58 of 58 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing movies raped by garbage DVD transfer, October 9, 2002
This review is from: Horror Classics Triple Feature, Vol. 1 (Metropolis (1927) / Nosferatu (1922) / The Phantom of the Opera (1925) (DVD)
I never realized people had the balls to make such abysmal tranfers of films and sell them on DVDs.
The title of Fritz Lang's film sums it up. It's misframed, scratchy, and fuzzy focused. You only see, "Metropo". The rest is off screen.
The DVD is complete garbage. If I could return it, I would.
What a shame considering the three films it contains are such extrodinary classics.
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52 of 53 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Films - Terrible Transfers, September 1, 2002
This review is from: Horror Classics Triple Feature, Vol. 1 (Metropolis (1927) / Nosferatu (1922) / The Phantom of the Opera (1925) (DVD)
If you're looking for the easy way out in obtaining these magnificent silent films, I'm afraid you may be disappointed. I bought this set because I didn't want to spend [$$$] on the remastered Nosferatu, but sometimes a bargain isn't really a bargain.
Nosferatu suffers from being a transfer of what may be the worst print in existence. It is so poorly framed that the title cards run off the screen and you have to try and decipher what's left. Not that the titles are anything to write home about - they are from some terrible English translation that changes the characters' names back to their Dracula counterparts'. There are also huge chunks of the film that are absent. Over the years, Nosferatu has been reassembled over and over, but this version even omits all but a split second of the famous negative image carriage sequence.
The other two films fare a little better, but not much. At least Phantom includes the red scene...I was a little surprised after seeing how poorly Nosferatu was handled.
If you simply want to get some idea of what these films are like, and don't really mind a relatively poor presentation (these did have somewhat poor image quality even with the best prints), then this DVD may be for you. This DVD was never intended as an archival copy, but more of a cheap, quick fix. If you're really interested in cinema, then I'd look for these wonders individually. The restored Nosferatu (watch out-there are several on the market) has two music scores and a full commentary, and is actually well worth the extra money.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Terrible product..., September 16, 2004
This review is from: Horror Classics Triple Feature, Vol. 1 (Metropolis (1927) / Nosferatu (1922) / The Phantom of the Opera (1925) (DVD)
This dvd is pretty bad. I've seen the online trailer for the kino dvd release and the picture quality on the streaming quicktime movie was better then the picture quality on the "triple feature" dvd.
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