The Manster Blu-ray

Posted May 3, 2017 05:43 PM by


U.S. label Shout Factory will release on Blu-ray directors George P. Breakston and Kenneth G. Crane's film The Manster (1959), starring Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Tetsu Nakamura, Terri Zimmern, and Norman Van Hawley. The release will be available for purchase on August 29. Synopsis: An American reporter in Japan becomes the unwitting guinea pig in the experiments of a research scientist in this tale of ambition gone berserk. Larry Stanford assigned to a story on evolutionary theorist Dr. Suzuki visits his secluded laboratory high in the mountains for Japan. Unwittingly injected with an experimental drug, Stanford becomes increasingly bitter and irritable towards his boss and his wife. Then one day, the appearance of a third eye on his shoulder hurls the reporter into a state of terror. The eye soon develops into a second head setting in motion a rampage of mayhem, madness and murder. The Manster a.k.a. The Split was originally released as the second half of a double feature. The first film was a dubbed version of Georges Franju's horror classic *Eyes Without a Face* (re-tittled The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus).
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Walter Webster

May 03, 2017

Great movie! - I will get it.

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Horse_Hockey

May 03, 2017

Reportedly uncut, as well! (Most releases are missing a small but hilarious coda in the finale.) Day one!

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PeterTHX

May 04, 2017

Manster: Half-man, half-hamster. He'll get you with his WHEEL OF DOOM!

Moleman

May 04, 2017

I've always wanted to see this one. Another win for Shout!

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John_Drake

May 05, 2017

Wheel of Doom?

I'm in.

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When I first saw this, I was about 8 or 9, we had just got cable for the first time, and this was the creature movie on WKBS Ch 48 out of Philly. Found it some 20 or so years later in a bargain DVD bin for $5. Can't wait to see this on blu....day-one buy for me!

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jimqk

May 06, 2017

@tjritter ... oh, yes, good old Channel 48. Back in the good old days, I watched all the monster movies on 48, 17 and 29 out of Philly, as well as 5, 9 and 11 out of New York. (I was blessed with having cable television growing up in the 70s.) I remember The Manster very well. Channel 10 out of Philly would occasionally air some classics, too, like It Came From Beneath the Sea, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, The Gamma People and The Colossus of New York.