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)

Icons of Horror: Hammer Films (2-disc) (The Curse of the Mummys Tomb / The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll / Scream of Fear / The Gorgon)

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The Curse of the Mummys Tomb
When European Egyptologists Dubois, Giles and Bray discover the tomb of the Egyptian prince Ra, American entrepreneur and investor Alexander King insists on shipping the treasures and sarcophagus back to England for tour and display. Once there, someone with murderous intent has discovered the means of waking the centuries dead prince...

Scream of Fear
After narrowly surviving an accident in which she nearly drowned, the wheelchair bound Penny Appleby returns home to live with her widowed step-mother Jane on the French Riviera. She begins to question her sanity after several times seeing her fathers corpse around the house and its grounds, and enlists the help of the friendly chauffeur Bob while attending Doctor Gerrard acts in a suitably sinister manner. No one is who they seem in this tale of intrigue and suspense.

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

The Gorgon
In early-twentieth-century middle-Europe, villagers are literally becoming petrified. Although the authorities try to hush the matter up it is apparent that at the full moon, Medusa leaves her castle lair and anyone looking on her face is turned to stone. When this fate befalls a visitor, experts from the University of Leipzig arrive to try and get to the bottom of it all.

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Though perhaps not as iconic as their Dracula and Frankenstein pictures, this quartet of fright flicks from Englands Hammer Films deliver enough Saturday afternoon creature feature thrills to please devotees of the legendary studios output and vintage horror fans alike. 1964s The Gorgon will be the title to attract the most immediate attention due to the presence of Hammers biggest stars, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, in its cast, and its most celebrated director, Terence Fisher, behind the camera. Its an atmospheric and offbeat entry in the Hammer canon, with one of its most unusual villains: a snake-haired fiend from Greek mythology who turns men into stone. Cushing and Lee are typically fine (both are on the side of the angels for once), and the pictures sole stumbling block is the lackluster makeup for its monster. Lee is also present in supporting roles in two other films in the collection: Scream of Fear (1961), one of several competent psychological suspense features made by Hammer in the wake of Psycho, with Susan Strasberg as a fragile young woman plagued by terrible visions and a house full of suspicious types and Fishers The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960), a revamp of the Stevenson story with Paul Massie as the dour scientist whose personality experiments unleash a virile but unhinged alter ego. Hardcore Hammer aficionados will be thrilled to discover that the DVD version is uncut and preserves much of the (mildly) salacious material trimmed for its release in America under the title House of Fright. The final film on Icons of Horror is Curse of the Mummys Tomb, with Hammer exec Michael Carreras (son of company founder James Carreras) behind the camera for a featherweight monster romp that doesnt hold a candle to Terence Fishers Mummy in 1959. Unlike previous Icons of Horror DVDs, the supplemental features here are slim--just the theatrical trailers for each film--though they do offer their own degree of charm, especially the ballyhoo-heavy tone of Mummy and the oddly elegant and unnerving preview for Scream of Fear, which is centered solely around an image of Strasbergs face. --Paul Gaita
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Price :$24.96USD
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Customer ReviewsIcons of Horror:Hammer Films
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :0
Awesome compilation dvd containing some of Hammer Films great horror films. The simply awesome Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee appear in just about all of them seprately & together(The Gorgon). Highly reccomended to everyone!

Icons Of Horror
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The Icons Of Horror from Hammer Films DVD-Excellent! I think Hammer Films have the best horror movies period.

Personal Opinion
Rating Point :4 Helpful Point :0
Icons of Horror shows the best and worst excesses of the Hammer studios. The Curse of the Mummys Tomb while a little confusing is a very well done piece and The Gorgon is worth the value of the whole set in and of itself. However, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll is a very poor and overly drawn out retelling of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, even though it was interesting to see them make Jekyll the uglier of the two and Hyde the suave and handsome member of the pair, placing all of Hydes ugliness on his inside. Scream of Fear is far too confusing and boring to comment on. All in all a good set if only for the Gorgon.

Classic Hammer Horror Collection!
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Curse of the Mummys Tomb & The Gorgon are
two all time classic monster movies ever
made! Curse is the best Mummy movie period.
Both movies are well written & acted with
great settings & atmosphere. The Mummy has
some humor thrown but is very much horror
but well done. The Gorgon is just awesome
with its Universal style story & settings.
Peter Cushing is great as the doctor of the
village & Christopher Lee shows up for a
small but effective role. The ending is
one of the greatest of Hammer movies like
Horror of Dracula. Scream of Fear is a very
well made gothic type movie with twist &
turns to keep you on the edge of your seat.
The ending is very well done. Jeckyl & Hide
remake again with Lee is very well done and
acted but not my favorite. Its worth a look.
This is one of the best Hammer collections &
worth the price of admission to your collection.

3 out of 4 never before DVD released features from Hammer
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :1
The following aspects are enough to highly recommend anyone interested in horror movies from the sixties to get a copy of this compilation: (1) three of the titles included in this package have been previously unavailable in DVD (scream of fear, the gorgon, the two faces of Dr. Jekyll) I am aware of Spanish and British DVD previous releases of "the curse of the mummys tomb (2) restoration and digital transfer is excellent in all 4 movies included (3) you get Christopher Lee playing roles in "scream of fear", "the gorgon", and "the two faces of Dr. Jekyll" (4) you get Peter Cushing confronting C. Lee in "the gorgon".

While "the curse of the mummys tomb", "the gorgon", and "the two faces of Dr. Jekyll" highlight the classical monster flicks from Hammer, "scream of fear" is a little gem that departs from this pattern. This less known movie is a black & white, well acted, scripted and storied mystery and suspense movie that will keep you in your seat despite the characteristic low pace of movies from this time. So, getting "scream of fear" in this package is probably another good reason to get a copy the whole thing. English subtitles are provided for all 4 features. Enjoy.

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