Universal Classic Monsters: The Essential Collection [Blu-ray]

It was great reminiscing of the old days staying up late and watching horror movies

I bought this set as an upgrade to my standard resolution Universal Monsters Legacy Collection DVDs. While it is nice to own these old films on standard DVD, many of the films suffer from grainy pictures and poor sound. Understandable for such old films, but I’ve wondered why the transfer to disc was generally so poor. This Blu-ray set is a vast improvement, with much crisper picture and vastly improved audio. As others have mentioned, perhaps the only shortcomings with the set are the omission of many of the sequels which were included with the Legacy Collection discs, and the decision to include the Claude Rains version of The Phantom of The Opera, rather than the superior silent version featuring Lon Chaney senior. Regardless, this is a wonderful and affordable addition to my high def film collection. Buy it when it’s on sale. You’ll be glad you did.

Love this set. These are the ones that started them all. All 6 are here, but I wish that this was the 30 movie set with all the sequels to them. I grew up on monsters like these; but in cartoons like Scooby Doo with Gramp The Vamp and where they went to Dracula's Castle for a mystery. Hope you come out with the rest of the Monsters as well.

This box set is amazing, it has all the great films that started it all, however, the Phantom of the Opera is the 1943 version starring Claude Rains and not the original silent film starring Lon Chaney sr., the special features are cool as well.

Awesome collection for any hardcore classic monster movie fan. Plus There is plenty of additional information for hardcore fans in the booklet that really makes it even more special.

This was a great deal (better than the 4k pack). You get more of the classic movies and they look perfect. The movies look so smooth with no grain on the big screen.

This is a great collection of all the classic original Universal Monsters movies! Starting a new Halloween tradition with the family with this set!

This is a must have for Horror movie lovers. These are the pioneers of Monster movies and the Horror genre.....and now in BluRay. Could not find it for a lesser price, and if I did, the shipping shot the price up and would still have to wait for it.