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Horror Classics Vol. 2: Indestructible Man/The Amazing Transparent Man
Starring:
Lon Chaney Jr. ,
Max Showalter ,
Marian Carr ,
Ross Elliott , and
Stuart Randall
Director:
Jack Pollexfen , and
Edgar G. Ulmer
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ASIN: 6305436401
Release Date: 1999-10-26 |
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The Indestructible Man stars bearish horror movie icon Lon Chaney Jr. as the vicious "Butcher" Benton, a notorious killer and bank robber on death row who swears to take revenge on his backstabbing lawyer and double-crossing partners. When his corpse is brought back to life in a secret experiment, mute but monstrously strong and impervious to bullets, he's suddenly in a position to carry out his threat and scoop up the loot he hid from his last job. Meanwhile, investigating cop Robert Shayne, who dryly narrates Dragnet style, leads the hunt to catch him before he kills again. The Los Angeles location shooting, including scenes in the underground sewer system and a climactic showdown at a power plant, and Chaney's lumbering, lurching performance (a kind of urban Frankenstein's monster) bring a little character to an otherwise drab thriller.
B movie auteur Edgar G. Ulmer directs The Amazing Transparent Man, another science-fiction-tinged crime thriller. In the film's handsomely shot introduction, Douglas Kennedy is sprung from prison to help an ambitious crime lord (James Griffith) with his master plan to take over the world with his new invisibility formula. But tough-talking thug Kennedy is no man's patsy, and the two double-cross each other. The slim 60-minute feature is stuck with a leaden script and silly twists, but the film looks better than it has any right to and Ulmer directs with a brisk pace, ending the picture (thanks to the wonders of stock footage) with an apocalyptic bang! --Sean Axmaker
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Adequate if unremarkable DVD two-fer of minor SF cheapies.......2002-02-01
Indestructible Man is probably the most familiar, and beloved, of producer-director Jack Pollexfen's poverty-row epics (Neanderthal Man, Daughter of Dr. Jekyll, Atomic Brain). Pollexfen's name in the credits always means you're in no-budget-land. Another clue this time out is the preponderance of narration (indicating an absence of synch sound, of course). The movie gets what little rep it has from the casting of Lon Chaney as back-from-the-dead killer `The Butcher' Benton, although he actually looks rather thin and haggard here (he was no doubt drinking heavily at the time), and not very threatening at all. Or as the narrator says, "like any normal person on his way to work." Robert Shayne (Neanderthal Man, Inspector Henderson on Superman) makes a brief appearance as "mad" Professor Bradshaw (assisted by Joe "Captain Binghamton" Flynn) resuscitating The Butcher; bland Casey Adams/Max Showalter (Monster that Challenged the World, Niagara) is Lt. Dick Chasen the flatfoot hero; and Ross Elliott (Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Monster on the Campus) plays a sleazy lawyer. The movie tries for trash appeal by making The Butcher's ex-girlfriend Eva (Marion Carr) a burlesque performer, but her sweet-and-innocent manner totally undercuts any bad-girl ambience that might have been generated. Overall the movie is a bit on the dull side, with a few laughs, and a modicum of bad-movie charm. Cinematography is by John L. (Jack) Russell (Hitchcock's Psycho; Thriller TV series), though you're unlikely to be impressed by the source print: it's fairly grainy, with a slightly soft, `dupey' look, and respectable if unremarkable grayscale, brightness, contrast, and shadow/highlight detail. There is also light-to-moderate speckling, scratching, and blemishing throughout, and the sound is merely OK, a bit on the muddy side at times. Kind of makes you wonder what exactly Roan "restored." (The box claims the movies to be "digitally mastered and restored from original film elements." ?!?). Not nearly as nice as some of their other releases (e.g. Svengali, Horror Hotel), if not disastrous either.
