Product Details

• Actors: Bela Lugosi, Vincent Price, John Carradine, Tod Slaughter, Barbara Steele
• Format: Box set, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 12
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Mill Creek Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: August 19, 2008
• Run Time: 3604 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001BQJLFC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #49,717 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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LEGENDS OF HORROR 50 MOVIE PACK - DVD Movie

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76 of 80 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Most Films Can Be Found in other Mill Creek 50-Movie Packs, September 10, 2008

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David Bassler (Richmond, VA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Legends of Horror 50 Movie Pack (DVD)

Mill Creek's Legends of Horror 50-Movie Pack continues the distributor's recent disturbing trend of recycling movies previously offered in their other 50-Movie Packs. Of the offerings in this boxed set, 31 of the 50 pictures can be found in other 50-Movie Packs, let alone their 100-Movie Packs, 250-Movie Packs and various other offerings. Thirteen of the films can be found in their Tales of Terror 50-Movie Pack, 3 in Drive-In Classics, 5 in Chilling Classics, 5 in Nightmare Worlds, 4 in Night Screams and 1 in Sci-Fi Classics. In fact, three films, Island Monster (1954), The Phantom Creeps (1949) and Shock (1946) can be found on 3 different 50-Movie Packs.

On a positive note, most of the new releases are films directed by Alfred Hitchcock early in his career - including such classics as The Lady Vanishes (1938), The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935), Sabotage (1936), Secret Agent (1936) and the Man Who Knew Too Much (1934). A number of Hitch's silent films from the 1920s, some of them quite good, can be found in this set. Although Hitchcock later produced some classic horror films, most of the public domain films in this set are straight dramas or even comedies. Juno and the Paycock (1930), for example, can hardly be considered to be a horror film.

As with most Mill Creek offerings, the quality of the prints ranges from mediocre to quite good. The films in the boxed set are listed below, along with the stars and the movie's rating on a 10 point scale gleaned from a popular movie database:

