Classic Horror at a great price…

Updated on January 9, 2009 By Ken Begg 5 Comments

I’m sure many of us have this set–I do–but if not, now’s a great time to buy it. Some of these films played on TV rarely enough that I never saw them. In any case, $23 bucks (42% off the list price) gets you six nifty horror flicks, including the superlative Mad Love with Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff and Myrna Loy in The Mask of Fu Manchu. Also included are Dr. X, the unrelated The Return of Dr. X (Humphrey Bogart as a vampire!!), Bela Lugosi in The Mark of the Vampire, and Devil Doll. Five of the films even come with commentary tracks! Great stuff.

You’ll need a few more bucks in the order, though, to get free shipping.

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  • Mark of the Vampire is a talkie remake of the lost silent London After Midnight. Tod Browning directed both versions.

  • John Nowak

    I’m not sure if this analogy works, but … Mad Love in this collection is like finding a diamond in your morning oatmeal. None of these films are really bad but Mad Love is really one of the best genre films of its time, and why it isn’t as well known as Dracula or Black Cat is a mystery to me.

  • I can’t disagree with that. When I finally got to see Mad Love about five years ago, I was amazed. It’s a terrific movie, and Lorre is simply hypnotic.

  • John Nowak

    Yeah; Mad Love has Karl Freund cinematography, Keye Luke in a rare role where he gets to play “A doctor” instead of “A Chinese [enter noun here]” and Lorre in an amazing performance where you’re both repelled and sympathetic.

    Lorre plays his character as a nerd. Really; everything’s there; the social interaction handicaps, the pop-culture obsession, even the talent in a technical field. He’s probably the most credible mad scientist I’ve ever seen in a film.

    I guess it’s kind of risky to say this on a bad movie webpage where people routinely say “Santo is the greatest film star ever” but yeah, Mad Love alone is worth $R0 bucks to own.

  • “Mad Love” IS great but for me “Mark of the Vampire” is the standout. Yes, the plot is a cheat (and pretty ridiculous) and Lionel Barrymore overacts to an embarrassing degree but the vampire scenes with Bela Lugosi and Carol Borland are genuinely eerie and the film has a very spooky quality to it. I first caught this on TV when I was in college and had nightmares about it all night–and I don’t scare easily!