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Creature From The Haunted Sea / The Devil Bat / Vampire Bat

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Triple bill of horror classics. Low-budget horror maestro Roger Corman directs 'Creature From the Haunted Sea' (1961), about a mobster who hits on a plan while smuggling a deposed general and a fortune in gold out of Cuba on his private yacht. His plan is to scare the general and kill his guards by faking the attacks of a sea monster, enabling him to keep the gold for himself. When a genuine sea monster begins attacking them though, the plan goes horribly awry. In 'The Devil Bat' (1941), Bela Lugosi plays mild-mannered Dr Carruthers, a man hiding a murderous secret. At night, he unleashes his breed of blood-sucking bats to attack anyone wearing his specially formulated aftershave lotion, in an attempt to get revenge on the perfume company that sacked him. Finally, in 'The Vampire Bat' (1933), a series of murders in which the bodies are completely drained of blood causes superstitious villagers to believe there is a vampire at work. In reality a mad scientist is commiting the crimes in order to use the blood in his experiments.

Creature From The Haunted Sea / The Devil Bat / Vampire Bat details

Format:	12 DVD
Starring:	Bela Lugosi, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Anthony Carbone, Bela Lugosi, Dave O'Brien, Fay Wray, Lionel Atwill
Directors:	Roger Corman, Jean Yarbrough, Jean Yarbrough /
Genre:	Horror - General
Studio:	CLASSIC ENTERTAINMENT

DVD 1 disc

Name	Discs
Creature From The Haunted Sea / The Devil Bat / Vampire Bat	12 Feature

DVD Information

Run time:	3 hours 29 minutes
Rental release:	04 Jul 2005
Main languages:	English

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Two out of three ain't bad

By Matt from Somerset, UK , 13 Feb 2006

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There are three films on this DVD. The first one, Roger Corman's 'Creature from the Haunted Sea' is truly dreadful, and not even in the 'so bad it's good' category. However, the other two are good old creaky horror classics, and great fun if you like that sort of thing. Bela Lugosi in 'The Devil Bat' is a wonderfully hammy mad scientist, while 'The Vampire Bat' features a marvelously over-acting Dwight Frye as a Renfield-type character and the gorgeous Fay Wray (with her natural brunette hair, not the blonde wig she sported for King Kong).
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Two out of three ain't bad

By Matt from Somerset, UK , 13 Feb 2006

There are three films on this DVD. The first one, Roger Corman's 'Creature from the Haunted Sea' is truly dreadful, and not even in the 'so bad it's good' category. However, the other two are good old creaky horror classics, and great fun if you like that sort of thing. Bela Lugosi in 'The Devil Bat' is a wonderfully hammy mad scientist, while 'The Vampire Bat' features a marvelously over-acting Dwight Frye as a Renfield-type character and the gorgeous Fay Wray (with her natural brunette hair, not the blonde wig she sported for King Kong).
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