Distinctive Dummies announce a new line of Vincent Price tribute figures for 2015

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Distinctive Dummies have announced their second wave of 8-inch Megostyle Vincent Price tributes for 2015. These will include Dr Warren Chapin from The Tingler, Roderick Usher from The Fall of the House of Usher, Nicholas Medina from Pit and the Pendulum, and Henry Jarrod from The House of Wax (which is also available as a 12in action figure).

The first in the series, Dr Warren Chapin which includes a miniature tingler, is available now (shipping 3 March), and again has a great likeness of Price sculptured by Steve Thompson, with card art by Robert Aragon.

The Comedy of Terrors (1963) | Your favourite creeps together again in HD - the Arrow Video UK release

With the 1963 horror farce, The Comedy of Terrors, now in HD, here's what you get in the new Arrow Video UK Blu-ray/DVD combo release.

THE ARROW UK BLU-RAY/DVD RELEASE
The Comedy of Terrors is presented its original aspect ratio of 2.35:1 with mono 2.0 audio (uncompressed PCM on Blu-ray). The HD master was made available by MGM via Hollywood Classics, and includes optional English subtitles.

THE EXTRAS
• Audio commentary with David Del Valle and Rapid Heart TV's David DeCocteau. Del Valle dedicates this commentary to actress Joyce Jameson, a great friend to the film historian who tragically took her life in 1987, aged 54. My full analysis of the commentary is coming soon.

• Vincent Price: My Life and Crimes: This is the unseen alternate cut of the 1987 David Del Valle interview that was previously released on DVD in 2002 as The Sinister Image. An historic testament to Price, despite the ageing video source material.

• Whispering in Distant Chambers: 17-min video essay by David Cairns, exploring the recurrent themes (like the 'nocturnal walk') and stylistic motifs of Tourneur's work. This is quite informative, nicely narrated by Fiona Watson, with Cairns quoting the director.

• Richard Matheson Storyteller - Comedy of Terrors This featurette on the late screenwriter also appears on the Shout! Blu-ray and on the older MGM Midnite Movies DVD.

• Original US theatrical trailer The film looks racier and scarier than it actually was in this unrestored trailer.

• Collector’s booklet featuring a critical analysis of the film by Chris Fujiwara, author of Jacques Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall, plus archive stills and posters. Nice litte primer for classic horror newbies and film studies students.

• Newly commissioned artwork by digital artist Paul Shipper. See more of his work (here)



OTHER RELEASES
Also available on Blu-ray from Scream Factory (from October 2014), an imprint of Shout! Factory, as part of their Vincent Price Collection II bundle, which includes a Iowa Public Television introduction with Price, but no audio commentary. Blu-ray reviewers have praised Arrow’s transfer over this one, both for its excellent print and audio transfer, and for the fact that a couple of seconds that were missing in the Shout! release are present here. A German Blu-ray was also released in May 2013.

The Comedy of Terrors | A look back at Jacques Tourneur's 1963 horror farce starring four masters of the macabre!

To mark the 16 February UK Blu-ray/DVD release of 1963's The Comedy of Terrors from Arrow Video, here's a look back at the vintage horror farce.

‘You’re invited to a funeral’
Welcome to the Hinchley & Trumbull funeral parlour, the only establishment of its kind that has found the secret of increasing business - by furnishing its own corpses! From Jacques Tourneur, director of the horror classics, Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie and Night of the Demon, comes the 1963 horror spoof, The Comedy of Terrors, starring four masters of the macabre - Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone and Boris Karloff.

‘What place is this?’
Inebriate undertaker Waldo Trumbull (Price) is running a New England funeral home business owned by his ageing father-in-law (Karloff)… straight into the ground. Hounded by his penny-pinching landlord Mr Black (Rathbone) for non-payment of rent, Trumbull and his put upon assistant Felix Gillie (Lorre) hatch a plan to boost business. But murder is not their forté, especially when their latest ‘client’ refuses to stay dead…

‘Every shroud has a silver lining when old friends get together for a real swinging blast of grave robbery… poisoning, and multiple mayhem!’

