  • Robert Day
  • Bill Edwards
  • Robert Ayres
  • Marshall Thompson
  • Bill Nagy
Release date: 1999-09-27
Run time: 73 min.
Creator: Wyott Ordung
Price: £5.99

Review First Man Into Space [1958] / Eclipse:

The early reels of First Man into Space should delight fans of the Mercury/Sputnik era in rocket technology-though it may delight fans of low-budget 1950s sci-fi even more. A small manned rocket, launched from a jet cruising at high altitude, manages to poke its nose up about 250 miles above the Earth-thus making its cocky, reckless pilot the (you guessed it) first man into space. Unfortunately, weird cosmic debris clings to the spacecraft when it crash-lands, and also to the astronaut: he's now covered with a layer of scaly, sparkly space rock. To put it in technical terms, the returned pilot is categorised as "a great big lumbering deformed monster". Lumbering around a rocket facility in New Mexico, the monster-pilot's brother (Marshall Thompson) must find him before he kills again. Oddly enough, once the cheesy space-flight FX wear off, First Man into Space turns into a competent and surprisingly thoughtful thriller giving this movie some points for at least trying to emphasise the science in its fiction. -Robert Horton, Amazon. com.

Review Warner Home Video / Dracula [1957]
Actors & Directors
  • Jerry Blaine
  • Heather Ames
  • Louise Lewis
  • Gail Ganley
  • Herbert L. Strock
  • Sandra Harrison
Release date: 2000-05-01
Run time: 78 min.
Creator: Aben Kandel
RRP: £8.99
Price: £19.99

Review Dracula [1957] / Warner Home Video:

This is the first (it dates from 1957) of the many films which were to identify Christopher Lee with Bram Stoker's undead anti-hero and, in many ways, it remains the best. Tied reasonably closely to that of Stoker's novel, the plot sees the English academic Jonathan Harker (Van Eyssen) entering the employ of Dracula, secretly aware that the nobleman is a vampire and with every intention of destroying him. Sadly, it doesn't work out and Harker, in one of the film's several gentle structural conceits, becomes Dracula's servant in more senses than one, prompting one Doctor Van Helsing (Peter Cushing, of course) to investigate his disappearance. The rest, of course, is a slightly wobbly version of history. This is the only film of the series to retain its roots in theatrical melodrama-the clipped, "ack-torly" exchanges between Lee and Van Eyssen are a joy-but it remains gripping in spite, or because of that. Best of all, it allows Lee to present Dracula as a real character-a haunted, tragic figure, impatient with the mortal world and its trivia-before camp tomfoolery, likeable enough in its own way, came to dominate the series. -Roger Thomas.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Fly [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Kathleen Freeman
  • Kurt Neumann
  • Herbert Marshall
  • David Hedison
  • Patricia Owens
  • Vincent Price
Release date: 1989-09-28
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: James Clavell
RRP: £5.99
Price: £8.64

Review The Fly [1958] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Connoisseur Video / Eyes Without A Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage) [1960]
Actors & Directors
  • François Guérin
  • Pierre Brasseur
  • Georges Franju
  • Alida Valli
  • Juliette Mayniel
  • Edith Scob
Release date: 1995-09-18
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Thomas Narcejac
RRP: £15.99
Price: £21.99

Review Eyes Without A Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage) [1960] / Connoisseur Video:


Review 4 Front Video / Invasion Of The Body Snatchers [1956]
Actors & Directors
  • Carolyn Jones
  • Kevin McCarthy
  • Don Siegel
  • King Donovan
  • Larry Gates
  • Dana Wynter
Release date: 1997-06-16
Run time: 80 min.
Creator: Richard Collins
RRP: £5.99
Price: £19.99

Review Invasion Of The Body Snatchers [1956] / 4 Front Video:

Invasion of the Body Snatchers is considered one of the best science fiction films of the 1950s and 1960s. The classic paranoid thriller was widely interpreted as a criticism of the McCarthy era, which was characterised by anti-Communist witch-hunts and fear of the dreaded blacklist. Some hailed it as an attack on the oppressive power of government as Big Brother. However viewers interpret it, this original 1956 version of Invaders of the Body Snatchers (based on Jack Finney's serialised novel The Body Snatchers) remains a milestone movie in its genre, directed by Don Siegel with an inventive intensity that continues to pack an entertaining wallop. Dr. Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) is unconcerned when the townsfolk accuse their loved ones of acting like emotionless impostors. But soon the evidence is overwhelming-Santa Mira has been invaded by alien "pods", which are capable of replicating humans and taking possession of their identities. It's up to McCarthy to spread the word of warning, battling the alien invasion at the risk of his own life. Look closely and you'll find future director Sam Peckinpah (an uncredited cowriter of this film) making a cameo appearance as a meter reader! -Jeff Shannon.

Review RCA / Columbia Pictures CVT20651 / The Revenge Of Frankenstein (1958)
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Cushing
  • Michael Gwynn
  • Lionel Jeffries
  • Terence Fisher
  • Eunice Gayson
  • Francis Matthews
Run time: 87 min.
Price: £10.99

Review The Revenge Of Frankenstein (1958) / RCA / Columbia Pictures CVT20651:

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