"He went for a little walk! You should have seen his face!" Says Ralph Norton as his laughter becomes toxic with hysteria! I l really love this movie. And especially im intrigued to see the Blu-Ray box set of it, thank you DarkCorners!
The Mummy's Tomb is dear to my heart. I love the Mummy's look in this movie: The sunken eye looks actually sunken, The fire damaged hand missing fingers. The shadows in this film shows how gorgeous black and white movies can be. The constant breeze through the trees - it's all so atmospheric. It was also featured in the first Famous Monsters magazine I saw (and begged my parents to buy for me.)
Great video, and agree with your assessment about the movies - the 1st (1932) film is a strange, haunting, and memorable work, while the other 4 from the 1940s are fun time-fillers, very much in a kiddie-Saturday-matinee mode (bring the popcorn). I would also add Zita Johann's lovely performance in the 1932 film, to which she brings such an eerie, yet yearning tone to the drama; while Virginia Christine's entrance in The Mummy's Curse--in which she crawls out of some very wet and unpleasant-looking muck, and then has to stagger about for several minutes plastered with what looks like mud and soggy oatmeal--is certainly a highlight of the series!
In my opinion the mummy is THE underrated classic of the universal horror's, the music, the camera work. the story, the makeup. Everything you could ask for in an early 30's horror is perfected in this movie.
Beautiful. One of the most underrated monster sagas, but still fun and entertaining. I like 'The Mummy's Curse' especially, the one that you consider worse, because of the rise of the female mummy out of the swamp. Thanks for your nice review!
My dad, born 1940, two family friends a little older than him ALL have fond memories of seeing The Mummy's Hand as kids on the big screen. They seem to have a fond place jn their hearts for all the 40's films, but the one with Tom Tyler is the ine they had the moat reverence for.
Great review!! I prefer the Commentary with Haberman and Rick Baker for The Mummy 1932 because they arent stating the obvious like in the first commentary and they are more entertaining!
The Mummy is an absolute classic in every sense. Bramwell Fletcher's hysterical laughter perfectly sells the early horror of a living mummy. Of the Lon Chaney/Mummy films, I actually like "The Mummy's Curse" best. Here we have two mummies and Ananka coming out of the mud is chilling, especially since it was done in the daylight.
Thank You for the look ahead on the Blu-ray Mummy Collection. I had hoped when they resold the Mummy in Blu-Ray they would have had Greg Mank or Tom Weaver do one of their interesting commentarys for the original Mummy.
'Ghost' is still my favourite not only of the Chaney ones, but of the entire series including the Karloff original. This is doubtless due to coming to these years after being familiar with the Hammer '59 film. I love a good sink into a quagmire. Giggity.
The least of Universal's franchises? The Paula, the Ape Woman trilogy. Ignored and unmentioned in retrospectives, no model kits or action figures, no franchise DVD collection, I don't think the Crestwood books even acknowledged those anywhere. I read every monster book the school library and three others had and was oblivious to the Ape Woman series until Captive Wild Woman was released on DVD.
Karloff's performance is definitely the highlight of the original and feels much like how he might have played Dracula if he'd been offered that role. I always liked his line: "I dislike to be touched." I think the film would have been more effective if they'd kept the deleted scenes in though (such as Helen's reincarnations throughout history.) But it's a very mesmerizing film as it stands. Great review!
I m NOT buying this stuff AGAIN in Blu-Ray...switching from VHS to DVD was costly enough. My biggest expense in updating still goes to THE BEATLES, though. LPS to Cassette Tapes to CDS to Digital Purchases. Thenupgrading THOSE when NEW versions came out!
I've been a sucker for every new edition right up to blu ray. I'm hoping these are the commentary tracks on the set I have. If not should I wait and see if it"s on the 4K edition... At least in this case we know they came from the original negatives. A 4K edition of Godzilla just came out and the negative for that was lost years ago.
Have you covered Deathline? Raw Meat in USA.. saw this as a student and never forgot it.. Donald Pleasance and Norman Rossington as cops and a Karloff-class performance from Hugh Armstrong as ‘The Man’. ‘Mind the doors..’
