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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543459705
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 11, 2007
Running Time: 193 minutes
Sales Rank: 25404
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1974-10
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Disc 1:House on Skull Mountain (1974) Disc 2:Mephisto Waltz (1971)
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Barbara Parkins has never been more beautiful.
Not one, but two long dark-haired babes. Yes, Mephisto Waltz has the beautiful Jacqueline Bisset, but it also co-stars the just-as beautiful Barbara Parkins. This DVD worth the price for Barbara and Jacqueline.
Rating:  - Nowhere near as good as the reviews say
I love old classic horror with lots of atmosphere, especially with a satanic aspect to it, so after reading the reviews of the Mephisto Waltz, I couldn't wait to watch it.
What a disappointment. It wasn't terrible, but it's not something I'd watch again. The 'suprise' ending was hardly a suprise.
I give it 2 stars.
Kenny
Rating:  - 2 Fun '70's Horror Flicks - Midnite Movies Delivers Again!
The House On Skull Mountain (1974) **
A dying woman lies in her bed in a large mansion as a Priest reads her "the last rites." She asks her servant to bring her "the letters" and then gives them to the Priest requesting that he send them out. After the Priest leaves her room with the servant, she opens a wooden box and takes out what appears to be a "voodoo doll" and then she dies! The "letters" are invitations to her last surviving family members to come to the house. This opening scene hints at better things to come, however, much of what proceeds is rather disappointing.
The plot involves the classic gathering-of-the-relatives to read-the-will which became standard in many horror/suspense films. A nice element to the story and with a blend in voodoo and blaxploitation themes, and even hints at an inter-racial romance, "The House On Skull Mountain" is unique in its various themes. However, none of these elements really work out and the film comes off as being a hodgepodge. Mike Evans' (Lionel on the Jeffersons) role as a "playboy type" character comes off more as annoying than actually being entertaining or being the "comic relief" of the picture, which is how I saw his character trying to be. Sorely miscast is Victor French (Mr. Edwards on "Little House On The Prairie) as a "white" descendent of the black heiress. His "almost" romance with lovely Janee Michele comes off as more of a "friendship" than anything resembling a possible "romance." There's even a "love song" ... Read More
Rating: - FOR HORROR COLLECTORS
WOW 2 Movies for the price of one, the best of them MEPHISTO WALTZ, with the beautiful Jacqueline Bisset, and a chilling music score of Jerry Goldsmith
Rating: - Buy it for "The Mephisto Waltz"...
... not for "House on Skull Mountain."
Mephisto Waltz is an absolute gem of a horror movie -- one which has been unavailable for far too long. It's wonderful that Fox finally released it on DVD.
It's companion piece on this two-DVD set is hardly worth watching. It's like some weird merging of "The Old Dark House" and "Foxy Brown" (or maybe "Blackula"). I have a real appetite for cheesy horror flix, and even I came away from "Skull" feeling like I'd just wasted a couple hours of my life.
So, I highly recommend this set; but if you buy it, recognize that what you're getting is one DVD and one plastic disk you can use for a drink coaster.
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