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Nightmare Worlds 50 Movie Pack Collection

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1 star:		(5)

 

 

NIGHTMARE WORLDS is one more public domain collection that's worth every penny! We know we're not getting mint prints from original masters, right? What we do get is a great variety of horror / sci-fi for hundreds of dollars less than other versions of the same movies (if you were to buy 'em all separately)! Here's the list- ALIEN CONTAMINATION- Watch chest caveties explode in this wondrous epic about killer egg-like pods! Good. ALIEN SPECIES- Computer generated ships attack, while most of the action takes place in a cave! Not bad for a cheapie! ATOMIC RULERS OF THE WORLD- Aliens threaten atomic catastrophe unless Starman (Ken Utsui) can save us! Ok. THE ALPHA INCIDENT- Boring story of a bio-weapon unleashed at a train depot in hillbillyland. Zzzz. ATTACK FROM SPACE- It's Starman to the rescue again! This time, the eeevil Spherions are up to no good! Ok. BEAST OF THE YELLOW NIGHT- John Ashley is forced (by the devil no less) to inhabit other men's bodies and destroy their lives. Not bad. Watch for the semi-psychedelic sex scene! WARRIORS OF THE WASTELAND- Mad Max done all wrong! Hilarious! Watch for the gut-busting "death" scenes! WEREWOLF WOMAN- A woman (Annek Borel) is plagued by memories of her rape, so she turns into a psychotic killer! The beginning is a scorcher, as Annek dances completely nude before turning into a hairy howler! Wow! THE NIGHTMARE NEVER ENDS- Indeed, this thing goes on forever! A demon nazi stalks the night, while Cameron Mitchell looks on. Horribly dull! COUNTERBLAST- A nazi scientist works on a plague to wipe out humanity, until falling in love w/ his assistant! Pretty decent actually. ALL THE KIND STRANGERS- Stacy keach stumbles upon a strange backwoods family of kids that holds him captive. He's their new daddy! Samantha Eggar, John Savage, and Robbie Benson also star! Good 70s made for TV creeper. THE DAY THE SKY EXPLODED- Asteroids are on a collision course w/ earth! Can the UN (ha ha) stop them in time? DEATH WARMED UP- A young man is injected w/ a secret serum, causing him to kill his parents w/ a shotgun! Years later, he returns w/ friends to seek vengeance on the doctor who injected him. Ok. Look out for the zombie horde! THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE- An awful, dull, steaming pile of nothingness! Earth is destroyed, so we send a ship to Venus, only to encounter sheer bloody boredom in space! Ugh! EMBRYO- Rock Hudson is a scientist who causes genetic mutations in a dog and then a beautiful gal (Barbara Carrera). Unfortunately, both subjects go homicidal! Good. END OF THE WORLD- Christopher Lee is an alien leader disguised as a priest w/ his gaggle of nuns! Will he destroy our beloved planet?? Good. ETERNAL EVIL- (aka: The Blue Man) has a guy leaving his body to kill people, or does he? Karen Black (Trilogy Of Terror, Burnt Offerings) co-stars. Ok. EVIL BRAIN FROM OUTER SPACE- Starman returns just in time to battle alien mutants in kung fu / disco dance routines! A riot! SHADOW OF CHINATOWN- Bela Lugosi is a eurasian fella who hates eurasians, and tries to kill them in chinatown. Ok. THE WAR GAME- Classic documentary-style film about the aftermath of nuclear war in England. Disturbing and great! IDAHO TRANSFER- Peter Fonda's low-key sci-fi story is an excellent time-travel, cautionary tale of ultimate doom! Great! GOOD AGAINST EVIL- A girl must escape from the devil's worshippers in order to live her own life. Dack Rambo stars. Ok. ALIEN ZONE- (aka: House Of The Dead) A man enters a mortuary during a storm, only to be