DVD Savant announces a couple more Best Buy exclusive (for a while) double features, to appear October 7. I've actually seen three of the four titles, and I'm very happy.

The Brides of Fu Manchu & Chamber of Horrors

"Brides" was the second Christoper Lee as Fu Manchu movie, and while the quality declined with each title, the drop from the first (Face of Fu Manchu) to second wasn't as precipitous as when the series was handed off to the likes of Jess Franco. The Chinese actress who played Fu Manchu's daughter "Lin Tang" (little relation to the Fah Lo Suee of the Fu Manchu novels) was extremely embarrassed by all this stuff, but I enjoyed the movie anyway.

"Chamber of Horrors" was just an awful lot of fun -- psycho killer with a gimmick derived from the manner in which he escapes at the start of the movie -- with a heavy metal ball chained to his wrist as he struggles against drowning (bet you can guess this one!). Featuring Michael Dunn (the dwarf star known best as Dr. Miguelito Loveless on The Wild Wild West) as one of the good guys.

The Shuttered Room & It

I vaguely recall seeing "The Shuttered Room" at the drive-in with my parents and being embarrassed at how boring something associated with H.P. Lovecraft could be. Of course this wasn't real HPL, but one of August Derleth's "posthumous collaborations" based on a line or two from HPL's notebooks. Oliver Reed leads a bunch of surly New England degenerates menacing Gig Young and Carol Lynley. My only hope is that as with "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth" a European version with more of Carol Lynley's skin will be substituted for the U.S. original.

Haven't see "It". Leastways don't remember it.