This comes as part of another Blu-Ray set. It is packaged with Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. These are premium films compared to the Sci-Fi flicks from the previous collection; and they look terrific. Or at least Wolf and Dracula do; I haven't brought myself to watch Branagh's send-up of Frankenstein--it's rendition that I find a bit tedious. Of these three films, Wolf is the least known and my personal favorite. It is a film that is shot mostly at night; and those Blu-Ray darks just pop like iced celery: pure eye candy. The scenes in Central Park are positively hard to see on the DVD transfer. The DVD makes the whole park look as if it has a bunch of bright spot lights on all of it; I've even seen reviews of the movie criticizing the so-called "lighting" is this part of the film. When you watch it on Blu-Ray, one quickly realizes that it wasn't actually shot like that. The lighting was, in fact, mostly available lights, with a few set lights to help out in areas of the park where there is no light. This is one of the best Blu-Rays that I have seen so far.
While it is convenient to have these 3 films together if you are a horror movie collector, again, as with the previous set, I have criticize the pricing. It retails for $59.95 and sells on Amazon new for $46.99, that's $15.66 per Blu-Ray. Most Blu-Rays of comparable movies can be had for around $10. Fortunately, there are some good secondary prices on the set from vendors. For the right price, this Blu-Ray set comes highly recommended for some scary Friday action.
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