![]() ![]() Some of them are subtle: a fight scene awkwardly places the camera in the main room looking into a back room where the actual battle is taking place it may add perspective, but you barely get to see the fight. In The Onion book Our Dumb Century, there is a headline on one of the covers that says "Man in 3D Movie Uses Cane to Gesture at Things." I thought of this headline more than once watching House of Wax, which takes advantage of 3D in goofy, on-the-nose ways. ![]() TCM's Horror set packages up three movies I've been meaning to see for ages: House of Wax (1953), The Haunting (1963) and Freaks (1932), plus a version of Dr. The multi-feature business was at its recent peak in late 2007 and early 2008, but now, just when I was afraid the fad was dying, Warner has swooped in, partnering with Turner Classic Movies to put out several new four-film sets of classic movies. ![]() With standard-def DVDs becoming less and less individually valuable, studios have started sticking their most popular catalog titles onto double-sided discs and into multi-disc sets without the premium price tag that would be associated with a box set, and as someone with around a thousand DVDs, not only do I love the chance to get several movies I wanted for the price of one, but also the convenience of having several films stuck snugly into a single-width case. The invention of Blu-Ray, or, more likely, the invention of Wal-Mart, has had a side effect I'm a huge fan of: the multi-film DVD. ![]()
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