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Until Uncle Kevin (Nigel Green) arrives at 32 minutes into Let’s Kill Uncle (1966), I was having an excruciatingly hard time getting into the movie. After that, I was having a great time! That is, until the ending, which was a letdown. So, as you can tell, it’s a very uneven film. It’s one I
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Last Bride of Salem (1974) first aired during the day on The ABC Afternoon Playbreak but was so popular that it later got a primetime broadcast. Shot on video, it seems a good substitute for Dark Shadows, which had ended three years earlier. The quality and budget are about the same, but so are the
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Today, as a special treat, I present an excerpt from a feature I wrote for the upcoming We Belong Dead publication, Masters of Terror. In it, I discuss the influence of gothic literature on Dan Curtis and how it was reflected in a number of TV horror films that he produced, as well as the
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What you ultimately think of She Freak (1967) may depend upon how much patience you have waiting for a money shot that will come as no surprise, considering it appears in any piece of promotion for the film. What kept me interested was not knowing it was an unofficial remake of Freaks (1932) and thinking
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IMDb lists The Invasion of Carol Enders as a 1973 production that aired on November 5, 1973. However, in the book, The Television Horrors of Dan Curtis, by Jeff Thompson, it’s listed as a 1974 production that aired on March 8, 1974, as part of the ABC late night series, The Wide World of Mystery.
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The Devil Within (1975), aka I Don’t Want to be Born, aka Sharon’s Baby, aka The Monster, is one of those movies that I didn’t find to be as bad as its reputation. However, that doesn’t mean it deserves a glowing endorsement. While it plays like a twisted sequel to Rosemary’s Baby (1968) and a
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After raving about Curtis Harrington’s TV-movie prior to this one, The Cat Creature (1973), I really hoped to enjoy Killer Bees (1974.) Unfortunately, it’s uneven. The opening is scary and funny… the climax is creepy and unsettling… but the middle is lackluster at best. The way it’s constructed by writers John Willian Corrington and Joyce
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In an unapologetic attempt to capitalize on the success of John Carpenter’s Halloween a year and a half earlier, Paramount Pictures released its contribution to the slasher genre, Friday the 13th, on May 9, 1980. Then, something unexpected happened: instead of being dismissed as a blatant rip-off, it was successful in its own right, spawning
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A full-length review of Dracula was originally posted on February 8, 2017. You can click here to read it. Today, as a special treat, I present an excerpt from a feature I wrote for the upcoming We Belong Dead publication, Masters of Terror. In it, I discuss the influence of gothic literature on Dan Curtis
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Following the affection I felt toward Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974), as I’m sure you all heard on this month’s episode of The Classic Horrors Club Podcast, I was eager to watch its direct sequel, Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975.) While I don’t want to get into a point by point comparison of the two movies, I
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