treated to the mortician's stories about the occupants of three coffins! Ok. THE FURY OF THE WOLFMAN- Paul Naschy gets fuzzy once more, after his loving wife tries to kill him! Also features a sadistic scientist who wants Naschy for her love slave / murdering zombie! Ok. HOUSE OF THE LIVING DEAD- Gothic tale of soul migration, mad science, and murder! Ok. THE LOST CITY PTS. 1 AND 2- Seemingly endless movie (over 3 hrs) about the eeevil Zolok and his electronic doomsday device. We get giant zombies, slave traders, queen Rhama (she's a hottie), and more fights and jungle chases than any Tarzan movie! Ok. THE LOST WORLD- Silent classic has an expedition to a mysterious amazonian plateau where dinosaurs still roam! Great. THIS IS NOT A TEST- A group of strangers must band together on a lonely highway after a nuclear attack. Good. MENACE FROM OUTER SPACE- A Rocky Jones movie about possible alien invasion. Ok. MACISTE IN HELL- Silent movie w/ Maciste taking on an army of demons in hell itself! Pretty impressive for 1926! THE MISTRESS OF ATLANTIS- Brigitte Helm (Metropolis) mugs for the camera as the queen of Atlantis! She is unforgettable! Alas, the movie itself is not! NIGHT FRIGHT- John Agar must save a group of 30 year old "teens" from a mutant space monkey! Ok. HOW AWFUL ABOUT ALAN- Anthony Perkins (Psycho) plays a tormented man who goes blind after witnessing his father's death. Julie Harris (The Haunting) plays his sister. Good. PANIC- Slightly less edited version of a half- decent horror movie about a scientist infected by his own experimental bacteria. He (of course) goes on a murderous rampage! Ok. PIRANHA, PIRANHA- William Smith (Invasion Of The Bee Girls / Graveyard Tramps) is a lunatic hunter who takes an unwary group through the deep rainforests of Venezuela. Not bad. THE PHANTOM CREEPS- Bela attempts to conquer the world w/ his invisibility belt, spider-bombs, and a killer robot! Ok. PURPLE DEATH FROM OUTER SPACE- Flash Gordon epic finds Flash trying to stop a plague! Ok. PRISONERS OF THE LOST UNIVERSE- Not even Kay Lenz and John Saxon can save this sewer boat! Blah! RADIO RANCH- Condensed version of PHANTOM EMPIRE has Gene Autry and his singing cowboy friends battling an underground civilization bent on world conquest! Ok. THE RETURN OF DR. MABUSE- Yes, the devilish doctor is back, causing death and panic for inspector Lohman to deal with! Can he be stopped?? Good. ROBOT PILOT- Harmless fluff about a remote controlled plane. Forrest Tucker (The Crawling Eye) stars. RING OF TERROR- Blecch!! College med student is scared to death by a cadaver's hand. P-U! FROZEN ALIVE- Man frozen during cryogenics experiment is accused of murdering his wife. Ok. STAR ODYSSEY- Italian space adventure that takes elements of Star Trek and Star Wars and ruins them to great effect! Dumb but fun. TERROR AT THE RED WOLF INN- Years before The "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" or "Motel Hell", this movie used cannibalism and family ties w/ awesome results! A classic! THE MANSTER- A reporter is injected w/ a serum by a mad scientist in japan, causing him to turn into a monstrous murderer! Ok. THEY- A group trapped in a mountain cabin sit out the end of the world. Terrible! I fell asleep 3x! UNKNOWN WORLD- Scientist leads expedition to the earth's core to see if we can live there after nuclear holocaust. Ok. UFO TARGET EARTH- One of the most boring, idiotic movies ever made! Scientists investigate ufo sightings and the possibility of aliens living at the bottom of a lake! This ain't Mulder and Scully I assure you! Tedious to the point of suicide! Well, there it is. This collection is a winner! At this price, it's almost impossible to go wrong...

