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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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During the last few years, I’ve increasingly heard people mention how much they like Count Dracula, the 1977 BBC version of the classic 1897 novel by Bram Stoker. When it’s original broadcast date finally arrived within my TV Terror Guide series, I was eager to watch it. For me, however, it was a real mixed…
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When Killer Party (1986) was released in 1986, I pleaded with my future wife to go see it with me. As many movies out of her comfort zone she had seen with me, she chose this one to stand her ground. I threw a little hissy fit and gave her the silent treatment the rest…
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When I watched Ants! (1977) for the first time, I would never have thought I’d watch it again. However, I can’t skip a 70s TV-movie here just because I didn’t like it many moons ago. It’s still not very good, but I enjoyed it immensely. The qualities I didn’t like back then are still there,…
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