Yes! HAMMER HORROR Series from Universal!
 

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Nice to see Brides of Dracula, Curse of the Werewolf and Evil of Frankenstein.

Now we just need to get Twins of Evil!! What studio has the rights to that one, anyway?

Great news! A big :up: !

Hey, that's awesome! I'll definitely be picking this up. :up:

Great news. :up:

I think MGM (now Sony) does. I used to have the VHS prerecord, but I forget who put that out (not MGM, some small company). That tape goes for around 40 bucks in used condition nowadays (of course, that will change if a dvd release happens).

It was released on VHS via Vidamerica Video.

If you want a preview, Universal has been airing Curse of the Werewolf and The Evil of Frankenstein in high-definition on Universal HD. (Brides of Dracula was on the schedule for this month but was yanked for some unknown reason.)

I'm all in.

sold...great stuff

That's a great set at a fantastic price... I'd easily have paid that much for 2 of them individually... if $29.95 is MSRP you can bet it will be $25 or less online.

Eight movies on two discs? Yikes! What's the running time on these?

Check out the thread on the other release that Universal is doing -- The Bela Lugosi Collection. FIVE movies on ONE disc! Granted they're all probably pretty damn close to 60 minutes each, but still...

These sets will probably be in the same format as Universal's Abbot & Costello, Hope & Crosby, and Ma & Pa Kettle sets - dual-layer, double-sided discs with a film on each layer. Two films per side, four films per disc makes an eight-film, two-disc set. As the Hammers generally run around 90 minutes, compression shouldn't be too much a factor.

TWINS OF EVIL, VAMPIRE CIRCUS, and COUNTESS DRACULA are owned by the british company Rank Film Organisation. The video rights are with Studio/Canal-Carlton. MGM made a deal in order to release Countess Dracula on dvd as a Midnight Movie. If you look on the back cover you will see the Carlton logo by the credits. There is a box set off all three that was released in R2 by Studio/Canal, all 16x9 widescreen.

Excellent news !:thumbsup:

Exciting news, can't wait to pick this up! :)

Holy Crap! About freaking time! Excellent news. Me likie my Hammer Horror.

-ohbfrank- I will not be purchasing this set. I only want three of the titles: "Brides of Dracula", "Kiss of the Vampire" & "Nightmare". I will wait until they are (hopefully) released individually.

I've been waiting to put Curse of the Werewolf into my dvd collection, to accompany my one sheet.

Come one. At maximum pricing that works out to about $3.75 a movie. It took over 8 years to get the movies out on disc. How long are you willing to wait until single releases hit the shelves. If you just want to watch the three movies and ignore the rest in the set, you're still only paying 10 bucks a movie.....which is probably about what you would pay if they were separate.

Who has the rights to "The Gorgon?" I currently have a crappy EP VHS from Goodtimes of this title, but would really like to get a good widescreen, since for some reason it is one of my favorite Hammers.

I think Sony/Columbia has the rights to "Gorgon", along with 2 of my other favorites, "Scream of Fear" and "Curse of the Mummy's Tomb". With the acquisition of MGM, that probably gives them "Quatermass Xperiment" and "Vampire Circus" as well.

While I'm excited about all of these titles coming to DVD, I'm especially excited about NIGHT CREATURES as I have read much about it but never seen it.

Yeah, thanks, that was the name of the company.

Sorry for the confusion, I should have said that I believe MGM currently holds the US distribution rights. Of course, you are correct about Rank and Studio/Canal-Carlton. Thanks for the clarification.

FWIW, I think some or all of these titles are runing in high-def on UniversalHD.
Yeah, that's right High-Def Hammer Horror.

Yes, I mentioned this a few days ago. :)

It's just The Evil of Frankenstein and Curse of the Werewolf AFAIK. Brides of Dracula was on the June schedule but was yanked at some point. Don't see any new Hammer in July.

I will be gettibg this also, I can't wait for Brides of Dracula. I've been wanting this for a long time now

With this and Dracula 1972 (coming out 9/9/05), we will finally have the full Hammer/Dracula cycle of films available on DVD:

Horror Of Dracula 1958 ~ Warner
Brides Of Dracula 1960 ~ Universal
Dracula, Prince Of Darkness 1966 ~ Anchor Bay
Dracula Has Risen From The Grave 1968 ~ Warner
Taste The Blood Of Dracula 1969 ~ Warner
Scars Of Dracula 1970 ~ Anchor Bay
Dracula - A.D. 1972 ~ Warner
Satanic Rites Of Dracula 1973 ~ Anchor Bay

BobB

So will Brides of Dracula be in the box set or not? Some people say yes others say no. If it is no I may have to think about getting this, if it's yes it will be a no brainer pick up as Brides is the one that I want.

Every spec says it is...why do you doubt it will be included?

The films in the set are:

Brides of Dracula
Curse of the Werewolf
Evil of Frankenstein
Kiss of the Vampire
Night Creatures
Nightmare
Paranoiac
Phantom of the Opera

I've yet to read anyone say this list is wrong.

It will not be a boxed set but rather a 2 double-sided DVD set. Each DVD will likley have 2 films on each side of the disk. That leaves plenty of room on each side of each disk to accomodate a high quality finished product.

BobB

I read somewhere that Brides was pulled from the set. I thought it was from this thread but looking back through it , it wasn't from here. So I can get excited now because Brides of Dracula will be there.

Curse of the Werewolf, finally!

:rock2:

This one is going to look real nice next to the Classic Universal Horror sets. Can't wait.

Ditto on that! They can't get here soon enough!

I'll probably be keeping mine with the rest of my Hammer movies.

I'll probably just put mine on the shelf wherever.

Just finished watching Brides of Dracula, and it looks excellent. Sampled Curse of the Werewolf, and it looked good as well. Borders has this on sale for $22.99, for anyone wanting an instant fix. If you can slip a coupon by the clerk like I did, you can get an even better deal.

Before you get too excited by this release, note that it's on the dreaded Universal DVD-18 discs....

And, judging by the comments in other forums, these discs are causing just as many playback problems as Universal's other DVD-18 discs.

The same goes for the Bela Lugosi Collection.

I find it totally bizarre that Universal persist in doing whatever they've been doing before, because nearly every one of these releases (Columbo, The Munsters, Abbott and Costello, the Horror Legacy sets to name a few) has caused problems for at the very least a sizeable minority of players.

The symptoms are picture freezing, chapter skipping, pixellation, refusal to access certain chapters on a variety of players - and seemingly at different points on the disc. In this set, though, Curse of the Werewolf and Evil of Frankenstein seem specially prone to trouble.

And you have to watch them right through, in real time; scanning at high speed or chapter sampling doesn't always reveal the trouble.

Some folks have been able to exchange and get "good" discs. One of the sets (Columbo I think) had such a high return rate that Amazon will not ship replacements, pending their "investigation" apparently.

You have been warned.

If only Universal would forget making these expensive to manufacture, error-laden DVD-18's and use DVD-9's like most sensible studios do. The extra disc and packing costs would easily be made up by the much lower return rate!

Sadly, this is out of print, as Anchor Bay have lost the rights. They released it as a double, paired with Dracula, Prince of Darkness for about the last 18 months of their rights ownership. Very hard to obtain.

AFAIK the rights have now gone to Blue Underground who apparently "have no plans" to re-issue the Hammer titles.

The film is apparently public domain in the USA, so there are several inferior versions to be had.

It has never been issued in the UK, but hopefuly Warner (who seem to hold the rights to many of the Hammers) will release it here...they have issued many of the AB released Hammers, such as Frankenstein Created Woman in the UK.