DRACULA SYNOPSIS:

Dracula is searching for a woman who looks like his long dead wife.

THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE SYNOPSIS:

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

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FRANKENSTEIN SYNOPSIS:

A scientist obsessed with creating life steals body parts to put together his "creation."

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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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OUR FILM REVIEW

Dracula is a character everyone is well aware of, he is above all the others the most known of the classic monsters. Dan Curtis' Dracula is one of the more traditional transfers coming from the 35mm original. The image is clear but not altered to remove the genuine grain that brings the nostalgia of pieces like this. The color is beauitful to look at and as a fan of classic monsters of the era - this film has everything a fan of the character and genre as a whole would wish for. 

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & Frankenstein are the two unusual transfers comparatively to the Dracula transfer. Both shot with lower quality cameras from the 1968 to 1973 era, the home video quality is elevated in a grand way in this latest release. The image is magnificent with a hazy look accustomed from the 70s with a clean, atmospheric essence behind it. It's a surprising upgrade that is rare to see to this degree from pictures brought to light from that time. 

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SPECIAL FEATURES ​

• DISC ONE + TWO - BLU-RAY​

  • Introductions to All Films by Jeff Thompson, Author of The Television Horrors of Dan Curtis

  • Dracula Audio Commentary by Mark Dawidziak

  • Dracula Interview with Actor Jack Palance

  • Dracula Interview with Producer/Director Dan Curtis

  • Dracula Spanish language soundtrack

  • Dracula Alternate Footage and Scenes

  • Frankenstein Audio Commentary by Film Scholar Rodney F. Hill (Hofstra University)

  • Frankenstein Audio Commentary with Actors Robert Foxworth (Victor Frankenstein) and John Karlen (Otto Roget)

  • Frankenstein ABC-TV Wide World Mystery Promos

  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Audio Commentary by Author, Artist and Film Historian Steve Bissette

  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Interview with Makeup Effects Artist Dick Smith