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Three Monster Tales of Sci-Fi Terror [2 X Blu-ray]
Man-Made Monster (1941) The Monolith Monsters (1957)
Monster on the Campus (1958)
A trio of chilling sci-fi tales from the vaults of Universal Pictures, starring
a number of genre legends including Lionel Atwill (Son of Frankenstein), Lon
Chaney, Jr. (The Wolf Man), and Grant Williams (The Incredible Shrinking Man). |
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Theatrical Release: March 28th, 1941 - December 17th, 1958
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Review: Eureka - Region 'B' - Blu-ray
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Runtime |
Man-Made Monster: 0:59:50.628 The Monolith Monsters: 1:17:18.175 Monster on the Campus: 1:16:34.047 |
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Video |
Man-Made Monster: 1. 33:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 42,742,850,285 bytesFeature: 18,338,157,120 bytesVideo Bitrate: 36.31 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
The Monolith Monsters: 2.0:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray Disc Size: 42,742,850,285 bytesFeature: 23,488,571,328 bytes Video Bitrate: 35.97 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
Monster on the Campus: 2.0:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray Disc Size: 47,357,274,669 bytesFeature: 23,271,449,664 bytes Video Bitrate: 35.98 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
Monster on the Campus 1. 33:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 47,357,274,669 bytesFeature: 23,265,589,440 bytes Video Bitrate: 35.98 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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LPCM
Audio English 2304 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps |
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Subtitles | English (SDH), None | |
Features |
Release Information: Studio: Eureka
Edition Details:
• Man-Made Monster – Brand new audio commentary with author Stephen
Jones and author / critic Kim Newman
Transparent Blu-ray Case inside Limited Edition O-Card Slipcase Chapters 6 / 8 / 8 |
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Blu-ray
disc.
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On their
Blu-ray,
Eureka use a linear PCM dual-mono tracks (24-bit) in the
original English language. Effects come through authentically flat but
the majority of the atmosphere and tension leans on the, often dramatic,
scores by
Hans J. Salter (Man
in the Shadow, Man
Without a Star,
The
Killer that Stalked New York, The
Strange Door,
Cover
Up, Man
Without a Star,
Scarlet Street,
The Land Unknown,
The War Lord,
The Mole People,
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx)
in Man-Made Monster with compositions by Irving Gertz (The
Incredible Shrinking Man,
Gun
For a Coward,
Curse
of the Undead, The
Leech Woman,
It Came From Outer Space,
Blonde Ice,
Plunder Road,
The Deadly Mantis)
Henry Mancini (Arabesque,
Days
of Wine and Roses,
Oklahoma
Crude,
Wait
Until Dark,
Operation Petticoat, Mr.
Hobbs Takes a Vacation, Experiment
in Terror, Charade)
and
Herman Stein (Horizons
West,
Six
Bridges to Cross,
Son
of Ali Baba, Man
in the Shadow,
Female
on the Beach,
This
Island Earth,
It Came From Outer Space,
War Arrow,
Tarantula,
There's Always Tomorrow)
used in
The Monolith Monsters
and stock music used by many
contemporaries in
Monster on the Campus. These always
add to the presentation and nice to hear them in clear, consistent
uncompressed transfers. Eureka offer optional English (SDH) subtitles on
their Region 'B'
Blu-ray.
The Eureka
Blu-ray
If I don't say it enough, I'm a huge fan of the 40's and 50's science-fiction
films. There is no defense of them as 'great cinema' but it's fun to
try. If I don't say it enough, I'm a huge fan of the 50's
science-fiction films. The Monolith Monsters may be my favorite
of the three as there is pragmatic Jack Arnold hokiness and
unintentional camp but that emboldens my appreciation. While it isn't a
creature-feature per-se it does have extraterrestrial meteorite
fragments that expand and kill - so it gets honorary status, IMO. Not
only does The Monolith Monsters have Grant Williams - notable for
sword fighting spiders in the inventive
The
Incredible Shrinking Man, but the same "California
Medical Research Institute" is cited in both films. |
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(aka "Man-Made Monster" or "The Electric Man" or "The Atomic Monster" or "The Mysterious Dr. R")
Directed by George Waggner
USA 1941
While Man-Made Monster is not one of the all-time great
horror films like many of its thirties and forties Universal Pictures
celluloid brethren, it is not without certain merits; in particular, it can
be viewed historically as the proving ground for one of Universal's
undisputed classics, The Wolf Man. Both filmed in 1941, Man-Made
Monster first teamed many of the people who would later collaborate on
The Wolf Man. Star Lon Chaney Jr., and director George Waggner are well known to
have gone on to make the furry opus, but many of the other talents that
reunited for the Wolf Man included some of Universal's stable of technicians
and artists like special effects wizard John P. Fulton (Frankenstein, The
Invisible Man, The Ten Commandments), makeup magician Jack Pierce
(Frankenstein, The Mummy), musical director Hans Salter (The Mummy's Hand,
Ghost of Frankenstein) and costumer Vera West (The Man Who Laughs, Son of
Frankenstein). Excerpt from Jason Jones review at Classic Horror located HERE |
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Shout! Factory (Universal Horror Collection:
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Shout! Factory (Universal Horror Collection:
Volume 3) - Region 'A' - Blu-ray
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(aka
"Monolith")
Directed by John Sherwood
USA 1957
The original 'rocky horror': a Jack Arnold-originated, quite effective Universal sci-fi paranoia yarn featuring the alien-induced metamorphosis of men to stone, and a subsequent stampede of towering crystal structures across small-town America. Grant Williams (The Incredible Shrinking Man) is again dwarfed by his adversaries, though he plays the only possible hero: a geologist. |
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(aka "Stranger on the Campus")
directed by
Jack ArnoldUSA 1958
In this sci-fi film, a college professor must deal with the cataclysmic consequences that ensue when a transmogrifying dragonfly bites a prehistoric fish from Madagascar. Soon after the bite, the strange fish becomes gigantic and begins passing on its new ability to morph all it comes in contact with back into their primal forms. When it bites a dog, the dog becomes a wolf. When some fish slime ends up in the professor's pipe, the professor put it to his lips, and he turns into a rampaging Neanderthal with a very large stone-axe that he freely wields around the terrified college campus. Bloody mayhem ensues. |
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