The Amazing Transparent Man was cult director Edgar G. Ulmer's final American film and it pretty much feels like a last gasp (it's not nearly as much fun as Beyond the Time Barrier). The mostly no-name cast ranges from annoying (loud, abrasive Douglas Kennedy as safecracker Joey Faust) to cloying (Dr. Ulof [familiar character actor Ivan Triesault] and his daughter Maria). The script is an odd mix of gangster movie cliches, soap opera melodramatics, late 50s topicality (Cold War/espionage subplotting), and Weighty Issues thematics that never really goes anywhere. The laboratory set is quite poverty-stricken, and the invisibility effects, accomplished with traveling mattes, are only mildly diverting. Other special effects are of the pantomime-and-fishing-line variety; almost cheesy enough to be funny. Almost. Legendary makeup artist Jack P. Pierce's talents are completely wasted (it was one of his last movies), and, let's face it, Ulmer is way past prime here, with precious little onscreen to distinguish this from any contemporary Dick Cunha or Herbert L. Strock picture.
At least the source print is better than that of Indestructible Man. It's actually quite decent, presented in anamorphic widescreen at approximately 1.85:1, with generally very good to excellent grayscale, sharpness, brightness, contrast, and highlight detail. The shadow detail looks a little blocked up at times, and there is some sporadic light speckling, blemishing, and scratching (mostly around reel changes), but overall the print's quite acceptable, especially considering the age and history of the film.
Bottom line: neither movie is really indispensable to a 1950s SF collection, both being of interest mainly to bad movie diehards with fairly strong constitutions. The DVD package rates a solid three. The source prints, while nothing to write home about, are basically average to slightly above (especially The ATM), and far better than the crap you typically find on a Madacy or Brentwood disc. Unfortunately, there are no menus, trailers, or any other extras, though both movies are broken into chapters. Fifties C-movie completists and Ulmer fanatics might as well go for it, mainstream consumers beware.
One of the most entertaining "bad" horrors ever made!.......2001-04-12
If you are a fan of low-budget horror and/or film noir, then you must see the struggling Lon Chaney, Jr., as the notorious Charles "Butcher" Benton! By 1956, poor Lon was accepting just about anything he could, being tormented by many demons and having been typecast so severely. (He did, however, also play several good character parts in non-horror Fifties A-films like HIGH NOON, NOT AS A STRANGER, A LION IS IN THE STREETS and THE DEFIANT ONES, something that neither Boris Karloff nor Bela Lugosi did during the 1950s--Karloff being busy with television and the stage, and Lugosi sinking into an endlessly painful morass.) Here, Lon does a fine job with his limited dialogue and then has a heyday as the revived-from-the-dead mute who pummels and THROWS his victims to their deaths (in some of the most humorous killing scenes in horror-film history). The scenes of Lon crawling around in the L.A. storm-drain system and the incredible ending in which the Butcher is cooked alive at a power plant (destroying a multi-million dollar complex while the police recover a fraction of that in gangster's loot) are highlights in this sometimes dreadful yet strangely compelling and nearly always entertaining Jack Pollexfen opus! The DVD version is somewhat superior to most of the cheap VHS copies being peddled everywhere.
