5.2 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 2.5 | |
Overall | 2.5 |
Exploitation genres collide when vampires and spacemen come together in this way-out horror adventure from director Al Adamson. A wave of gory attacks by fanged bloodsuckers sweeps the Earth, prompting an expedition to the planet where the infected blood of the vampire originated. Things get nuttier when this mystery asteroid turns out to be a nightmare world of dinosaurs, snake-men, mutant lobster creatures, winged monkeys and warring tribes of cave dwellers...!
Starring: John Carradine, Robert Dix, Vicki Volante, Joey Benson, Jennifer Bishop (I)Horror | 100% |
Sci-Fi | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.84:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
English
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 2.5 | |
Video | 3.5 | |
Audio | 3.0 | |
Extras | 2.0 | |
Overall | 2.5 |
Note: This film is available as part of
Al Adamson: The Masterpiece Collection.
Disc Four of The Masterpiece Collection aggregates three titles that have at least a tangential connection to each other. Blood of
Dracula's Castle and Dracula's Castle are basically two versions of the same film, while Horror of the Blood Monsters offers
vampires again, albeit this time interpolated from a Filipino film that Adamson decided to appropriate.
Horror of the Blood Monsters is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Severin Films with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 1.84:1. There are some rough moments interspersed with better looking material, as is perhaps unavoidable considering how cobbled together this effort is. The opening credits are pretty ragged, but a lot of the "new" color footage actually looks pretty decent for the most part, with a nicely suffused palette and generally good detail levels. There's still prevalent damage in the way of flecks and speckling, along with other blemishes. The Filipino material that has been interpolated here can be somewhat softer looking at times, and some of the tinting employed doesn't really support fine detail that well.
Horror of the Blood Monsters features a DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono track that capably supports the film's overheated dialogue and equally overheated score. There are still signs of age related wear and tear, with background hiss and other noise noticeable, and occasional pops and crackles along the way.
Considering how patently ridiculous it is, Horror of the Blood Monsters is actually a lot of fun quite a bit of the time, even though its low rent "special effects" may provoke more guffaws than wonders. The interpolated footage just gives this film a completely weird, hallucinogenic feeling which the Spectrum X tinting probably only increases. Technical merits are above average within the context of what's offered overall in this set, and once again Samuel Sherman's commentary is a lot of fun to listen to.
(Still not reliable for this title)
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