Product Details

• Actors: Vincent Price, Lionel Atwill, Carl Schell, Bill McGhee, Elisha Cook Jr.
• Format: Black & White, Color, Full Screen, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Platinum Corporation
• DVD Release Date: July 23, 2003
• Run Time: 343 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000B1OB5
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #133,261 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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GREAT HORROR CLASSICS VOL. 8 - DVD Movie

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Horror Classics Vol. 8 - ID#12309, August 12, 2004

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Nefarius "Nefarius" (Georgia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Horror Classics, Vol. 8: Don't Look in the Basement!/House on Haunted Hill/The House On The Edge Of The Park/Werewolf in a Girl's Dormitory (DVD)

Four movies on one disc.
Horror Classics Vol. 8 - Platinum Disc ID#12309

#1: Don't Look in the Basement! - 1973 - Director: S.F. Brownrigg

#2: House on Haunted Hill - 1959 - Director: William Castle

#3: The House on the Edge of the Park - 1980 - Director: Ruggero Deodato

#4: Werewolf in a Girls Dormitory - 1961 - Director: Paolo Heusch

All in all; decent picture, decent sound. Nothing special, but menus all seem to work and thats rare for cheap compilation DVD's.
These movies are available individually from amazon, so you can see actual reviews and movie details if you search for the title under DVD's.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What would YOU risk for 10 Gs?, April 30, 2008

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Annie Van Auken (Planet Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Horror Classics, Vol. 8: Don't Look in the Basement!/House on Haunted Hill/The House On The Edge Of The Park/Werewolf in a Girl's Dormitory (DVD)

Transfer quality of ECHO BRIDGE 4 movie sets is quite good, although film stock is not always in the best of condition. A bargain price also makes these small collections attractive. All titles are contained on a single disc.

This eighth issue of the series offers up a great old Vincent Price screamer, plus an early-30s tale of a wealthy but silent man arrested for murder, a monster that rampages through a boarding school and crazies doing the same in an institution.


SYNOPSES for "Horror Classics V.8"--

DON'T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT!-- An experiment allowing patients to act out their fantasies goes horribly awry. The result: Inmates literally run the asylum, and doctors and nurses suffer horrible deaths at their hands. Film was completed in 12 days on a very small budget.

HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL-- This movie was such a smash in its first run, Alfred Hitchcock decided to make his own horror film-- "Psycho." Plot: A wealthy man and his wife invite five guests to spend the night in a mansion where several murders have already been committed. Whoever survives will be rewarded $10,000. Julie Mitchell (Ruth Bridges) is Robert's sister.

THE SPHINX-- A deaf-mute is arrested for several strangulation murders even though eyewitnesses claim they heard the killer speak. Appearing in a small role is Paul Fix, who a quarter-century later played the marshal on TV's "The Rifleman." Also here briefly is Gabby Hayes, the bewhiskered cowboy character actor.

WEREWOLF IN A GIRLS' DORMITORY-- A newly arrived teacher is believed to be the manbeast that's murdering students-- or maybe not.


HORROR CLASSICS V.9 features the best "mad doctor" assistant since Frankenstein's Fritz, a young Jack Nicholson clashing with an old Boris Karloff in his creepy castle, backwoods Georgia zombies, and Chris Lee's last go-round as the famous vampire.


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

(4.6) Don't Look in the Basement! ("The Forgotten") (1973) - Bill McGhee/Jessie Lee Fulton/Robert Dracup/Harryette Warren

(6.8) House on Haunted Hill (1959) - Vincent Price/Carolyn Craig/Richard Long/Elisha Cook Jr./Carol Ohmart/Julie Mitchum

(6.2) The Sphinx (1933) - Lionel Atwill/Sheila Terry/Theodore Newton/Paul Hurst/Paul Fix (uncredited: George 'Gabby' Hayes)

(4.7) Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory (Italy/Austria-1961) - Carl Schell/Mary McNeeran/Maurice Marsac/Barbara Lass/Curt Lowens

3.0 out of 5 stars Good but grainy, March 11, 2010

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James Hammett - See all my reviews

This review is from: Horror Classics, Vol. 8: Don't Look in the Basement!/House on Haunted Hill/The House On The Edge Of The Park/Werewolf in a Girl's Dormitory (DVD)

I think because they compressed four films onto one disk it really effected the picture quality, it looks kind of pixelated. If you can get past the mediocre picture quality these are good films for a decent price. My personal favorite being "Don't Look in the Basement", with "The House on Haunted Hill" not far behind.