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King of the Zombies returns fewer releases with a search than some of the other old public domain movies. I found a king-sized mountain of releases rather than a deity-sized one.

There are still a number of nearly identical releases to sort as well as a zombie-inducing pile of various combo packs. The only thing that stood out to me was a DVDTee package. I did find a Blu-ray combo pack.

I got mine in a 50 pack of “Horror Classics” which seems to be the standard print of the film.

Video:

1.33: There is no widescreen version. There are a few problem spots but overall this just has the typical trash and low image quality of an unrestored old movie.

Audio:

1.0 mono: The audio offers the standard white noise but is clear enough to understand all the dialogue.

Packaging:

This particular disc is housed in a cardboard sleeve contained in a Velcro-fastened box though it's been repackaged in plastic. You can read about the set as a whole in great detail in the Horror Classics (50 pack) guide.

Extras:

There are no extras of any kind.

Other Editions:

All of the releases list the same specs, mention no extras, and say nothing about any remastering. So I'll assume that the presentations are exactly the same as what I've already described.

The DVDTee package offers a shirt along with the movie. The DVD itself doesn't appear to offer anything more than any of the others.

The Ultimate Horror Classics Blu collection seems to be part of a slowly growing trend (or perhaps attempt at a trend) of using Blu's storage capacity to fit a lot of movies on a single disc. 18 public domain films (some very common, some fairly rare) reside on a single disc in standard 480i definition (no HD here). The best I can say for these is that they seem to occasionally present the original image ratios and may be very slightly improved quality over some of the cheaper DVD budget packs. Otherwise they offer nothing special aside from being exceptionally self-space friendly. They offer no extras and can be somewhat hard to find.

Final Thoughts:

Unless you want that shirt just grab up whatever bargain best fits your wallet. I've been pleased with the 50 Horror Classics pack.