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Title:
Warner Brothers Cult Camp Classics: Volumes 1 Through 3
– Sci-Fi Thrillers, Women In Peril, Terrorized Travelers
Volume
1: Films Included: Attack Of The 50 FT. Woman, The Giant Behemoth, Queen Of
Outer Space
Volume
2: Films Included: The Big Cube, Caged!, TROG
Volume
3: Films Included: Skyjacked, Hot Rods To Hell, Zero Hour!
Region:
One
Genre:
Sci-Fi Camp/Thrillers
Languages:
English Stereo Surround and Mono
Subtitles:
English Subtitles For The Deaf And Hearing Impaired and French And Spanish
Language Subtitles Where Applicable
Packaging:
Three Amaray Keep Cases Within A Cardboard Slipcase
Sound:
Stereo Surround and Mono
Year
of Theatrical Releases: 1958, 1958, 1958/1968, 1977, 1969/1972, 1966, 1957/DVD
Release: 2007
Home
Video Distributor: Warner Home Video
MPAA
Rating: Not Rated/MPG/GP/PG (Where Applicable)
Reviewer:
Mark A. Rivera
In
addition to the Historical Epics set, Warner Home Video has released three more
volumes of Camp Classics DVD box sets under the themes Sci-Fi Thrillers, Women
In Peril, and Terrorized Travelers. They are a mixed lot that definitely are a
matter of personal taste, but generally Warner Home Video has treated each film
with their standard level of quality that is among the very best in DVDs and
some discs have more than just the film and a trailer. The Sci-Fi Thrillers Set
includes feature length audio commentaries by Film Historian Tom Weaver on Attack
Of The 50Ft. Woman and Queen Of Outer Space and Veteran Special
Effects Creators Dennis Muren and Phil Tippett on The Giant Behemoth.
With the exception of Peter Jackson’s special effects wizards at WETA,
Industrial Light & Magic alumni Dennis Muren and Phil Tippett have the kind
of name recognition that comes from working within George Lucas’
groundbreaking special effects warehouse with credits that would make any genre
film fan’s mouth water. In fact the only person alive at the time of this
writing whose name in special effects categorizes his work as a true grandmaster
beyond the men noted above is the legendary Ray Harryhausen and his mentor, the
great Willis O’Brian, who contributed to the effects for the radiated
paleosaurus. O’Brian’s legendary work on the original King Kong
inspired not only effects masters like Harryhausen, but renowned Writer Ray
Bradbury and Filmmaker Peter Jackson among many others. The Giant Behemoth
also includes a clear English Mono Soundtrack as well English Subtitles For The
Deaf And Hearing Impaired, which in fact is a standard on all of the 12 films
included in all four volumes of this series. French Subtitles are also included
on all of the releases and Caged! Has Spanish Language Subtitles too.
The
Sci-Fi Thrillers set also includes Attack Of The 50FT. Woman, which is
legendary alone perhaps for the famous one-sheet art and was even remade decades
later with Daryl Hannah in 1993. Queen Of Outer Space stars Zsa Zsa Gabor
and is the only film in the Sci- Fi Thrillers set that is in color. Attack Of
50FT. Woman and The Giant Behemoth are presented in matted widescreen
aspect ratios while Queen Of Outer Space is presented in a (2.35:1)
anamorphic widescreen aspect ratio. Yvette Vickers joins Film Historian Tom
Weaver on Attack Of The 50FT. Woman while Laurie Mitchell adds comments
to Weaver’s track on Queen Of Outer Space.
The
second and third volumes feature matted widescreen aspect ratio presentations on
The Big Cube, TROG, Zero Hour!, and Hot Rods To Hell. Caged
is presented in a (1.33:1) aspect ratio while Skyjacked is presented
in an anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) aspect ratio and is the only film to
feature a Stereo Soundtrack. The rest have Mono Soundtracks. Warner
Brothers Cult Camp Classics: Volumes 1 Through 3
– Sci-Fi Thrillers, Women In Peril, Terrorized Travelers
are available on DVD-Video now at retailers on and offline courtesy of Warner
Home Video.
©
Copyright 2007 By Mark A. Rivera
All Rights Reserved.