Saturday, September 5, 2015

Thank You Universal! Abbott and Costello Meet the Monsters Collection.

As October approaches, I make a point to check the video sections of Target, Walmart and other such places, because that's when Horror Movies season is at its peak in the bargain video sections.

Today I was in our local Walmart with Igor and saw last year's Legacy collection releases for the Mummy and Dracula.  Having both, from a previous legacy release, I decided to check them anyway for the extras... and there they were: Abbot and Costello Meet The Mummy and Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein, I had a moment of nerdrage- I DON'T WANT TO BUY THESE AGAIN! - when I noticed Abbott and Costello Meet the Monsters Collection, featuring the two mentioned above and ...Meet Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and ...Meet the Invisible Man.

...Meet Frankenstein is special because it's the last movie in the original arc of Universal Horror films as well as the return of Bela Lugosi in the role that made him famous.

Plus there's commentary and a documentary.
The documentary is David Skal's Abbot & Costello Meet the Monsters from 2000, with commentary from Costello's daughter, Lugosi's son and other genre scholars.
Tom Weaver, one of the authors of Universal Horrors is one of the commentators on Abbott & Costello Meet The Mummy.

It's been a crazy kind of week, so it was nice to find this collection- it'll be hours of fun.

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