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The final third of Queen of Blood (1966) is a great little film; however, the first two-thirds is a hot mess. You can easily find trivia about the making of the movie and it’s interesting to read. What I conclude from it is that it’s pretty amazing Queen of Blood is as good as it…
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Here’s one justification for not rushing to consume every movie in a particular genre, from a particular studio, or from a particular actor. As much as I love Hammer Films, there are still several I still haven’t seen. I’m not in any hurry, either, because once I see them all, there will never be anything…
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Let’s get one thing out of the way up front. While The Old Dark House (1963) is technically a remake of the superior 1932 version, any comparison of the two is going to automatically devalue the newer version. Therefore, I’m going to make every attempt to judge it on its own. In doing so, for…
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Night Must Fall (1964) is an odd film that feels like a distant relative of Night of the Hunter (1955) or Cape Fear (1962). Here, it’s Albert Finney as Danny (the Robert Mitchum role of Harry Powell in Night of the Hunter or Max Cady in Cape Fear), a psychopath that ingratiates himself into a…
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Originally posted during 2019’s Countdown to Halloween… It wouldn’t be a Countdown to Halloween without a Paul Naschy film and the recent Blu-ray release of The Mummy’s Revenge (1975) from Ronin Flix was a perfect opportunity to include one. The title is appropriate because, in most mummy movies that I recall, the titular creature is…
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Watching Legend of Horror has left me playing junior detective in its wake. For a movie supposedly made in 1972, it looks as if it’s at least a decade older, and not just because it’s presented in black and white. The credits also refer to flashback footage by another director, Enrique Carreras, when this movie…
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Let’s be honest, the movies I’ve chosen for this year’s Countdown to Halloween may have been fun, but they haven’t exactly been the highest quality. They’ve been B-movies at best, not that there’s anything wrong with that. Kuroneko (1968) makes up for this… and then some. Not only does it have prestige, being foreign and…
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In the year 2001, life has changed from the year Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962) was made. The story takes place “after man has solved the complex mysteries of space travel.” The planet Earth is no longer racked by wars and threats of annihilation. Man has learned to live with himself. The United Nations…
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I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve either walked out of a movie at the theater or turned one off on TV. I can endure almost anything. I came awfully close recently, though, when watching Invasion of the Star Creatures (1962). If not for my commitment to this website, I would…
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aka Ju jin yuki otoko (1955) There’s an exception to every rule. While I consider myself a purist and almost always prefer my foreign horror in its original, unadulterated condition, there’s one movie that I enjoy more in its edited American version: Half Human. Imagine a movie that’s overlong at 94 minutes: that’s Ju jin…
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