For at the first try ever, eight of the most well known film works of art of the scary category are available together on Blu-ray™ as Worldwide Traditional Monsters: The Important Choice debuts on Oct 2, 2012 from Worldwide Companies House Enjoyment. Electronically renewed from great quality film elements in ideal high-definition image and ideal high-definition sound for at the first try ever, Worldwide Traditional Monsters: The Important Choice brings together the very best of Universal's well known monsters-imaginative and officially modern stories of fear that launched a exclusively American film category.
This specified collection functions eight films on Blu-ray™, a vintage 48-page book presenting behind-the-scenes images, unique images, communication and much more. Each well known film is associated with an array of extra functions that tell the amazing tale of its development and record, such as behind-the-scenes documentaries, film maker commentaries, meetings, storyboards, exhibits, and trailer. Especially attractive for lovers are a never-before-seen featurette about the recovery of Dracula and the first ever offering of Monster from the Black Lagoon in its renewed Blu-ray™ 3D edition.
From the era of quiet films through the existing day, Worldwide Images has been regarded as the property of the creatures. Worldwide Traditional Monsters: The Important Choice awards the studio's success with the most well known creatures in motion-picture record such as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Unseen Man, Woman of Frankenstein, The Hair Man, Phantom of the Safari and Monster from the Black Lagoon. Featuring shows by stories of the scary category, such as Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney, Jr., Claude Down pours and Elsa Lanchester, these eight well known films also function modern computer graphics and modern cosmetics that continue to impact filmmakers into the Twenty first century. Sure to be a Halloween favorite for decades to come, Worldwide Traditional Monsters: The Important Choice is the ideal gift for film lovers and scary lovers as well.
Synopses and Bonus Features
Dracula (1931)
The unique 1931 film edition of Bram Stoker's classic tale has for years described the well known look and frightening personality of the well known creature of the night. Dracula owes its ongoing appeal mainly due to Bela Lugosi's marked reflection of the underworld Count Dracula and the perfect direction of scary auteur Tod Lightly browning. The Worldwide Traditional Monsters: The Important Choice includes the unique edition of this cooling and evocative tale, as well as the hardly ever seen Real spanish language edition of Dracula. Shot at the same time with the English language edition, the Real spanish language edition of Dracula is an similarly threatening perspective of the scary classic shot with the same places and program. Cinematographer Henry Johnson and a vivid throw such as Carlos Villarias and Lupita Tovar deliver a cooling and evocative tale filled with the same fear, secret, and interest.
Bonus Features:
Dracula, the 1931 Real spanish language edition, with Launch by Lupita Tovar Kohner
The Road to Dracula
Lugosi: The Black Prince
Dracula: The Renewal – New Featurette Available for The First Time!
Monster Tracks: Entertaining Pop-Up Details About the Creating of Dracula
Dracula Archives
Score by John p Glass performed by the Kronos Quartet
Feature Comments by Film Historian Mark J. Skal
Feature Comments by Bob Haberman, Film writer of Dracula: Dead and Adoring It
Trailer Gallery
Frankenstein (1931)
Boris Karloff celebrities as the screen's most terrible and well known creature in what many consider to be the greatest scary film ever created. Dr. Mom Frankenstein (Colin Clive) dares to mess with the fundamental nature of lifestyle and death by developing a creature (Karloff) out of inactive human parts of the body. Movie director Wayne Whale's variation of the Betty Shelley novel and Karloff's thoughtful reflection of a creature groping for identification create Frankenstein a amazing work of art.
Bonus Features:
The Frankenstein Files: How Specialist Created Monster
Karloff: The Soothing Monster
Monster Tracks: Entertaining Pop-Up Details About The Creating of Frankenstein
Universal Horror
Frankenstein Archives
Boo!: A Short Film
Feature Comments with Film Historian Rudy Behlmer
Feature Comments with Historian Sir Captain christopher Frayling
100 Years Of Universal: Reestablishing the Classics
Trailer Gallery
The Mummy (1932)
Horror symbol Boris Karloff celebrities in the unique 1932 edition of The Mummy in which a team of English archaeologists unintentionally revives a mummified great clergyman after 3,700 decades. In existence again, he places out on an obsessive-and deadly-quest to find his lost love. Over 50 decades after its first release, this brooding dream-like scary classic remains a film work of art.
