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Universal Horror Collection: Volume 6
The Black
Castle (1952) Cult of
the Cobra (1955)
The Thing That Couldn't Die (1958) The
Shadow of the Cat (1961)
NOTE: The Shout! Factory Blu-ray of Shadow of the Cat is compared to the Indicator Blu-ray HERE
NOTE: The Eureka Blu-ray of The Black Castle is compared to this Blu-ray HERE
Volume 6 of the Universal Horror Collection includes four tales of terror from the archives of Universal Pictures, the true home of classic horror. Boris Karloff stars as a doctor who risks his own life to save the captives of a mad count in The Black Castle. Vengeance is sworn against six men who witness a ceremony where beautiful women turn into serpents in Cult Of The Cobra. In The Thing That Couldn't Die, when a young psychic discovers a box that contains the living head of an executed devil worshiper ... heads will roll! A cat witnesses the murder of her owner ... and this cat is hell-bent on revenge in The Shadow Of The Cat. |
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Theatrical Release: November 20th, 1952 - May 1st, 1961
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Runtime |
The Black Castle: 1:21:34.389 Cult of the Cobra (1955): 1:19:59.085 The Thing That Couldn't Die (1958): 1:09:18.070 The Shadow of the Cat (1961) : 1:18:41.633 |
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The Black Castle (1952) 1. 37:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 28,415,005,878 bytesFeature: 24,002,469,888 bytes Video Bitrate: 3 6.00 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
Cult of the Cobra (1955) 1.85 :1 1080P Single-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 24,528,515,570 bytesFeature: 23,534,518,272 bytes Video Bitrate: 36.00 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
The Thing That Couldn't Die (1958) 1.85 :1 1080P Single-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 20,789,057,551 bytesFeature: 20,386,959,360 bytes Video Bitrate: 3 6.00 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
The Shadow of the Cat (1961) 1.66 :1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 29,599,187,296 bytesFeature: 23,154,757,632 bytes Video Bitrate: 36.00 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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DTS-HD Master Audio English 1064 kbps 1.0 / 48 kHz / 1064 kbps / 24-bit (DTS
Core: 1.0 / 48 kHz / 768 kbps / 24-bit) Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps |
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Subtitles | English (SDH), None | |
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Release Information: Studio: Shout! Factory
Edition Details:
The Black Castle (1952)
Standard Thick Blu-ray Case inside slipcase Chapters 12 X 4 |
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NOTE: The Shout! Factory Blu-ray of Shadow of the Cat is compared to the Indicator Blu-ray HERE
NOTE: The Eureka Blu-ray of The Black Castle is compared to this Blu-ray HERE
NOTE:
The below
Blu-ray
captures were taken directly from the
Blu-ray
disc.
ADDITION: Shout! Factory
Blu-ray
(April 2020): Shout! Factory have transferred Universal Horror
Collection: Volume 6
to four separate Blu-rays which
include The Black Castle (1952), Cult of the Cobra (1955),
The Thing That Couldn't Die (1958) and The Shadow of the Cat
(1961). They are all Each image has a max'ed out, flat-line, bitrates. They all look quite strong - no damage and some impressive close-up detail, especially, in Cult of the Cobra and The Black Castle. I don't have much to add to simply viewing the full-res screen captures; they look good in 1080P, no digitization, appreciated film textures. We compared both Cult of the Cobra and The Shadow of the Cat to the respective DVDs (UK Pal Shadow covered HERE) and it is 'nessun contesto'. The Thing That Couldn't Die looks the weakest, but its wholly watchable.
NOTE: We have added 120 more large
resolution Blu-ray captures
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On their
Blu-ray,
Shout! Factory use a DTS-HD Master dual-mono track (24-bit) track in the
original English language. In The Black Castle some may recognize
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik [K.525]. In
Cult of the Cobra it's, uncredited, score is from Irving Gertz
(Plunder
Road,
It Came From Outer Space,
Blonde Ice and
The Deadly Mantis
among others) ), William Lava
(Moonrise,
S.O.S.
Tidal Wave,
War
Arrow, The
Night Riders,
Retreat, Hell!), Lou
Maury and Stanley Wilson
who composed for many 40's and 50's westerns like
Ride a Crooked Trail,,
Woman They Almost Lynched and as well as Republic serials
Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe,
The Invisible Monster
and
Flying Disc Man from Mars.
The Shout! Factory
Blu-ray
I wasn't very keen on
Universal Horror Collection
Volume 5 |
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The Black Castle (1952)
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Cult of the Cobra (1955)
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The Shadow of the Cat (1961)
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