Rent The Phantom Creeps (1939)

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4h 1min
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Synopsis:
Mad Scientist Dr. Alex Zorka (Bela Lugosi) conducts experiments in a secret laboratory, with his bizarre inventions being coveted by both friend and foe. The source of much of the power is from a meteorite fragment he found in Africa, which has limitless energy.
Actors:
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Directors:
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Producers:
Henry MacRae
Writers:
George H. Plympton, Basil Dickey, Mildred Barish
Studio:
Elstree Hill Entertainment
Genres:
Children & Family, Classics, Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Collections:
Top 10 Films of 1939
BBFC:
Release Date:
20/09/2010
Run Time:
241 minutes
Languages:
English Dolby Digital 1.0
Subtitles:
None
DVD Regions:
Region 0 (All)
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Full Screen 1.37:1
Colour:
B & W
Disc 1:
This disc includes the following Chapters:
1. The Mencaing Power
2. Death Stalks the Highways
3. Crashing Towers
4. Invisible Terror
5. Thundering Rails
6. The Iron Monster
Disc 2:
This disc includes the following Chapters:
7. The Menacing Mist
8. Trapped in the Flames
9. Speeding Doom
10. Phantom Footprints
11. The Blast
12. To Destroy the World

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Abysmal DVD of a very minor movie - The Phantom Creeps review by Count Otto Black

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28/10/2015

I couldn't be bothered to watch very much of this. I knew in advance it was going to be a primitive no-budget serial from 1939, but sometimes that kind of thing can be fun. However, I had a nasty feeling as soon as I got to the chapter menu and saw that the producers of the DVD couldn't even be bothered to correct a howling typo like "THE MENCAING POWER", and sadly I was right. The slapdash transfer from poor-quality video to bargain-bin DVD (which is obviously what they did, since the picture is cropped to fit a TV screen) results in a horrible viewing experience, and the disc is so shoddily produced that one stereo channel on the soundtrack doesn't work, diminishing the amusement and nostalgia factors far below the point where it's worth sitting through four hours of migraine-inducing flickering with sound you can barely hear just to see Bela Lugosi hamming it up like a bacon factory on overtime. If a much, much better version was available, this might be reasonably amusing in a retro kind of way, but this one's for obsessive-compulsive Lugosi fans only.

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