Product Details

• Actors: Dean Fredericks, Brandon Lee, Paul Langton
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 12
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Mill Creek Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: March 23, 2004
• Run Time: 3912 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (107 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0001HAGU6
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,024 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "SciFi Classics 50 Movie Pack Collection" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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462 of 471 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Classic (but cheap!)? Try not to laugh too long., August 29, 2006

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Lonnie E. Holder "The Review's the Thing" (Columbus, Indiana, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SciFi Classics 50 Movie Pack Collection (DVD)

This collection of "classic" science fiction gets three stars for value because there are fifty movies for an incredibly low price. On the other hand, you get what you pay for. Some movies in this group almost rise to the level of classic; including a couple that surprised me. Most of these movies are Mystery Science Theater 3000 fodder, and many of them actually appeared on MST3000. Highlights, or lowlights, as you prefer:

The Incredible Petrified World: It is incredible that anyone actually paid to see this one in the theater. The acting qualifies as petrified.

Queen of the Amazons: The Amazons needed a man to save them, and us, from this awful movie.

Robot Monster: Now you can tell everyone that you know where moth-eaten gorilla suits go when they die.

She Gods of Shark Reef: Even Roger Corman had to be embarrassed by this one.

The Amazing Transparent Man: Actually almost a good movie. The special effects were okay.

The Atomic Brain: Show some scantily clad babes, slap the word atomic brain for a title and you have a brilliant science fiction movie; or not.

The Horrors of Spider Island: Women in their undies run around an island with guys and a spider chasing them. A sad end for all of us.

The Wasp Woman: Beware of former beauty queens taking non-FDA approved drugs.

Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet: Actually not bad; decent robot with a murky plot.

Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women: You take the footage of the previous film, make sure the babes all look like they just got ready for a film shoot, and you have a sequel, ta-da.

Kong Island: Sad. Very Sad. I wish I could take back these minutes of my life.

Attack of the Monsters: Gammera battles Guiron in a periodically funny Japanese monster movie.

Bride of the Gorilla: Now you know why Raymond Burr switched to being a lawyer.

Gammera the Invincible: Gammera learns to walk on two legs, and generally terrorizes Japan. What else is new? Still, you have to watch this one if you are a Gammera fan.

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians: Just when you think you've seen the worst you encounter this movie.

Teenagers from Outer Space: There are actually some interesting moments in this movie. It's a good thing they failed to discover malls.

Crash of Moons and Menace from Outer Space: Early television science fiction. I love the costumes on the ladies!

Hercules Against the Moon Men; Hercules and the Captive Women; Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon; and Hercules Unchained; not all were really Hercules, but for most it does not matter anyway.

The Lost Jungle Volumes 1 and 2: Great white hunter look silly in jungle.

Mesa of Lost Women: Lacks bite.

Assignment: Outer Space: Needs reassigned.

Laser Mission: This movie needs cut.

Killers from Space: Decent science fiction, in spite of periodic inanity.

Phantom from Space: Aliens are misunderstood in this movie, which is one of the better ones in this collection.

White Pongo: The gorilla suit from Bride of the Gorilla gets bleached. This movie is actually decent.

Snow Creature: Begins with promise and leaves you cold.

Devil of the Desert Against the Sons of Hercules: Actually watchable.

First Spaceship on Venus: Probably the last too.

Zontar-Thing from Venus: Attack of the...never mind.

The Astral Factor: Stefanie Powers is the only hot thing in this movie.

The Galaxy Invader: You might be a redneck if you are in this sad movie.

Battle of the Worlds: Battle of Staying Awake.

Unknown World: Interesting moments mixed with strange script lines.

Blood Tide: James Earl Jones, Jose Ferrer and Mary Louise Weller are doing fine until they encounter a cheesy monster.

The Brain Machine: Is brain dead.

Wild Women of Wongo: I ain't saying nothing.

Prehistoric Women: Hot hairdo women in caves.

They Came from Beyond Space: Considering that this movie is one of the best in this collection, I should be nice to it.

