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As 1970s TV movies evolved and started mirroring their theatrical counterparts, they got further and further from what was so unique about them. It sounds silly to say, but a TV movie made in 1978, Night Cries, is a refreshing throwback to earlier films like When Michael Calls and The Eyes of Charles Sand. Following
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There are a number of very interesting things about The Castle of the Living Dead (1964), but they don’t add up to a pleasurable experience for me. I sat watching, occasionally smiling or checking IMDb because of something familiar, but I was otherwise uninterested and, quite frankly, a little bored with the overall film. Compared
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Secret of the Red Orchid (1962) is one of the least twisted adaptations of an Edgar Wallace novel that I’ve seen. It’s a straight-forward gangster drama with a light, often humorous, touch. It’s nice to see Christopher Lee smile for once. He plays FBI agent Captain Allerman, who opens the film by apprehending mob boss
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It’s never impossible to be surprised. I was not expecting to enjoy Uncle Was a Vampire (1959) nearly as much as I did. It may seem that this fact contradicts my discomfort with horror-comedies; however, I don’t consider it horror at all. Unless I’m missing the carriage as it bursts out of an “abandoned” castle
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Known primarily for its holiday television specials outsourced to Japanese animation companies, Rankin/Bass Productions occasionally financed live-action features. Three of these were made as TV movies in conjunction with Tsuburaya Productions, known primarily for its Ultra series (which began with Utraman in 1966.) We’ve already discussed The Last Dinosaur (1976) here, and now it’s time
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It’s appropriate that we conclude Naschy November with a Waldemar Daninsky werewolf film, considering we started it with one 30 days ago. If we hadn’t seen so many movies in between, we might have thought Paul Naschy didn’t make much creative progress between Frankenstein’s Bloody Terror in 1968 and this one, Night of the Howling
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In her 1969 memoir, Veronica: The Autobiography of Veronica Lake, the actress writes: Some day soon, perhaps on your local television station during their daily horror film show, you’ll be able to see my two latest films. Fortunately, I did not have to return to Hollywood to make these films. They were produced in Canada
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A two-part television miniseries is the perfect format for The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978.) There’s more time to learn about the characters and why they do what so many other fictional families have done in so many other horror films: move from the big city to a big house in the country. The
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As “racy” as it is for 1965, I can’t help but think Bloody Pit of Horror would have been more effective had it been made a few years later. For example, when two scantily clad women are strapped to a “spinner rack of death,” the blades that the villain are pounding closer and closer to
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How can a movie about the creepiest, crawliest, most shiver-inducing creatures on Earth have no suspense, thrills, or chills? It seems impossible… you have only to show the hairy legs of those nasty tarantulas crawling up someone’s leg. Nevertheless, we have Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo (1977), which aired less than three weeks after Ants, making
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