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Cheney Vase (1955) - Darren McGavin, Carolyn Jones (7.2)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1962) - Brandon DeWilde, Diana Dors (7.7)
The Ape Man (1943): Bela Lugosi, Louise Currie (4.0)
Blackmail (1929): Anny Ondra, John Longden (7.0)
Bowery at Midnight: Bela Lugosi, John Archer, Wanda McKay (5.3)
Champagne (1928): Betty Balfour, Gordon Harker (6.2)
Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride (1973) aka The Satanic Rites of Dracula: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Joanna Lumley (5.2)
Crimes at the Dark House (1940): Tod Slaughter, Sylvia Marriott, Hilary Evans (6.9)
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke (1936): Tod Slaughter, Marjorie Taylor, D.J. Williams (5.4)
The Demon (1979): Cameron Mitchell, Jennifer Holmes (3.2)
The Devil Bat (1940): Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O'Brien (5.1)
The Devil's Messenger (1961): Lon Chaney Jr., Karen Kadler, Michael Hinn (4.2)
Easy Virtue (1928): Isabel Jeans, Franklin Dyall (5.8)
End of the World (1977): Christopher Lee, Sue Lyon, Kirk Scott, Lew Ayres, Dean Jagger (3.1)
The Face at the Window (1939): Tod Slaughter, John Warwick, Marjorie Taylor (6.1)
The Farmer's Wife (1928): Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davis, Gordon Harker (6.3)
Fury of the Wolf Man (1972): Paul Naschy, Perla Cristal, Veronica Lujan (2.5)
The Ghost (1963): Barbara Steele, Peter Baldwin (5.7)
Horror Express (1973): Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Telly Savalas (6.3)
The Incredible Petrified World (1957): John Carradine, Robert Clarke, Phyllis Coates (3.0)
The Island Monster (1954): Boris Karloff, Franca Marzi (2.1)
Jamaica Inn (1939): Robert Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Leslie Banks, Robert Newton (6.3)
Juno and the Paycock (1930): Barry Fitzgerald, Maire O'Neill (4.8)
The Lady Vanishes (1938): Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas (8.2)
Legacy of Blood (1971) aka Blood Legacy: John Carradine, Rudolfo Acosta, Merry Anders (1.8)
The Lodger (1927): Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney (7.4)
The Long Hair of Death (1964): Barbara Steele, George Ardisson (5.8)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934): Peter Lorre, Leslie Banks, Edna Best (6.9)
Manfish (1956): Lon Chaney Jr., John Bromfield, Victor Jory, Tessa Prendergast (4.5)
The Manxman (1929): Carl Brisson, Anny Ondra (6.4)
Maria Marten or The Murder in the Red Barn (1935): Tod Slaughter, Sophie Stewart, D.J. Williams, Eric Portman (6.0)
Never Too Late to Mend (1937): Tod Slaughter, Jack Livesey, Marjorie Taylor (5.8)
The Nightmare Never Ends (1980) aka Cataclysm: Cameron Mitchell, Richard Moll, Marc Lawrence, Faith Clift (3.8)
Number Seventeen (1932): Anne Grey, John Stuart, Leon M. Lion (6.0)
The Phantom Creeps (1949): Bela Lugosi, Robert Kent, Dorothy Arnold (3.8)
Rich and Strange (1931): Henry Kendall, Joan Berry (6.0)
The Ring (1927): Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis, Ian Hunter (6.3)
Sabotage (1936): Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka (7.2)
A Scream in the Night (1935): Lon Chaney Jr., Sheila Terry (5.0)
Secret Agent (1936): John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll (6.7)
Shadow of Chinatown (1936): Bela Lugosi, Herman Brix, Joan Barclay, Luana Walters (4.3)
The Shadow of Silk Lennox (1935): Lon Chaney Jr., Dean Benton, Catherine Cotter (4.4)
The She-Beast (1966): Barbara Steele, Ian Ogilvy, John Karlsen (3.6)
Shock (1946): Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Reed Hadley (6.2)
Silent Night, Bloody Night (1974): Patrick O'Neal, John Carradine, Walter Abel (4.9)
The Skin Game (1931): C.V. France, Helen Haye, Edmund Gwenn (5.9)
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935): Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll (8.0)
The Ticket of Leave Man (1937): Tod Slaughter, John Warwick, Marjorie Taylor (6.0)
The Werewolf vs. Vampire Women (1971): Paul Naschy, Gaby Fuchs, Patty Shepard (4.1)
Young and Innocent (1937): Derrick DeMarney, Nova Pilbeam (7.1)

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed in This Collection, April 5, 2010

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justice4all72 - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Legends of Horror 50 Movie Pack (DVD)

I am a huge fan of the Mill Creek Entertainment 50 movie packs and own quite a few, but this collection, "Legends of Horror" is a disappointment. As other reviews have stated, this collection features many of the films that are on the other 50 Movie Packs. So there is very little "new" movies on this set. Do not be fooled by the cover art shown here on amazon either, the cover does not feature Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, or Boris Karloff on the front instead it is a cheesy layout of skulls. I would recommend Horror Classics 50 Movie Pack Collection instead of this collection because the films are much better than on this set.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Alfred Hitchcock, crime horrors?, September 1, 2010

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BD "budbd" (Oregon, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Legends of Horror 50 Movie Pack (DVD)

Come on Mill Creek, Alfred Hitchcock and other crime dramas as horror? Sorry, can't spend THAT kind of cash for those, that is a whole different genre is specific interest, especially since old movie buffs generally likely have alot of this Alfred Hitchock and crime stuff already, many times over. I mean, Alfred Hitchcock twenty movie or more collection I bought at Wal-Mart for five bucks, everyone across america has to have alfred hitchcock movies by now, I have double of so many of his early works on DVD its rediculous.

But hey, Mill Creek has "tried" in other fifty movie packs but I surmize it may have been some of the older movie packs from about five years ago and not the newer ones, I noticed that the 250 movie pack is also rife/liberally laden/(infested?) with alfred hitchcock and crime drama stuff in a horror 250 movie pack, way to go for a screw up!(won't buy the 250 movie pack now).