Warning from Space: Crams too many story lines into less than an hour and a half, but otherwise a decent movie.

Eegah: The prototype for the character Jaws in the James Bond movies, only living in a cave.

Planet Outlaws: It's Buck Rogers!

Phantom Planet: Has its moments, good, bad, and awful.

Colossus and the Amazon Queen: Rod Taylor in a funny sword and sandals movie; about as bad as it sounds.

Destroy All Planets: Gammera (or Gamera) trots about saving little boys that steal submarines and get captured by aliens.

Please forgive me if I missed a movie or two in this list. There are a lot of movies in this collection, so I might have overlooked one, either unintentionally or intentionally. If you are a big science fiction fan, you will enjoy many of these movies. Even the movies you find less than okay are good for one watch, and the price of this collection will keep your personal distress low. Good luck!

126 of 129 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 50 Flicks of Public Domain Goodness, April 27, 2007

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Charles J. Rector (Woodstock, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SciFi Classics 50 Movie Pack Collection (DVD)

SciFi Classics is a collection of 50 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.

Anyways, here is how I rate the movies in SciFi Classics:


Good:


The Amazing Transparent Man
Assignment: Outer Space
Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon
Hercules Unchained
Killers From Space
Laser Mission
Lost Jungle
Phantom From Space
The Phantom Planet
Planet Outlaws
Queen of the Amazons
The Wasp Woman
Zontar, the Thing From Venus



Average:


Colossus and the Amazon Queen
First Spaceship On Venus
Horrors of Spider Island
Robot Monster
She Gods of Shark Reef
They Came From Beyond Space
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet
Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women
Warning From Space
White Pongo


Bad:





The Astral Factor
Attack of the Monsters
The Atomic Brain
Battle of the Worlds
Blood Tide
The Brain Machine
Bride of the Gorilla
Cosmos: War of the Planets
Crash of the Moons
Destroy All Planets
Devil of the Desert vs. the Son of Hercules
Eegah
The Galaxy Invader
Gammera, the Invincible
Hercules Against The Moonmen
Hercules and the Captive Women
The Incredible Petrified World
King of Kong Island
Menace From Outer Space
Mesa of Lost Women
Prehistoric Women
Santa Claus Conquers The Martians
The Snow Creature
Son of Hercules
Teenagers From Outer Space
Unknown World
The Wild Women of Wongo


All in all, an incredible bargain.

46 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 15 bucks well spent, March 4, 2007

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Chuckles "elric13" (Davis, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: SciFi Classics 50 Movie Pack Collection (DVD)

Granted, what this compilation defines as "classic" is rather off-the-mark (unless you consider Ed Wood films as "classic" as well), for the money, this is a great collection of B-to-Z films. Being on the far side of 40, I remember many of these films from my Golden Age of broadcast television, especially the UHF weekend midnight movie showings that usually featured a really bad vampire as the host. And, yes, many of the films are NOT sci-fi in the strictest sense, yet many ARE straight-up low budget sci-fi films. As mentioned in other reviews, many (if not most) are instant MST3K fodder.
One thing I do want to specifically mention is that the collection, at least included in the 50-pack I got, DOES include the Ed Woodian classically bad "Robot Monsters." Mine has it titled as "The Robot Monster" on Disc 1, Side A, film 3. I was actually quite happy to finally be able to view this Z classic of the Earth-invading alien portrayed as a helmut-topped gorilla climbing up & down the same hill over and over again. CLASSIC!
I think other reviewers have covered the overall reviews of the films quite nicely, no need to cover old ground in that regard.
And again, for the money, I have no beef with the quality of the transfers and the sound quality. Certainly no worse than the UHF broadcasts of my youth. And at least this outfit has the class to NOT put their version of the utterly distracting logo icon of their company in the lower-right-corner of the screen as I've seen other public domain DVD releases do (hello, Kino, I'm talking to you).
For me at least, for many idle weekends to come, 15 bucks well spent.