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Based on the quality of the print I watched on YouTube, it’s going to be hard to discuss this one. Keep this in mind as you imagine what it must have been like for original Paul Naschy fans before his Blu-ray renaissance… searching for titles, then finding murky prints with bad sound on bootleg videocassettes…
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Finally, Dr. Jekyll vs. the Werewolf (1972) is the Paul Naschy/Waldemar Daninsky movie I’ve been hoping I’d see! It has everything I want in a Eurohorror film and hits all my 1970s sweet spots. If you’ve ever watched a movie and felt energized afterwards, or wanted to immediately watch it again, you know how I…
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Paul Naschy’s first attempt at giallo is a solid effort; however, the execution of Seven Murders for Scotland Yard (1972) by director Jose Luis Madrid is lackluster. Additionally, the lighting and camerawork by cinematographer Diego Ubeda is dark and uncreative, giving the film the look of a television movie. I don’t mean that it’s dark…
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Paul Naschy becomes more confident with his next genre/Waldemar Daninsky film, which I watched in its American, public domain version, The Werewolf vs. the Vampire Woman (1971.) However, I wonder how much should be credited to director Leon Klimovsky. The pair would later make several of Naschy’s most popular films, such as Dr. Jekyll vs.…
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Although Robb White wrote the occasional Perry Mason television episode, we all know him as the writer of the late 1950s-early 1960s William Castle classics, Macabre, House on Haunted Hill, The Tingler, 13 Ghosts, and Homicidal. To be clear, he didn’t write today’s 1970s TV movie, Savages (1974), but it was based on his novel,…
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Not understanding its reputation prior to watching Fury of the Wolfman (1972), I would have rated it an “average” film (5 Waldemar Daninskys, in this case.) I enjoyed it just fine, as wildly uneven and nonsensical as it is. However, when doing research, I learned it’s universally believed to be the worst of Paul Naschy’s…
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In the winter of 1967, during the making of the thriller Agonizando en el crimen, Jacinto Molina had the idea of writing a horror film in the style of the Universal monster movies he loved so much. Despite the opinion of the movie’s director, Enrique Lopez Eguiluz, that the Spanish film industry would never support…
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It’s impossible for me not to compare The Leech Woman (1960) with The Wasp Woman (1959.) Both are, in essence, about women seeking eternal youth. I prefer the latter over the former because it knows what it is: silly nonsense. The Leech Woman doesn’t know it’s supposed to be silly nonsense; it’s deadly serious. Both…
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The 1924 silent classic, He Who Gets Slapped, did not air on TCM as part of its Lon Chaney marathon that I recorded on October 14, 2020. Instead, it aired as part of its circus movie marathon exactly a month later. Wherever you’re able to see it, I highly encourage that you do. For my…
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It’s a good thing horror fans are such an accepting group, rarely participating in social media vitriol. Otherwise, I wouldn’t feel comfortable sharing my honest opinion about a classic film that’s beloved by most: Them! (1954.) This wasn’t my first time watching it and I’ve really tried over the years, but it’s never been anything…
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