When you think classic horror the name Vincent Price is always one of the first names to enter any conversation. Turns out that a couple awesome box set collections of some of his best work are coming out just in time for Halloween and we've got all the info you need to know. Here is the complete press release that outlines everything:
The silver screen legend whose
distinctive voice and unique look propelled him to the forefront of the horror
genre, Vincent Price is recognized as a true Hollywood treasure whose
villainous roles inspired filmmakers, musicians and other actors for
generations to come. Now, just in time for Halloween, Fox and MGM Home
Entertainment celebrate his storied career with nearly a dozen creepy classics
including THE FLY COLLECTION, MGM MOVIE SCREAM LEGENDS:
VINCENT PRICE COLLECTION and WITCHFINDER
GENERAL, arriving on DVD September 11, 2007.
A science-fiction classic that spawned a trilogy of terror, THE FLY
COLLECTION features the original 1958 film THE FLY, its
sequel RETURN OF THE FLY and the DVD debut of THE CURSE OF
THE FLY, including all new documentaries and featurettes in a
collectible boxed set.
The terror continues with MGM MOVIE SCREAM LEGENDS: VINCENT PRICE
COLLECTION; a seven-movie set that immortalizes the iconic screen
legend with THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES, DR. PHIBES RISES
AGAIN, THEATER OF BLOOD, MADHOUSE, TALES
OF TERROR, TWICE TOLD TALES and the long-awaited DVD debut of
WITCHFINDER GENERAL. The collection also features an exclusive BONUS
DISC OF HORROR including rare interviews with the Merchant of Menace
himself!
Finally, one of the most requested titles in the MGM catalog; WITCHFINDER
GENERAL finally crawls its way onto DVD. Originally released theatrically as The Conqueror Worm,
WITCHFINDER GENERAL is a frightening tale of a brutal witch-hunt
in war torn England. The DVD also features audio
commentary by the producer and star of the film and a documentary about the
film’s importance to the genre. THE FLY COLLECTION is available
for a suggested retail price of $39.98 U.S.
/ $54.98 Canada, with MGM MOVIE SCREAM
LEGENDS: VINCENT PRICE available for $39.98 U.S. / $54.98 Canada and WITCHFINDER GENERAL available for $14.98 U.S. / $15.98.
The Fly Collection Special Features
- Disc One – The Fly (1958)
- Disc Two – The Return Of
The Fly (1959)
- Disc Three – The Curse
Of The Fly (1965)
- Disc Four – Bonus Disc
- Vincent Price biography
- “Fly Trap: Catching A
Classic” featurette
- The Fly bonus features
- Playboy article and
gallery
- The Return Of The Fly bonus features
- The Curse Of The Fly bonus features
MGM Scream Legends
Collection: Vincent Price Collection Special Features
- Disc One – ABOMINABLE
DR. PHIBES/DR. PHIBES RISES AGAIN Double Feature
- Disc Two - THEATER OF
BLOOD/MADHOUSE Double Feature
- Disc Three - TALES OF
TERROR/TWICE TOLD TALES Double Feature
- Disc Four – Witchfinder
General
- Witchfinder General: Michael Reeve’s Horror Classic Featurette
- Audio commentary with
producer Philip Waddilove and actor Ian Ogilvy
- Disc Five – Bonus Disc of
Horror
- “Vincent Price:
Renaissance Man” documentary
- “The Art Of Fear” featurette
- “Working With Vincent
Price” featurette
WITCHFINDER GENERAL Special Features
- Witchfinder General: Michael Reeve’s Horror Classic Featurette
- Audio commentary with
producer Philip Waddilove and actor Ian Ogilvy
The Fly
Synopsis
Experimental scientist Andre Delambre
(David Hedison) attempts to transfer matter through a space, using himself as
the test subject. But things go horrifically wrong when a house fly buzzes into
the machine, resulting in two grotesque man-fly hybrids…one of them being
Andre! Now with the head of a fly and a wing
in place of one of his arms, Andre, desperately hopes that he, his wife Helene
(Patricia Owens) and his brother Francois (Vincent Price) can capture the other
mutant – the human-headed, one-armed fly – in hopes of reversing the
experiment!
The Return Of The
Fly Synopsis
Despite
warnings from his uncle Francois (Vincent Price), the young scientist Philippe Delambre
(Brett Halsey) is determined to reattempt his late father’s teleportation
experiments with the help of his assistant Ronald (David Frankham). But Ronald
schemes against Philippe and turns him into the same horrifying man-fly
creature that his father had become…and with the same disastrous fate! Once
again, it is up to Francois to try and make things right!
