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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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Cry Panic (1974) reminds me of another 1970s TV movie we’ve discussed here: Dying Room Only (1973.) Both, in turn, remind of a common formula, variations which are used in any number of other movies. This is the concept of someone witnessing something that no one believes. In these two movies, it’s actual people that…
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Despite its reputation, even though I believe it’s improved over the years to become a cult classic, I really liked Killdozer (1974.) It’s a fast-paced thriller that’s not any more ridiculous than, well… almost anything else. In fact, I prefer it over the other “possessed machines” movie it evokes, Maximum Overdrive (1986.) Call it Minimal…
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Not all blind buys result in the revelation of unknown cinema treasures, but I’ve had a run of good luck during recent years. That is, until I recently cracked open the Blu-ray for Castle of the Creeping Flesh (1968) that I had to pre-order from Severin when it was first released. The presentation is beautiful,…
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