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1957-1971 (PLEASE NOTE: These bundles cannot be used as part of The $98 Special or any other Sinister Cinema sale.) Here's a bundle of FIVE rock 'em sock 'em monster brawl classics, all filled with monstrous boogeymen and sinister fiends—and all for just $42 postpaid! You get:
1) ASSIGNMENT TERROR—Anamporphic Widescreen Edition (1969, Upgraded 12/30/20) Michael Rennie, Karin Dor, Paul Naschy, Craig Hill, Patty Shepard, Ferdinando Murolo, Gene Reyes. Rennie is an alien mad scientist whose race is out to conquer Earth. From a castle in Transylvania he revives legendary monsters to help him carry out this insane scheme. There are more monsters afoot than you can shake a stick at: Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolfman, and the Mummy all star (plus aliens Rennie and Dor). Kind of a Euro House of Frankenstein, filled with lots of schlocky, fun moments and some pretty cool lab scenes. Paul's wolfman ends up taking on, first the mummy, then Frankenstein. In fact, the Frankenstein vs. wolfman sequence really pays homage to Frankenstein meets the Wolfman (1943) with Paul leaping off of lab equipment and knocking the monster around. The whole bit with Dracula's revival is right out of House of Frankenstein. Dor wasn't too far removed from her success in You Only live Twice. Karin was so damn beautiful. It's too bad that her and Barbara Steele never worked together in a horror film—what a combo that would have been! Beautiful color, anamorphic widescreen from 35mm.
2) GAMERA VS. THE DEVIL BEAST GUIRON—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition (1969, Aka Attack of the Monsters) Nobuhiru Kajima, Miyuki Akiyama, Christopher Murphy, Yûko Hamada, Eiji Funakoshi. Aliens from a distant planet kidnap two Earth kids and fly them back to their home planet in an effort to lure Gamera into fighting another horrid monster known as Guiron. Guiron is one of the weirdest monsters you'll ever see. Will the two kids survive and make it back to Earth!? The fight scenes are decidedly campy, but still fun to watch. Very nice color, from 35mm.
3) THE INVISIBLE MAN VS. THE HUMAN FLY (1957, Upgraded 4/29/24) Ryuji Shinagawa, Shozo Southern, Junko Kano, Tsurumi Joji. What a cool B&W movie! A series of ghastly murders is being committed. The one similarity in each of the murders is that a weird buzzing sound is always heard right before the murder occurs. The murderer is actually a man who can shrink himself down to the size of a fly, then regain his full size right before he polishes off his victims. The shrinking formula is actually a secret weapon developed by the military during WWII that was stolen by a taken by a crazed war criminal However, a physicist has invented an invisibility ray and decides to become invisible and stop the murdering monster. Movies like this are what drive-in movie theaters were invented for. Great schlocky fun! In Japanese with English subtitles. From 35mm.
4) WEREWOLF VS. THE VAMPIRE WOMAN—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition (1970) Paul Naschy, Gaby Fuchs, Patty Shepard, Andres Resino, Barbara Capell. A couple of good-looking gals search the French countryside for an ancient witch/vampire, Countess Wandesa. They find her grave site at Paul's castle and before you know it, voila...the fiendish creature is revived. She turns one of the girls into a vampire who then goes on a terror spree. Enter Paul as the werewolf. Hard to believe some weird-looking dame vampire could take on Paul’s werewolf, but they manage to pull it off. The climactic battle scene is actually pretty decent. Great color, from 35mm.
5) HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition (1973, Updated 11/1/21) Paul Naschy, Rosanna Yanni, Alberto Dalbes, Maria Perschy, Vic Winner. Paul plays a ghastly hunchback whose only friend, a lady, dies suddenly, leaving Paul to the evil bidding of a mad doctor who promises to bring his gal back to life if Paul does his evil bidding. Lots of grisly murders follow in what is basically an old-fashioned monster movie. In the film's exciting climax the mad doctor's monstrous creation breaks loose and has a fight to the death with Paul; there's a vat of acid involved, too. Cool! Don't take it too seriously and you'll love it. Dalbes is in especially fine form as the mad Dr. Orla. Paul wrote the original story and helped with the screenplay. Rated R for nudity and violence. Nice color, from 35mm.
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