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  • Actors: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
  • Format: Box set, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 21
  • Classification: To be announced
  • Studio: Optimum
  • DVD Release Date: 30 Oct 2006
  • Run Time: 1973 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000HN31KQ
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 7,508 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Special Features
BLOOD FROM THE MUMMIES TOMB

Interviews with Valerie Leon & Christopher Wicking

Stills Gallery

Radio Spots

DEMONS OF THE MIND

Commentary with director Peter Sykes, writer Christopher Wicking and co-star Virginia Weatherall

Trailer

DRACULA PRINCE OF DARKNESS

57 min doc: The Many Faces of Christopher Lee

FEAR IN THE NIGHT

Commentary with Jimmy Sangster

Trailer

ONE MILLION YEARS B.C.

Interview with Raquel Welch

Interview with Ray Harryhausen

PREHISTORIC WOMEN

Trailer

QUATERMASS & THE PIT

Trailer

RASPUTIN THE MAD MONK

Trailer

SCARS OF DRACULA

Commentary with Roy Ward Baker & Christopher Lee

Stills Gallery

Trailer

SHE

Vanilla

STRAIGHT ON TIL MORNING

Commentary with Rita Tushingham

Trailer

DEVIL RIDES OUT

Trailer

HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN

Commentary with director Jimmy Sangster

Interview with Veronica Carlson

Poster & Stills Gallery

THE NANNY

Commentary with director Jimmy Sangster

PLAGUE OF ZOMBIES

Trailers

THE REPTILE

Vanilla

VENGEANCE OF SHE

Trailer

THE WITCHES

Trailer

TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER

Feature doc: To The Devil...The Death of Hammer

Interview with Eddie Powell

Trailer

VIKING QUEEN

Trailer

Synopsis
Features: 'Blood From The Mummies Tomb', 'Demons Of The Mind', 'The Devil Rides Out', 'Viking Queen', 'Dracula, Prince Of Darkness', 'Fear In The Night', 'Frankenstein Created Women', 'The Horror Of Frankenstein', 'The Nanny', 'One Million Years BC', 'The Plague Of The Zombies', 'Prehistoric Women', 'Quartermass And The Pit', 'Rasputin The Mad Monk', 'The Reptile', 'The Scars Of Dracula', 'SHE', 'To The Devil A Daughter', 'The Vengeance Of SHE', 'Straight On Till Morning' and 'The Witches'.

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56 of 57 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars THIS is the way to Hammer... Brillo!!!, 22 Mar 2007
By Jeremy W. Newbould "Django" (Spain) - See all my reviews
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This is a neatly packaged box set which is something of a must-have item for any Hammer Horror fan or indeed any fan of classic British cinema.

The set contains 21 films on 21 DVDs, including some of Hammer's most famous and best-loved movies - films such as Dracula Prince Of Darkness, She, Plague Of The Zombies, The Devil Rides Out and Quatermass And The Pit.

There is also an information booklet, a set of postcards and some interesting extras on some of the discs. For instance the Dracula Prince Of Darkness disc contains the excellent documentary 'The Many Faces Of Christopher Lee' featuring the man himself talking about his long and varied film career with clips from some of his most renowned films. On the To The Devil... A Daughter disc there is an amusing onstage interview with regular Hammer stuntman Eddie Powell who candidly recalls the time when he had to double for Chris Lee in a nude scene!

There are a few turkeys as well in this particular box set - Prehistoric Women and The Vengeance Of She are exceptionally bad and Straight On Till Morning is just plain weird. On the whole though this is a very good package at a very reasonable price and is probably the best Hammer DVD box set available to date.

