Hammer Films: The Ultimate Collection - BLU-RAY

Ten-disc set includes The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)After escaping a date with the guillotine, Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) sets up a new lab and creates a body from cadaver parts to house the brain of his hunchbacked assistant. Unfortunately, a head injury turns the Baron's latest Inchsynthetic manInch into a murderous monster who cannot control his rage. This creepy, surprisingly compassionate entry in the Hammer series features Francis Matthews, Lionel Jeffries, and Michael Gwynne as the creature. 90 min. C/Rtg NR The Snorkel (1958)Paul Decker (Peter Van Eyck) thought he'd been ingeniously clever in fatally gassing his wife and staging it to look like suicide. His teenage stepdaughter (Mandy Miller), though, has her doubts... and the more she digs, the more he seeks an opening for a repeat performance. Effective Hammer thriller co-stars Betta St. John, Grégoire Aslan, William Franklyn. 74 min. BW/Rtg NR The Camp on Blood Island (1958)At an isolated POW internment camp in Malaya, the sadistic Japanese commandant has openly vowed to slaughter all occupants in the event of his country's surrender. With news of Allied victory imminent, a British officer (Andre Morell) acts to suppress the information from his captors, and to arm the prisoners for the inevitable. Lurid Hammer offering co-stars Carl Mohner, Walter Fitzgerald, Edward Underdown; Val Guest directs. 81 min. BW/Rtg NR Yesterday's Enemy (1959)When his detachment is cut off deep in the jungles of WWII-torn Burma, a British officer (Stanley Baker) goes to shocking and barbarous lengths to extract Japanese intel from a captured informer... and then faces long odds in his quest to spare his men similar mercy from the occupying forces. Harrowing war story from Val Guest co-stars Leo McKern, Guy Rolfe, Gordon Jackson. 95 min. BW/Rtg NR The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)Hammer Films' pulls the old swit