Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader | Maniacal Mayhem Eureka Region B Blu-ray Review: The Invisible Ray, Black Friday and The Strange Door @DamnFoolIdealisticCrusader | Uploaded November 2023 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
#universalhorror #eureka #bluray
I review another lovely themed package of Universal Horror titles from Eureka in a beautiful Region B collection. THE INVISIBLE RAY is the penultimate original era Universal Horror film and is more sci-fi in the last equal footing pairing of Karloff and Lugosi. There are many elements of note crammed into this one film which manages to have a charm, atmosphere and elements of others in the canon such as THE INVISIBLE MAN and WEREWOLF OF LONDON especially. Frances Drake is a standout amidst Karloff's driven to madness scientist and Lugosi for once getting to play the charming good guy scientist.
BLACK FRIDAY is Curt Siodmak getting to make a proto DONOVAN'S BRAIN in this little programmer that is part SF, part horror and mostly gangster film. The real draw is Stanley Ridges in a fantastic dual role of kindly professor turned reborn gangster after Karloff's mad doctor performs a brain transplant. Sadly, Lugosi was demoted to a lesser role but still gives it everything.
THE STRANGE DOOR is the first of the final pair of Universal Horror films, both of which are period adventure films with a tinge of the Gothic. Here we find a great adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson with Charles Laughton absolutely devouring every frame in a brilliant performance as the deliciously villainous mad sire. It is a precursor to the later Corman Poe films are is a wondrous high note for Universal Horror to go out on.
00:00 Introduction
02:28 The Invisible Ray
14:58 Picture Quality
17:30 Audio Quality
18:54 Supplemental Features
21:09 Black Friday
29:25 Picture Quality
31:20 Audio Quality
32:43 Supplemental Features
35:16 The Strange Door
44:21 Picture Quality
45:26 Audio Quality
45:49 Supplemental Features
47:44 Limited Edition Packaging, Artwork, Slipcover and Booklet
48:53 Final Summary
#universalhorror #eureka #bluray
I review another lovely themed package of Universal Horror titles from Eureka in a beautiful Region B collection. THE INVISIBLE RAY is the penultimate original era Universal Horror film and is more sci-fi in the last equal footing pairing of Karloff and Lugosi. There are many elements of note crammed into this one film which manages to have a charm, atmosphere and elements of others in the canon such as THE INVISIBLE MAN and WEREWOLF OF LONDON especially. Frances Drake is a standout amidst Karloff's driven to madness scientist and Lugosi for once getting to play the charming good guy scientist.
BLACK FRIDAY is Curt Siodmak getting to make a proto DONOVAN'S BRAIN in this little programmer that is part SF, part horror and mostly gangster film. The real draw is Stanley Ridges in a fantastic dual role of kindly professor turned reborn gangster after Karloff's mad doctor performs a brain transplant. Sadly, Lugosi was demoted to a lesser role but still gives it everything.
THE STRANGE DOOR is the first of the final pair of Universal Horror films, both of which are period adventure films with a tinge of the Gothic. Here we find a great adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson with Charles Laughton absolutely devouring every frame in a brilliant performance as the deliciously villainous mad sire. It is a precursor to the later Corman Poe films are is a wondrous high note for Universal Horror to go out on.
00:00 Introduction
02:28 The Invisible Ray
14:58 Picture Quality
17:30 Audio Quality
18:54 Supplemental Features
21:09 Black Friday
29:25 Picture Quality
31:20 Audio Quality
32:43 Supplemental Features
35:16 The Strange Door
44:21 Picture Quality
45:26 Audio Quality
45:49 Supplemental Features
47:44 Limited Edition Packaging, Artwork, Slipcover and Booklet
48:53 Final Summary