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119 of 128 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The box of dark pleasures, 25 Sep 2006
By russell clarke "stipesdoppleganger" (halifax, west yorks) - See all my reviews
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Though of course you have to consider that some of the films here do not see the legendary British studio at the top of their game. That can be weighed up against the fact that some of these films are seeing the light of day (as far as I am aware) on DVD for the very first time though again that may not be a good thing in some cases.
Unfortunately this box set omits some of the true greats of the Hammer stable -"The Horror Of Dracula", the finest movie they ever made, "The Curse Of Frankenstein" "The Vampire Lovers, The Curse Of The Werewolf" or The Mummy" (though some of these are available in a separate box set) but as a means of accessing a great swathe of their output it will be hard to beat.
"Blood From The Mummies Tomb" (1971) has the spirit of an Egyptian high priestess take over the body of one of the team who discover her tomb. Corny, hammy but tremendous fun and quite spooky in parts.
"Demons Of The Mind" (1972)stars Patrick McGee and involves a web of incest, perversion and satanic possession .Being the seventies it's more alluded to than explicit and is a bit silly though the bare bones of an intruding tale is there.
"The Devil Rides Out" ( 1968) is based on a Dennis Wheatley novel stars Christopher Lee and sees a group of Satanists invoking the powers of darkness as Satanists are wont to do. It's a solid story proficiently told as is often the case with Hammer.
"Viking Queen" (1967) is loosely based around Boudica, s revolt against the Romans in 60/61 A.D. and has the memorable blooper of someone wearing a wristwatch and the title rather overlooks the fact that Boudica was a Celtic Queen. Featuring Carita, s only screens appearance and it's quickly apparent that she was chosen for her magnificent bosom rather than her acting ability.
"Dracula Prince Of Darkness" (1965) sees Christopher Lee return as the Count though alas not Peter Cushing as Van Helsing. It's one of the better Dracula efforts from Hammer being the last Terence Fisher directed film. Lee is suddenly mute as the Count but this serves as an effective sequel proper to "The Horror Of Dracula" and is hugely entertaining with a memorable climax but would have been more effective if more screen time had been given to Lee.
"Fear In The Night" (1972) directed by Jimmy Sangster has a very good cast -Peter Cushing , Joan Collins ,Ralph Bates- and is a sturdily effectual shocker though the tale of young woman terrorised by a one armed man in a boys school( no really) is plagiarised from films like "Paranoiac" and "Diabolique".
"The Nanny" (1965) stars Bette Davis rather surprisingly and I must confess I haven't seen it but it revolves around a family living in fear after the suspicious death of their baby sitter.
"Frankenstein Created Women" (1967) stars Peter Cushing as the errant Doctor who, using the occult, transplants the soul of a young man (be-headed for a crime he didn't commit poor sod) into the body of a comely maiden .A nice twist on the genre and oddly entertaining.
"One Million Years BC" (1966) has Raquel Welch in that bikini, worth the price of entry alone I would suggest , battling with no regard for palaeontology , dinosaurs( brilliantly created by Ray Harryhausen), hostile tribes and a major volcanic eruption. With striking locations, ridiculous caveman dialogue ("akita akita"seems to cover everything) and a memorable score this is superb dunder headed entertainment.
"The Plague Of The Zombies" (1966) is set around a tin mine in Cornwall where the local squire has invoked the powers of evil to raise a zombie slave army. Eerie and atmospheric it was shot back to back with "The Reptile" (1966) with both movies featuring the lovely Jacqueline Pearce and using the same Cornish locations. "The Reptile" is about err a reptile/woman creature that terrorises the village and again is an atmospheric and effective chiller.
"Rasputin The Mad Monk" (1966) was shot back to back with "Dracula Prince of Darkness" , using many of the same cast -Barbara Shelley and Christopher Lee as the manipulative monk -It's historically inaccurate and looks discounted( Hammer did like to do things on the cheap) but it's mildly diverting.
"The Horror Of Frankenstein" (1970) stars Ralph Bates as the mad cadaver collector and Dave Prowse (The Green Cross Man/ Darth Vader) as the monster. It foolishly portrays the doctor as a philanderer par excellence leading to some musing as to what his chat up line is (Would you like to come to my place and view my body parts?)
Quatermass And The Pit" (1967) is one of the best films Hammer ever made. A fascinating melange of sci-fi, horror and thriller the plot revolves around an alien artefact discovered near a London underground station. The cerebral script by Nigel Kneale ponders on a possible explanation for supernatural phenomena and though the effects are poor its superior stuff.
Which is more than can be said for said for "The Witches (1966) a weak cocktail of mystery and Satanism or "Slave Grils (1967) in which a jungle guide is kidnapped by native women who want to sacrifice him to their white rhino god and is as silly as it sounds.
"She" (1965) stars the statuesque Ursula Andress as" Ayesha", an immortal leader who is trying to resurrect the lover she killed thousands of years ago. Excellent support is provided Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Bernard Cribbins rather bizarrely. It's unremittingly daft but good fun while the sequel "Vengeance Of She"(1968) is just poor and does not even have the glorious Andress to salvage it ,her role as the re-incarnated Ayesha went to the appallingly wooden Olga Shoberova , whose career no doubt soon was over.
"To The Devil A Daughter" (1976) is another Dennis Wheatley adaptation and is blessed with a fine cast -Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Nastassja Kinski- and has two protagonists fighting for control of the soul of a young innocent. It, s not particularly scary or indeed suspenseful but is well worth a viewing.
"Scars Of Dracula" (1970) is a rather nasty addition to the series with the Count more like a sadistic serial killer than supernatural entity and is out of sequence with the other films. Lee does his usual charismatic turn and there are cameos from Dennis Waterman and Jenny Handley.
Overall this is a very reliable box set. Sure there is some trash in amongst, but the quality far out weighs the dross. Anyone purchasing this is in for some very satisfying evenings with the curtains closed and the lights off. Can we have a box set with Christopher Lee's Dracula films with lots of extras next please?

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Based on content for my £80 purchase price alone, 29 Dec 2006
By I. R. Kerr (Lancashire) - See all my reviews
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Ok so it would have been good to get ALL the Hammer Dracula, Frankenstein and the Mummy films here but we haven't.
What we do have is a great cross-section of the studio's movies. Some OK like The Viking Queen and The Vengeance of She, some great Plague of the Zombies, The Reptile, and some truly superb She, Dracula Prince of Darkness, Quatermass and the Pit. There are no real stinkers here... SORRY I wrote this before I watched Prehistoric Women again....ouch!
The only down side with boxes like this is that we all have different ideas of our favourite movies. Personally I would have left out a few thrillers and put in more horror, although some of these movies I have not seen for well over a decade so may grow on me after a few viewings.
I would have liked The Gorgon and Creatures The World Forgot but there will, no doubt, be filler box sets to follow.
There's a few documentaries which add extra information and are a welcome addition.
It is by no means THE definitive Hammer collection although it could be just that to a few people.
As so many horror box sets are being released what I need now are the Universal Mummy series, Christopher Lee's Fu Manchu movies and the Paul Naschy Werewolf movies, any studio executives out there reading these comments?
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