DAN CURTIS' CLASSIC MONSTERS (1968-1974) - Kino Cult #39 Includes Dracula, Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Product Description: Widely acclaimed for having modernized television horror in the 1960s and ’70s, producer Dan Curtis (Dark Shadows, The Night Stalker) also embraced more traditional approaches. This special edition presents Curtis’s made-for-TV versions of the three foundational monsters of filmdom. Adapted by Richard Matheson (Somewhere in Time) and starring Jack Palance (Shane), Dracula was filmed in Eastern Europe and was the first film to make a connection between Bram Stoker’s vampire and Vlad the Impaler. Bo Svenson (Part 2: Walking Tall) portrays the heartbreakingly childlike monster of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde features a ferocious performance by Palance as the scientist who unbridles the deepest, darkest urges of the human animal.

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New on Blu-ray: Gene Roddenberry's THE QUESTOR TAPES (1974) Starring Robert Foxworth & Mike Farrell

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Product Description: Follow the incredible journey of one seemingly superhuman android as he attempts to find his creator in Gene Roddenberry’s fascinating sci-fi telefilm, The Questor Tapes, from the visionary minds behind Star Trek. Project Questor (Robert Foxworth, Ants!, The Black Marble) is cutting-edge technology at its finest: brilliant, resilient and able to take on humanity’s greatest minds. The one question this amazing android cannot solve, however, is the location of its genius inventor, Dr. Vaslovik (Lew Ayres, Donovan’s Brain), and half of the tapes that provide detailed instructions on how his creation can best guide humanity. With a nuclear time bomb counting down in its chest, Questor must rely on the help of another scientist, Dr. Jerry Robinson (Mike Farrell, M*A*S*H), to solve the secret of its origins. Directed by Richard A. Colla (The UFO Incident, Fuzz).

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New on Blu-ray: ANTS! / IT HAPPENED AT LAKEWOOD MANOR (1977)

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Product Description: A mountain resort is ravaged by a deadly force in this terrifying tale of Mother Nature’s revenge—Ants!, a.k.a. It Happened at Lakewood Manor. Expecting a weekend of luxurious self-indulgence, visitors at the ritzy Lakewood Manor soon discover they’re the entrée of the day for an army of malevolent ants with an appetite for human flesh. When these killer creepy-crawlies eat toxic insecticides, they don’t die—they just get meaner. Vacation is no picnic in this cult eco-horror classic. The delicious cast includes Suzanne Somers (TV’s Three’s Company), Robert Foxworth (The Black Marble), Lynda Day George (TV’s Fear No Evil), Bernie Casey (TV’s The Martian Chronicles), Barry Van Dyke (TV’s Diagnosis Murder), Steve Franken (The Party), Karen Lamm (Trackdown) and Brian Dennehy (F/X) with a special appearance by celluloid great Myrna Loy (Love Me Tonight). Directed by TV veteran Robert Scheerer (TV’s Kolchak: The Night Stalker).

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DVD & Blu-ray: THE BLACK MARBLE (1980) Starring Robert Foxworth and Paula Prentiss

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Product Description: Sergeant A.M. Valnikov (Robert Foxworth, Prophecy) is a hard-drinking homicide detective transferred to Hollywood’s robbery division. His new partner Natalie Zimmerman (Paula Prentiss, The Parallax View) is a hard-nosed divorcee with no patience for burnt-out cops. And “Terrier King” Philo Skinner (Harry Dean Stanton, Paris, Texas) is a desperate dog groomer who has kidnapped a champion schnauzer for $84,000 in ransom. Together they will track this case through a town of tarnished dreams where crime is never perfect, love is often blind and some people always seem to pick The Black Marble. Barbara Babcock (Chosen Survivors) and Judy Landers (Armed and Dangerous) co-star in this quirky comedy-drama directed by Harold Becker (Sea of Love, Malice) from a screenplay by Joseph Wambaugh (The Choirboys, The Onion Field) based on his best-selling novel, and featuring a score by legendary composer Maurice Jarre (Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia) and special appearances by Christopher Lloyd, Michael Dudikoff and James Woods.

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New on Blu-ray: PROPHECY (1979) Starring Talia Shire and Armand Assante

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Product Description: "Realistic, dramatically acted, and supported with graphic violence, Prophecy is not easily forgotten – [it] stands towering amidst the sub-genre from which it spawned." – Bloody Disgusting Robert Foxworth (Damien: Omen II) and Talia Shire (Rocky, The Godfather) star as a doctor and his wife who travel to Maine to research the impact of the lumber industry on the local environment. They begin to investigate a succession of mysterious and terrifying events: ecological freaks of nature and a series of bizarre and grisly human deaths. Something unimaginably horrible waits in the woods ... something unwittingly created by man, that will become an uncontrollable, merciless machine of destruction. Veteran director John Frankenheimer (The Island Of Dr. Moreau) presents "a gritty, violent, and deadly film that [packs] a death punch with very vivid, nightmarish special effects ..." (Bloody Disgusting).

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