So declared the promo poster for American International Pictures' horror spoof, The Comedy of Terrors, which famously brought together four great names from the horror hall of fame. In the early-1960s, AIP were riding high with their winning formula of director Roger Corman, star Vincent Price, screenwriter Richard Matheson, composer Les Baxter, et all. Following their full-on Colorscope Gothic horrors, The Fall of the House of Usher and The Pit and the Pendulum, AIP added some comic relief in 1962's Tales of Terror, in a segment called The Black Cat, whose highlight was an improvised wine tasting scene between Price and Lorre.

Because the two spooks gelled so well, director Corman gave Price and Lorre the chance to do it all over again in his 1963 fantasy spoof, The Raven. Out of that was born a gruesome twosome comedy duo that were like an Abbott & Costello for the drive-in generation. Wanting to tap those funny bones again, AIP gave Matheson free reign to conjure up another vehicle for them. The result was The Comedy of Terrors (originally called Graveside Story), which was shot over 15 days, starting 4 September 1963, and released in US cinemas on 22 January 1964.

‘Comedy and terror are closely allied. My job as an actor is to try and make the unbelievable believable and the despicable delectable’ Vincent Price

As the roguish Waldo Trumbull, Price is at his ‘delicious boozy hammiest’ - according to the New York Herald Tribune – and has a whale of a time making the most of Matheson’s venomous dialogue – in particular his sardonic put-downs on Lorre's wanted fugitive Felix (who is a terrible coffin-maker, I might add), while their slapstick misadventures evoke Laurel and Hardy – Price even gets to reappropriate their famous catchphrase: ‘A fine mess you’ve made of things again!’

Sadly, this would be the last time that the two pals got to act together, as the 59-year-old Lorre was in poor health during the shoot (his regular stunt double Harvey Parry did all of his action scenes wearing a mask), and died just two months after the film’s release. Fittingly, it was Price who delivered the eulogy.

Interestingly in this film, Price and Lorre reverse the roles they played in Tales of Terror, and again there's Joyce Jameson playing a buxom mistreated wife with a drunk for a hubby. As Amaryllis, an unfulfilled opera star with the ‘vocal emissions of a laryngitic cow’, Jameson hits a real high with her ‘off-key’ singing during a funeral service, while her verbal sparring with Price is eminently quotable.

Veterans Rathbone and Karloff are also game for a laugh in this Arsenic and Old Lace-styled affair (and shares a similar structure as that classic 1941 play which famously sent up Karloff's horror screen persona). Rathbone is exceptional as the Shakespearean-spouting cataleptic who refuses to ‘shuffle off his mortal coil’, while he also gets to play up his thespian image and swashbuckling days (the sword play being an homage to 1938's The Adventures of Robin Hood.)

At 76, and suffering from arthritis, Karloff was not up to playing Mr Black, a role which was originally offered to him. But as the endearingly senile Amos, who somehow manages to avoid the poison that Waldo offers him at every turn, Karloff is only one who keeps the farce from taking full flight.

The downside to Tourneur's film, however (it was the director's second-to-last feature before some TV work and then retiring), is that it's rather stagey and old-fashioned (especially for the 1960s teen crowd that it was aimed at). It remains, however, a firm favourite of mine – a gleefully ghoulish slapstick affair with a classy never-to-be-repeated cast of old Hollywood greats.

This fine caricature by Jack Manning was available as part of AIP’s original marketing campaign.

DID YOU KNOW?
Richard Matheson scripted a follow-up called Sweethearts and Horrors, that was to feature the fearsome four once again, but it was shelved due to Lorre’s death and the film’s poor box-office takings. The unfilmed screenplay ended up being released in 2009 as part of Matheson's collected works, entitled Visions Deferred.

THE SCORE
The music is by celebrated composer Les Baxter (who also did the US scores for Mario Bava's Black Sabbath and The Evil Eye in 1963, as well as Corman's The Raven). The complete mono session which was recorded in November 1963 at Goldwyn Studios was uncovered from the MGM vaults last year and released on a now sold out CD.

 RHUBARB | THE CAT IN THE HOUSE OF UNHOLY HORROR
Cleopatra is played by one of Hollywood’s most celebrated animal stars, Rhubarb (aka Orangey) – a 12-pound marmalade tabby who won two American Humane Association’s PATSY awards for 1951’s Rhubarb and 1961’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s (in which he has almost seven minutes of screen time), and who also appeared in The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) and Village of the Giants (1965). In The Comedy of Terrors, Rhubarb gets an inspired scene in the closing credits.

