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Summary: Skip This One
Review: Even the low price tag on this one is an insult. Two of these films are terrible Itallion zombie films. One of them, House by the Cemetary, is a decent horror film, but buy the Anchorbay release, which is restored and in widescreen. I bought this package mainly because it had Night of the Ghoul (original title was The Ghoul). My old, hacked up vhs tape has an original ten minutes that this dvd has cut out. These appear to be badly release Public Domain versions of these films. Don't bother.
Rating:
Summary: Skip This One
Review: Even the low price tag on this one is an insult. Two of these films are terrible Itallion zombie films. One of them, House by the Cemetary, is a decent horror film, but buy the Anchorbay release, which is restored and in widescreen. I bought this package mainly because it had Night of the Ghoul (original title was The Ghoul). My old, hacked up vhs tape has an original ten minutes that this dvd has cut out. These appear to be badly release Public Domain versions of these films. Don't bother.
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Summary: Don't listen to those other "elitist" reviewers
Review: Hey, for "the money" what do you think you're getting, Citizen Kane??? And besides, these are zombie movies, like they're going to have excellent plots and superb character development. Get real. Grab some friends and watch a couple of "bad" movies and make fun of them.
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Summary: 3/4 Of A Good Deal...
Review: OK, 4 movies for the price of one can't be bad, right? Well... Disc #1 features HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB, a sadistically entertaining creeper about a satanic couple who come back to haunt the descendants of their executioners. Lots of blood. Tons of nudity. Paul Naschy plays a dual role as the chubby good guy and the chubby bad guy. Next up is ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS, a flat, dull, hideously acted pile of doggy-do. The zombies are not menacing or even remotely scary. They are shambling halloween skeletons from K Mart! Their "ghost ship" is a miniature boat, so horridly filmed, that I laughed out loud every time they showed it bobbing along! Disc #2 starts out with ZOMBIE HELL HOUSE (aka: House By The Cemetery by Fulci). This movie has it's high points as well as crashing lows. The gore is over-the-top, as is Fulci's way. The acting is mediocre. I did like Dr. Freudstein, the zombie in the basement. He's well done, but there's not nearly enough of him! And that kid was more annoying than an icepick to the forehead! Finally, we have NIGHT OF THE GHOUL. I like this flick! Lotsa murder and mayhem. Gore galore. Peter Cushing seems befuddled and in pain. John Hurt is good as the nutty guy in the shed. I got some genuine scares out of this one. Also, characters died that I figured would save the day. All in all, worth the cheap price...
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Summary: I miss my 10 dollars already
Review: Ok. I love zombie movies. They are goofy and sinister with nice gore, usually. I saw some of the titles on the back of the box but I did not recognize any of them. The descriptive paragraphs for each of the films were interesting, or so I thought. I was especially interested in seeing Zombie Hell House. Of course I did not realize that it was the House by the Cemetary which I already owned, so there goes 3 or so of the dollars I spent on the darn DVD pack. I stopped the DVD and flipped it over to see Night of the Ghoul. It sounded pretty interesting, so I watched it. I felt like I was in a dentist's office waiting for an appointment. I then watched, finally, Zombie Flesh Eaters. UGH. It really sounded interesting on the box. DONT LET THAT FOOL YOU. I was hoping beyond hope a goofy Italian version of Ghost Ship (which is a wonderful wonderful film). I was very disapointed. Hardly any good gore and storyline. Oh well. I have yet to watch Horror Rises from the Tomb. I dont think I plan to either.
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Summary: I miss my 10 dollars already
Review: Ok. I love zombie movies. They are goofy and sinister with nice gore, usually. I saw some of the titles on the back of the box but I did not recognize any of them. The descriptive paragraphs for each of the films were interesting, or so I thought. I was especially interested in seeing Zombie Hell House. Of course I did not realize that it was the House by the Cemetary which I already owned, so there goes 3 or so of the dollars I spent on the darn DVD pack. I stopped the DVD and flipped it over to see Night of the Ghoul. It sounded pretty interesting, so I watched it. I felt like I was in a dentist's office waiting for an appointment. I then watched, finally, Zombie Flesh Eaters. UGH. It really sounded interesting on the box. DONT LET THAT FOOL YOU. I was hoping beyond hope a goofy Italian version of Ghost Ship (which is a wonderful wonderful film). I was very disapointed. Hardly any good gore and storyline. Oh well. I have yet to watch Horror Rises from the Tomb. I dont think I plan to either.
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Summary: P.U.
Review: The first disc looks as though its been translated from a foreign film. Their mouths move but the words don't match. Disc 2 is not to bad but I bet Peter Cushing hated himself for making this one.
