Overall, A Very Average Product
This review will be short so it won't take too much of your time and it will say everything you need to know to buy, or not, this collection, except for a complete list of the movies.
Quantity of movies : Amazing. 250 movies in one single collection. It is awesome.
Quality of movies : Average. Most of the movies here are considered to be between 1 and 5 on 10. There are no real masterpieces except for "Nosferatu", "The Hunchback Of Notre Dame" [with Lon Chaney], "The Phantom Of The Opera" [also with Lon Chaney], "White Zombie" [with Bela Lugosi] & "Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari". Some other notables movies are from Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Vincent Price & Lon Chaney, Jr. Yes, you get "Bowery At Midnight" but it is not the restoration that his son, Bela Lugosi, Jr., produced a while ago now.
Rarrity of movies : Yes, a lot of movies are rare. Some are out of print or have never been issued on DVD at all before. You get some classics but you also get less known movies like "Eegah", "Santa Claus Conquers The Martians", "The Killer Shrews" & many others.
Quality of image : Average. 2 movies, sometimes 3, on each side of a DVD. This reduces the quality of the image a lot for some movies. There are no restorations. What you see are sometimes VHS quality movies and sometimes even less.
Quality of sound : Average at best. Some movies are great, some are okay but some others are hell. We can't hear a thing and it can be frustrating. The sound quality of really bad.
Extras : Hell. There are no extras, not even something some people will really need : English subtitles. No English subtitles so no other language, like French or Spanish, is present. It really needed subtitles because of the bad quality of the sound sometimes.
Packaging : Average. You get one little box inside a bigger box and a very cheap package. There is no real protection for the DVDs, like in a real box. The only good thing about the package, besides the fact that it doesn't take a lot of space, is the box that contains the little box, with the faces of many great stars of the greatest era in movie history.
Price : Awesome. For 250 movies, you get more than you pay for.
Product Name : Bad. Half of those movies are science fiction movies, not horror. It should have been called something like "The 250 Movie Collection" and nothing else.
All in all, it is worth it for the many movies and the cheap price but if you can get the individual movies elsewhere, don't get them here. Don't buy the boxed set for the masterpieces like "Nosferatu" or the Lon Chaney movies because all of them are available elsewhere with a better quality.Read full review
