Product Details

• Format: Animated, Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Madacy Records
• DVD Release Date: December 22, 1998
• Run Time: 135 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305247803
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #242,982 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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The makers of this would-be made-for-TV series claim to "use the full impact of image and sound to place the viewer right in the midst of every frightful experience." What this means in practice is ear-wrenching sounds will assault you, one simulating a highly amplified creak of a rusty gate opening torturously slowly within your inner ear. Vertiginous video effects track and tilt ceaselessly along corridors of old houses and stone castles, swooping and cross-fading with other bits of video. The packaging might well have boasted this: Shot in Spectral Ghost-O-Vision! The target audience for this product apparently can't sit still for a shot that lasts more than three seconds. That's how hectic these video techniques are. The swirling montage phantasmagoria had me reaching for the Dramamine. Not that the discs are completely worthless. Hosted by the estimable Patrick Macnee (The Avengers), the series relates many stories of ghostly sightings, accompanied by interviews with eyewitnesses, all of which feel factual. This is clearly the show's strength. It's unfortunate that they feel compelled in several places to mount experiments to "prove" certain places are haunted, because the results are laughably inept. A note on the discs themselves is in order, since the very poor sound (the discs I viewed had an annoying buzz in the left channel) and the atrocious visual quality conspire to make them practically unwatchable. One wonders why it was ever necessary to transfer this show to DVD at all. And at 45 minutes per volume, this could easily have fit on one disc with much better quality. --Jim Gay

Customer Reviews

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Same Old Ghost Stories, November 9, 2009

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Michelle Duncan (Apache Junction, Arizona, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Ghost Stories 6-DVD Set (DVD)

For those of you who remember the old packaging for ghost stories-5 disc edition, this is the same product with the same episodes as the former. Some of these include Cold in the Grave, Landscape of Lost Dreams, and Mirror Mirror. The only thing this packaging of Ghost Stories has is 4 new episodes. That is it. This product had no description and was kind of deceiving with a different cover.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great horror anthology -- misleading marketing, March 22, 2011

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Thomas M. Sipos (Santa Monica, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ghost Stories 6-DVD Set (DVD)

I loved this horror anthology when it was first syndicated in 1997. Back then, I taped it on Beta (yes, I know).

I've since bought both the 40 episode DVD set, and then the 44 episode set (yes, a ripoff for selling the earlier set without all the episodes).

This show has a low-budget, TV feel, which works well for TV horror. A low budget forces the makers to focus on story and acting, rather than rely on special effects.

(This show's special effects are the sort of 1990s computer CGI effects found on The New Outer Limits -- the effects LOOK like computer effects, which don't match the "look" of the live action shots.)

The stories are pare for horror anthologies. Some great and original tales, some so-so, some stale and dull. The usual "box of chocolates."

I disagree with another reviewer about the acting quality. Unlike most TV horror anthologies, there are NO "name actors". Not even any recognizable B actors. Even so, I was especially impressed by the acting quality. Many of the actors did excellent work. Not all of them, but many.

Let's clear this up: This show did NOT debut on the Fox Family channel, despite what it says on the DVD box. It was syndicated in 1997. I even have the show's press kit from back then, touting their upcoming second season (which was not to be).

Maybe it appeared on the Fox Family Channel, but I suspect it was after its initial syndicated run.

Finally, the 44 episode DVD edition says that it includes 4 "never before seen" episodes. NOT TRUE. The earlier set didn't include these 4 episodes. And perhaps the Fox Family Channel didn't air them. But they were included in the syndication run. I SAW them, and I still have them on my Beta tapes of the show.

Hardcore fans of low-budget, TV horror anthologies, who don't mind seeing many of the same old tropes (people who don't realize they're dead; greedy murderers or adulterers who get their comeupance, etc.), should enjoy this show.

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ghost stories, June 27, 2000

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This review is from: Ghost Stories (DVD)

when you want to be scared you want to see ghosts. This dvd is great. there's lots of real foortage that leaves the hairs on your arms raised in terror and don't forget the great effects. Lots of fun and a real treat. Don't miss out , I highly reccomend it.