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Best Buy exclusives, I'm afraid... Here's from DVDdrive-in:

Warner Home Video is releasing a batch of long–awaited 1960s horror classics on DVD as Best Buy store exclusives. October 7 will see the release of Christopher Lee in BRIDES OF FU MANCHU paired with Patrick O’Neal in CHAMBER OF HORRORS, and Carol Lynley and Oliver Reed in THE SHUTTERED ROOM paired with Roddy McDowall in IT! All features will have anamorphic widescreen transfers and retail for $19.98. In a related story, the Warner/Best Buy Sci-Fi exclusives released in July will be available for sale everywhere on October 7.

So we know what the Fox Horror (box 2 w Chandu & Dragonwyk) Halloween entry is going to be... so what is Universal's entry going to be? Or have they completely emptied the refrigerators? At least we know Island of Lost sOuls is on deck-- or at least viable in a cleaned up 35mm.

Sony? They did the excellent Karloff set 2 yrs ago (w The Man They Could Not Hang, Black Room etc) and the hoot Sam Katzman schlocko set last year. They must have something on deck.

And is this thread's box all that WB can come up with? You'd think they could at least drop the Chaney box 2.

HerrSchreck wrote:Sony? They did the excellent Karloff set 2 yrs ago (w The Man They Could Not Hang, Black Room etc) and the hoot Sam Katzman schlocko set last year. They must have something on deck.

Right here.

HerrSchreck wrote:So we know what the Fox Horror (box 2 w Chandu & Dragonwyk) Halloween entry is going to be... so what is Universal's entry going to be? Or have they completely emptied the refrigerators? At least we know Island of Lost sOuls is on deck-- or at least viable in a cleaned up 35mm.

Sony? They did the excellent Karloff set 2 yrs ago (w The Man They Could Not Hang, Black Room etc) and the hoot Sam Katzman schlocko set last year. They must have something on deck.

And is this thread's box all that WB can come up with? You'd think they could at least drop the Chaney box 2.

I've read somewhere that they've planned for a horror box set for the 4th quarter. Don't know what the titles will be but I do know that will include at least a Peter Lorre and a Boris Karloff movie among others.

Being a big fan of Ollie, I have wanted to see The Shuttered Room for years; it has been a very hard film to see. It! (1966) sounds crap, frankly. Another year, and no DVD of The Devils. Glad to hear that the Worst Buy "exclusives" will also be coming in October, though.

Warner keeps delaying The Devils to make it a Walmart exclusive, but they can't reach an agreement of marketing it to the usual Walmart demographic...

Ashirg wrote:Warner keeps delaying The Devils to make it a Walmart exclusive, but they can't reach an agreement of marketing it to the usual Walmart demographic...

If only that were the only problem getting in the way.

Person, I recall SHUTTERED ROOM as a pretty fair stab at lensed in England Lovecraft (certainly better than DIE, MONSTER DIE!) with convincing performances from Reed, Carol Lynley, Gig Young and especially Flora Robson. I also recall that the photography and score impressed me at the time. IT! (I believe the exclamation point is part of the title) IS a piece of camp crap. Roddy McDowell finds a golem in a rundown London row house (probably not too far from Jaggers' digs in Powis Square) and makes it do his evil bidding. He also must have Norman Bates as a pen-pal cause he keeps his mothers mummified corpse in the house as well! I saw both these with the excruciating Dana Andrews Nazis-in-the-deep-freeze epic, FROZEN DEAD on a drive-in triple bill about forty years ago!

Whoever designed those covers took a page from the Fox/MGM Midnite Movies playbook.

There are far worst places to steal covers from.