Bonus Features:
Mummy Dearest: A Horror Custom Unearthed
He Who Made Monsters: The Life and Art Of Port Pierce
Unraveling the History of The Mummy
The Mummy Archives
Feature Comments by John Chef, Scott Essman, Bob Haberman, Bob Uses up and Brent Armstrong
Feature Comments by Film Historian John M. Jensen
100 Years Of Universal: The Carl Laemmle Era
Trailer Gallery
The Unseen Man (1933)
Claude Down pours provides an memorable efficiency in his screen first appearance as a strange doctor who finds a serum that makes him invisible. Covered by bandages and dark eyeglasses, Down pours comes in a small English town and efforts to cover up his amazing development, but the drug's adverse reactions slowly drive him to make functions of unspeakable fear. Based on H.G. Welles' classic novel and instructed by the master of macabre, Wayne Whale, The Unseen Man motivated a host of sequels and functions modern computer graphics that are still replicated today.
Bonus Features:
Now You See Him: The Unseen Man Revealed
Production Photographs
Feature Comments with Film Historian Rudy Behlmer
100 A lot of Universal: Unforgettable Characters
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
The recommended follow up to the unique Frankenstein has become one of the most popular scary oldies in film record. The well known Boris Karloff reprises his role as the screen's most misinterpreted creature, now desiring a companion of his own. Colin Clive is returning as the extremely pleased and far too serious Dr. Frankenstein, who makes the ill-fated bride (Elsa Lanchester). The last scary film instructed by Wayne Whale functions a haunting musical technology ranking that would create The Woman of Frankenstein one of the best and most in contact with thrillers of its era.
Bonus Features:
She's Alive! Creating The Woman Of Frankenstein
The Woman Of Frankenstein Archive
Feature Comments with Scott MacQueen
100 A lot of Universal: Reestablishing the Classics
Trailer Gallery
The Hair Man (1941)
Originally launched in 1941, The Hair Man presented the planet to a new Worldwide film creature and expanded the belief of the werewolf permanently. With a terrible efficiency by Lon Chaney Jr. and modern make-up by Port Cut, The Hair Man is the tale of Ray Talbot, a cursed man who changes into a dangerous werewolf when the celestial satellite is full. The dreamlike environments, intricate configurations and cooling musical technology ranking incorporate to create The Hair Man a work of art of the category.
Bonus Features:
Monster by Moonlight
The Hair Man: From Historical Bane to Modern Myth
Pure in Heart: The Life and History of Lon Chaney, Jr.
He Who Made Monsters: The Life and Art of Port Pierce
The Hair Man Archives
Feature Comments with Film Historian Tom Weaver
100 A lot of Universal: The Lot
Trailer Gallery
Phantom of the Safari (1943)
This luxurious retelling of Gaston Leroux's underworld scary tale celebrities Claude Down pours as the hidden phantom who places the London Safari House. A crazy musician who systems to create beautiful young soprano Christine DuBois (Susanna Foster) the star of the opera organization, the Phantom also wreaks vengeance on those he considers took his music. Nelson Eddy, as the brave baritone, tries to win the love of Christine as he paths down the murderous, badly damaged Phantom.
Bonus Features:
The Safari Ghost: A Phantom Unmasked
Production Photographs
Feature Comments with Film Historian Scott MacQueen
100 A lot of Universal: The Lot
Theatrical Trailer
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Captured and caught for study, a living "amphibious losing link" becomes in love with the head researcher's women associate (Julie Adams). When the horrible creature goes out and kidnaps the item of his passion, a campaign is launched to save the hopeless woman and throw the frightening creature returning to the absolute depths from which he came. Featuring well known cosmetics artist Bud Westmore's exceptionally designed creature, Monster from the Black Lagoon is an battling respect to the creative professional of its Specialist makers.
Bonus Features:
The Monster From The Black Lagoon in 3D
Back to The Black Lagoon
Production Photographs
Feature Comments with Film Historian Tom Weaver
100 A lot of Universal: The Lot
Trailer Gallery
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
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Street Date: 10/2/2012
Copyright: 2012 Worldwide Companies. All Rights Set aside.
Selection Numbers: 61123308 (US); 61123470 (Canada)
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