My review of Arrow's UK Blu-ray/DVD release - coming soon!

Roger Corman's horror classic Tales of Terror gets a US Blu-ray release from Kino

Here’s a first look at the reversible artwork for the US Blu-ray/DVD release of Roger Corman’s 1963 classic, Tales of Terror, starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone and Joyce Jameson, which is due out in April.

It was be released through the US label Kino Lorber Studios Classics, and the transfer will be based on MGM’s HD master (2.35:1 widescreen). The extras will include a new interview with producer/director Roger Corman, audio commentaries by film historian Tim Lucas, David Del Valle and actor David Frankham, Roger Corman’s Trailers from Hell review of the film, and theatrical trailer.

Tales of Terror is also available on Blu-ray as part of Arrow's Six Gothic Tales release, and will be available separately from 9 March with the same extras that were included in the boxset (read more here).

So what do you make of the covers? Let's us know, by leaving a comment below.

Vincent Price and Edgar Allan Poe get a loving tribute in Baltimore

Baltimore’s Westminster Hall was the setting on Sunday 18 January for the annual Edgar Allan Poe Birthday Celebration which was this year given the groovy title, Behind the Mustache: The Lives of Vincent Price and Edgar Allan Poe. It gave fans a chance to honour Poe on the eve of his 206th birthday and to celebrate Vincent Price, the man who introduced generations of audiences to Poe’s works through his 1960s films with director Roger Corman.

On hand to laud Poe was veteran actor John Astin, who portrayed Poe in the one man play, Once Upon a Midnight, Price’s daughter Victoria, author of Vincent Price: A Daughter’s Biography, and Jeff Jerome, Curator Emeritus, formerly with the Poe House and Museum.

Victoria gave a sell-out crowd an hour-long presentation about her dad’s life and legacy, before attending a wreath-laying ceremony at Poe’s gravesite, where she got to stand in the same spot as Vincent did many years before.

For more on the event, check out the Baltimore Post Examiner article here: http://baltimorepostexaminer.com/poe-vincent-price-lovingly-remembered-annual-event/2015/01/20

Also check out the Edgar Allan Poe: Evermore Facebook page and the official Vincent Price Facebook page for more about the event

Vincent Price's House of Wax villain gets sculpted into a collectible action figure

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From Distinctive Dummies comes a fantastic new 12" figure featuring Vincent Price as disfigured sculptor turned demented killer Henry Jarrod from 1953’s classic murder mystery, The House of Wax. 

Artist Steve Thompson has done a great job in capturing Price’s likeness under the gruesome fire scarred makeup and this is certainly one I’ll be adding to my collection, which already includes all four of Distinctive Dummies Mego-style Price figures from the two Dr Phibes films, Madhouse and The Masque of the Red Death, as well as the 12" figure of Price as Frederick Loren in The House on Haunted Hill (which came in colour and mono versions). 

Click on the link to order yours now, while stocks last!: http://www.distinctivedummies.net/houseofwax.html

For more about House of Wax, read my 60^th anniversary post (click here)

Persistence of Vision (2012) | The documentary about 'the untold story of greatest animated film never made' now yours to own on DVD

Originally conceived in the 1960s, but only ever released in a heavily compromised version in the early 1990s (under different titles), The Thief and the Cobbler was animator Richard Williams’ ‘greatest animated film that was NEVER made’. The history of the film’s troubled production from script to ‘almost’ screen (over 28 years – the longest in the history books) is legendary and became the subject of Kevin Schreck’s 2012 documentary Persistence of Vision, which is now available to buy in a re-mastered, limited edition, two-disc DVD set.

Williams’ film began life as an adaptation of the stories of Mullah Nasrudin, a wise fool from Middle Eastern folklore, but due to legal hassles ended up turning into the story of a shy cobbler who tries to win the affections of a distant princess who is also being seduced by the evil Grand Vizier, Zig-zag. When Zig-zag wages war on the princess' peaceful Golden City, it’s an unspeaking local thief who sets things right by accident…

 A host of famous names stars of stage and screen lent their voices to Williams' original film when it was recorded in London in the early 1970s, including Kenneth Williams, Windsor Davies, Joan Sims, Anthony Quayle and Vincent Price.  But when Miramax released their version in 1993, many were dumped or replaced by the likes of Matthew Broderick, Jennifer Beals and Toni Collette.