I actually bought The Mummy's Quest last year. I recommend it to fans of Universal horror for sure. It's not that expensive on Amazon and gives you an excuse to support Robin.
I'm not a fan of the Chaney mummy movies. They're ok, but the 1932 original holds a special place in my heart. It's one of the first Mummy movies I remember watching on tv when I was a kid.
I love the 1932 film, and like The Mummy's Hand, which works as a stand alone picture. The sequels to Hand I care little for, since the producer Ben Pivar and the writers threw away any sense of continuity.
The 1932 Mummy film is tops when compared to the other 4 mummy films. I have read 1 sequence showing flashback of the female lead's past life were edited out and lost to time. That's why you will see a cast listing for a Saxon Warrior which doesn't appear in the film. I did see the other mummy films before the 1932 version and was surprised the mummy only shows up for the first few minutes and the rest of the movie, we see a reincarnated Egyptian priest (Karloff). I enjoy the others for what they are, but as anyone who has seen the movies always ask the question, if the mummy walks at a snails pace, how the hell does he catch up and kill people? Answer: because the intended target run into a back alley with no exit, they stumble and fall and only try to get up only when the mummy is about to choke them to death or they are so paralyzed with fear, not noticing the mummy is moving slower than a snail. But they are fun movies to watch and being barely over an hour (approx. 65 minutes), you don't have to invest a lot of time to view them.
The Mummy has long been my favorite of the Classic Universal Monster series, and I prefer the Kharis cycle to the Karloff original. First off, I find Kharis' backstory oddly romantic, this priest forsaking his vows to try to revive the princess he loves, failing, and having his tongue cut out "so that he may not pester the gods with his pleas for mercy." I think The Mummy's Tomb may be the first horror movie where the monster comes back and kills the heroes from the previous movie, decades before Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street did it, plus there's the fact that the villain of The Mummy's Hand not only manages to kill the surviving heroes, but outlives them all by several movies. My favorite of the original Mummy series is The Mummy's Hand, and my favorite Lon Chaney Mummy movie is The Mummy's Tomb.
original mummy is still the best with wonderful atmosphere and cinematography. That flashback burial scene is outstanding BTW as a teenager I was started to see The Mummy's Ghost. Does not the mummy "win" at the end of this film?
I personally think the mummy kharis sequels are slightly overhated. I know they're cheap movies that were made as a cash-in on the original mummy but I think people should look at them as mini slasher flicks. No need for a high excpectation just a fun movies you could watch with your friends. Also, The Mummy (1932) has an amazing poster!
I have pretty much all the old Universal Horror flicks on the Legacy collections, except for Invisible Man (love the box art for the collections). I think all except Creature are Blu-ray. It took a good while viewing them once a week with my dad for our weekly dinner-and-film but we got through all of them (including Abbott and Costello Mummy/Frankenstein) and I feel it was absolutely worth it (although yes, certain films are clearly not very good, special condemnation to Revenge of the Creature). This franchise did get a bit predictable/cliched, outright formulaic but at times it was impressive and enjoyable. The surprisingly dark ending of Mummy's Ghost and the incredible resurrection in Curse, those will stick with me for years to come...as will the appalling choice of using endless flashbacks to make up what feels like the entire first half of Tomb. I swear this is when I also started to notice George Zucco dying in a bunch of films I watch him in (aside from Midnight Manhunt, I think). I really should give a couple of them a watch again one day this coming year.
The Mummy sequels are great! The Mummy’s Ghost is one of my favorites too. Abbott & Costello Meet The Mummy is skippable, the tone is all over the place (switching from musical to slapstick to adventure).
The mummy series is better, certainly more entertaining, to me than the invisible man and Dracula franchises. Except for the original, the invisible man sequels were a little dull, and I never found the atmosphere of any of the draculas all that great, including the original, excluding Mr lugosi’s performance. I wish they would have found a way to squeeze the mummy into the house of series.
