Mill Creek Announces Two Upcoming Horror DVD Collections
John Squires
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Mill Creek Entertainment is a company that all horror fans should be familiar with, as they’re known for offering up collections of various horror movies on the cheap. It’s a great way to catch up on older films you might have missed, and two more collections are on the way.
Both set for release on August 18th, the two-disc DVD sets will each contain 5 movies apiece, one of which covers the films of William Castle while the other serves as an introduction to fan-favorite British label Hammer Films. Read on for all the disc details!
WILLIAM CASTLE HORROR COLLECTION
13 Ghosts (1960) – B&W – 85 minutes
Starring: Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow, Martin Milner, Rosemary DeCamp. Donald Woods, Margaret Hamilton
When an eccentric uncle wills a huge, ramshackle house to his impoverished family, they get the shock of a lifetime. Their new residence comes complete with a spooky housekeeper plus a fortune in buried treasure and 12 horrifying ghosts.
13 Frightened Girls (1963) – Color – 88 minutes
Starring: Murray Hamilton, Joyce Taylor, Hugh Marlowe, Khigh Dhiegh, Charlie Briggs, Norma Varden
The girls of a Swiss boarding school have one thing in common — they are all daughters of diplomats. One in particular finds out that she has a knack for espionage and uncovers the murder of a Russian diplomat. Now she must escape using her girlish wiles.
Mr. Sardonicus (1961) – B&W – 90 minutes
Starring: Ronald Lewis, Audrey Dalton, Guy Rolfe, Oskar Homolka, Vladimir Sokoloff, Erika Peters
Desperate to retrieve a winning lottery ticket, a greedy man unearths his father’s corpse. An enormous jackpot is his reward, but not without a price: His face is frozen permanently into a hideous grin. He enlists his one-eyed servant to help him lift the curse.
Homicidal (1961) – B&W – 88 minutes
Starring: Glenn Corbett, Patricia Breslin, Eugenie Leontovich, Alan Bunce, Richard Rust, James Westerfield
In the small town of Solvang, there’s a killer on the loose, and the nurse taking care of a wheelchair-bound stroke victim has a bedside manner to die for. As the truth is uncovered, a town’s most chilling mystery will be revealed… and a family’s darkest secret.
The Old Dark House (1963) – Color – 87 minutes
Starring: Tom Poston, Robert Morley, Janette Scott, Joyce Grenfell, Mervyn Jones, Fenella Fielding
An American car salesman living in London is invited to spend the weekend at the Femm Estate. The Femms, trapped in the house due to an ancestor’s will, live in fear as they are taken out one at a time. Tom is left to figure out who the killer is before he becomes a victim himself!
HAMMER FILMS COLLECTION
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960) – Color – 89 minutes
Starring: Paul Massie, Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee, David Kossoff, Norma Marla, Francis De Wolff
Absorbed in research directed toward freeing the two natures of man, Dr. Jekyll degenerates into Mr. Hyde, a vengeful maniac. While Hyde wants revenge against a gambler whom his wife is in love with, Dr. Jekyll, takes steps to do away with his evil self.
Scream of Fear (1961) – B&W – 82 minutes
Starring: Susan Strasberg, Ronald Lewis, Ann Todd, Christopher Lee, John Serret, Leonard Sachs
A young wheelchair-bound woman returns to her father’s estate to find he’s away on business, but she keeps seeing his dead body in various places. Her stepmother and other house guests employ a plan to drive her insane and take her inheritance.
The Gorgon (1964) – Color – 83 minutes
Starring: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Richard Pasco, Barbara Shelley, Michael Goddliffe, Patrick Troughton
In a rural village a series of murders have been committed where each victim was turned into stone. A local professor investigates and finds an evil Gorgon haunting a nearby castle and in search of more victims.
Stop Me Before I Kill! (1961) – B&W – 108 minutes
Starring: Claude Dauphin, Diane Cilento, Ronald Lewis, Françoise Rosay, Bernard Braden, Katya Douglas
After a horrific car crash, race car driver Alan Colby goes on vacation to recover but suffers blackouts and violent outbursts. With his wife by his side, he visits a psychiatrist who promises to cure Alan’s suffering, but they have now encountered a mind more unbalanced and disturbed.
The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb (1964) – Color – 81 minutes
Starring: Terence Morgan, Ronald Howard, Fred Clark, Jeanne Roland, George Pastell, Jack Gwillim
An American showman and financier disrupts the coffin of a mummified Pharaoh and finds it empty. The mummy has escaped to fulfill the dreadful prophesy and exact a violent and bloody revenge on all those who defiled his final resting place.
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