12/24/2022 0 Comments Horror blu ray box sets![]() ![]() The film is a unique spin on the revenge story. The film does pretty well with it, smart enough to keep the limitations of the animal while enhancing its motivations and agenda. Whereas that movie dealt in transferring a human’s brain into Frankenstein’s monster, this one had a man’s brain being transplanted into a gorilla. Within The Monster and the Girl lies an idea that would find itself being used in one of the more famous Universal Classic Monster movies in The Ghost of Frankenstein a year later. Using the strength of his new, bestial body, Webster begins stalking the gangsters to exact his revenge. A scientist (George Zucco) salvages his brain and transplants it into a gorilla. When one of Bruhl’s gang members is double-crossed in Bruhl’s rented room, and killed by a gunman, the man tosses him the gun and disappears. You can pre-order the set to have when it becomes available on June 16th!Ī small-town church organist named Scot Webster (Philip Terry) attempts to save his sister, Susan (Ellen Drew) from the clutches of big city gangster W. One of them has never been on DVD or Blu-ray before and the others have only just recently had Universal DVDs in the last 5 years, or been subject to those bargain bin and 100-Sci Fi Films collections which aren’t known for having the best of transfers. ![]() Not familiar with them, I’m excited to be introduced. The “Cheena, The Ape Woman” films all are included here. A closer look finds a standalone film that closely relates to a trilogy within the set. This fifth volume feels like a fresh new lot as it showcases a more ape/jungle type theme with the films involved. Usually there will be a theme to it, or sometimes it feels a film would be picked up because of an actor associated with horror. Now hitting Volume 5, with Volume 6 already announced, they are highlighting and saving four horror titles from the Universal vaults that aren’t quite as well known as the standard Classic Monsters fare. ![]() One of the best archival efforts going on with Scream Factory the past year has been their Universal Horror Collection series. ![]()
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