Great collection, even if I bought the last Mummy blu-ray set some years ago. It looks like the first disk (with the Karloff film) is identical to that released by Universal, but the sequels all have what promise to be fantastic commentaries (which Universal didn't have to my regret). I always enjoyed Tom Weaver's sense of humor on his commentaries. I'm definitely getting THIS collection! Thanks for posting, Robin! Definitely, the 1932 film is still the best of ANY of the Mummy films, Universal or no, because, well, it's Karloff under the bandages, and it's the only film to focus on an unwrapped creature (unless you count the last Hammer Mummy film, Blood from the Mummy's Tomb). The 1932 Mummy is the only one I can really watch again and again - the others are just pointless. The Universal Kharis films could have been about a zombie or a ghoul for all that they care about Egyptian mythology, and the Abbott & Costello film had so many FAKE mummies that the "real" one looks worse by comparison. Even A&C were tired of their own shtick by that time. I do enjoy the original Mexican Aztec Mummy trilogy from the 1950s, despite its total repetitiveness, because the films are just SO very goofy. You just can NOT take those films seriously, and they're fun because of that. MST3K riffed the last one (Robot vs the Aztec Mummy), which I still think is one of their funniest episodes. There IS a collection from VCI of the Aztec Mummy films out there, but for some reason, it omits the original film and includes Wrestling Women vs the Aztec Mummy, which is entirely unconnected with the first trilogy. But then, 50% of the two sequels comprise recaps from the first film, so probably you're not missing much. And I absolutely hate the modern day Mummy films because there the creature was so much more a force of nature that you could drop what little Egyptian motifs there were (and I can't even remember that there WERE any in the first place) and nothing would change. I still do not understand why the mummy in the Tom Cruise film has two eyeballs in each socket, but then Cruise insisted that he be on camera more than the monster, which kinda destroyed any balance -- or explanation -- there could have been. I don't even understand what happened in the danged film!
My friends and I want to shoot our own Mummy movie based on the idea that Im-ho-tep has been resurrected as a guy who searches for his long lost love the Princess in the vintage car he has restored. We want to call it The Mummy's 1962 Buick Skylark.
This third party licensed out import release may very well be an indication that we may get the legacy collections on 4K very soon. The American legacy collection is better than this, because it contains all of these films plus Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy. Although this set does have new commentary tracks. I’m sure the commentary tracks on this set will be ported over to an officially produced Universal Studios released legacy collection on 4K soon. I’ll wait for that. Though I must admit that aesthetically, this is a nice box set.
It seems Abbot and Costello were held back for their own release and includes their run ins with Boris Karloff and Jekyll and Hyde which did not appear in the any of the universal legacy boxsets
I promise, I'm not trying to be combative. I completely understand Chaney's appeal in cinema. I never understood Chaney Jr's appeal. I feel he hampers any movie he's in. Is someone an enthusiast who has an answer? Thank you, sincerely. 🖤
Creighton Chaney was never a solid leading man, but when given the opportunity to create a character, he was quite impressive. Unfortunately the only two that immediately come to mind are Larry Talbot in "The Wolf Man" series, and his unforgettable turn as Lenny Small in "Of Mice and Men."
Zita Johann, uninspiring in another film, is the equal of Karloff. His role and BOTH makeups...impossible to do better. Byron, the omnipresent/ubiquitous Sloan, and the brief spot of Manners...simply the best supernatural horror...Invisible Man is science fantasy....until Dead of Night, The Uninvited, The Haunting...which totaled me at age ten, early 60s. Like Time Machine, made me read book, parents' library, same night. >> Tyler's blacked out eyes, advancing on camera...worth the price of transmission. Admission, good on yah, mate. danke, tak vere,
it might have been left alone but they had a property sitting unused so made sequels that you didn’t have to see at all it’s the least tainted by them and the one with the best remake by Universal- the Frasier one, not the Cruise one
@@ThreadBomb But..."Interview..." is not a "Tom Cruise version;" it's an original work. Risky Business, Legend, Top Gun are all fine films; it's when Cruise does remakes and re-imaginings that they are almost inevitably inferior to the originals.