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The Amazing Transparent Man
Starring:
Marguerite Chapman ,
James Griffith ,
Douglas Kennedy ,
Boyd "Red" Morgan , and
Ivan Triesault
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ASIN: B0000A0DVV
Release Date: 2003-09-09 |
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Who's afraid of the big bad Amazing Transparent Man?.......2006-06-25
James Griffith stars as crazed ex-military officer Paul Krenner who has dreams of world domination whe he forces scientist Peter Ulof played by Ivan Trisquif to do his bidding. Ulof develops the process of invisibility through atomic-radiation in wich Krenner plans to make an army of invisible military force and sell it to the highest bidder. Douglas Kennedy plays Joey Faust a safecracker who has just gotten outta jail and they make him invisble so that he can steal more radium. After he does this things start to take a unexpected turn. Laura played by the beautiful Marguerite Chapman is thrown into the mix. The showdown at the end boosted this up. It was great seeing Griffith and Kennedy duke it out with one another. It's still a hokey movie but an enjoyable one. The Invisible Man & Hollow Man shouldget together with The Amazing Transparent Man and make a 3 invisible men movie extraviganza. I'd watch it. Also starrng Edward Erwin and the adorable Carmel Daniel. Carmel & Marguerite are sexy names
Don't Waste The X-13 On The Guinea Pig.......2006-02-02
This is one of those old drive-in formulaic wonders that make you roll your eyes and laugh, yet mysteriously manages to entertain with predictable plot points. The story essentially boils down to a mercenary ex-soldier who employs a crack thief (metaphorically named "Faust"...don't ever say the movie isn't heavy handed) to steal radioactive material for him under the cloak of invisibility. (Oh, wrong movie...I mean transparency.) The thief has other ideas and decides to rob a bank instead, but in one of the most unintentionally funny moments in cinema history, parts of him blink back into the visible spectrum during the holdup. Things go horribly awry, there is a short bout of love, a few hysterical fist fights (as the fighters "fight" their invisible...I mean transparent...foe), an atomic detonation, and a wonderful cold war era ending presenting the audience with a real conundrum.
This is a fairly entertaining, and very short, movie. It is generally well acted (though the fight scenes really needed work) and the special effects were above average for the time (I especially like the guinea pig's progressive disappearance effect, though the reanimation effects were really silly looking); I was especially fond of the completely bogus scientific content (the X-13 versus radium explanation is priceless). Fans of cold war films and B-grade horror should enjoy this one.
The Invisible...er...Transparent Man!.......2006-01-08
Of course this movie is another variation on "The Invisible Man." Yet the movie has decent special effects and, in spite of a simple and hokey plot, a reasonably enjoyable story.
Joey Faust (Douglas Kennedy) is busted out of prison by Major Paul Krenner (James Griffith). Krenner wants Faust to steal radioactive material to continue his invisibility experiments. Dr. Peter Ulof (Ivan Triesault) does the honors as the quasi-mad scientist doing the actual "science." Laura Matson (Marguerite Chapman) is the inevitable hot babe who provides the sexual tension, such as it is.
Everyone is kept in their place because Krenner is a master of manipulation. He has something on everyone working for him, and if anyone steps out of line he ruthlessly punishes them. Faust has little interest in stealing radioactive isotopes, longing instead to steal a little cash from the local bank. The only problem is that something is happening to the creatures treated with Dr. Ulof's process. A poor defenseless lab critter has already died from the process. I wonder what would happen if Faust were to suddenly appear while in the middle of a bank robbery? The possibilities are boundless!
This movie had to be double feature fodder in the early 1960s, or triple feature material for drive-in theaters. As a science fiction movie it is nearly pure schlock, and yet somewhat enjoyable. The special effects are generally well-done, but there are moments in the plot where I rolled my eyes. The radioactive isotopes seemed very poorly guarded, and the isotopes themselves were still visible as they floated down the hall. I groaned and laughed at the same time.
I wish I could say they don't make movies like this any more, but they still do. They just show up on the Science Fiction Channel. However, this hour-long movie, with its veteran cast, is still worth a watch, particularly when you want to enjoy it with a group of people with similar tastes and a bowl of popcorn.
A Bit Better Than I Expected.......2005-12-11
There is some humor in the movie, the best part being when a bag full of swag, lifted from a bank vault, floats out the door in the hand of the invisible, I mean, transparent, man. A bank guard tries to grab it and gets a sock on the jar for his trouble. It's not the only sock on the jaw you'll see -- there's a few more fights that consist of the actors pretending to get knocked around by an invisible, I mean, transparent assailant. It's pretty funny. Then there's the daughter of the Mad German Scientist who's imprisoned in a room behind a door most kids could kick down. Blackmail, you see, to make the MGS do nefarious things, like make a guinea pig invisible. Not a great film, of course, not with a title like it has, not even a good one, but it does have some moments.
