Beast from Haunted Cave Blu-ray Movie

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Special Edition | Includes Ski Troop Attack
Film Masters | 1959-1960 | 2 Movies | 146 min | Not rated | Oct 24, 2023

Beast from Haunted Cave (Blu-ray Movie)

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Overview

Beast from Haunted Cave (1959-1960)

In a skiing station in Dakota, a gang of criminals leaded by Alexander "Alex" Ward plans the heist of golden bars from a small bank. While the lover of Alex, Gypsy Boulet, goes to an isolated cabin with the ski instructor Gil Jackson, a time bomb explodes a cave to divert the attention of the locals and the gangsters steal the gold. But the explosion releases a spider-like monster and due to a storm, the group becomes trapped in Gil's cabin and threatened by the creepy beast...

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Specifications

  • Video

    Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
    Video resolution: 1080p
    Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
    Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1

  • Audio

    See individual releases

  • Subtitles

    English SDH

  • Discs

    Blu-ray Disc
    Two-disc set (2 BDs)

  • Playback

    Region A (B, C untested)

Review

Rating summary

Movie2.5 of 52.5
Video3.5 of 53.5
Audio3.0 of 53.0
Extras2.5 of 52.5
Overall2.5 of 52.5

Beast from Haunted Cave Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman October 22, 2023

Rather amazingly Roger Corman is still with us at the venerable age of 97 as this review is being written, though his brother Gene passed in 2020 at a just somewhat less venerable age of 93. The Corman Brothers are of course legends, and even casual film fans will at least know of some of Roger's achievements, if arguably not being as aware of the contributions of Gene. Many will even know the brothers helped to found New World Pictures in 1970, but even those folks may either not have known or not remembered that earlier in their careers Roger and Gene founded a distribution company called The Filmgroup, even as Roger in particular was already making his name with his American International releases. Some of the supplements included in this two disc set of Filmgroup offerings get into at least a bit of the background for this situation, but suffice it to say the almost always budget conscious Cormans figured out they could produce their own films without the benefit of pesky union crews, and they could also perhaps manage to score some local freebies, or at least something pretty close, by visiting never before utilized locations for their films, which is why both of the films in this set perhaps just slightly comically used South Dakota for their productions. Beast From Haunted Cave is certainly in line with any number of other Corman "monster pictures", but kind of interestingly Ski Troop Attack is ostensibly set in the Hürtgen Forest during World War II.


For reviews of the films in this set, please click on the following links:

Beast from Haunted Cave Blu-ray review

Ski Troop Attack Blu-ray review


Beast from Haunted Cave Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality  3.5 of 5

Video quality of each film is assessed in the above linked reviews.


Beast from Haunted Cave Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality  3.0 of 5

Audio quality is assessed in the above linked reviews.


Beast from Haunted Cave Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras  2.5 of 5

Supplements on each disc are detailed in the above linked reviews. Additionally, Film Masters provides a very nicely appointed insert booklet with some fun writing by Tom Weaver and C. Courtney Joyner.


Beast from Haunted Cave Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation  2.5 of 5

Corman completists will probably want to check out this "double feature", even if neither film in this set is going to ever make a Top 10 Roger Corman Film list. Technical merits are okay if variable, but the supplements are very well done, for anyone who may be considering making a purchase.