That photo of Karloff in make up, having tea . . .was something I needed to see. Cheers Dark Corner!☕
"He went for a little walk! You should have seen his face!" Says Ralph Norton as his laughter becomes toxic with hysteria! I l really love this movie. And especially im intrigued to see the Blu-Ray box set of it, thank you DarkCorners!
The Mummy's Tomb is dear to my heart. I love the Mummy's look in this movie: The sunken eye looks actually sunken, The fire damaged hand missing fingers. The shadows in this film shows how gorgeous black and white movies can be. The constant breeze through the trees - it's all so atmospheric. It was also featured in the first Famous Monsters magazine I saw (and begged my parents to buy for me.)
Great video, and agree with your assessment about the movies - the 1st (1932) film is a strange, haunting, and memorable work, while the other 4 from the 1940s are fun time-fillers, very much in a kiddie-Saturday-matinee mode (bring the popcorn). I would also add Zita Johann's lovely performance in the 1932 film, to which she brings such an eerie, yet yearning tone to the drama; while Virginia Christine's entrance in The Mummy's Curse--in which she crawls out of some very wet and unpleasant-looking muck, and then has to stagger about for several minutes plastered with what looks like mud and soggy oatmeal--is certainly a highlight of the series!
Virginia Christine rising from the swamp covered in mud and plaster reminds me of the titular Tartu from 'Death Curse of Tartu'.
In my opinion the mummy is THE underrated classic of the universal horror's, the music, the camera work. the story, the makeup. Everything you could ask for in an early 30's horror is perfected in this movie.
Oh I bloody needed this tonight! Thank you. Great video as always.
Beautiful. One of the most underrated monster sagas, but still fun and entertaining. I like 'The Mummy's Curse' especially, the one that you consider worse, because of the rise of the female mummy out of the swamp. Thanks for your nice review!
That one scene in Curse, I feel, is the equal of anything in the first movie, and it's why it's also my favourite of the Chaneys.
Do a retrospective video on the creature from the black lagoon trilogy
Please and thank you
Yes!! The poor Gill-Man never gets any love.
That’s a marvelous idea.
I agree with you on The Mummy's Ghost... not the type of ending I was expecting.
The '32 Mummy is my favorite of the Universal monster movies.
The 1st is probably my favourite universal horror
My dad, born 1940, two family friends a little older than him ALL have fond memories of seeing The Mummy's Hand as kids on the big screen. They seem to have a fond place jn their hearts for all the 40's films, but the one with Tom Tyler is the ine they had the moat reverence for.
I'm convinced that the name Kharis is a callback to the original actor: It takes the first syllable from Karloff and the second from Boris.
Kharis Borloff!
I never noticed that! That does explain a lot, though I'm not sure I would credit 1940s Universal with that much forethought. 😋😋
Great review!! I prefer the Commentary with Haberman and Rick Baker for The Mummy 1932 because they arent stating the obvious like in the first commentary and they are more entertaining!
The Mummy is an absolute classic in every sense. Bramwell Fletcher's hysterical laughter perfectly sells the early horror of a living mummy.
Of the Lon Chaney/Mummy films, I actually like "The Mummy's Curse" best. Here we have two mummies and Ananka coming out of the mud is chilling, especially since it was done in the daylight.
Thank You for the look ahead on the Blu-ray Mummy Collection. I had hoped when they resold the Mummy in Blu-Ray they would have had Greg Mank or Tom Weaver do one of their interesting commentarys for the original Mummy.
I’m just happy to see these films finally get audio commentaries! Here’s hoping we get new Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolf Man and Invisible Man sets! 🙌
'Ghost' is still my favourite not only of the Chaney ones, but of the entire series including the Karloff original. This is doubtless due to coming to these years after being familiar with the Hammer '59 film. I love a good sink into a quagmire. Giggity.
What sound am I hearing at 4:01? Sounds like someone offscreen saying "doot!"
