Monsters and Madmen
Launching us from a grave past to a space-age future, these two thrilling double features, from producers Richard and Alex Gordon, spin classic tales of hair-raising homicidal mania and intrepid, death-defying exploration. Featuring Boris Karloff in two of his most horrifying roles (The Haunted Strangler and Corridors of Blood), and two classic sci-fi treats from the atomic age.
Films In This Set
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The Atomic Submarine
1959
When a nuclear-powered submarine, the Tiger Shark, sets out to investigate a series of mysterious disappearances near the Arctic Circle, its fearless crew finds itself besieged by electrical storms, an Unidentified Floating Saucer, and lots of hairy tentacles.
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First Man into Space
1959
In this interstellar cautionary tale, brash U.S. Navy test pilot Dan Prescott, hungry for fame, rockets himself beyond Earth’s atmosphere, only to become encrusted with cosmic dust and return a blood-drinking monster.
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The Haunted Strangler
1958
Nineteenth-century English author James Rankin (Boris Karloff) believes that the wrong man was hanged twenty years earlier for a series of murders, but his investigations lead him to a horrible and, for him, gruesomely inescapable secret.
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Corridors of Blood
1959
In 1840s London, Dr. Thomas Bolton (Boris Karloff) dares to dream the unthinkable: to operate on patients without causing pain. Unfortunately, the road to general anesthesia is blocked by a ruthless killer (Christopher Lee), as well as Bolton’s devastating addiction to his own chemical experiments.
FOUR-DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- Restored high-definition digital transfers
- Audio commentaries featuring producers Richard Gordon and Alex Gordon and writer Tom Weaver
- Interviews with director Robert Day, screenwriter Jan Read, and actors
- Censor cuts
- Trailers and radio spots
- Stills galleries featuring production and publicity photographs
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: Fangoria’s 1984 interview with producer John Croydon about Boris Karloff and essays by Maitland McDonagh, Bruce Eder, and Michael Lennick
Covers by Darwyn Cooke
Films In This Set
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The Atomic Submarine
1959
When a nuclear-powered submarine, the Tiger Shark, sets out to investigate a series of mysterious disappearances near the Arctic Circle, its fearless crew finds itself besieged by electrical storms, an Unidentified Floating Saucer, and lots of hairy tentacles.
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First Man into Space
1959
In this interstellar cautionary tale, brash U.S. Navy test pilot Dan Prescott, hungry for fame, rockets himself beyond Earth’s atmosphere, only to become encrusted with cosmic dust and return a blood-drinking monster.
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The Haunted Strangler
1958
Nineteenth-century English author James Rankin (Boris Karloff) believes that the wrong man was hanged twenty years earlier for a series of murders, but his investigations lead him to a horrible and, for him, gruesomely inescapable secret.
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Corridors of Blood
1959
In 1840s London, Dr. Thomas Bolton (Boris Karloff) dares to dream the unthinkable: to operate on patients without causing pain. Unfortunately, the road to general anesthesia is blocked by a ruthless killer (Christopher Lee), as well as Bolton’s devastating addiction to his own chemical experiments.
FOUR-DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- Restored high-definition digital transfers
- Audio commentaries featuring producers Richard Gordon and Alex Gordon and writer Tom Weaver
- Interviews with director Robert Day, screenwriter Jan Read, and actors
- Censor cuts
- Trailers and radio spots
- Stills galleries featuring production and publicity photographs
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: Fangoria’s 1984 interview with producer John Croydon about Boris Karloff and essays by Maitland McDonagh, Bruce Eder, and Michael Lennick
Covers by Darwyn Cooke
