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October 4, 1985 As I popped The Doctor & the Devils (1985) into the ol’ Blu-ray machine, I wondered why in the world I owned a copy of The Doctor & the Devils on Blu-ray in the first place. It only just now dawned on me that I probably had it confused with The Flesh…
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October 3, 1965 Purposeful or not, the opening of Repulsion evokes Psycho. However, instead of the camera slowly zooming-in on an eye, it slowly zooms out. This indicates we’re going to see events from the character’s (also a lovely blonde woman) point of view. At full frame, we immediately know something’s not right with Carol…
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Happy, happy Halloween! This year we’re celebrating the season by dropping a new episode every Monday in October. But not just a regular episode… We’re changing the format a bit and inviting guests to join us for discussions about the classic horror films of their choice. First up is independent filmmaker, Ansel Faraj, with an…
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October 2, 1942 As a lifelong DC Comics fan, it was a thrill to hear reference to Superman in a film from 1942. Only “four years-old” at the time, it indicates to me the immediate popularity of the character. In Phantom Killer (1942), when assistant district attorney Edward Clark (Dick Purcell) is certain about the…
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October 1, 1957 I bet Steve March (John Agar) is really going to be in trouble tomorrow. During the course of The Brain from Planet Arous (1957), he demonstrates power that makes atomic bombs look like firecrackers. Sure, he’s been possessed by a big translucent brain from outer space, but how’s he going to convince…
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Corman! Poe! Price! Milland?!? Lovecraft?!? Roger Corman laid a foundation for his unexpectedly successful series of films based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe with House of Usher in 1960. He put care, thought, and preparation into it, then built from that with future installments. In this month’s meeting of the Classic Horrors Club,…
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Note: After today’s review, Classic Horrors is taking a late summer vacation during the month of September while classichorrors.club gets a fresh coat of paint in preparation for October and the Halloween season. Follow us on social media for quick fixes so you don’t get out of the habit… There’s an explosive opening to Night…
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Recently, I finished watching a limited-run series on Max called, Full Circle. In it, a kidnapping plot results in the abduction of the wrong person. How coincidental, then, when my favorite plot point in the 1977 TV-movie, Murder at the World Series, happened when a disgruntled young man named Cisco (Bruce Boxleitner) abducted the wrong…
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Quake Threat Worsens It’s Never Been So Hot Cyclone Horror No, these aren’t actual headlines from this week’s newspapers, although they may as well be. Instead, they’re fictitious headlines from newspapers in the 1961 film, The Day the Earth Caught Fire. Apparently, the kind of disasters we’re experiencing now with climate change can also occur…
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Changing the name to Snowblind on subsequent releases of this 1970s TV Movie was probably a good idea. On its initial airdate, it was called Ski Lift to Death. That was a more enticing name; however, it misrepresents the effort as a disaster film and describes only one nearly irrelevant part of the story. Other…
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