The least of Universal's franchises? The Paula, the Ape Woman trilogy. Ignored and unmentioned in retrospectives, no model kits or action figures, no franchise DVD collection, I don't think the Crestwood books even acknowledged those anywhere. I read every monster book the school library and three others had and was oblivious to the Ape Woman series until Captive Wild Woman was released on DVD.
Karloff's performance is definitely the highlight of the original and feels much like how he might have played Dracula if he'd been offered that role. I always liked his line: "I dislike to be touched." I think the film would have been more effective if they'd kept the deleted scenes in though (such as Helen's reincarnations throughout history.) But it's a very mesmerizing film as it stands. Great review!
It is still chilling when they focus on the face of Im Ho Tep. It's hard to look at, still.
You had me at Tom Weaver!
The Mummys Quest book by Robin is excellent and sets the stage for the mini universe of six books.
Neat art on the discs. My set from the 2018 release is all basic black.
I m NOT buying this stuff AGAIN in Blu-Ray...switching from VHS to DVD was costly enough.
My biggest expense in updating still goes to THE BEATLES, though. LPS to Cassette Tapes to CDS to Digital Purchases. Thenupgrading THOSE when NEW versions came out!
I've been a sucker for every new edition right up to blu ray. I'm hoping these are the commentary tracks on the set I have.
If not should I wait and see if it"s on the 4K edition...
At least in this case we know they came from the original negatives. A 4K edition of Godzilla just came out and the negative for that was lost years ago.
@@robotrixme too, and I also buy 4K.
You need the blu-rays. The difference in quality is night and day. Get the American legacy collection. You don’t have to get this.
@@richardstange5939 Bear in mind that DVD standard definition is higher resolution in the UK than in the US.
Good job. While I'm tempted with the new commentaries, I'll just hang on to the Blu-ray prints I have in the Universal Monsters box set.
The universal mummy is my third favorite of all the monsters from the old classic era.
Have you covered Deathline? Raw Meat in USA.. saw this as a student and never forgot it.. Donald Pleasance and Norman Rossington as cops and a Karloff-class performance from Hugh Armstrong as ‘The Man’. ‘Mind the doors..’
Before the Terminator came the relentless but slow Mummy
Wouldn't "the least of Universal's [monster] franchises" be the "Captive Wild Woman" series? They all look like very hastily made B movies.
The Mummy series is awesome. I love them all.
I consider all of the Universal Monster films that are included in Universal’s 30 film collection to be one great big Universal Monster franchise.
I actually bought The Mummy's Quest last year. I recommend it to fans of Universal horror for sure. It's not that expensive on Amazon and gives you an excuse to support Robin.
Thank you
Great and useful review 👍
Never liked the Mummy sequels, but 1932's The Mummy is great. I love that movie! It's right up there with Frankenstein.
As always, thank you!🙏👌👻❤️
I'm not a fan of the Chaney mummy movies. They're ok, but the 1932 original holds a special place in my heart. It's one of the first Mummy movies I remember watching on tv when I was a kid.
I love the 1932 film, and like The Mummy's Hand, which works as a stand alone picture. The sequels to Hand I care little for, since the producer Ben Pivar and the writers threw away any sense of continuity.
Zita Johann was a beautiful woman, and she really looks exquisite in that Egyptian costume at the end of the film.
I love these movies!
The Mummy always scared me more than any other Universal monsters :)
The 1932 Mummy film is tops when compared to the other 4 mummy films. I have read 1 sequence showing flashback of the female lead's past life were edited out and lost to time. That's why you will see a cast listing for a Saxon Warrior which doesn't appear in the film. I did see the other mummy films before the 1932 version and was surprised the mummy only shows up for the first few minutes and the rest of the movie, we see a reincarnated Egyptian priest (Karloff). I enjoy the others for what they are, but as anyone who has seen the movies always ask the question, if the mummy walks at a snails pace, how the hell does he catch up and kill people? Answer: because the intended target run into a back alley with no exit, they stumble and fall and only try to get up only when the mummy is about to choke them to death or they are so paralyzed with fear, not noticing the mummy is moving slower than a snail. But they are fun movies to watch and being barely over an hour (approx. 65 minutes), you don't have to invest a lot of time to view them.