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Summary: Only a true horror fan would notice!
Review: The third movie in this collection (Zombi at Hell House) is a Lucio Fulci classic.....if purchased alone it would cost much more than all four of these together."renamed" (look it up.....The House By The Cemetery) With that included along with a Peter Cushing film, most of which impossible to find, who could complain? If you call yourself a true horror fan you should be ashamed for slighting Cushing or Fulci.
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Summary: Hrm.
Review: This is an alright deal. If you've read the other reviews, you already know that Zombie Hell House is a Lucio Fulci movie. The other three are abominable, but good for having friends over to make fun of.
Horror Rises from The Tomb-- Simply hilarious. I wathced this and couldn't stop laughing because I thought the evil guy looked like Jack Black. There's some gore, but mostly it's nudity nudity nudity. I'm pretty sure that every woman in this movie ends up naked. Except for one, but the two evildoers do feel her up a whole bunch. Overall, a wacky movie, good for making fun of.
Zombie Flesh Eater-- OMG. I looked it up, and apparently this is just part of a series. I read some reviews of the other movies, most of them good. I don't see how anything in a series with this movie could be at all good. This one is another one that is great for making fun of. There's a scene with a woman getting dragged away by zombies. The look on her face is such terrible acting, and it looks like she's wrapping her lips around her teeth (you know like little kids do to pretend to be old people). Maybe the director thought this would look more realistic? Make it look like the zombies knocked her teeth out? Dunno. It's bad.
Zombie Hell House-- More like Lucio Fulci's House by the Cemetary. This is why I say this is a good deal. I get this, which I wouldn't pay more than $6 for, plus three other movies, even if I just make fun of the others. This won't matter to anyone who doesn't know or appreciate Fulci, though.
Night of the Ghoul-- Peter Cushing is good. This movie is not. That's all there is to it. I don't ever want to watch this movie again.
Overall, it's an alright deal if you like Fulci and get enough chance to make fun of movies. If you're just looking to maybe get some half-decent older horror with a good deal, look elsewhere. The "Horror Classics" series that they sell at Best Buy is pretty good.
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Summary: Ugly transfers, mediocre films
Review: This is my first purchase of a Brentwood Home Video release and it will be my last. Although you can't beat the price, you should know a few things before you plop down your money:All four of the movies in this collection have been transferred from poor videotape sources that look no better than a consumer VHS purchased in the 1980s! The prints are often faded and the images are sometimes blurry. So what's on the DVDs? You may be surprised, because 3 of the 4 films have been retitled for no apparent reason, except perhaps to attach a 2002 copyright date to them. First up, on Disc 1, is the 1973 Spanish thriller HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB (oddly titled HORROR FROM THE TOMB on-screen, eliminating the word RISES). This full-screen, English-dubbed film (also known as "El Espanto Surge de la Tumba" and "Mark of the Devil 4") has nice moments of gore and surprising full frontal female nudity. Paul Naschy stars. While the script isn't the brightest bulb on the block, the movie can be quite entertaining. Next is ZOMBIE FLESH EATER (the on-screen title) or ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS (plural, the title on the DVD box). Take your pick. Either way, the movie is really EL BUQUE MALDITO, a thriller shot in 1973 but unreleased until 1975, from Spanish director Armando Ossori, who made the infinitely superior "Tombs of the Blind Dead." In fact, one of the alternate titles for this film is "Blind Dead 3," not to mention "The Ghost Galleon," "Ghost Ships of the Blind Dead," "Horror of the Zombies" and "Ship of Zombies," most of which make better titles. While Ossori's fabulous slow-moving monk-like zombies reappear in this film, the script is so inane the movie plays like jaw-dropping camp more than a horror film. Gore is minimal, sex is threatened but never really seen. The full-screen, English-dubbed image is just dreadful, though the ghost ship on which the zombies 'live' is quite beautifully designed. Disc 2 begins with a murky, unpleasant transfer of ZOMBIE HELL HOUSE, which, it turns out, is actually a re-titling of Lucio Fulci's 1981 thriller HOUSE BY THE CEMETARY. This is the only film of the four to be letterboxed, but it still looks bad. Because Anchor Bay has a much better version of this film available, I did not bother to watch Brentwood's version once I discovered what it really was. The last title in this four-pack is called NIGHT OF THE GHOUL. Not to be confused with Ed Wood's film of a similar name, this is actually the 1965 British production THE GHOUL (aka "The Thing in the Attic") starring Peter Cushing and John Hurt. I found the film to be insufferably dull, despite Cushing's always masterful presence. Presented full-screen.
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