Luckily, Price’s brilliant turn as the rhyme-speaking Zig-zag was not lost and remains a personal favourite of mine (he's at his melliflous best). Courtesy of The Vincent Price Exhibit, this rare photo of Price was taken in London in 1970 and shows the actor with director/animator Richard Williams working on character designs for the film. Below, courtesy of the Persistence of Vision Facebook page, are two screen grabs from a deleted scene (*) from the documentary, in which story development artist John Culhane reminisces about Price coming to the London studio to record his voice track. 

Persistence of Vision is available for a small donation of just $25.00 USD, the DVD set is region-free and includes the workprint of Williams' true vision of his incomplete masterpiece in its entirety. To order your copy now, click here: http://bit.ly/PoVDVDs

 

HERE'S WHAT YOU GET
• Optional English language subtitles for Persistence of Vision
• Original 1992 workprint of Richard Williams' The Thief and the Cobbler in its entirety
• Q&A with director Kevin Schreck recorded at DePaul University in Chicago
• Q&A with The Thief and the Cobbler animator Steve Evangelatos at the Vancouver International Film Festival
• Montage of pencil tests and rough animation from The Thief and the Cobbler
• 8 deleted scenes
• 4 international TV clips
• Original Persistence of Vision international festival trailer

* Click here https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=617972938299547&fref=nf, to see that deleted scene from the film.

PERSISTENCE OF VISION - Trailer from Kevin Schreck on Vimeo.

Happy New Year from The Sound of Vincent Price

Basil, Peter and Vinnie invite you to raise a toast to the Old Ones and welcome in 2015. Happy New Year from The Sound of Vincent Price.

Vincent Price in Six Gothic Tales | A peek inside the collector’s booklet?

If you want a further reason to add Arrow's Vincent Price in Six Gothic Tales limited edition Blu-ray box-set to your collection, here's a look at the collector's booklet...

  
The House is the Monster Video Watchdog editor Tim Lucas, who also supplies the commentary on The Fall of the House of Usher (1960), looks back at why Roger Corman chose to adapt Edgar Allan Poe’s tale of ‘corrupted lives and imminent doom’ for the big screen. This essay was originally published in Arrow’s booklet accompanying their stand-alone Blu-ray release (read my review here).

  
The Waiting Pit of Hell Gothic Horror author Jonathan Rigby waxes lyrical over The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), Corman’s second Poe adaptation, paying particular attention to star Vincent Price’s barnstorming performance. This essay also appeared in Arrow’s booklet that went out with the stand-alone Blu-ray release (reviewed here).

 
Three Down, Five to Go A Natural History of Ghosts author Roger Clarke traces the history of Tales of Terror (1962), the third Corman/Poe film in which star Vincent Price gives a trio of ‘lip-smacking turns’: as a Byronic necrophiliac (Morella); an adulterous wine connoisseur (The Black Cat); and a man suspended in a mesmeric trance (in The Case of Mr Valdemar).
• The title of this article includes Corman's The Premature Burial, which starred Ray Milland instead of Price, in the series. It should, however, have been called Four Down, Five to Go, as that film went out three months before Tales of Terror. 1964's Masque of the Red Death is not included in this release as it's owned by StudioCanal.
• Best bit of trivia: Voice-over artist Lennie Weinrib, who plays a policeman in the Black Cat segment, was the original voice of Scrappy-Doo in 1979 (still hate that character), and also voiced HR Pufnstuf (one of my favourites).

Comedy and Karloff BFI National Archive curator Vic Pratt reveals how Roger Corman’s 'Mad Magazine parody of a Corman horror', The Raven (1963) was a showcase for veteran star Boris Karloff’s skill and versatility as an actor, and introduced the old-timer to a new generation, the college crowd.

  
Strange Echoes and Fevered Reptitions Birbeck College professor Roger Luckhurst traces the history of Corman’s fifth Poe adaptation, the underrated The Haunted Palace (1963), which was actually based on the 1927 HP Lovecraft novella, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.

  
The Last of the Corman-Poes: Excavating The Tomb of Ligeia Julian Upton provides a witty and incisive essay on the making of The Tomb of Ligeia (1964), Corman’s lush final Poe entry, that gave the director the best reviews of his entire career and remains the finest interpretation of a Poe tale on the big screen.

