Dan Curtis was finest referred to as the creator of the gothic cleaning soap opera Darkish Shadows, directing the supernatural horror movie Burnt Choices, and producing the made-for-TV motion pictures The Evening Stalker and The Evening Strangler, which led to the short-lived however nonetheless widespread collection Kolchak: The Evening Stalker. Curtis additionally had the chance to carry the tales of some basic monsters to the display – and on October 28th, simply in time for Halloween viewing, Kino Cult might be bringing Curtis’s takes on Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Unusual Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to Blu-ray in a set known as Dan Curtis’ Basic Monsters! Copies can be found for pre-order at THIS LINK.
Right here’s the outline of the set: Broadly acclaimed for having modernized tv horror within the Sixties and ’70s, producer Dan Curtis (Darkish Shadows, The Evening Stalker) additionally embraced extra conventional approaches. This particular version presents Curtis’s made-for-TV variations of the three foundational monsters of filmdom. Tailored by Richard Matheson (Someplace in Time) and starring Jack Palance (Shane), Dracula was filmed in Jap Europe and was the primary movie to make a connection between Bram Stoker’s vampire and Vlad the Impaler. Bo Svenson (Half 2: Strolling Tall) portrays the heartbreakingly childlike monster of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Unusual Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde includes a ferocious efficiency by Palance because the scientist who unbridles the deepest, darkest urges of the human animal.
The Unusual Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was the primary of those motion pictures to air, exhibiting on ABC on January 7, 1968. Curtis produced the film, which was directed by Charles Jarrott from a screenplay by Ian McLellan Hunter. Jack Palance performs Jekyll and Hyde, and was joined within the forged by Denholm Elliott, Tessie O’Shea, Torin Thatcher, Oskar Homolka, Leo Genn, Billie Whitelaw, Rex Sevenoaks, Gillie Fenwick, Elizabeth Cole, Duncan Lamont, Paul Harding, Donald Webster, and Geoffrey Alexander.
Frankenstein aired on ABC on January 16, 1973. Along with producing the film, Curtis additionally wrote it with Richard H. Landau and Sam Corridor. Glenn Jordan was the director. Along with Bo Svenson as The Monster, it stars Robert Foxworth, Susan Strasberg, Robert Gentry, Heidi Vaughn, Philip Bourneuf, Robert Gentry, Jon Lormer, William Hansen, John Karlen, and Willie Aames.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula was meant to air on CBS in October of 1973, nevertheless it was pre-empted for an deal with by President Richard Nixon on the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew and didn’t air till February 8, 1974. Curtis directed this one from the script by Richard Matheson, and Jack Palance co-stars with Simon Ward, Nigel Davenport, Pamela Brown, Fiona Lewis, Penelope Horner, and Murray Brown.
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