4.0 out of 5 stars
Weird = "Cult", August 25, 2007
This review is from: Cult Classics Collection 4 Movie Pack (DVD)
CULT CLASSICS COLLECTION consists of two silent features, another from the 1930s and an early-60s issue. All four have rightfully attained cult status over the years, for varying reasons.
SYNOPSES:
"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" - German Expressionist cinema at its finest and one of the greatest horror films ever made. The use of pioneering camera techniques, distorted buildings, an eerily atmospheric story and bizarre last reel plot twists make this one unforgettable! Hunchbacked Dr. Caligari's sleepwalker predicts deaths hours before they occur.
"Dementia 13" - Roger Corman's young assistant Francis Coppola was allowed to make this right after he finished work on Corman's latest film. It's the story of a tragedy-plagued family living in a creepy old Irish castle.
"Nosferatu" - An unauthorized retelling of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Vampire Count Orlok makes victims of an unsuspecting realtor and his wife who are visiting the Count's creepy castle. (In the 1920s, Bram Stoker's heirs tried but failed to have all copies of Nosferatu seized and destroyed.)
"Reefer Madness" - For decades a staple of college film festivals, this strange film was meant to be an anti-marijuana message movie, but today plays like a very campy comedy. Learn the hazards that lay in wait for all "dope fiends."
CULT CLASSICS 20 MOVIE PACK is an excellent box set of some of the strangest cinema ever. See a Wild West town populated by little people, conjoined twins and other human oddities, plus just about every vice known to man.
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Parenthetical numbers preceding titles are 1 to 10 viewer poll ratings found at a film resource website.
(8.2) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (silent-Germany-1920) - Werner Krauss/Conrad Veidt/Lil Dagover
(5.6) Dementia 13 (1963) - William Campbell/Luana Anders/Bart Patton/Patrick Magee
(8.1) Nosferatu (silent-Germany-1922) - Max Schreck/Gustav von Wangenheim/Greta Schröder
(3.1) Reefer Madness ("Tell Your Children") (1936) - Dorothy Short/Kenneth Craig
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