Product Details

• Actors: Various
• Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 5
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Navarre Corporation
• DVD Release Date: May 27, 2008
• Run Time: 674 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B0017KXD3S
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #182,067 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

The Terror
Up-and-comer Jack Nicholson portrays Lieutenant Duvalier, a military officer who gets trapped in the ancient haunted castle of Baron Von Leppe, played by horror film legend, Boris Karloff. Duvalier tries desperately to escape his sinister surroundings and hold on to his sanity in the process. 81 Minutes - NR

Creature from the Haunted Sea
After agreeing to transport to a safe haven a group of Caribbean exiles and their national treasury, an American gangster plots to eliminate his passengers and keep the money. But he hopes to use the local legend of a sea monster as cover for killing off the soldiers only to discover the legend is true. 63 Minutes - NR

A Bucket of Blood
A nebbish waiter wants desperately to fit in with the artistic patrons at his beatnik café. So when he accidentally kills his landlady's cat and covers the body in plaster to hide his mistake, he surprisingly becomes a well-received sculptor and is finally welcomed into the café group. But when he figures out that he has no true creative talent, the waiter moves past cats and instead uses human forms as his works of art. 66 Minutes - NR

Last Woman on Earth
While on vacation in Puerto Rico, the happy couple of Harold and Evelyn Gern go skin-diving with their friend and attorney, Martin Joyce. They return only to discover that they are the only people left alive on the island. The trio figures out that an interruption of oxygen in the atmosphere has killed those on the surface and now they are faced with the reality of possibly being the last people on earth. Mixed emotions arise as the two men start competing for Evelyn s attention. 71 Minutes - NR

Attack of the Giant Leeches
Strange circumstances surround disappearances in the swamp patrolled by Game Warden Steve Benton. With over a handful of puzzling cases and eye witness reports of mysterious creatures dragging people into the swamp and sucking their blood, Benton decides to investigate. 62 Minutes - NR

The Wasp Woman
A cosmetics company s aging owner works with a questionable scientist to create a beauty formula based on queen bee secretions. Demanding that she try the product first, it transforms her into a stunning, younger, and more vibrant looking woman. Although, the side effects eventually turn her into a human wasp which preys at night upon its victims. 73 Minutes - NR

Ski Troop Attack
On skis, an American military unit crosses over enemy lines in order to blow up a strategically placed railroad bridge. A tough sergeant and a green lieutenant lead the mission through continuous hostile confrontations with ruthless Nazis and jaded German civilians. 63 Minutes - NR

The Little Shop of Horrors
Little Shop of Horrors is the original screwball comedy cult classic about an unsuspecting man working in a florist shop, who cultivates an intelligent plant that causes an uproar. This hilarious spoof of the monster based horror films of the 50's and 60's is clearly one of Roger Corman's best films and one of the all time great farces. 70 Minutes - NR

Night of the Blood Beast
After the military recover the body of an astronaut who died on a mission, aliens invade the military base. They implant outer space embryos in the corpse, resurrecting the dead astronaut in hopes of dominating the military and then taking over the world. 62 Minutes - NR

She Gods of Shark Reef
An escaped convict and his brother become shipwrecked on an island paradise, filled with beautiful native women who fill their time pearl diving in the ocean and conducting sacrificial rituals. When the good brother finds out the girl he loves is about to be offered to the sharks, he rescues her and they escape to civilization while the criminal brother decides to stay behind so he can steal the pearls. Although, it does not take long before he becomes the sacrifice.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Quantity over Quality, June 24, 2009

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J.Espresso (Portland, Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Cult Films of Roger Corman (Advantage Collection) (DVD)

Ten Roger Corman cheapies for $5.

That's what I paid and comes out to .50 per flick, so I can't say I didn't get my money's worth. I would venture that anyone getting this DVD set knows full well what they're in for. Corman was the "King of the B's". He prided himself on how far he could stretch a shoestring budget and most of his films, despite being terrible, did turn a profit, as they were so cheap to produce.

The ten films on this collection are wildly uneven. Some ("The Wasp Woman", "The Last Woman on Earth") were better than I expected. Others ("Little Shop of Horrors") were worse. Most were pretty much exactly what I imagined they would be -- rubber monsters, bad acting, and yet strangely entertaining.

This collection gets two stars however for its abysmal quality. Just because Corman produced these films on the cheap doesn't mean I want the transfer to DVD to be cheap. The sound quality on everything (except "The Wasp Woman" for some reason) is awful. It's tinny and at times incomprehensible. The picture quality on about half of these is also a mess -- it's grainy, with terrible contrast, and at times, gaps from the original film are missing. This is inexcusable. Other than the box, there is no packaging at all -- no notes on the film, cast or anything. This collection of 10 films comes with 5 DVD's -- with one movie on on each side. You can say that they're not being wasteful with product, but it ends up looking as cheap as, well, as the monster from "Creature from the Haunted Sea". (The latter at least was comical.)

The only extra is a series of movie trailers that appear on the same disc that "Little Shop of Horrors" appears on. Now when I first popped it in and saw the option to "play trailers" I was surprised and excited. Were these going to be the actual trailers for the ten Corman films in this collection? What a great surprise! -- Imagine my disappointment when the trailers were for films that have NOTHING to do with this set or Roger Corman! I still have no idea why they're here. There are trailers for "War of the Worlds", "Creature from the Black Lagoon", and a variety of other Sci-Fi and Monster Drive-in flicks from the 1950's and early 1960's. What they're doing on this collection is anyone's guess.

Overall, if you can get this for $5 like I did, you can't go wrong. Be prepared for the lousy sound and video transfer and just expect that you're getting quantity, not quality.

-- As an aside, Susan Cabot (who played the Wasp Woman) was one stunningly gorgeous gal!