Product Details

• Actors: Dennis Hopper
• Format: Black & White, DVD, Original recording remastered, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Genius Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: October 21, 2003
• Run Time: 320 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000JCFOA
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #85,712 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Uncut Cult Gems, January 21, 2004

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Jack Burgess (Tampa, Fl USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: AMC Monsterfest Collection - Cult Classics, Vol. 1 (The Atomic Brain / The Brain That Wouldn't Die / Carnival of Souls / Night Tide) (DVD)

This two disc set from AMC is great. The Brain That Wouldn't Die
contained in this set is the uncut version. Complete with the
catfighting women scene, and the gory scene towards the end of
the film, it's all here. What a bargain.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good deal, December 28, 2004

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T. Redmond (Salt Lake City, UT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: AMC Monsterfest Collection - Cult Classics, Vol. 1 (The Atomic Brain / The Brain That Wouldn't Die / Carnival of Souls / Night Tide) (DVD)

I've never seen other versions of these movies so I can't say whether anything was added back in or left out. What I can say though is that they are worth watching at least once, and buying a used copy of this collection is a better deal than renting them each seperately.

One thing that did bother me though is that parts of dialogue were cut out of Night Tide. There is the classic splice in the middle of a silent scene and suddenly he's answering a question you never heard her ask.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A steal on a drive-in horror collection (details), February 20, 2011

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Patrick W. Crabtree "The Old Grottomaster" (Lucasville, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: AMC Monsterfest Collection - Cult Classics, Vol. 1 (The Atomic Brain / The Brain That Wouldn't Die / Carnival of Souls / Night Tide) (DVD)

I'll say up front that AMC Monsterfest does a nice job with the packaging of these sets. I usually buy these collections at Big Lots for a couple of bucks each. Recently, I also acquired: Amc Monsterfest: Bela Lugosi Classics Collection 2. All these films are in black-and-white and there are two DVDs, two movies per disc, in the set.

The Atomic Brain -- What a great film, but a grim one indeed. A semi-mad scientist has discovered how to make a crippled old hag into an attractive young love-slave -- the snag is that he needs a *live* young and pretty gal to do this! So the mean old woman who funds this guy cons three naive girls (she wants her pick) to come to work for her and they're locked in once they arrive. The drunken husband of the old woman gets the hots for one of the girls and tries to help her -- bad idea. The pacing is good and it's a nice twist on a Frankenstein-ish theme.

The Brain That Wouldn't Die -- Good one! A surgeon has learned the secret of transferring a human brain into another living person. Of course the unfortunate brain donor has to die for this to happen. Coincidentally, the surgeon crashes his car and his fiance is decapitated -- so he stows her head under his arm and runs to his nearby lab where he hooks her head up to all manner of tubes and wires. Soon, apparently developing extraordinary brain power, *she's* calling the shots!

Carnival of Souls -- A really creepy psycho-thriller. An attractive young gal is running around with her girlfriends when their car is forced off a bridge and into a deep river by a band of young men who were trying to pick them up. Amazingly, one girl walks out of the river hours after the crash to the great astonishment of the searchers. She then packs up and drives to another town where she's been hired as the church organist but she becomes fascinated with an old abandoned carnival just outside of town after having strange visions... and there's something really creepy going on there!

Night Tide -- This is another psycho-thriller about a sailor [Dennis Hopper] who suddenly falls deeply in love with a very mesmerizing gal... one whose reputation isn't all that savory with the folks who live around her. He clearly should give her up but then we wouldn't have a movie to watch. This one is out on the fringe but still very watchable.

You can't lose with this collection if you can get it for under five bucks. Recommended for fans of the genre.