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Fox Horror Classics Collection (The Lodger / Hangover Square / The Undying Monster)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543466796
Format: Box set, Black & White, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Restored, Subtitled, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed),
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
MPN: 2246679
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 09, 2007
Running Time: 224 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: January 19, 1944
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Editorial Review:
This three-disc collection of vintage suspense from the Fox vaults not only presents three atmospheric and underrated thrillers in sparkling remastered formats, but also serves as a long-overdue tribute to the talents of director John Brahm and actor Laird Cregar, who stars in two of the three films. 1944's The Lodger is probably the best-known of the three; it's a remake of a 1926 Alfred Hitchcock film and stars Cregar as a mysterious house guest who may be Jack the Ripper. Cregar is top-billed in 1945's Hangover Square as another psychologically tormented soul; here he's a concert pianist (Bernard Herrmann composed the film's stunning concerto) who flies into a psychotic rage at the sound of a dissonant chord. And 1942's The Undying Monster is the "truest" horror title in the collection due to its werewolf plotline, but there's more than a touch of detective drama (and scientific procedural) in its frames as well. All three pictures are distinguished by German-born director Brahm, whose expressionistic visual style and emphasis on psychological terror over physical frights help to set these films apart from the monster-driven horror films coming from Universal at the same time. He's aided considerably by Cregar, who set the standard for movie madmen for decades to come. In addition to their stunning remastering, all three films feature in-depth featurettes on their principal players and histories. Concerto Macabre: The Films of John Brahm traces the director's offbeat career (after making an impact with the three films featured here, he concentrated almost exclusively on TV, where his output included stellar episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits), while The Tragic Mask: The Laird Cregar Story explores the oversized actor's struggle with typecasting and his homosexuality. The Lodger gets its own making-of documentary, The Man in the Attic, which explores Brahm's stunning visual compositions and Cregar's intense performance in detail. Trailers and advertising galleries for all three pictures are included, as are two complete radio adaptations of The Lodger and Hangover Square, both starring Vincent Price, who became Fox's in-house heavy after Cregar's untimely death at 31. Commentary on Hangover Square by film historians Richard Schickel and Steve Haberman with cast member Faye Marlowe, and James Ursini and Alain Silver on The Lodger, round the extras on this chill-filled set. -- Paul Gaita
A Three Movie Collection of Fox Horror Classics!THREE classic creepy tales in one collection priced to sell & guaranteed to set your spine tingling. From Jack the Ripper to a werewolf on the loose... there is something for everyone.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: NR UPC: 024543466796 Manufacturer No: 2246679
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Three Gothic Masterpieces From Director John Brahm
I've always enjoyed watching gothic horror. Large, spooky houses, swirling fog, unsolved murders, and killers creeping through the dark excite me. The "Fox Horror Classics" is a collection of gothic horror masterpieces directed by legendary director John Brahm. There are three horror movies presented on three discs, each one loaded with extras. I have reviewed each one according to the year in which it was released.
The Undying Monster (1942) ***
It's a shame, ... Read More
Rating: - Neglected gaslit noir
Really excellent visit to two rather obscure Fox "A" pieces that seldom seem to make it to tv, at least before this release.
HANGOVER and THE LODGER aren't really horror movies in the usual sense, but Gay 90's melodramas with big over-the-top, hambone performances from Cregar at their center. HANGOVER has a great score by Herrmann which reportedly was the inspiration for Sondheim's SWEENEY TODD.
I really liked both of them, but had a real fondness for HANGOVER. I saw them tv in the 60s and ... Read More
Rating: - The Undying Monster created a life-long fan of classic Horror!
THE UNDYING MONSTER is the first horror film I ever saw on TV as a very young boy and helped give me my lifelong appetite for classic horror. The remastered UNDYING MONSTER was the clearest copy I have ever witnessed since that first night well over fifty years ago.
This three-disk collection of classic horror and suspense thrillers from the Fox Studios presents three atmospheric and generally unknown thrillers (e.g., The Lodger, Hangover Square and The Undying Monster) in absolutely beautiful ... Read More
Rating:  - Beware the still photos/ad art galleries!!!
Although in most ways these are classy DVD presentations, I did encounter an exasperating technical problem when I got to the still photo/ad art galleries. You're instructed to use the right skip/left skip buttons on your remote to move forward or backward through the images, but when I repeatedly pressed those buttons a slashed red O flashed on screen, indicating that I was requesting an impossible function! On a hunch, I tried the same thing with the special features disc of Fox's "Fly Collection"; same result! ... Read More
Rating:  - Horrors?
In the 1930s, the relatively new field of horror cinema was dominated by Universal, with its often wonderful monster movies such as Dracula, Frankenstein and the Mummy. As the Universal movies got campier in the 1940s, not many studios really filled the void. Certainly, the best of 1940s horror came from Val Lewton's pictures for RKO (Cat People, The Leopard Man and others). Fox, on the other hand, did not really have a reputation for horror in this era, as is obvious from the Fox Horror Classics set. That's not ... Read More
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