Brand new factory sealed dvd is Out Of Print (OOP) and no longer being manufactured. Ditto that for the two titles, neither is available as stand-alone anymore either. Two rare movies for the price of one.

This TGG Direct video was a licensed release from MGM and therefore the sourceprints used are quite good. The only minor drawback is they are letterboxed and so newer widescreen owners will have to use one of your zoom modes, which is what it's for anyway.

There is a couple of minor, barely noticeable scores and endentations on the cover both front and back.

FROM a WHISPER to a SCREAM: Also known as OFFSPRING is the shorter title that I prefer. Oldfield, Tenn., is the setting for this anthology of horror stories reflecting the evil people and activities of the community. It stars Susan Tyrrell as a reporter who witnesses the execution of a mad woman (Martine Beswick) by lethal injection and visits Vincent Price in his musty library (and wraparound sequence) to learn the town's history.

The first yarn stars Clu Gulagher (TV's 'Virginian') as a sexually repressed clod who kills women, only to have one of them return from the grave to haunt him. Story #2 is about a swamp witch doctor who has the secret to eternal life, and the efforts of a criminal to find the elixir. A nice twist ending here. Tale #3 is set at Lovecraft's Traveling Carnival, where a snake woman uses her voodoo powers to control the Amazing Arden, who eats razor blades and glass. The Civil War tale that follows is the film's most chilling, reminiscent of 'Lord of the Flies' when Union stragglers fall into the hands of youngsters who have formed their own religion based on the horrors of the war. Finally, the wrap-around Tyrrell-Price footage has it's own surprise ending.

Filmed in Georgia, it has good direction by Jeff Burr and co-stars Cameron Mitchell, Rosalind Cash, Terry Kiser and Lawrence Tierney. 

THEATRE of BLOOD a.k.a. Much Ado About Murder: Macabre black comedy (similar to the 'Dr. Phibes' series with it's sick jokes and bloodletting) with Vincent Price as ham Shakespearean actor Edward Lionheart, who so murders scenes from the classics that London's critics murder him in the press. The "murdering" becomes literal when Lionheart has his revenge against the critics and murders them with the help of a band of bums (the true identity of which will surprise you).

Death devices are borrowed from Shakespeare, a clever touch to Anthony Greville-Bell's script. With Diana Rigg (TV's 'Avengers'), Diana Dors, and Robert Morley. Jolly good horror from director Douglas Hickox.