Product: The Devil's Bride [VHS] (1968)
Rating: 5.0
One of the best
Look me right in the monitor and be perfectly honest: if WAR OF THE WORLDS suddenly lost "the wires" and you never saw them again, would you lose a night's sleep? What has been done here is not a deletion but a modification and it's causing some people to have strokes. The enhanced effects scenes done here are improvements done by people who cared what they were doing and I cannot imagine director Terrence Fisher being unhappy with a single frame of it. The original background for the visor flip sequence was omitted and is here restored with a blue flame background which balances the the original stiff, phony close up. What once looked like it belonged on stage now looks like a movie. I've cared about this film since I ordered the entire picture on 8mm and bought a device to run it on one reel. If I'm not upset by the 30 seconds of enhancements no one else needs to complain. Don't boycott the damn thing, buy and enjoy it in the format it always belonged on.