With their NIGHTMARE WORLDS 50 MOVIE PACK, MILL CREEK ENTERTAINMENT offers up another eclectic mix of little-known films. Some of these fright flicks are American made, some foreign; the monsters can be terrestrial, extra-terrestrial, or even human! There's whittled-down serials and made-for-TV movies-- in short: this box set has something for just about everyone. If you'd like to have a few nightmares while awake, check this one out!

The 1 to 10 score was determined by averaging out polling numbers maintained at a film data website. The current rating for NIGHTMARE WORLDS is: 4.3.

The alphabetized list below includes individual poll scores, original theatrical titles (where indicated), country of origin (if other than USA), years of release and main actors.

(5.0) (Alien) Contamination 1982 - Ian McCulloch
(2.4) Alien Species (1996) - Charles Napier/Hoke Howell
(6.0) All The Kind Strangers (TV-1974) - Stacy Keach/Samantha Eggar/John Savage/Robby Benson
(3.9) The Alpha Incident (1978) - Stafford Morgan/John F. Goff
(4.5) Atomic Rulers (Of The World) (Japan-1964) - Ken Utsui
(4.0) Attack From Space (Japan-1964) - Ken Utsui
(2.2) The Beast Of The Yellow Night (Philippines/USA-1971) - John Ashley
(6.4) Counterblast (UK-1948) - Robert Beatty/Mervyn Jones
(4.4) The Day The Sky Exploded (Italy) 1958 - Paul Hubschmid
(4.1) Death Warmed Up (Australia/New Zealand-1985) - Michael Hurst
(5.0) The Disappearance Of Flight 412 (TV-1974) - Glenn Ford/Bradford Dillman/David Soul/Guy Stockwell
(3.8) The Doomsday Machine (1972) - Grant Williams/Mike Farrell (in support)
(4.5) Embryo (1976) - Rock Hudson/Diane Ladd/Roddy McDowell/Joyce Brothers (as herself)
(2.7) End Of The World 1977 - Christopher Lee
(4.1) Eternal Evil ("The Blue Man") (TV-Canada/USA-1985) - Karen Black
(3.6) Evil Brain From Outer Space (Japan-1964) - Ken Utsui
(3.7) Frozen Alive (UK/W Ger-1964) - Mark Stevens
(2.4) Fury Of The Wolf Man (Spain-1972) - Mark Stevens
(3.6) Good Against Evil (TV-1977) - Dack Rambo/Dan O'Herlihy/Kim Cattrall (minor role)
(4.6) House Of The Dead ("Alien Zone") (1978) - John Ericson
(3.2) House Of The Living Dead (S Africa-1973) - Mark Burns
(5.6) How Awful About Alan (TV-1970) - Anthony Perkins/Julie Harris/Joan Hackett
(5.1) Idaho Transfer (1973) - Kelly BoHannon/Keith Carradine
(5.6) The Lost City (Part 1) (1935) - William 'Stage' Boyd/Kane Richmond/George 'Gabby' Hayes
(5.1) The Lost City (Part 2) (1935) - William 'Stage' Boyd/Kane Richmond/George 'Gabby' Hayes
(7.0) The Lost World (silent-1925) - Lewis Stone/Wallace Beery/Arthur Conan Doyle (as himself)
(7.5) Maciste In Hell (silent-Italy-1925)
(4.4) The Manster (Japan-1962) - Peter Dyneley/Jane Hylton
(5.7) The Mistress Of Atlantis (Germany-1932) - John Stuart/Gibb McLauglin
(1.6) Night Fright (1967) - John Agar/Carol Gilley
(2.2) The Nightmare Never Ends ("Night Train To Terror") (1985) - Barbara Wyler
(3.2) Panic (Italy/Spain-1976) - David Warbeck/Janet Agren
(4.9) The Phantom Creeps (edited version of the 1939 serial) (1949) - Bela Lugosi
(3.4) Piranha, Piranha! (Venezuela/USA-1972) - William Smith/Peter Brown
(4.1) Prisoners Of The Lost Universe (UK-1983) - Richard Hatch/Kay Lenz/John Saxon
(5.6) Purple Death From Outer Space ("Buck Rogers") 1966 - Buster Crabbe
(7.3) Radio Ranch ("Men With Steel Faces" - edited 1935 serial) (1940) - Gene Autry/Frankie Darro
(5.0) The Return Of Dr. Mabuse (W Ger/France/Italy1961) - Lex Barker
(1.6) Ring Of Terror (1962) - George E. Mather
(5.5) Robot Pilot ("Emergency Landing") (1941) - Forrest Tucker/Carol Hughes
(3.3) Menace From Outer Space ("Rocky Jones") (TV-1956) - Richard Crane/Scotty Beckett
(4.7) Shadow Of Chinatown (serial-1936) - Bela Lugosi/Bruce Bennett
(3.5) Star Odyssey (Italy-1979)
(4.5) Terror At The Red Wolf Inn ("Terror House") (1972) - Linda Gillen
(2.1) They ("Invasion From Inner Earth") 1974 - Paul Bentzen/
(6.0) This Is Not A Test (1962) - Seamon Glass/Thayer Roberts
(2.8) UFO: Target Earth (1974) - Nick Plakias
(3.9) Unknown World (1951) - Bruce Kellogg/George Baxter (in support)
(4.0) Warriors Of The Wasteland (Italy-1982) - Fred Williamson/George Eastman
(4.6) Werewolf Woman Italy-1976) - Howard Ross

The following movies are included in this collection:
Alien Contamination
Alien Species
Alien Zone
All The Kind Strangers
The Alpha Incident
Atomic Rulers of the World
Attack from Space
Beast of the Yellow Night
Counterblast
The Day the Sky Exploded
Death Warmed Up
The Doomsday Machine
Embryo
End of the World
Eternal Evil
Evil Brain from Outer Space
Frozen Alive
Fury of the Wolf Man
Good Against Evil
House of the Living Dead
How Awful About Alan
Idaho Transfer
The Lost City Part 1
The Lost City Part 2
The Lost World
Maciste in Hell
The Manster
Menace from Outer Space
The Mistress of Atlantis
Night Frisght
The Nightmare Never Ends
Panic
The Phantom Creeps
Piranha, Piranha
Prisoners of the Lost Universe
Purple Death From Outer Space
Radio Ranch
Return of Dr. Mabuse
Ring of Terror
Robot Pilot
Shadow of Chinatown
Star Odyssey
Terror at the Red Wolf Inn
They
This is Not a Test
UFO: Target Earth
Unknown World
The War Game
Warriors of the Wasteland
Werewolf Woman

Titles in chronological order, with disk number, side and track number.

