Product Details

• Actors: William Campbell, Luana Anders, Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Dorothy Stone
• Directors: Francis Ford Coppola, George A. Romero, Victor Halperin
• Writers: Francis Ford Coppola, George A. Romero, Howard Higgin, Jack Hill, John A. Russo
• Format: Box set, Black & White, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Madacy
• DVD Release Date: December 22, 1998
• Run Time: 234 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305248109
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #394,710 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Fright Night Horror Classics" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

This package contains three films, one a bona fide classic, one an interesting first film by someone who would go on to greatness, and, um, one other one. This set would be quite a bargain if the transfer to DVD weren't so crappy. It appears that these films were transferred from tape. Since the whole idea of DVD is higher definition, that pretty much defeats the purpose of owning these discs, unless you can't find these titles in a higher-quality version. Luckily, the best of these three, the George A. Romero classic about flesh-eating zombies, Night of the Living Dead, is available in an exquisite pressing with THX sound and lots of extras. It is also available in this version for the cost-conscious consumer: Night of the Living Dead. It's nice to have a copy of Francis Ford Coppola's feature debut, Dementia 13--at least it would have been, if the transfer to DVD hadn't been so botched that you could see the frames rolling out of control and the tape bunching up in the last 15 minutes of the film. So on the level of the films themselves two out of three ain't bad. Which is to say that Revolt of the Zombies is so dull, it'll have even zombies checking their watches. --Jim Gay

Customer Reviews

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3.0 out of 5 stars Night of the demented revolt, July 26, 2008

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Annie Van Auken (Planet Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fright Night Horror Classics (DVD)

MADACY's FRIGHT NIGHT HORROR CLASSICS is a triple-play of varied-quality public domain fright films: There's one great cult classic, one so-so film more famous for its fledgling director than anything else and one creaky cheese grater with eyeballs. Read on....

GREAT:
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD-- Cult fave about a brother (Johnny) and sister (Barbara) who visit a rural Pennsylvania town to see their father's gravesite. While there, Johnny is attacked and killed by a cannibalistic zombie but Barbara manages to escape. She flees to a nearby farmhouse where a group of terrified people are hiding from the monsters. After dark, their supposedly safe haven is beseiged by an army of the undead. Director George Romero appears briefly as a Washington reporter.

SO-SO:
DEMENTIA 13-- DEMENTIA 13-- Roger Corman's young assistant Francis Coppola was allowed to make this right after he finished 2nd unit work on Corman's latest film. It's the story of a tragedy-plagued family living in a creepy old Irish castle.

CHEESE:
REVOLT OF THE ZOMBIES-- Strange mid-30s movie that includes stock footage of Bela Lugosi's eyes. An expedition is sent to Cambodia; their misssion: destroy the formula for a zombie-creating elixir.


HORROR CLASSICS V.10 (from ECHO BRIDGE ENTERTAINMENT) is a half-and-half DVD 4-fer: two movies from the 1940s and two released in the 70s.


Parenthetical numbers preceding titles are 1 to 10 viewer poll ratings found at a film resource website.

(5.6) Dementia 13 (1963) - William Campbell/Luana Anders/Bart Patton/Patrick Magee

(8.0) Night of the Living Dead (1968) - Judith O'Day/Russell Streiner/Duane Jones/Karl Hardman/Marilyn Eastman/Charles Craig

(2.7) Revolt of the Zombies (1936) - Dorothy Stone/Dean Jagger/Bela Lugosi ("The Eyes" - archive footage)

8 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars awesome, June 19, 1999

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This review is from: Fright Night Horror Classics (DVD)

Very thrilling and breath taking