Karloff? Sidekick?
The Mummy has long been my favorite of the Classic Universal Monster series, and I prefer the Kharis cycle to the Karloff original. First off, I find Kharis' backstory oddly romantic, this priest forsaking his vows to try to revive the princess he loves, failing, and having his tongue cut out "so that he may not pester the gods with his pleas for mercy." I think The Mummy's Tomb may be the first horror movie where the monster comes back and kills the heroes from the previous movie, decades before Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street did it, plus there's the fact that the villain of The Mummy's Hand not only manages to kill the surviving heroes, but outlives them all by several movies. My favorite of the original Mummy series is The Mummy's Hand, and my favorite Lon Chaney Mummy movie is The Mummy's Tomb.
Blu ray you say? I'm quite sure I must own this, thank you.
Is this company going to do the Frankenstein and dracula films also.
Would hope so. Universal seem ok licensing out their films.
original mummy is still the best with wonderful atmosphere and cinematography. That flashback burial scene is outstanding
BTW as a teenager I was started to see The Mummy's Ghost. Does not the mummy "win" at the end of this film?
Are these vids monetized? Or no, because of using the clips?
Yes, it falls under fair use for review/commentary purpose.
@ that’s what I hoped! Your content is great, keep it up!
I personally think the mummy kharis sequels are slightly overhated. I know they're cheap movies that were made as a cash-in on the original mummy but I think people should look at them as mini slasher flicks. No need for a high excpectation just a fun movies you could watch with your friends. Also, The Mummy (1932) has an amazing poster!
Eyy
I have pretty much all the old Universal Horror flicks on the Legacy collections, except for Invisible Man (love the box art for the collections). I think all except Creature are Blu-ray. It took a good while viewing them once a week with my dad for our weekly dinner-and-film but we got through all of them (including Abbott and Costello Mummy/Frankenstein) and I feel it was absolutely worth it (although yes, certain films are clearly not very good, special condemnation to Revenge of the Creature).
This franchise did get a bit predictable/cliched, outright formulaic but at times it was impressive and enjoyable. The surprisingly dark ending of Mummy's Ghost and the incredible resurrection in Curse, those will stick with me for years to come...as will the appalling choice of using endless flashbacks to make up what feels like the entire first half of Tomb. I swear this is when I also started to notice George Zucco dying in a bunch of films I watch him in (aside from Midnight Manhunt, I think).
I really should give a couple of them a watch again one day this coming year.
The Mummy sequels are great! The Mummy’s Ghost is one of my favorites too. Abbott & Costello Meet The Mummy is skippable, the tone is all over the place (switching from musical to slapstick to adventure).
The mummy series is better, certainly more entertaining, to me than the invisible man and Dracula franchises. Except for the original, the invisible man sequels were a little dull, and I never found the atmosphere of any of the draculas all that great, including the original, excluding Mr lugosi’s performance. I wish they would have found a way to squeeze the mummy into the house of series.
The problem with the Mummy is the name. Dracula! Frankenstein! Great names great titles, the Mummy too close to mommy.
Where are the Brendan Fraser ones?
In the comedy section where they belong.
@ I would class them as action movies
Yes!!
Great collection, even if I bought the last Mummy blu-ray set some years ago.
It looks like the first disk (with the Karloff film) is identical to that released by Universal, but the sequels all have what promise to be fantastic commentaries (which Universal didn't have to my regret). I always enjoyed Tom Weaver's sense of humor on his commentaries. I'm definitely getting THIS collection! Thanks for posting, Robin!
Definitely, the 1932 film is still the best of ANY of the Mummy films, Universal or no, because, well, it's Karloff under the bandages, and it's the only film to focus on an unwrapped creature (unless you count the last Hammer Mummy film, Blood from the Mummy's Tomb). The 1932 Mummy is the only one I can really watch again and again - the others are just pointless. The Universal Kharis films could have been about a zombie or a ghoul for all that they care about Egyptian mythology, and the Abbott & Costello film had so many FAKE mummies that the "real" one looks worse by comparison. Even A&C were tired of their own shtick by that time.
