100 Years of Horror

I would have to say that this is a very good video. They really made this right. The only thing is that where is George Romero? They should have had him on because he was the one who gave a zombies a new name (well thats what I think). Anyway it is overall excellent.

Just saw the DVD, which only contains the two general episodes of this series and enjoyed it immensely. And since I'm a HUGE Abbott&Costello fan I was pleasantly surprised to see some outtakes from 'Abbott&Costello meets Frankenstein', one of their best films for sure.

But aside from that, Lee guides us through the history of horror movies using the trailers of the movies themselves. Not bad, all the exciting shots are there, but also the the very misplaced music and captions that accompanies the trailers. Silencing the music and removing the captions would have earned this otherwise wellmade documentary a 8/10, but now I think a 7 will be quite enough.

This is an interesting (1996) series broken down into 26 episodes. It has been reorganized into a shorter number of episodes.

In this Ted Newson documentary, it is divided into subjects that overlap as you find out when you try to shelve the DVDs. Such as Dracula and His Disciples, Frankenstein's Friends, Girl Ghouls, etc...

Narrated by Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (1922-2015) you may remember him in The Stupids (1996) as Evil Sender as mail is posted return to Sender.

I learned a lot about missing and overlooked films from the clips and interviewees. I will not go through a list as that is why you will be watching this. However, in one of the first episodes they showed a clip of Drácula (1931) the Spanish version with Carlos Villarías(1892-1976); Carlos looks just like Nicolas Cage in Renfield (2023).

If you stick with this presentation, you will notice that many of the clips are repeated. You may also notice that the movies are selective and may not include your favorites. Still, you cannot have everything in the limited time available. They did take the time to mention many of the TV shows and not just movies.

Hopefully someone will pick up the gauntlet and make an UpToDate version.

I would have given this series a higher rating except for the audio quality inconsistencies, granted they're dealing with a lot of older movies so the sound quality isn't going to be the greatest by today's (or in this case, the late '90s) standards, I'm not talking about those clips, what I mean are the interview bits and Christopher Lee's bits, sometimes he'd sound fine, then other times his voice would be louder and way too heavy in the low end... and the interviews often were too quiet and/or muffled. Otherwise a great show.

I saw an edited version of this that was made into a 2 hour movie and it was super choppy and disjointed, jumping around all over the place with no flow or purpose. There were some neat clips and Lee is always great but it was pretty hard to watch overall. Maybe as a series it worked better?