Description: Icons of Horror Collection Hammer Films 4 Classics DVD Icons of Horror Collection: Hammer Films: The Curse of the Mummy's TombScream of FearThe Two Faces of Dr. JekyllThe Gorgon Quartet of fright flicks from England's Hammer Films deliver enough Saturday afternoon creature feature thrills to please devotees of the legendary studio's output and vintage horror fans alike. 1964's The Gorgon will be the title to attract the most immediate attention due to the presence of Hammer's biggest stars, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, in its cast, and its most celebrated director, Terence Fisher, behind the camera. It's 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 picture's 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 Fisher's 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 Mummy's Tomb, with Hammer exec Michael Carreras (son of company founder James Carreras) behind the camera for a featherweight monster romp that doesn't hold a candle to Terence Fisher's Mummy in 1959. Check out my other great items at my store Area 51 Movies Plus
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Type: Movie
Region Code: DVD: 1 (US, Canada...)
Release Year: 2008
Video Format: NTSC
Case Type: Tall/DVD Case
Actor: Peter Cushing, Susan Strasberg, Terence Morgan
Subtitle Language: English
Features: Original Trailers
Run Time: 5 hours and 33 minutes
Franchise: Hammer
Edition: 4 Creepy Classics
California Prop 65 Warning: none
Movie/TV Title: Icons of Horror Collection: Hammer Films
Director: Michael Carreras, Seth Holt, Terence Fisher
Language: English
Rating: NR
Format: DVD
Genre: Horror
Studio: Sony Pictures
