Today, I picked up this second installment of Best Buy's exclusive sci-fi classics collection. It contains the following movies:
* Dr. Cyclops
* The Land Unknown
* Cult of the Cobra
* The Deadly Mantis
* The Leech Woman
I just finished watching Dr. Cyclops, which is an unusual movie in that it's a sci-fi flick that was released in Technicolor in 1940. The plot (a mad scientist who shrinks people) is ahead of its time . . . similar movies didn't become trendy until the late 1950s. Another excellent sci-fi collection from Best Buy.
How much do these run? I don't think I've seen them at the Best Buy near where I live.
They're $19.95. The quality is top-notch. I have the first volume too, and I recommend that one as well.
that first collection is OOP now, and commanding rather ridiculous prices these days. i wish i had bought four of them when they were on sale at BB, since there were tons of them around for months.
the second set is great also.
David
I swung by the local Best Buy tonight looking for this, but as expected, they didn't have it. I am really beginning to hate the local store. :hatred:
Used copies of the first volume sell for $70+ which is kind of crazy. This new volume is selling for more than $30 on ebay which is even crazier. If you can find it in the store, get it. Hopefully Best Buy will get their act together and offer this on their website.
I don't think that every Best Buy stocks the same stuff, but I've been told that any thing at one Best Buy can be ordered from another, haven't tried this yet but it might be a way to find those DVDs you're after.
The problem I've noticed at the Best Buy in Roanoke, VA is that they've devoted an entire aisle to HD/Blu-Ray stuff and have cut back a bit on the regular DVD stuff that they would usually carry as a result. They still get in the big titles and the such but like when I went to get From Beyond on Tuesday, I was also planning on getting The Burning. But they only got in From Beyond.
I've had the worst luck ordering stuff online in terms of damaged discs for the most part that I prefer to buy in a store if I can and order online if all else fails.
Bought this as well, they had any number of copies at the one near me. I'd been looking for The Deadly Mantis.
P.S. We've been complaining about Best Buy in the 'recent purchases' thread. They didn't have any of the new Midnite Movies either.
the DEADLY MANTIS- A fun one! :thumbup: Worthless trivia time: Director Nathan Juran also did 20 MiLLION MILES to EARTH (ya know-with the Ymir?),the 7th VOYAGE of SINBAD, and used the name Nathan Hertz for such stinkers as The BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS and ATTACK of the FIFTY FOOT WOMAN. In the mid sixties,he did most of the episodes of TIME TUNNEL,and VOYAGE to the BOTTOM of the SEA,and ended his directing carraer with the BOY WHO CRIED WEREWOLF...with fellow SINBAD alumni Kerwin Mattews. I read in an interview with him (in PSYCHOTRONIC magazine) some years back that producer Irwin Allen was a real cheapskate prick.
The classic sci-fi ultimate collection contains 5 films and no extras?
Mr. Briggs:
I believe the only extras are the theatrical trailers.
Dr. Cyclops has some outstanding special effects, especially for the time period when it was made. I'll bet it looks really nice on DVD.
cult of the cobra is awesome. I recall liking the leech woman alot too
Quote from: trekgeezer on September 13, 2007, 07:05:20 AM
Dr. Cyclops has some outstanding special effects, especially for the time period when it was made. I'll bet it looks really nice on DVD.
I agree. The special effects are superior to most giant / miniature people movies. The fake giant hand they use when Dr. Cyclops is holding his miniature prisoners is far better than the cheesy ones they used in LAND OF THE GIANTS more than 20 years later. And the rear-projection effects aren't bad at all. Much better than many of the 1950s sci-fi flicks.
"For your approvel"...Tod Brownings the DEVIL DOLL (1936) ...
[youtube=425,350] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhcxG6GQCXQ
This predated DR.CYCLOPS by a number of years...and a classic (and the originator) of the "shruken people by mad doctors" genre .
But Dr. Cyclops is a fine film...Albert Dekker makes a creepy villan! A classic in it's own right...but obviously influnced by Brownings DEVIL DOLL.
Finally snagged a copy of this one today. I grabbed the last one at the first Best Buy we went to, then when we checked another, they had like 14 copies. I can't wait to dive into some of these films. The Deadly Mantis and Cult of the Cobra I have on VHS, so I've seen them a zillion times, but the others I've only caught bits and pieces of, so I'm stoked. :teddyr:
I watched the first half of THE DEADLY MANTIS last night, but I got side-tracked and will need to finish it sometime this week.