The Curse Of The Fly Synopsis
The
Delambre family curse continues in the terrifying third and final chapter, The
Curse of the Fly! Filled with “disorienting suspense” (Scarlet Street) and gruesome special effects, it’s a horrific tale of science gone
mad!
After
escaping from a mental institution, Patricia Stanley (Carole Gray) is rescued
by scientist Martin Delambre (George Baker), the grandson of the doomed
teleportation experimenter Andre Delambre. The two fall in love and marry, but
Patricia quickly realizes her new husband’s science experiments are as horrific
as his family’s past. As she investigates further, Patricia learns the
unnerving secrets of the Delambre family and has to find a way to escape them
before she becomes the next human-insect hybrid!
The Abominable Dr. Phibes Synopsis
Meet Doctor Phibes:
a one-time concert musician who’s now an all-time crazed murderer. In this
clever, crypt-kicking classic, horrormeister Vincent Price plays a diabolical
doc seeking the ultimate in revenge with precision creepiness and surgical wit.
Watch Dr. Phibes live up to his promise: “Nine killed her, nine shall die, nine
eternities in doom!”
After a team of
surgeons botch his beloved wife’s surgery, leaving her for dead, the
emotionally distraught Dr. Phibes creatively concocts a fatal prescription for
revenge. Using the Good Book as his guide, Phibes unleashes a score of old
testament atrocities – from a plague of locusts to an attack of rats -- on his
enemies that climax in what may be one of “the eeriest endings on screen
record” (Syracuse Herald-Journal)!
Dr. Phibes Rises
Again Synopsis
The eminent Dr. Phibes
awakens from a decade of suspended animation and heads to Egypt with his mute
aide-de-camp Vulnavia and the corpse of his dead wife. To resurrect his spouse,
Phibes gets up to his usual, diabolical tricks: cleverly murdering people in
strange and heinous ways to invoke a magical incantation. But once he is in the
tomb of the dead Pharaohs, the good doctor uncovers that his pursuit of
an after-life may be foiled by his nemesis who wants to end the reign of this
sadistic surgeon of gore.
Theater Of Blood Synopsis
Vincent
Price delivers a thrilling “tour-de-force” performance (Variety) as a
small-time actor plotting big-time revenge! Boasting a top notch supporting
cast, this dramatically “delicious concoction” (New York
Magazine) is an “equal mixture of horror, comedy and Shakespeare [that’ll]
please just about everyone -- critics included” (Boxoffice)!
After
years of suffering deadly reviews, hammy Shakespearean actor Edward Lionheart
(Price) decides it’s curtains for his critics! Bumping off his detractors with
executions inspired by the Bard, Lionheart stages a beheading after the manner
of “Cymbeline,” a stabbing inspired by “Julius Caesar,” and even an untimely
removal of a pound of flesh improvised from “The Merchant of Venice” -- proving
once and for all, that all the world really is a stage…for MURDER!
Madhouse Synopsis
Madhouse Masters of macabre
Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Robert Quarry give performances to die for in
this “diverting little chiller” (Boxoffice)! When horror star Paul Toombes’
fiancée is brutally killed, he loses more than this job he loses his mind. But
twelve years later, when he returns to TV – only to discover a fresh batch of
corpses – Paul finally begins to understand that melodrama can be murder on
your career!
Tales Of Terror /Twice Told Tale Synopsis
This triple treat
of terror is a three-episode treat dripping with murder, necrophilia, dementia,
live burials, zombies and the terrifying performances of some of horror’s
greatest spooks – Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone – resulting in
nothing less than “juicy entertainment” and “spine-chilling cinema” (Cue)!
Witchfinder General Synopsis
“Vincent Price proves
once again that he is still the greatest ghoul going” (Motion Picture Herald)
in this Edgar Allen Poe thriller about a witch hunter who finds career
satisfaction touring the English countryside torturing hapless victims and
putting innocent people to death in the name of purifying souls. It’s a tale of
“love, villainy and retribution” (Film Daily) and a “sadist’s delight” (Los
Angeles Times) for those who love historical bloodfests.
As superstition and
spells sweep the middle ages, an educated rogue named Hopkins (Price) wanders
from town to town proclaiming to be an official witch finder. Town leaders pay
him to accuse and then execute – usually innocent – suspects. But when a brave
soldier returns home to find his sweetheart on the rack, ready to burn, Hopkins realizes he may have
whacked his last witch.
