Hammer Films Box Set Being Released by TCM

Hammer Films will be back with a vengeance this fall with the vampire remake Let Me In. And the company just announced its first 3-D film last week, The Woman in Black. But Hammer is a legendary force in horror and monster movies, which has now partnered with Warner Bros. Home Video and Turner Classic Movies for a new DVD box set featuring some of the studio's catalog, due out September 7th. Actually, TCM has a few "Greatest Classic Film Collection" box sets - Westers, war pictures, Marx Brothers movies, classic horror, sci-fi, Best Picture winners, and so on. And they're all priced to move, retailing at just $19.99. The only bad thing is it's one of those four movies on two discs scenarios, and it's doubtful you'll get much in the way of special features. Still, there's plenty of Christopher Lee, who made his mark with Hammer over about a fifteen-year period beginning in the 1950s. The set features him in Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, Horror of Dracula (also known just as Dracula), and The Curse of Frankenstein. The emphatic Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed is also included. Many thanks to Watching Hammer for the tip, and while you're gallivanting around the web, check out what Hammer's up to on the studio's site.