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    Forget Girls Gone Wild; you should see what monsters will do when the cameras are rolling! Collection features The Screaming Skull (John Hudson. 1958/68 min.), She Beast (Barbara Steele. 1966/74 min.), The Brain that Wouldn't Die (Jason Evers. 1962/70 min.), The Giant Gila Monster (Don Sullivan. 1959/74 min.), Attack of the Giant Leeches (Ken Clark. 1959/62 min.), The Killer Shrews (James Best. 1959/69 min.), The Snow Creature (Paul Langton. 1954/71 min.), Beast from Haunted Cave (Michael Forest. 1959/75 min.) and Human Monster (Bela Lugosi. 1940/73 min.). 5 DVDs. Color-b&w/NR.

DVD FEATURES:
  • Number of Discs: 5
  • Screen: Color
  • Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo
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  • Hokey, overwrought, and poorly paced, this venerable creature feature still commands a sizable following on the basis of its campy, low-grade special effects, its T&A exploitation, and its many pseudo-philosophical soliloquies. Virginia Leith gives a spiteful, glamorous performance that's limited to the neck up for most of the film. God only knows how someone without a windpipe would be able to talk, but oh, how she does. Swathed in bandages, soaking in a tray of serum, she hisses epithets and makes pronouncements about Nature, Injustice, and Evil while co-star Jason Evers trawls the city's houses of ill repute looking for a babe with a killer enough bod to provide his sweetie-pie with a new lease on life. A fixture of Saturday-afternoon horror matinees, the film often has its more flimsily clothed moments excised on TV. Seen complete on video or DVD, the picture's horror elements may seem like just an excuse to show scantily clad ladies of the night showing off their wares and getting into catfights. The finale does, however, provide some fairly effective monster makeup and some lurid bits of grisly mayhem. For some viewers, the most horrifying moment may come when Evers tapes Leith's mouth shut to keep her from talking. Never fear, feminists -- the blowhard doctor gets what's coming to him, and this collection of macabre male fantasies ends with the sinister laughter of its put-upon title character. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi
  • Obese general store owner Bruno Ve Sota is married to sluttish teenager Yvette Vickers, who is cheating on him with his best friend, Michael Emmet. The trio ends up in the swamp, Ve Sota literally hunting down the adulterers with a shotgun. That situation alone should have made for an interesting tale, a sort of humid James M. Cain for the beat generation. But this is a Roger Corman production and into the mix are thrown a couple of stunt divers wearing what appears to be small ponchos with tentacles, the leeches of the title, and a hunky game warden (Ken Clark), who displays a disconcerting ignorance of alligators, the game he is hired to protect. The results are uneven at best but the swamp locations, filmed at Pasadena's Arboretum of Tarzan fame, are certainly picturesque and the cave sequence, photographed, according to co-star Yvette Vickers, at the old Charlie Chaplin Studios, at least somewhat creepy. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi
  • Often cited as a poor, low-budget entry in the then-popular The Cat and the Canary-style thriller cycle, The Monster Walks, from fly-by-night company Action Pictures, is certainly low-budget, but it is also heaps of fun for those able to overlook some extremely racist comedy featuring Sleep 'n' Eat (aka Willie Best). That, however, remains a difficult task for modern audiences who may quite correctly be alarmed by such "bits of business" as Best blithely considering a resemblance between himself and Yogi, the film's monster ape (actually a chimpanzee). Just like its most famous predecessor, and obvious inspiration, The Cat and the Canary, The Monster Walks is written tongue-in-cheek, but acted fairly straight by an august cast that includes Mischa Auer (who at one point plays a decidedly off-key version of Brahms' Lullaby), and, as the inevitably skulking housekeeper, Martha Mattox. The latter basically repeats her performance from Cat. Rex Lease and Vera Reynolds (who was the wife of the film's screenwriter, Robert Ellis) are fine in the ingenue leads, although the latter is a bit long in the tooth to play naive, and director Frank R. Strayer does what he can within the limited budget. Best's uncomfortable moments notwithstanding, The Monster Walks is actually a great deal more enjoyable than its tattered reputation. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi

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