Customer Ratings & Reviews

I purchased this box set 4 times at another store and had to return all of them. I recently bought the Monster Classic 8 movie box set at "Best Buy" this is my 5th and final time and it has the same manufacturing defect as the other 4 did. The problem deals with "The Creature From the Black Lagoon" disc. It plays fine through the first 4 chapters of the movie then the video and the audio start to skip. I tried fast forwarding but it does it throughout the rest of the movie. I'm only keeping the set this time because the other 7 movies were remastered so well in the Blu-Ray format. If the "Creature From the Black Lagoon" would have played properly, I would have rated this box set a 5 Star but sadly to say it doesn't. If someone knows how or where I can get a Blu-Ray copy of the "Creature From the Black Lagoon" I really would appreciate it.

This set is awesome box set and well worth the money it would have cost me more to buy them one at a time.

Great set....on bluray it should be great. Gave as a gift.Loved them as a kid.

I bought this as a Christmas gift for my husband. Imagine my embarrassment when he put the first disc in and it skipped like crazy. It went back to the store. For the price it was a huge disappointment. I won't reorder.

OK, you ask, "What's included?" Answer: PLENTY! Most every great horror original from 1931-54 that put Universal Studios on the map. Namely, 'Dracula', 'Frankenstein', 'The Bride of Frankenstein', 'The Mummy' [1932], 'The Wolfman' [1941], 'The Phantom of the Opera' [1943], 'The Invisible Man', and 'The Creature from the Black Lagoon', plus a 3D version of same. Oddly, 3D glasses aren't included. Perhaps you already own a pair anyhow. So you know, I'm prejudiced. I'm Boris Karloff's biggest fan on the planet. Period. Of course, besides doing the brilliant, Grammy-winning narration for 1966's original, animated, "How The Grinch Stole Christmas", which every child in Christendom the world over loves to see, Boris Karloff did Broadway, comedy, radio, and dozens of films before 1931 put a permanent end to his 20 years as a starving artist. Boris is, doubtlessly most famous for his portrayals of "The Mummy" and, one year earlier as, Dr. Henry Frankenstein's Monster, or simply, 'Frankenstein' in the two films so monikered, although Mr. Karloff preferred to call Ol' Frank "The Creature". Mr. Karloff's performances as the misunderstood man/monster in the Frankenstein movies are Oscar-worthy quality, but Hollywood arrogantly refused to consider fright-films for any awards then. I bought this set for the three Karloff pictures alone, despite having seen the trio of them often enough to have memorized all of the respective dialogue. Yet even I was simply shocked at the clarity that this digital age, and Blu-Ray format in particular, bring to every film in this wonderful set. The richest studio mogul alive in the 1930s couldn't buy a projector good enough to make these movies look, or sound, near so flawlessly. To see the difference, be sure to look amongst the 'Dracula' extras for the feature, "Dracula: The Restoration". Those fellows make it look so easy. It wasn't, trust me. There are, in fact, plenty of extra features with each movie that are genuinely worth the time to watch. Naturally, I found the interviews with Sara Karloff, Boris' only child, to be fascinating. She is humble, gracious, and very, very much her Father's daughter. My only gripes with this set are few: I think that Universal should have included "The Son of Frankenstein" [1938] here, as Karloff only played Frankenstein that final time. The film also features Bela Lugosi's gem as Igor. This boxed treasure-trove is also missing the silent, original "Phantom of the Opera", Universal's first horror film from 1922, starring Lon Chaney, Sr., which, in all but sound, is far superior to the 1943 version that is included. My final gripe is minor. All of the original monophonic soundtracks have finally been restored as perfectly as the viewing content, but I wish that Universal could've given us the option of some sort of mono-to-stereo 5.1 sound. Overall, this collection is a must-own for both serious, and even casual horror buffs. Buy it now, or regret not having done so later!