Yes, they did a lot of marketing with the monsters back then. I remember buying a Universal monsters coloring book, and in the late 90s they did stamps, figures, Pogs, pencils, and even mousepads.
God, I've seen this ad SO many times. I owned every last one of these (and then-some) on VHS in the 90's. Before watching this (and refreshing my memory) I could have recited the entire trailer. It's amazing how things stick with you. God Bless Suncoast Motion Picture Company and Media Play-----it's where I bought most of my Univeral, Amicus and Hammer films. I used the Leonard Maltin book for all of the stuff I couldn't find there. He had a section that featured various video outlets. Goodness, I could talk about this for hours. This upload really brought back a lot of good memories. Thank you for uploading it. Sometimes it's nice to be transported back to a simpler time. Ah, those were the good ole days. If I'd have known that they'd one day be regarded as such----- I'd have treasured them a lot more. But, that's the thing---- so often we're so enamored and caught up in what doesn't really matter, that we don't comprehend the fact, that the present will one day be longed for---- as "the good ole days". Who knows----as I look upon the 90's----maybe the here and now will one day be regarded as the good ole days? Not knowing really gives me a profound reason to pause. We take so much for granted...then it's gone----and we long for what we took for granted and squandered. My goodness, did this video ever draw a lot to the surface. Who'd of thunk-----a mere 2:00 advert for some monster movies. Amazing. May God bless all who read this. Thank you for enduring my very raw, random and elementary philosophical ramblings.
Regarding your comment about the length of this ad it may have varied from tape to tape because my copy of Frankenstein had this ad as well which is what brought me to this RU-vid video of it but the list of releases was nowhere near as long on my copy. On my copy I think they stopped listing off the titles after the Bride of Frankenstein. Though I certainly wish my copy was this extensive cuz some of these titles I didn't discover until much later in life
James D. Rolfe (V/O): lately I've been doing these videos where I'm showing all the things that got me interested in monster movies from a young age this is the last of these videos before the month of October hits us and another monster badness is in full-swing so this is a universal monsters VHS series the first one I saw was Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman and from that moment I was hooked I found out you could order them to purchase and that's when I decided I must have every one of them the best part of having these tapes was the advertisement before the movie I love the narrator's enthusiasm yeah do exactly what he says go into the local video store and ask for the Universal Studios monsters Classic Collection say it just like that anyway it was hard to collect all these because they kept coming out with more of them you look at that commercial and see all those tapes you think that's it but there's more then the intro started to change and they started showing VHS tapes flying at the screen oh yeah but every movie that appeared on screen mean another 14.95 I had to beg for my parents here's actual footage of my collection around 1995 I had them all displayed like I thought I was running a video store yep the Universal Monsters stood proud in my room there's no space to do that anymore I still have my tapes even though I got them on DVD too I guess I'm too sentimental to get rid of them there's so much more appealing to look at than DVDs sure they take up more space but I love how uniform they look and the covers are so badass that's all I have to say go sink your teeth into something spooktacular
There so many more then just the ones they didn’t say! Ghost of Frankenstein, The invisible Man revenge. I remember watching this and loved them all. I can’t find the Spanish version of Dracula. Most of them are on digital copy.
@@Naminski1a A little of the old Associated Production Music track. Famously known for Ren and Stimpy and Spongebob. Disney used one for the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection, "Reach for the Stars" by Richard Harvey.
I think Universal Studios Hollywood and Florida need to switch from Coca Cola products to Pepsi Cola products and have the Pepsi Cola logo on the front of the T shirts and Universal Studios Hollywood and Florida retro logo on the back of the T shirt
The music theme exerpt is from Swan Lake Act 2. Which was also used as the title tune for both 31s Dracula and 32s The Mummy. I very much love these neat films. At a time when our nation and the World went through great hardships such as economic fails plus wars unfotunately...these films became true escapes from harsh realities .
