Dan Curtis' Classic Monsters (KINO CULT #39) (Blu-ray)
Widely acclaimed for having modernized television horror in the 1960s and ’70s, producer Dan Curtis (Dark Shadows, The Night Stalker) also embraced more traditional approaches. This special edition presents Curtis’s made-for-TV versions of the three foundational monsters of filmdom. Adapted by Richard Matheson (Somewhere in Time) and starring Jack Palance (Shane), Dracula was filmed in Eastern Europe and was the first film to make a connection between Bram Stoker’s vampire and Vlad the Impaler. Bo Svenson (Part 2: Walking Tall) portrays the heartbreakingly childlike monster of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde features a ferocious performance by Palance as the scientist who unbridles the deepest, darkest urges of the human animal.
- Introductions to All Films by Jeff Thompson, Author of The Television Horrors of Dan Curtis
- Dracula Audio Commentary by Mark Dawidziak
- Dracula Interview with Actor Jack Palance
- Dracula Interview with Producer/Director Dan Curtis
- Dracula Spanish language soundtrack
- Dracula Alternate Footage and Scenes
- Frankenstein Audio Commentary by Film Scholar Rodney F. Hill (Hofstra University)
- Frankenstein Audio Commentary with Actors Robert Foxworth (Victor Frankenstein) and John Karlen (Otto Roget)
- Frankenstein ABC-TV Wide World Mystery Promos
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Audio Commentary by Author, Artist and Film Historian Steve Bissette
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Interview with Makeup Effects Artist Dick Smith
- Charles Jarrott - Director
- Glenn Jordan - Director
- Dan Curtis - Director
- Jack Palance - Actor
- Bo Svenson - Actor
- Robert Foxworth - Actor
- Susan Strasberg - Actor
- Denholm Elliott - Actor
- Leo Genn - Actor
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