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Night Screams 50 Movie Pack

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NIGHT SCREAMS 50 MOVIE PACK is an excellent collection of mostly-forgotten fright and suspense films that's sure to please all vintage movie fans.

Some NIGHT SCREAMS trivia:

THE GHOST AND THE GUEST was written by funnyman Morey Amsterdam (of THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW).
A SHOT IN THE DARK has been used as a movie title on eight separate occasions.
THE FACE AT THE WINDOW is the name of a dozen different movies.
THE TELL-TALE HEART is the repetition winner however, having been used as a title for 21 films! This 1960 version is not an adaptation of the Poe short story of the same name. The only connection to Poe might be the lead character, who just happens to be called Edgar.
MANFISH, on the other hand, was actually based on the writings of Edgar Allan Poe.
Ava Gardner appearing together with those goofy Bowery Boys? Yes, it's not only true, but the fellas were given top billing in GHOSTS ON THE LOOSE.


MILL CREEK value-priced collections offer generally good audio and video transfers of public domain material. If you think you'd enjoy these films, then their SUSPENSE 50 MOVIE PACK may also be of interest to you.


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

(3.2) Anatomy of a Psycho (1961) - Ronnie Burns/Pamela Lincoln
(4.2) Bloody Pit of Horror (Italy/USA-1965) - Mickey Hargitay/Walter Brandi
(6.5) Buried Alive (1939) - Beverly Roberts/Robert Wilcox
(2.2) Carnage (1984) - Leslie Den Dooven/Michael Chiodo
(5.2) City of Missing Girls (1941) - H. B. Warner/Astrid Allwyn/Philip Van Zandt
(6.3) The Crooked Circle (1932) - Zasu Pitts/James Gleason/Ben Lyon
(5.1) Daughter of the Tong (1939) - Evelyn Brent/Grant Withers/Dorothy Short
(4.1) Death Warmed Up (Australia/New Zealand-1985) - Michael Hurst
(4.2) The Devil's Sleep (1949) - Lila Grey/John Mitchum
(5.3) Drums of Africa ("Jungle Man") (1941) - Buster Crabbe/Charles Middleton
(2.7) The Dungeon of Harrow (1962) - Russ Harvey/Helen Hogan
(4.2) The Embalmer (Italy-1965) - Maureen Brown
(6.3) The Face at the Window (UK-1939) - Tod Slaughter/John Warwick
(5.5) A Face in the Fog (1936) - June Collyer/Lloyd Hughes
(3.1) Frankenstein 80 (Italy-1972) - John Richardson/Gordon Mitchell
(5.5) The Ghost and the Guest (1943) - James Dunn/Florence Rice
(5.1) Ghosts on the Loose (1943) - Bela Lugosi/Ava Gardner/East Side Kids
(4.9) Grave of the Vampire (1974) - William Smith/Michael Pataki
(5.7) Green Eyes (1934) - Shirley Grey/Charles Starrett
(5.0) House Of Danger (1934) - Onslow Stevens/Janet Chandler
(6.5) House Of Mystery (1934) - Ed Lowry/George 'Gabby' Hayes (in support)
(6.1) House Of Secrets (1936) - Leslie Fenton
(5.0) I Killed That Man (1941) - Ricardo Cortez/Joan Woodbury
(5.7) The Invisible Killer (1939) - Grace Bradley/Roland Drew
(???) Killers of the Sea (1937) - Lowell Thomas/Wallace Caswell Jr./'Evolution' Henderson
(5.5) Kiss Me Kill Me (Italy/France-1973) - Carroll Baker/George Eastman
(5.9) The Lion Man (1936) - Kathleen Burke/Jon Hall
(4.8) Manfish (1956) - Lon Chaney Jr./Victor Jory
(5.8) Midnight Phantom (1935) - Reginald Denny/Claudia Dell
(7.1) The Midnight Warning (1932) - William 'Stage' Boyd/Claudia Dell
(5.5) Murder at Midnight (1931) - Aileen Pringle/Alice White
(5.1) Nabonga (1944) - Buster Crabbe/Barton MacLane/Julie London
(5.7) Night Tide (1961) - Dennis Hopper/Linda Lawson
(???) A Passenger To Bali ("The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre") (TV-1950) - E. G. Marshall
(6.3) The Phantom Express (1932) - William Collier Jr./Sally Blane
(5.0) The Phantom of 42nd Street (1945) - Dave O'Brien/Kay Aldridge/Alan Mowbray
(4.7) The Phantom (1931) - Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
(5.2) The Savage Girl (1932) - Rochelle Hudson/Walter Byron
(5.9) A Shriek In The Night (1933) - Ginger Rogers/Lyle Talbot
(5.6) The Shadow of Silk Lennox (1935) - Lon Chaney Jr./Dean Benton
(2.2) She Gods of Shark Reef (1958) - Bill Cord/Don Durant
(6.1) A Shot in the Dark (UK-1933) - Dorothy Boyd/Jack Hawkins
(4.2) Sisters of Death (1977) - Arthur Franz/Claudia Jennings
(4.7) Son of Ingagi (1940) - Zach Williams/Laura Bowman
(7.4) Strangers of the Evening (1932) - Zasu Pitts/Eugene Pallette
(6.1) The Tell-Tale Heart (UK-1960) - Laurence Payne/Adrienne Corri
(6.2) The Thirteenth Guest (1932) - Ginger Rogers/Lyle Talbot
(6.9) The Ticket of Leave Man (UK-1937) - Tod Slaughter/John Warwick
(4.6) Wanted: Babysitter - Frace/Italy/W Ger-1975) Maria Schneider/Vic Morrow/Robert Vaughn
(3.1) The Wasp Woman (1960) - Susan Cabot/Anthony Eisley

