Unearthed from the vaults, three of Hollywood’s finest and scariest movies are unleashed for the first time on DVD from Fox Home Entertainment on September 9th as part of the lauded Fox Cinema Classics Collection.  Featuring performances from menacing horror icons Bela Lugosi and Vincent Price, plus the smoldering Gene Tierney, among others, the Fox Horror Classics Volume Two three-disc DVD set includes three terrifying films – Chandu The Magician, Dr. Renault’s Secret and Dragonwyck – each of these horror classics has been restored and remastered and features in-depth bonus materials including behind-the-scenes featurettes, restoration comparisons, trailers and more.

Based on the addictively popular radio serial, Chandu The Magician (1932) stars the legendary Lugosi in a stunningly photographed thriller about an ingenious inventor with plans to dominate the human race – at all costs. In Dr. Renault’s Secret (1942), a scientist’s remote villa in the French countryside leads to a forbidden terror for anyone who encounters it.  And lastly, multiple Academy® Award-winner* Joseph Mankiewicz directs an all-star cast of Hollywood legends, including Gene Tierney, Walter Huston and the original master of horror Vincent Price in Dragonwyck (1946), a riveting, atmospheric tale of gothic secrets and forbidden love.

Chandu The Magician - Synopsis: Megalomaniac and would-be world dominator Roxor has kidnapped Robert Regent, along with his death ray invention, in hopes of using it to degenerate humanity into mindless brutes, leaving himself as Earth’s supreme intelligence.  Faced with revealing the machine’s secrets or allowing his family to die a horrible death at the hands of Roxor, Regent’s only hope lies with the intervention of his brother-in-law, the
be-turbaned yogi and magician Chandu, who has the power to make men see what is not there.

Chandu The Magician - DVD Features:

Commentary by Author Gregory William Mank
Masters of Magic: The World of Chandu featurette
Restoration Comparison
Still Gallery
Dr. Renault’s Secret – Synopsis: A young man visits his fiancée in a remote French villa where her scientist father (George Zucco) resides. There he meets Noel (J. Carrol Naish), Dr. Renault’s mysterious assistant, who has a strange attraction to Renault’s daughter.  Soon he learns Noel’s true identity: he is an ape that was turned into a man by Renault’s bizarre experiments.

Dr. Renault’s Secret – DVD Features:

By the Book: Horror, Suspense, and Literary Inspiration featurette
Restoration Comparison
Trailer
Still Gallery
Dragonwyck - Synopsis: When Miranda Wells was invited to live with her dark and charming distant cousin Nicholas Van Ryan in order to school his daughter at Dragonwyck manor, she was a naive farm girl.  As she watches the dark secrets of the house unfold, she becomes more aware of selfishness, desire, and insanity while becoming more involved with Nicholas.  The closer Miranda grows to the community and the Van Ryan’s, the more she wishes she had never come to Dragonwyck.

Dragonwyck DVD Features:

A House of Secrets: Exploring Dragonwyck featurette
“Dragonwyck” Radio Show Performed by Vincent Price and Gene Tierney – October 7, 1946
Isolated Score Track
Restoration Comparison
Trailer
Still Galleries

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June 27th, 2008
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