Well, Savant promised some hot titles, and this is the first of the riches of the Horror film coming in the next couple of months.
Columbia TriStar's The Revenge of Frankenstein is one of those genre treasures we've been waiting for - the second in Hammer's series with the Baron, played with elegant precision by Peter Cushing. Here he gets the closest ever to being an upstanding citizen - until the experiment goes wrong, of course.
Retromedia's DVD of The Bride and the Beast is a barely-okay copy of a WEIRD show from 1958 - written by Edward D. Wood, Jr.. You can't miss the mark of the auteur, with all the Angora sweaters on display, and the heroine's talk about getting the soft and furry stuff next to her body. Only she's not talking about her wardrobe, but Gorillas. She practically swoons when she's near one, and her dreams are filled with memories of having been a Gorilla in a previous life! There's only one logical end for this story, and The Bride and the Beast has the guts to follow through.
Thanks again ... Savant had a lot of fun writing these two! Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at July 22, 2002 08:08 PM