I just want to point out that most, if not all, the movies are also included in 250 pack from the same company. I checked this movie by movie :) Depending on your purchase plan, that one might represent better bargain.

What's unusual about this collection is the somewhat strange variety of types and ages of movies featured. You get some really old (1930s and 40s) films like "A Face in the Fog" and "A Shot in the Dark", then some newer (1970s) movies like "Grave of the Vampire" and "Carnage". Some of the older ones I would definitely not call horror- more like crime drama. It is fun to watch the old ones just to see what really old movies were like. Some of them, such as "Bloody Pit of Horror", are the kind of cheesy B-movie/ soft porn productions that are so silly they're fun.
There's nothing really great here, but I'd say it's worth buying for the value and the fact that there are so many old, hard-to-find movies here.

Most of these movies are old 1930's/'40's/'50's "B" movies. If you like poverty row stuff, you'll probably enjoy most of this box set. Otherwise, try the original 50 Horror Classics box. Also, there are three graphically violent movies from the 1970s and 1980s on the 4th disc,so watch out-they're pretty gross.

I paid about twenty bucks for my set new, and I am glad I bought them, having alot of the other mill creek sets, I knew there was alot of 30's crime drama movies, of which alot of them are "pre code", the lame obscenity codes inacted about 1934 by bible thumpers, and though I haven't watched all the movies, there are some really interesting ones, like the 1932 "The Thirteenth Guest", a crime mystery, and some horror flicks, like "Carnage", etc.
You get Bloody Pit of Horror, a fairly decent transfer seen on other mill creek sets, much better here than a St Claire Vision "Horrorlicious" 13 hours+ and nine movies set I received recently. So far I haven't found any problems with the discs, scanned through alot of them, a couple of the discs had a strange swirl look to the top of the dvd surface, but they played fine, I scanned through all those, and they are just fine.

I've picked up several "50 movie packs" and even the "250 horror movie pack" and have been very pleased, over all. This set, however, was rather rough. The movies are all really bad in just about every way imaginable. Unless you want bad B-Movie quality softcore lameness, go elsewhere for entertainment.

Night Screams is a collection of 50 horror movies that have only one thing in common: they are all public domain and as such it is possible for them to be presented in highly affordable collections. I paid $21.99 for my set and that comes down to about 44 cents per movie. The way that movie tickets cost nowadays, you really cannot complain about this collection.

This deal is even better when you consider that many of the movies in this collection are available as individual movie DVD's at prices of $5 and higher. Many of the movies in this collection are presented in better condition than they are from other DVD companies.

All in all, a great deal for the money.