Product: 13 Ghosts (1960)
Rating: 4.0
Great DVD
This is a fantastic DVD. It's the best print of this film I ever saw. Best of all, it features the original version that included the "Illusion O" gimmick. Movie audiences in 1960 were required to look through the red lens of the viewer to see the ghosts. If you didn't want to see the ghosts, you were instructed to look through the blue viewer. This is the first time the film was presented for home viewing using this process. A caption appears when the time comes to use the viewer, and then another caption appears to tell you to remove the viewer. Side B of the disc provides a version that doesn't require the need for the special viewer. Both versions on the disc are presented in pristine widescreen. One thing - the effect is not 3-D like some reviewers mistakenly reported here. Also, the only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 is because Columbia Tristar home video only provides one viewer. To get extras, you are required to write Columbia and pay $3 each for them. It's a piece of paper with red and blue tinted paper in it, for heaven's sake. They should have included at least three viewers.