Universal Monsters

[Vartha]

After Sir Christopher Lee's passing I got to thinking "I don't have a single Classic Monster movie in my collection!"
Well low and behold,

Walmart had this and the Creature of the Black Lagoon for $16.96. I'm hoping for the Wolfman set soon

 

[Iron_Stark]

I bought these back in 2004 before Van Helsing came out. Then got The Mummy and The Creature from the Black Lagoon when they were released.

These are greatness.

 

[Lord]

Are those Blu-Rays? I picked the four sets that came out when Van Helsing was about to come out, though i haven't finished most of them, i didn't even get to the crossover period.

 

[Fallen Angel]

That collection is worth it.

I have all of them bar the Invisible Man.

 

[Defacto]

The bonus features and specially the commentaries are really good. Luv em.

 

[Vartha]

I've only seen them in dvd format at Walmart Lord. I saw the bust sets on-line not sure I want them as cool as they are, I don't have room lol
I want the Wolfman Legacy BAD. It was my favorite as a kid.

 

[Vartha]

The bonus features and specially the commentaries are really good. Luv em.

That's why I love these sets lol I used to READ the interviews in Monster mags. lol

 

[dude stannis]

I've got the Blu Ray box set. It's pretty great.

 

[Matt Mortem]

I love love love my blu ray box set of the Universal Monsters. The only gripe I have with it is I wish the version of Phantom of the Opera included was the original Lon Chaney one and not the Claude Rains version, which was just too goofy for my tastes.

 

[Vartha]

If I remember right, the Lon Chaney Hunchback was hard to find too

 

[Matt Mortem]

If I remember right, the Lon Chaney Hunchback was hard to find too

Yep. I've never seen a copy out in the wild. They should have included it.

 

[Vartha]

I checked you tube just out of curiosity and Found the Lon Chaney Hunchback

 

[Vartha]

FINALLY found a copy of Wolf-Man on bluray, but it's not the Legacy version

 

[C. Lee]

I got the UNIVERSAL box sets back when Van Helsing was coming out. They were in a hard box that opened like a book and inserted in a paper covering. The covering piece started tearing from removing and replacing the hard box, so I eventually threw that part away. They have great copies of the movies and nice extras with commentary and such. I highly recommend them.

I have old DVDs of Lon Chaney's Hunchback and Phantom of the opera (as well as the original NOSFERATU). I bought them cheap when DVDs were first coming out decades ago (a lot of stuff was released back then that is out of print now). I haven't seen any recent releases of these movies...so they may be hard to find.

 

[Matt Mortem]

I still need to get my hands on that huge DVD box set of all the Universal Monster films. I've got the blu ray set, but my collection is incomplete without the rest.

 

[Fallen Angel]

Still need The Invisible Man damn you.

 

[Peyton Westlake]

Now that Dracula Untold has come out [not sure if anyone thinks it was good or not] but isn't Universal gearing up for a shared universe for all their horror characters?

 

[Fallen Angel]

Now that Dracula Untold has come out [not sure if anyone thinks it was good or not] but isn't Universal gearing up for a shared universe for all their horror characters?

Yes.

Originally Dracula Untold was supposed to be it's own thing but Universal decided they wanted a shared Monster universe so the end scene in DU was added. But DU wasn't a hit so I'm not sure if it will carry onto The Mummy reboot which is next.

 

[Peyton Westlake]

Yes.

Originally Dracula Untold was supposed to be it's own thing but Universal decided they wanted a shared Monster universe so the end scene in DU was added. But DU wasn't a hit so I'm not sure if it will carry onto The Mummy reboot which is next.

I just looked at combined domestic & foreign box office for DU & it was at
$ 216.8 million. I never know if thats looked at success or not. Doesnt seem too bad when same site factored in $17.3 million for DVD/Blu ray sales, bringing total to $234.1 million.

 

[Lord]

My guess is that Mummy will insert its oun shared universe lead ins, but they'll wait to see how successful it is in order to know if adding Dracula Untold as part of its universe will help or just drag it down.

 

[Fallen Angel]

I just looked at combined domestic & foreign box office for DU & it was at
$ 216.8 million. I never know if thats looked at success or not. Doesnt seem too bad when same site factored in $17.3 million for DVD/Blu ray sales, bringing total to $234.1 million.

Those numbers do look good but word was Universal weren't happy.

I guess we'll need more info from The Mummy to determine if it is in the same universe as Dracula Untold.

 

[Matt Mortem]

I hope they keep Dracula Untold as part of that new canon. Sure, it wasn't a great film, but Luke Evans was a really solid Dracula IMO.

 

[Lord]

I just looked at combined domestic & foreign box office for DU & it was at
$ 216.8 million. I never know if thats looked at success or not. Doesnt seem too bad when same site factored in $17.3 million for DVD/Blu ray sales, bringing total to $234.1 million.

According to boxofficemojo, it might be enough to start a modest franchise.

 

[Brian Braddock]

Not to be pedantic, but if the passing of Sir Christopher Lee as an inspiration to buy horror movies , shouldn't the collection concerned be HAMMER movies, not Universal?

The HAMMER movies are awesome.

 

[Lord]

The Universal Horror films were the first horror films i watched, i have yet to watch Hammer horror films, what were the best ones? Was it like Universal where quality droped more and more after their first monsters started getting too many sequels?