I do enjoy the original Mexican Aztec Mummy trilogy from the 1950s, despite its total repetitiveness, because the films are just SO very goofy. You just can NOT take those films seriously, and they're fun because of that. MST3K riffed the last one (Robot vs the Aztec Mummy), which I still think is one of their funniest episodes. There IS a collection from VCI of the Aztec Mummy films out there, but for some reason, it omits the original film and includes Wrestling Women vs the Aztec Mummy, which is entirely unconnected with the first trilogy. But then, 50% of the two sequels comprise recaps from the first film, so probably you're not missing much.
And I absolutely hate the modern day Mummy films because there the creature was so much more a force of nature that you could drop what little Egyptian motifs there were (and I can't even remember that there WERE any in the first place) and nothing would change.
I still do not understand why the mummy in the Tom Cruise film has two eyeballs in each socket, but then Cruise insisted that he be on camera more than the monster, which kinda destroyed any balance -- or explanation -- there could have been. I don't even understand what happened in the danged film!
My friends and I want to shoot our own Mummy movie based on the idea that Im-ho-tep has been resurrected as a guy who searches for his long lost love the Princess in the vintage car he has restored. We want to call it The Mummy's 1962 Buick Skylark.
Have the reincarnation of Princess Ananka perish when her recalled Tesla blows up.
I've seen The Mummy starring Boris Karloff Then the Brendon Frazier 3 and,,, well that is it.
This third party licensed out import release may very well be an indication that we may get the legacy collections on 4K very soon. The American legacy collection is better than this, because it contains all of these films plus Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy. Although this set does have new commentary tracks. I’m sure the commentary tracks on this set will be ported over to an officially produced Universal Studios released legacy collection on 4K soon. I’ll wait for that.
Though I must admit that aesthetically, this is a nice box set.
It seems Abbot and Costello were held back for their own release and includes their run ins with Boris Karloff and Jekyll and Hyde which did not appear in the any of the universal legacy boxsets
I promise, I'm not trying to be combative. I completely understand Chaney's appeal in cinema. I never understood Chaney Jr's appeal. I feel he hampers any movie he's in. Is someone an enthusiast who has an answer? Thank you, sincerely. 🖤
With Universal, his Wolfman films are far better suited to him, than playing the Mummy, Dracula and Frankenstein's monster.
Creighton Chaney was never a solid leading man, but when given the opportunity to create a character, he was quite impressive. Unfortunately the only two that immediately come to mind are Larry Talbot in "The Wolf Man" series, and his unforgettable turn as Lenny Small in "Of Mice and Men."
@@willmfrank He's really good in TV westerns from the '50s, like Wanted: Dead or Alive and a Rifleman episode directed by Richard Donner.
Zita Johann, uninspiring in another film, is the equal of Karloff. His role and BOTH makeups...impossible to do better. Byron, the omnipresent/ubiquitous Sloan, and the brief spot of Manners...simply the best supernatural horror...Invisible Man is science fantasy....until Dead of Night, The Uninvited, The Haunting...which totaled me at age ten, early 60s. Like Time Machine, made me read book, parents' library, same night. >> Tyler's blacked out eyes, advancing on camera...worth the price of transmission. Admission, good on yah, mate. danke, tak vere,
it might have been left alone but they had a property sitting unused so made sequels that you didn’t have to see at all
it’s the least tainted by them and the one with the best remake by Universal- the Frasier one, not the Cruise one
"The Cruise one" of ANYTHING is not the one.
The best remake is the Hammer version, where Terence Fisher and Jimmy Sangster condensed the whole series into one movie.
@@willmfrank Incorrect. Interview with the Vampire is great.
@@ThreadBomb But..."Interview..." is not a "Tom Cruise version;" it's an original work. Risky Business, Legend, Top Gun are all fine films; it's when Cruise does remakes and re-imaginings that they are almost inevitably inferior to the originals.
Thank you