Maciste in Hell (1925) [8A2]
The Lost World (1925) [7B1]
The Mistress of Atlantis (1932) [8B1]
The Lost City Part 1 (1935) [7A1]
The Lost City Part 2 (1935) [7A2]
Shadow of Chinatown (1936) [5B1]
The Phantom Creeps (1939) [9B2]
Purple Death From Outer Space (1940) [10A1]
Radio Ranch (1940) [10B1]
Robot Pilot (1941) [11A1]
Counterblast (1948) [3A2]
Unknown World (1951) [12B1]
Evil Brain from Outer Space (1956) [5A2]
Menace from Outer Space (1956) [8A1]
The Day the Sky Exploded (1958) [3B2]
Return of Dr. Mabuse (1961) [10B2]
Ring of Terror (1962) [11A2]
The Manster (1962) [12A1]
This is Not a Test (1962) [7B2]
Atomic Rulers of the World (1964) [1B1]
Attack from Space (1964) [2A1]
The War Game (1965) [5B2]
Frozen Alive (1966) [11A3]
Night Fright (1968) [8B2]
How Awful About Alan (1970) [9A1]
Beast of the Yellow Night (1971) [2A2]
Fury of the Wolf Man (1972) [6B1]
Piranha, Piranha (1972) [9B1]
Terror at the Red Wolf Inn (1972) [11B2]
The Doomsday Machine (1972) [4A2]
House of the Living Dead (1973) [6B2]
Idaho Transfer (1973) [5B3]
All The Kind Strangers (1974) [3B1]
They (1974) [12A2]
UFO: Target Earth (1974) [12B2]
Embryo (1976) [4B1]
Panic (1976) [9A2]
Werewolf Woman (1976) [2B2]
End of the World (1977) [4B2]
Good Against Evil (1977) [6A1]
The Alpha Incident (1977) [1B2]
Alien Zone (1978) [6A2]
Star Odyssey (1979) [11B1]
The Nightmare Never Ends (1980) [3A1]
Alien Contamination (1981) [1A1]
Warriors of the Wasteland (1983) [2B1]
Death Warmed Up (1984) [4A1]
Prisoners of the Lost Universe (1984) [10A2]
Eternal Evil (1985) [5A1]
Alien Species (1996) [1A2]

Nightmare Worlds is a collection of 50 science fictionally oriented 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.




Here's How I rate the movies in this collection:


Great:

Counterblast
Fury of the Wolf Man
Good Against Evil
How Awful About Alan
The Lost City Part 1
The Lost City Part 2
The Lost World
Maciste in Hell
The Nightmare Never Ends
Purple Death From Outer Space
Radio Ranch
Terror at the Red Wolf Inn


Good:


Alien Contamination
Alien Species
Alien Zone
All The Kind Strangers
Atomic Rulers of the World
Attack from Space
Beast of the Yellow Night
The Day the Sky Exploded
Death Warmed Up
The Doomsday Machine
Embryo
End of the World
Eternal Evil
Evil Brain from Outer Space
Frozen Alive
House of the Living Dead
Idaho Transfer
The Manster
Menace from Outer Space
The Mistress of Atlantis
Night Fright
Panic
The Phantom Creeps
Piranha, Piranha
Return of Dr. Mabuse
Robot Pilot
Star Odyssey
They
This is Not a Test
UFO: Target Earth
Unknown World
The War Game
Warriors of the Wasteland
Werewolf Woman


Bad:

The Alpha Incident
Prisoners of the Lost Universe
Ring of Terror
Shadow of Chinatown

So far I have viewed 3 sides of disks. The sleeves & disks are mislabeled. What should have been a gem feature, Anthony Perkin's How Awful About Alan, deteriorates within a few minutes, & disappears to be replaced by the next feature somewhere past its beginning.

This collection is listed as unrated. Of course, many of the early features pre-date the movie rating system. However, there are a significant number of rated movies - some PG, but leaning heavily toward R.

