Grampa’s Monster Movies
Picture: C
Sound: C Extras: D Trailers: B
In the better of two release featuring Al Lewis as his Munsters
character Grampa, Grampa’s Monster Movies is a collection of trailers as
introduced by the wisecracking, joking, yet easily annoyed old vampire. Though not even divided and listed in the
chapters section of the DVD, all the trailers are from Universal Pictures’
legendary series of Horror films with a twist fans will appreciate: these are trailers revised for TV broadcast
when Columbia Pictures’ Screen Gems division syndicated the classics for the
very first time on TV. Needless to say,
none of the new Universal Pictures DVD boxed sets of each monster will have
these to offer. The 28 films are:
House Of Frankenstein (1944)
House Of Dracula (1945)
Son Of Dracula (1943)
Dracula’s Daughter (1936)
Dracula (1931)
The Invisible Man Returns (1941)
The Invisible Woman (1941)
The Invisible Agent (1942)
The Invisible Ray (1936)
Frankenstein (1931)
Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman (1943)
The Bride Of Frankenstein (1935)
The Ghost Of Frankenstein (1942)
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
The Phantom Of The Opera (1943 color version)
The Climax (1944, monochrome trailer of
color film)
Werewolf Of London (1935, first film on this
monster!)
Mystery Of Marie Roget (1942)
Murder In The Rue Morgue (1932)
Flesh & Fantasy (1943)
The Wolf Man (1941)
The Mummy (1932)
The Mummy’s Hand (1940)
The Mummy’s Curse (1944)
The Black Cat (1934)
The Cat Creeps (1946)
Black Friday (1940)
Horror Island (1941)
Remarkably, some of these films have never even made it to
VHS let alone DVD and is otherwise the kind of collection that you could only
find bootleg had this program not been produced years ago. The picture and sound are average, with some
of the Grampa sequences a bit more compressed than expected, but it is still a
better than VHS. Grampa’s Monster
Movies is a nice disc for Universal Horror fans that also has a few laughs
thanks to Lewis.
- Nicholas Sheffo
