Back from the Grave Collection (1959) (3-Disc Set)

This collection brings together three creepy but underrated horror films, all of which involve the use and misuse of graves and corpses. In THE FLESH AND THE FIENDS (1959), an innovative and principled doctor named Robert Knox (Peter Cushing) needs corpses in order to conduct experiments and advance medical science--but his suppliers aren't scrupulous about how they acquire, or manufacture, the bodies. GRAVEYARD OF HORROR (1971) stars Bill Curran as a scientist working on a transmutation project, who decides to experiment on himself, with disastrous results. Zombies and a bloodsucking man/lizard hybrid help make this bizarre European film memorable. Finally, RAIDERS OF THE LIVING DEAD (1986) is an oddity centering on an archetypal mad scientist's zombification of executed convicts. It falls to a reporter (Robert Deveau) and a teenager (Scott Schwartz of A CHRISTMAS STORY fame) to stop him in this '80s schlock-fest from director Samuel M. Sherman.