On a cheerful note, you can just reconcile yourself to thinking, "So - even if only a few movies are watchable, it's worth the price." But it's not worth messing with returns & hoping you'll really receive 50 watchable movies.

Pretty much what everyone else has said, it's a collection of wonderfully good & bad films, dating from the 1920s to the 1990s, some of the transers are fair to good, others are poor, but "worth every penny".

One complaint. Why do these comapnies insist on having their watermarks pop up ever 10-15 minutes for 20 seconds throughout the film? It's most annoying. And I buy DVDs to get away from that sort of thing. (And it's put me off buying any more from "Mill Creek"). And seriously apart from advertising it's pointless. My local community station shows films all the time where this happens. I'm assuming they just buy the boxed set and broadcast without clearance.

Only other disappointment with this set. One of the disc sleeves had the BBC documentary from the 1960's "War Games" listed. I got most excited. The film on the disc is "Flight 412". Sad.

Overall, worth getting.

what do some of these people expect for 50 movies for $14.95 ? i expected REALLY bad movies and thats exactly what i got .these are the kind of movies i remember watcing on tv late on a saturday nite when i was a kid. i just got this set, so far i've watched 2 of the movies. one of the great things is that when i looked up these two movies online , i found one of them on dvd for $7.98 and the other for $12.95. thats over $ 20 for just two of them if bought seperately and i got 50 for $ 14.95. how can anyone complain ? if you expect more than bad movies don't buy these sets but if you love bad movies its a great buy . i plan on buying a lot more of these sets

I purchased this set for 2 films:

1. Maciste In Hell - The packaging & advertising for this set states that it includes the full 95 minute version of Maciste. It actually has the 65 minute version. The picture quality is also worse then collector's copies in circulation. Tremendous film, though. I'd love to find a print of the 95 minute version.

2. Mistress Of Atlantis - Unlike Maciste, this print is a moderate upgrade from the collector's prints in circulation, & is about 3 minutes longer. One of the very few Brigitte Helm films available to English speaking viewers. If you don't already own this film, & are a Helm fan, the box is probably worth the price, & heck you're getting 49 other films with poor video quality for free.

I recently had the chance to compare this print of Mistress Of Atlantis with the Alpha stand alone edition. This version is slightly superior.

While both were obviously sourced from copies of the same (likely 16 mm) somewhat deteriorated print, the version on the Nightmare Worlds box appears to be a couple generations closer to the actual print & also has better audio, so I would recommend buying the Nightmare box instead of the Alpha. To be clear the picture quality isn't great on the Nightmare edition either, but it's better then the Alpha, & it does have 49 additional films for just a few dollars more.

After I was almost finished watching the 50 Horror Classics mega pack (put out by Treeline) I proceeded to acquire more 50 movie packs from Amazon.com: Nightmare Worlds, Tales of Terror, Sci-Fi Classics and Chilling Classics. What is great about these mega packs is that if you watch one movie per week on average, one of these packs will last almost a year for you.

Although the quality of the movies in Nightmare Worlds collection is not as good as Horror Classics, there are a few gems and interesting curios that you might find to be an enriching viewing experience.

I've watched about 80% of the movies in the package and it is quite a diverse collection which ranges from the 1920s all the way to the 90s. A few standouts are Alien Contamination (cheesy Italian sci-fi horror), The Alpha Incident (atmospheric and creepy), Beast of the Yellow Night (very unusual and unique film), Werewolf Woman (Italian erotic horror of which Quentin Tarantino is a fan), The Nightmare Never Ends (ever wanted to see Satan at a disco?), End of the World (w/Christopher Lee), Idaho Transfer (pretty good dystopia sci-fi), House of the Living Dead (Victorian-era horror set in South Africa), This is not a Test (pretty cool Corman-esque suspense about atomic war from 1962), Night Fright (a G-rated 1960s teen horror flick), Piranha Piranha (interesting jungle adventure that that just oozes the 1970s) and Prisoners of the Lost Universe (great cheesy 1980s sword and sorcery action). Of course, there are other good movies as well that I didn't mention and I've yet to watch and I failed to mention the ones that I really didn't like, which there were a few.

But there is more to like than to dislike here. And besides, the point of this collection is to put in as many "public domain" movies as possible, together. The picture quality is not always the best, but many of these were transferred from old VHS copies--probably the only source which Treeline was able to find. And for the low price, even if there are only a handful of movies that you like, then it is a worthwhile investment.

There was a movie out last year called "Grindhouse" where there are 2 main features (directed by Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez) which was an homage to cheesy 1970s low-budget films. If you liked this, then I would suspect that a lot of the movies in this package will be of interest to you.