The Vincent Price Collection Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		4.0
Video		4.0
Audio		4.0
Extras		4.0
Overall		4.0

The Vincent Price Collection Blu-ray Movie Review

Happy Halloween!

Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman October 20, 2013

Shout! Factory’s Scream Factory imprint is giving horror fans a little early Halloween present this year, bringing six classic Vincent Price – American International films to high definition for the first time. Though horror tends to be a genre that, to paraphrase one Rodney Dangerfield, “gets no respect”, and indeed probably all of these films were thought of as B-movie drive in fodder back in the day, most if not all of them hold up surprisingly well today, with several of them offering a quasi- hallucinatory quality which Roger Corman, the supposedly low rent auteur who is responsible for the majority of the offerings in this set, states was a deliberate choice (not one necessitated by relatively paltry budgets) in an attempt to viscerally recreate the inner life of the (perhaps troubled) mind. Though Price had made at least a couple of forays into horror in the fifties with such fare as House of Wax 3D and The Fly, it was really the American International pictures that established Price’s “second act” in the film business, offering him more or less steady employment when many of his contemporaries had either resigned themselves to the ostensibly less glamorous world of television or who had outright retired from show business.

Full write ups of each of the six films in this collection can be found by clicking on the following links:

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The Masque of the Red Death Blu-ray review

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The Abominable Dr. Phibes Blu-ray review

The Vincent Price Collection Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

Video quality of each release is addressed in the individual reviews, linked above.

The Vincent Price Collection Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Audio quality of each release is addressed in the individual reviews, linked above.

The Vincent Price Collection Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

Supplementary material accompanying each release is addressed in the individual reviews, linked above.

The Vincent Price Collection Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

This is yet another really commendable set put out by Shout! Factory, which continues to impress with some very thoughtful packages that include a number of really excellent supplements, as well as generally excellent video and audio quality. Highly recommended.