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Summary: Not sure what is going on but...
Comment: I can only guess. It's not released due to hints of beastiality in the movie Island of Lost Souls??? IF so that's just rubbish.
Island of Lost Souls is a great, classic Friday night B&W horror flick that no collection should be without. Period. But we are forced to have a VHS or cheap bootleg. Mystery Of the Wax Museum is hardly a point of discussion here, a nice to have, but Island is a MUST HAVE!
Here is exactly what we need in a collection:
Island Of Lost Souls
Murders In The Zoo
House Of Horrors
The Mad Ghoul
Now how cool of a collection would that be???
HELLO Universal!!! Anyone home??
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Summary: One of the very finest from the golden age.
Comment: This was released a year before the production code went into enforcement, and it shows! There are things and suggestions of things here that the filmmakers would never have gotten away with once the Breen Office began imposing its iron fist on Hollywood. H.G. Welles, who wrote the novel on which it was based, was reportedly disgusted by it, but this is still one of the very best fantasy pictures of the early sound era, easily standing alongside 'King Kong' and Whale's 'The Bride of Frankenstein' as the very cream of the crop.
That it is still unavailable on DVD is a crime.
After more than 70 years this remains an exciting and involving picture with a number of unexpectedly poetic moments. The atmospheric camera work by Karl Struss is pretty sophisticated for the time, the art direction is great, and the makeup, while primitive, is still creepy and effective, with lots of disfigured faces looming eerily out of the darkness. It also has a brisk pace, cramming a lot into its brief running time.
In a movie that already has a lot of things going for it, Charles Laughton is one of the best. He gives a magnificently droll performance here, lending the picture a great deal of class. Laughton alone would be enough to give the film a strong recommendation - he's a joy to watch, and, cracking a nasty little smile at the most inappropriate moments, one of the best mad doctors to perform perverted experiments in the history of cinema, hands down. Bela Lugosi, in a minor role, also stands out as the Sayer of the Law. ("Are we not men?" No, not quite.)
Again, it really sucks that only the inferior (VERY inferior) film versions of this story are available on DVD. Somebody needs to get on the stick, or else go straight to the House of Pain.
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Summary: COME ON UNIVERSAL!!!! RELEASE IT!!!!!!!!
Comment: Universal has now released almost ALL of its classic films on DVD, especially in the horror genre. Sadly though this is still to make an appearance despite numerous calls for it from dedicated fans. Was this dvd ever released? well Ive never seen a copy of this one shown on Amazon so we must have to presume it was either a very limited release by a non-universal label or that the release was cancelled.
Anyway, Universal has released it on videotape before so theres certainly source material so come on Universal and put us fans out of our misery!!!
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Summary: Please please please
Comment: These are two of the greatest classic horror movies, as good as anything Universal put out besides The Mummy and Bride of Frankenstein. Each of these has been copied many times in later years, and every copy has been a pale shadow of these brilliant originals. I'd love for them to get fancy releases with loads of special features, but failing that PLEASE somebody release this wonderful two-fer.
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Summary: are we not men?
Comment: worth the price for the the Lugosi scenes alone. Laughton makes for a great god-like sadist, ruling over his island with sadistic glee.
light and shadows blend to make for a creepy atmosphere. one of the great unsung non-Universal horrors of the thirties.
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