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If you were a monster kid at the time and asked to pick your favorite werewolf movie released in 1981, you were faced with a real Sophie’s Choice between An American Werewolf in London and The Howling. The latter was released four months earlier and is the one to which I declared my love. Conversely,…
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The opening scene of Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981) was filmed with a different director and cinematographer than the rest of the movie. Michael Miller (Jackson Country Jail, 1976) reportedly took too long making it, so was replaced by William Asher. The cinematographer was Jan de Bont (Speed, 1994; Twister, 1996, The Haunting, 1999.) He…
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Pursuit (1972) starts with a superimposed digital clock counting down from “zero minus 15 hours.” It doesn’t remain visible for the movie’s entire running time, but appears at key moments, especially before and after the black spaces originally filled by commercials. It’s like the gimmick of the TV series, 24 (2001-2010), minus the loud and…
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You know what curiosity did to the cat. For this horror film fan willing to explore unusual territory, though, The Curious Dr. Humpp (1969) did not kill me. I can’t say I completely enjoyed it; it’s a little slow and not terribly well-made. However, the idea is compelling even when the execution is not. Yeah,…
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Until I watched The Devil’s Daughter (1973) and did my subsequent research for it, I didn’t remember that Shelley Winters had appeared in so many 1970s TV movies. I count at least ten. Her B-movie appearances at the time in theatrical films like What’s the Matter with Helen? (1971) and Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972)…
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Strap yourselves in; it’s going to be a topsy-turvy, shaky, wet ride as Jeff and Richard have fun with three disaster films of the 1970s: The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Earthquake (1974), and Airport ’77 (1977.) Don’t worry, we’ll all survive. There’s got to be a morning after… if we hang on through the night… Be…
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Home for the Holidays (1972) was released on VHS with one of those giant rectangular boxes. I’ll never forget its awful cover art. A mysterious figure in a yellow raincoat held a pitchfork. That was fine (and the killer’s “costume” in the actual movie is fine, as well); however, Sally Field’s head was placed right…
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High atop Castle Dracula, La Contessa Dolingen de Vries (Rosalba Neri), dressed in black with her veil blowing in the wind behind her, holds her hand in the air, her blood-red ring glowing. From a distance, we see a pinpoint of light where she stands. The full moon burns bright and lightning strikes. In the…
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Beloved as it may be, part of me wishes I had left Gargoyles (1972) to live in my memory. Yes, the leader of the beasts, with Emmy award-winning makeup by Stan Winston, still looks amazing. However, I had forgotten (or didn’t notice when I last watched this as a “kid”) that he’s outnumbered three-to-one by…
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When I began this review, I typed how life is full of lessons, and one of them is that I should watch movies before I buy them blindly on Blu-ray. Call it a New Year’s resolution, if you will, but I realized I didn’t need to own every movie that’s a subject for Classic Horrors.…
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