"For the first time ever, the original The Mummy film comes to DVD in this extraordinary Legacy Collection. Included in the collection is the original classic, starring the renowned Boris Karloff, and four timeless sequels, featuring legendary action Lon Chaney, Jr. and others. These are the landmark films that inspired an entire genre of movies and continue to be major influences on motion pictures to this day."
"You have to hand it to the walking dead. What they lack in speed and agility, they more than make up for in sheer single-minded determination. Im-Ho-Tep is a case in point. He's an ancient Egyptian priest, cursed for his terrible crimes against the gods. A team of British archaeologists digs up his sarcophagus, along with a box inscribed with a warning that opening it will unleash death and destruction. You'll never guess what they do. ..."
""It's alive! Alive!" shouts Colin Clive's triumphant Dr. Frankenstein as electricity buzzes over the hulking body of a revived corpse. "In the name of God now I know what it's like to be God!" For years unheard, this line has been restored, along with the legendary scene of the childlike monster tossing a little girl into a lake, in James Whale's Frankenstein, one of the most famous and influential horror movies ever made. Coming off th ..."
"When Universal Pictures picked up the movie rights to a Broadway adaptation of Dracula, they felt secure in handing the property over to the sinister team of actor Lon Chaney and director Tod Browning. But Chaney died of cancer, and Universal hired the Hungarian who had scored a success in the stage play: Béla Lugosi. The resulting film launched both Lugosi's baroque career and the horror-movie cycle of the 1930s. It gets off to an atmo ..."
"Dracula's Daughter This cut-rate sequel to Dracula, sans Bela Lugosi, turns out to be an unexpectedly sleek and stylish movie. Gloria Holden, tall, dark, and continental, is the aristocratic title character fighting her nature and seeking a cure for her affliction. A sympathetic psychiatrist, Dr. Garth (Otto Kruger), encourages her to "face her fears," but when she lures a pretty young streetwalker to her room to model for a painting, t ..."
""Es lebt! Es lebt!", ruft ein von Colin Clives gespielter triumphierender Frankenstein, als die Elektrizität über den ungefügen Körper eines wiederbelebten Leichnams schnurrt. "Im Namen Gottes, jetzt weiß ich, wie es ist, Gott zu sein!" Dieser Satz, den jahrelang niemand hörte, ist jetzt, zusammen mit der Szene, in der das kindliche Monster ein kleines Mädchen in den See wirft, in James Whales Frankenstein, einem der einflussreichsten u ..."
"Eines muss man lebenden Toten zu Gute halten: was sie an Geschwindigkeit und Agilität vermissen lassen, machen sie durch dumpfe Entschlossenheit wett. Der ägyptische Hohepriester Im-Ho-Tep, der vor langer Zeit wegen seiner Verbrechen gegen die Götter verflucht wurde, ist ein solcher Fall. Eine britische Ausgrabungsexpedition stößt auf seinen Sarkophag. Auf einer Truhe finden sie eine Inschrift, die Tod und Verwüstung prophezeit, sollte ..."
"Als sich Universal Pictures die Filmrechte an der Broadway-Adaption von Dracula sicherte, gab man das Projekt zuversichtlich in die Hände von Schauspieler Lon Chaney und Regisseur Tod Browning. Chaney starb jedoch kurz darauf an Krebs und Universal engagierte stattdessen einen ungarischen Schauspieler, der bereits mit dem Bühnenstück Erfolge feiern konnte: Bela Lugosi. Das Resultat markierte den Beginn von Lugosis sonderbarer Karriere u ..."
"For the first time ever the original Dracula film comes to DVD in this extraordinary Legacy Collection. Included in the collection is the original classic starring the renowned Bela Lugosi and three timeless sequels featuring such legendary actors as Lon Chaney Jr. John Carradine and others. These are the landmark films that inspired an entire genre of movies and continue to be major influences on motion pictures to this day.BONUS MATER ..."
"Eric von Stroheim (Sunset Boulevard) stars in this mesmerizing, classic tale of horror. Von Stroheim plays a hypnotist who tries to have his hypnotized wife kill the man he suspects is her lover. In the dazzling finale, von Stroheim barricades himself in a magician's shop that may be more dangerous than the police outside trying to bring him out."