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Horror star Boris Karloff provides the narration for this animated
version of Dr Seuss' festive tale. The Grinch is a mean and wicked
creature who resents the coming of Christmas to nearby Who-ville.
In fact, he despises the festive season so much that he decides to
steal all the presents and decorations from the village. Does this
mean there will be no Christmas in Who-ville? Not if little Cindy
Lou can help it.
Collection of six classic Universal Monster movies. In 'Dracula'
1931), estate agent Renfield (Dwight Frye) travels to Transylvania
to arrange the sale of an English mansion to nobleman Count Dracula
(Bela Lugosi). When Renfield discovers that his host is a
500-year-old vampire, he is bitten and himself enslaved. After
arriving in London, Dracula attempts to get his teeth into Mina
Seward (Helen Chandler), an innocent maiden betrothed to Jonathan
Harker (David Manners). Vampire expert Professor Van Helsing
(Edward van Sloan) attempts to put a stop to the bloodsucking. In
'Dracula's Daughter' (1936), vampire-hunter Dr Van Helsing (van
Sloan) believes that he has rid London of the undead when he finds
himself unexpectedly arrested for murder. A series of bodies have
been found drained of all blood, and their discovery coincides with
the arrival in the city of the mysterious Countess Marya Zaleska
(Gloria Holden), who has been to Van Helsing's psychiatrist, Dr
Garth (Otto Kruger) for consultation. From her strange behaviour
Garth and Van Helsing deduce that the countess is a vampire, and
are forced to trail her to Transylvania when she kidnaps Garth's
beautiful fiancée. In 'Son of Dracula' (1943), Katherine (Louise
Allbritton) is a student of the occult, fascinated by Count Alucard
(Lon Chaney Jr), who has recently moved to her home town in the
south of the US. Katherine secretly begins dating Alucard,
eventually marrying him. But when she begins to look and act
strangely, her former boyfriend Frank (Robert Paige) suspects that
something is wrong. In 'House of Frankenstein' (1944), when Dr.
Niemann (Boris Karloff) escapes from the mental asylum in which he
is being held, he awakens Count Dracula (John Carradine), the Wolf
Man (Chaney Jr) and the Frankenstein monster (Glenn Strange) as he
looks to gain revenge on his many enemies. In 'House of Dracula'
(1945), Count Dracula (Carradine) arrives at the laboratory of Dr
Edelman, claiming to seek a cure for his vampirism, but in fact
eager to turn Edelman's beautiful assistant into his vampire bride.
At the same time, a wretched Wolf Man Larry Talbot (Chaney Jr) asks
Edelman to bring his lycanthropy to an end. The first attempt to
cure Talbot fails, and he throws himself off a cliff in a bid to
commit suicide. This attempt fails, but leads him to an underground
cavern where he discovers the monster (Strange) created years
before by Dr Frankenstein... In 'Abbott and Costello Meet
Frankenstein' (1948), baggage clerks Bud (Bud Abbott) and Lou (Lou
Costello) find themselves in hot water when they lose a mysterious
shipment en route to the House of Horrors. It transpires that the
missing crates contained the remains of Count Dracula (Lugosi) and
Frankenstein's monster (Strange), and have now been diverted to the
island hideaway of a crazed scientist who wishes to revive the
monsters The inept duo head off to the island to avert disaster,
but will the arrival of the Wolfman (Chaney Jr) prove to be a help
or a hindrance?
"Are you afraid of the dark? You know perfectly well you are, and
you may as well admit it " - Boris Karloff, from the Introduction.
In 1943 - a good year for terrors both foreign and domestic -
beloved acting great Boris Karloff released the stellar hardcover
anthology, TALES OF TERROR. Selected and presented by the Master
himself, this collection of vintage ghost stories and strange tales
featured renowned writers of the weird such as Bram Stoker and
Algernon Blackwood, and included the now-acknowledged classics,
"Beast With Five Fingers," "The Damned Thing," and many others.
Karloff's lengthy introductory essay, written with the elegance,
wit and grace that were hallmarks of the man, expounds on his
theory of "horror" and "terror," and provides revealing insights
into the psychology and philosophy that he personally brought to
the genre, both as anthologist and actor.
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