Just Don't Call Him The "Invisible" Man... .......2005-07-15
Joey Faust (Douglas Kennedy) is busted out of prison by a crazy major named Kenner. Faust is a safe-cracker and Kenner wants to use radiation to turn him invisible.... er, transparent (imagine the possibilities). The major also has plans to create an army of invisible.... I mean transparent soldiers (!) for supposed world domination. With the help of Faust and Dr. Uloff (a German refugee who killed his own wife during concentration camp experiments), Kenner hopes to steal vital fissile material in order to finalize his evil plot. I love mad-science! I drool over radioactive experiments gone wrong! I also like the idea of being invisible (ok, transparent)! I didn't even mention Marguerite "Flight To Mars" Chapman messing with her nylons! Rrrrrrowrrr...
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Bloodlust/Amazing Transparent Man
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Bloodlust , and
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Release Date: 2003-11-04 |
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BLOODLUST-AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN (DVD MOVIE)
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Sci-Fi & Horror Drive-In Madness.......2003-09-12
I am a nut over these type of films. Bloodlust is about the great white hunter who decides the only challenge left to him in life is to hunt humans... I won't say more other than there are some wonderfully gory parts! Yes parts! and scenes... he,he,he.
Amazing Transparent Man is about a mad ex-Army Major who decides to create an Army of Invisible men to conquor the world... at least I think he's MAD... it was so much fun to watch... and see if you can recognized anyone from THE BRADY BUNCH!!!
The films are nicely transferred and the sound was perfect... highly recommend to those of you who love old Drive-In flicks like I do.
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One movie with legs the other with hair.......2005-06-19
Bride of the Gorilla
Klaas Van Gelder plantation owner loves his wife Dina (Barbra Payton). She is also loved from afar by the family doctor, Dr. Viet (Tom Conway). Yes and she is loved by the hired hand, Barney Chavez.
Barney seizes an opportunity to bump off old Klaas and take Dina for him self. In the process he jilts the daughter of a sorceress. Yes, the same sorceress that observed Barney's treachery from the bushes. This is too much so the sorceress cursed Barney and turns him into a gorilla by night.
Will Barney survive?
Does Dina love hairy leading men?
This 1951 movie may have been inspired in part by "The Cat People" (1942), as it is just as much a psychological thriller as a revenge monster movie.
This film has many major actors such as [Raymond Burr as Barney Chavez] (From "Godzilla" 1956); he was not bad looking in his youth. Then there is [Paul Cavanagh as Klaas Van Gelder] (from "The Kennel Murder Case" (1933); he is barley recognizable after 20 years. We even have the master at conversion [Lon Chaney Jr. as Commissioner Taro] (our favorite wolfy); this time he plays a perfectly normal person who is torn between two cultures.
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The Amazing Transparent Man
We start out with sirens, searchlights, and dogs. Yep Joey Faust (Douglas Kennedy) appropriately named is back from prison. Laura Matson (Marguerite Chapman) [who is constantly showing off her legs] sprang him to do the bidding of her employer, the megalomaniac Maj. Paul Krenner. Also captive by the Major is a nuclear scientist Dr. Peter Ulof (Ivan Tries Ault). The Major intends to add the safecracking talents of Faust and the invention of Ulof to accomplish his evil plan.
Will he get away with it or will greed put an end to it?