Vincent Price: His Movies, His Plays, His Life An excerpt from the 1978 biography that was ghost written for the legendary actor. This made me want to dig my copy out again.  

Better to be On the Set than in the Office Film historian David Del Valle interviews Roger Corman about his Poe screen adaptations. This is a reprint of an article that originally appeared in Films & Filming in November 1984. For those not familiar with Corman’s cycle, this is an informative inclusion.

The Black Cat/The Trick Director Rob Green (The Bunker) discusses the making of his two 1990s shorts. Having never heard of the director before, I would have preferred the inclusion of Curtis Harrington’s first and final shorts (both adaptations of Poe’s Usher story) as that 'cult' director had a direct connection to Corman.

The Dell Comic Tie-Ins Included are full reproductions of the Dell Comic adaptations of Tales of Terror (originally published in February 1963), The Raven (1963) and Tomb of Ligeia (1965). This is real treat (and something I will be elaborating on in an article for a book to be published in 2015).

Vincent Price in Six Gothic Tales | Everything you want to know about Arrow's Special Edition Contents

Arrow’s limited edition box-set, Vincent Price in Six Gothic Tales, not only contains HD Blu-ray presentations of all six features directed by King of the B's Roger Corman, but also a wealth of new and archives commentaries, interviews and featurettes for each film. Plus, some of the best newly commissioned illustrations I have ever seen. Here’s a break down of what’s inside the box-set, with my comments attached.  

 
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
(these supplements are a re-issue, click here for my original review)
• Audio commentary with Roger Corman. This is the same one that you get on the 2001 MGM Midnight Movies DVD release and was also included on Scream Factory's Vincent Price Collection I Blu-ray.
• Legend to Legend (27min): Joe Dante talks low-budget movie making and provides some neat anecdotes.
• The House is the Monster (30min): Gothic Horror author Jonathan Rigby re-examines the film. This featurette comes with a spoiler warning.
• Vincent Price - Malibu - Julliet 86 (12min): Interview subtitled in French by Claude Ventura, which was broadcast on French TV on 18 November 1986. This is well known amongst Price fans and was done while Price was doing Basil, The Great Mouse Detective.
• Fragments of the House of Usher (11min): Critic and filmmaker David Cairns examines Corman’s film in relation to Poe’s story.
• US trailer (unrestored) • Artwork by Graham Humphreys

The Scream Factory Vol 1 Blu-ray have the added bonus of Price's intros, but this is a must-have. It also boasts a superior transfer. 

THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
(This is also a re-issue, click here for my original release)
• Audio commentary with the always charismatic Roger Corman. This was first included on the 2001 MGM DVD release, and is also on the Scream Factory Vol 1 Blu-ray.
• Audio commentary courtesy of the always informative Tim Lucas.
• The Story Behind the Swinging Blade (43min): Documentary on the making of the film.
• An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe (1970, 52min): Four classic Poe tales dramatised by Vincent Price unplugged, including The Tell-Tale Heart, The Sphinx, The Cask of Amontillado and The Pit and the Pendulum. (Unfortunately the 1080p transfer doesn’t improve on the original video source).
• Added TV Sequence (5min): Shot in 1968 to pad out the film for the longer TV time slot, this scene features star Luana Anders.
• US trailer (unrestored and pan and scan)
• Artwork by Gilles Vranckx

ED: This is also a must-have, with Tim Lucas' audio commentary and the inclusion of the Poe TV dramatisation being the highlights.

 TALES OF TERROR
• The Directors - Roger Corman (90min): This 1990 documentary explores Corman’s career.
• NEW Kim Newman on Edgar Allan Poe (30min): the novelist and critic, who'd make a darn fine lecturer in film studies, looks back at Poe’s influence on the big screen. There's an error on the screen menu: 'in' instead of 'on', however Arrow tell me that was corrected and only appears on the review copies.
• NEW Cats in Horror Films (10min): Anne Billson, a novelist, critic, photographer and blogger (catsonfilm.net), discusses the contributions of our feline friends to genre cinema.
• NEW The Black Cat (1993, 18min): Short film directed by Rob Green. Though it abridges Poe’s original verse, the visuals are very Cormanesque.
• US theatrical Trailer (unrestored, but in the correct ratio)
• Artwork by Dan Mumford

ED: This is a coup for Arrow as it is not on either of Scream Factory’s Blu-ray box sets.

