Krampus is coming early this year — October 6, to be precise — with some juicy additions to Hammer Horror’s selection of classics available on Blu-ray: Taste the Blood of Dracula, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, The Mummy, and Dracula Has Risen From the Grave. Three star the late Christopher Lee.
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Here’s Lee giving Vampire Eyes as only he could, in the Dracula Has Risen From the Grave trailer:
And here’s (a barely-recognizable) Lee with frequent co-star Peter Cushing, star of Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, in The Mummy. “He who robs the graves of Egypt … dies!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzelDvRug9w
The set is available for pre-order on Amazon now; though this is being marketed as the “Volume One” Hammer Horror Collection, there’s no word as to what a “Volume Two” might contain. However, distributor Warner Home Video is putting out a second Blu-ray collection on October 6: the Special Effects Collection, which contains some essentials of the early critter-and-beast genre: Mighty Joe Young, Them, Son of Kong, and The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms.
[Via Dread Central]