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The Brain That Wouldn't Die/Amazing Transparent Man
Starring:
Jason Evers ,
Virginia Leith ,
Leslie Daniels ,
Adele Lamont , and
Bonnie Sharie
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ASIN: B00004ZEQZ
Release Date: 2003-01-01 |
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A scientist is driving around with his gorgeous girlfriend and everything's hunky-dory until he wrecks the car and her head goes flying off. Not to be discouraged, he wraps the decapitated noggin in his jacket and scurries off to his lab, where he keeps the poor woman's head alive in a developing tray with some coils and tubes running in and out of it. With his girlfriend's still-conscious cabeza back at the lab, the good doctor drives around shopping for bodies, ogling women who might make likely candidates for reattaching the head. Finally he finds a model with a gorgeous bod (and leopard print bikini), but a scarred face. He convinces the young woman that he can fix her looks with plastic surgery and convinces her to go back to the lab. Meanwhile, his girlfriend-head (silenced by a strip of duct tape over her mouth) has developed telepathy and a nasty grudge. This movie used to regularly leave late-night TV audiences aghast and scare the bejabbers out of the young'uns. Decades later, it's an indispensable trash classic, complete with a catfight, a pinhead monster, a deformed assistant, and even a spatter of gore. Make no mistake; this incredible, sleazy gem is a must-see for any self-respecting fans of camp cinema. They just don't come any better, and they definitely don't make 'em like that anymore. --Jerry Renshaw
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Horror Classic.......2007-06-23
I saw this movie on late night TV when I was around eight years old. I loved it then and I love it now.
I don't know what kind of effects they used on the womans voice (post decapitation) but it still creeps me out when ever she speaks.
I would have given it three stars for the battling voluptuous strippers scene alone. But all in all it's a great low budjet horror film. I still find the talking head to be quite profound in her enlightened view of the world (once again, post decapitation).
"I THINK I'M GOING OUT OF MY HEAD".....OVER YOU!.......2007-05-03
"A cheesy classic, ***BEWARE*** There are some prints that are not complete and are missing a pretty cool gross out part of this film! I'm not sure about the DVD I took the picture from for this list? A one of a kind cheapy that will crack you up!"
The Brain Thant Wouldn't Die.......2007-02-15
The movie is bad it is second only to Howard the Duck. It was so bad that I could not sit through all of it. Don't bother with this one.
ALPHA DVD VERSION.......2006-11-28
THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE GENRE FILMS ALONG WITH KILLER SHREWS, GIANT GILA MONSTER, BEGINNING OF THE END, BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS, & KILLERS FROM OUTER SPACE...MAD SURGEON KEEPS GIRLFRIEND'S HEAD ALIVE UNTIL HE CAN SCOUT OUT THE STRIP JOINTS FOR A REPLACEMENT BODY. SLEAZY CAMP AT IT'S FINEST!!! GREAT LINES, COMICAL SITUATIONS, TURGID DRAMA...A MUST DOUBLE-BILL WITH THE EURO-CRAPPER "THE HEAD" FOR THE ULTIMATE DECAPITATED SLEAZE FEST (OR FESTER...).
THE ALPHA DVD IS GREAT!!!!!!! ONE OF THIER BEST TO DATE, CLEAR & COMPLETE, A VERY GOOD SOURCE TRANSFER!!! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ON ALL COUNTS.
Still a classic at what it did -- Weird people out........2006-08-31
Get the Alpha Video DVD. It has the best sound and print. It isn't missing any scenes. It also has audio at the beginning that none of the other BTWD DVD's have (really creepy to hear when starting the movie). I still give the movie four stars instead of five though because of the talking instead of acting.