 THE RAVEN
• NEW Peter Lorre: The Double Face (1984, 60min): Documentary about the German actor, from his early days in the theatre with Bertolt Brecht to his death in 1964. Subtitled. (unrestored).
• Richard Matheson: Storyteller (1993, 62min): This interview with the novelist and screenwriter also appeared on the 2001 MGM DVD release and on the Scream Factory Vincent Price Collection II Blu-ray.
• Corman’s Comedy of Poe (2003, 8min): Roger Corman (in cool, calm and collected mode) on the making of the spoof comedy. This is also included on the Scream Factory Vol 2 Blu-ray.
• NEW The Trick (1997, 12min): Director Rob Green’s short film about rival magicians. This has shades of The League of Gentlemen meets Buston Keaton.
• Gallery: Fantastic stuff. Can we have a pdf please Arrow? BTW: Check out Lorre smoking what looks like joint.
• NEW Promotional Record (6min): OMG! Paul Frees introduces Peter Lorre reciting Poe’s poem with Boris Karloff telling us its ‘the most blood curling thing you’ll ever see’! Also included on the Scream Factory Vol 2 Blu-ray.
• US trailer (unrestored)
• Artwork by Vladimir Zimakov

ED: The promo record is a real bonus here.

THE HAUNTED PALACE
• NEW Audio commentary by David Del Valle and Derek Botelho (author of The Argento Syndrome). Dedicated to the late Cathie Merchant, who appears as Hester Tillinghast in the horror, this commentary is fascinating stuff from David Del Valle, who shares my love for this underrated film. He has some great anecdotes (like Price becoming a millionaire after taking a profit percentage instead of a salary for House on Haunted Hill), while Derek makes a great sidekick - when he finally gets a word in. Best bit of trivia: the Aztec symbol painted on the dungeon wall also appears in Die, Monster, Die and The Dunwich Horror (which were also designed by Daniel Haller).
• NEW Kim Newman on HP Lovecraft (30min): The novelist looks at the challenges of adapting Lovecraft's stories to the screen. You can tell this was filmed on the same day as his Tales of Terror segment by the bits of dust (or are they crumbs of food) on his jacket.
• A Change of Poe (2003, 10min): Roger Corman looks at the making of the film. This was also on the 2001 MGM DVD release and is included in the Scream Factory Vol 1 Blu-ray.
• Gallery (silent, with a couple of newbies)
• US trailer (unrestored)
• Artwork by Matthew Griffin

ED: The audio commentary is the highlight here.

THE TOMB OF LIGEIA
• Audio commentaries by Roger Corman and Elizabeth Shepherd. These originally appeared on the 2001 MGM DVD release, and are also on the Scream Factory Vol 2 Blu-ray. (The Shepherd one also has poor sound).
• NEW Interview with Paul Mayersberg, who worked as Corman’s everyman assistant, doing everything from finding the location and hiring the cats (they kept running away), script rewrites and filming the holiday sequence at Stonehenge. Recorded 30 September 2014. (25min).
• NEW Interview with 1st AD David Tringham, who talks about working with the fast-working Corman and his fears of the studio set catching fire. Recorded 26 September 2014 (8min).
• NEW Interview with clapper loader Bob Jordan about shooting in widescreen on a low budget and of filming on location. Recorded 7 October 2014 (8min).
• NEW Interview with composer Kenneth V Jones, who talks about the challenges of creating a score without Corman’s input. Recorded 11 March 2014. (6min). Now this is one soundtrack that so needs an official release. Anyone? • US trailer (unrestored)
• Artwork by the Twins of Evil (aka Luke Insect and Kenn Goodall)

ED: Those interviews are priceless. Thank you Arrow.

Each feature is presented in the original 2.35:1 aspect ratio and offer uncompressed linear PCM 2.0 mono tracks. I found them all to be a richly colourful, pristine-looking upgrade on my MGM DVD releases. And while I already have the Usher and Pit SteelBooks, this Blu-ray box-set makes for a great companion piece. Now, what do I do with those DVDs?  

Vincent Price in Six Gothic Tales is available on Blu-ray from Arrow from Monday 8 December 2014