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Slow zombies, fast zombies… Voodoo zombies, living dead zombies… British country zombies?!? Yes, and only as Hammer can do them! Join Jeff and Richard for this month’s club meeting as they (spoiler alert) praise The Plague of the Zombies (1966.) It may not feature “your” type of zombie, but it’s nevertheless a real crowd-pleaser. Thanks…
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I just returned home after another wonderful evening with Carolyn; well, mostly wonderful. An evening with Carolyn wouldn’t be complete without some of her tough questions! When I took her home after dinner and we entered the empty drawing room at Collinwood, she said we had the place to ourselves, so we really should celebrate.…
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Talk about turning lemons into lemonade! Writer/director Riccardo Freda made I Vampiri (1957) on a bet that he could complete it in 12 days. Accounts vary on the details, but at some point he realized it couldn’t be done and left the production. Cinematographer Mario Bava took over and finished it in one or two days, rewriting…
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I was tending to the fire late yesterday afternoon when Amy stopped by the cottage. I told her I was going to come up to Collinwood tonight to see her and I thought she knew that. She said she did, but she wanted to see me now. No special reason, she just wanted to see…
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It doesn’t feel like I really watched The Day the Sky Exploded (1958), much less its original version, La morte viene dallo spazio. The latter was Italy’s first science fiction movie, ostensibly directed by its cinematographer, Mario Bava. The former is the version released over three years later in the United States, which is in the public domain.…
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For once, I feel like it’s not all about me! When I took Carolyn home tonight, Elizabeth came downstairs and commented that she hadn’t seen me in several days. She asked where I’d been keeping myself. When I told her I had been quite ill, she asked why I didn’t let them know? I replied…
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My contemptuous relationship with horror/comedies is public record, but I’ve discovered one I quite enjoyed. It’s Horror Island (1941.) I wouldn’t necessarily call it “smart” writing, but the judiciously scattered jokes and puns come from the characters, not the situations, and elicit a minimum amount of groaning. For a one-hour movie, the plot is twisted and events…
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After a strange, distorted night, I stumbled out of the bedroom to find Barnabas and Julia waiting for me. Breathing heavily and unsteady, they helped me sit. What happened to me? They asked for me to tell them. They said it wasn’t important how they found me. I said I wanted to know what happened.…
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Creature from Black Lake (1976) may not be the best movie about a bipedal primate, but it sure looks good! We must credit cinematographer Dean Cundey when the camera moodily pans through the woods at night, then hovers over the moonlit lake. Cundey, of course, would make Michael Myers appear seamlessly from the darkness in Halloween two years…
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I didn’t get much rest after I laid down yesterday afternoon. Before I knew it, Barnabas returned to discuss our next steps. I glanced at the clock and told him it was almost 6:30. He asked how I felt and I told him I wish he’d stop asking me that. He apologized and I asked him…
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