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The Amazing Transparent Man
Starring:
Marguerite Chapman ,
Douglas Kennedy ,
James Griffith ,
Ivan Triesault , and
Boyd 'Red' Morgan
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ASIN: 0792846680
Release Date: 2000-09-05 |
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The Amazing Transparent Man is part of MGM's campy Midnite Movies series, but it's actually not half bad. Safecracker Joey Faust gets busted out of prison by mysterious benefactor Major Krenner and his beautiful moll Laura. The trouble with mysterious benefactors, of course, is that they always want something. Krenner is doing some experiments with "fissionable materials" and needs Faust to steal more; the theft should be a piece of cake once the captive Dr. Ulof turns Faust invisible. The plot is faintly silly and you'll have to suspend your disbelief through some incredibly lax lab-safety procedures, but the film is well worth it. It efficiently loads plenty of action into a running time of under an hour, and it's a nice film noir with a cold war spin. There's plenty of dirty dealing and double-crossing and some entertaining tough-guy dialogue. ("You know what one of these bullets will do? It'll rip out your spine and roll it up like a ball of string.") Fire it up and keep one hand on your valuables. (Video edition includes original theatrical trailer.) --Ali Davis
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Only the Terminally Bored Need Apply.......2001-05-20
The Amazing Transparent Man is a third-rate cop of the Invisible Man films. An ex-Army major with delusions of grandeur enlists the assistance of a renouned nuclear scientist and a notorious safecracker. His "sinister" plot"? To create an army of invisible soliders to conquer the world. He has the scientist (the only likeable character in the film) perfect an invisibility machine and the safecracker is his first human subject. After becoming invisible, the safecracker steals nuclear matter from a local armory to power the machine. The movie is more tepid melodrama than suspense. The major's scheme predictably begins to unravel, climaxed by a nuclear explosion in the laboratory. The most entertaining sequence is when the invisible safecracker makes a detour to the local bank for some "quick cash". During his heist, he suddenly begins to materialize! Unless you have money to burn, don't buy this title separately. If you must have it, purchased it on value- priced Diamond DVD with the companion feature "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" (which is much more entertaining).
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Sci-Fi Movie Marathon Volume 3: 8 Movie Pack
Manufacturer: RightNow Disc
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
General
| Science Fiction & Fantasy
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
Product Features:
- BONUS: Each movie comes with a portable-media friendly version that can be downloaded to your Apple iPod!
- Eight feature films on four DVDs
- Eegah,The Lost World,Metamorphosis,Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter,The Amazing Transparent Man,Santa Claus Conquers the Martians,First Spaceship on Venus,Night of the Blood Beast
ASIN: B000GT4MAE |
Product Description
The legends of Science Fiction are gathered here for you in this definitive DVD collection of some of the greatest Sci-Fi classics to ever come out of Hollywood. This 8 DVD collection is sure to provide you with countless hours of entertainment. Volume 3 includes: Eegah directed by Arch Hall, Sr and starring Arch Hall, Jr; The Lost World directed by Harry Hoyt and starring Wallace Beery; Metamorphosis directed by George Eastman and starring Gene LeBrock; Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter directed by William Beaudine and starring John Lupton; The Amazing Transparent Man directed by Edgar Ulmer and starring Maguerite Chapman; Santa Claus Conquers the Martians directed by Nicholas Webster and starring Pia Zadora; First Spaceship on Venus directed by Kurt Maetzig and starring Yoko Tani; Night of the Blood Beast directed by Bernard L. Kowalski and starring John Baer
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Aliens From Space/The Giant Gila Monster/The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues/The Amazing Transparent Man/The Brain That Wouldn't Die
Manufacturer: Echo Bridge
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
Genres
| DVD
| Video
| Action & Adventure
| African American Cinema
| Animation
| Anime & Manga
| Art House & International
| Classics
| Comedy
| Cult Movies
| Documentary
| Drama
| Educational
| Fitness & Yoga
| Gay & Lesbian
| Horror
| Kids & Family
| Military & War
| Music Video & Concerts
| Musicals & Performing Arts
| Mystery & Suspense
| Science Fiction & Fantasy
| Special Interests
| Sports
| Television
| Westerns
DVDs Under $14.99
| Today's Deals in DVD
| Special Features
| DVD
| Video
ASIN: B000VULZ4Y |
Product Description
This disc features 5 sci-fi classic movies:
Aliens From Space/The Giant Gila Monster/The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues/The Amazing Transparent Man/The Brain That Wouldn't Die
DVD:
- Huntress:Spirit of the Night
- In the Dead of Space
- Infinity's Child
- Johnny 2.0
- Journey to the Center of Time
- Jurassic Park/Jurassic Park 3 - Value Pack (Widescreen Edition)
- Kraa! the Sea Monster
- Kronos/Spaceways
- Lethal Target
- Lexx - The Fourth Series, Part 2 (Vols. 4-6)
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