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It’s been on my watch-list forever and I can’t count the number of times I’ve recorded it on TCM, but then never watched it. Why did Bunny Lake is Missing (1965) prove so elusive to me for so long? Now that I’ve seen it, prompted by the recent death of Carol Lynley on September 3,
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At an hour and 19 minutes, Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster (1965) is about 19 minutes too long. It starts out great and I thought I was going to have a new bad movie to love. It runs out of steam, though, and at just past the one-hour mark, it squanders its chance to end on
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For a movie that turns the fog machine so high that it’s hard to distinguish the actors, The Slime People (1963) isn’t concerned with hiding its monsters. The first thing we see, even before the opening credits, is one of them climbing to the surface. It’s a great monster, too! I’m not surprised to read
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Although produced by Columbia Pictures, the graveyard sets in The Black Room (1935) are as gorgeous as any number of Universal Pictures genre films of the same era. They’re obviously built on a soundstage; nevertheless, they are works of art. From the painted backdrops to the simulated ground covering and tombstones, the art direction by
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Another low budget movie that I’ve neglected to watch is now another low budget movie that I adore! Oh, The Hideous Sun Demon (1958), where have you been all my life? I tell you, with The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1955), The Killer Shrews (1959), The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962), and now this one,
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Not the first, and certainly not the last, The Frozen Dead (1966) belongs in the subgenre of “disembodied head” movies. What seems like a ridiculous subject on the surface can, in fact, be treated with genuine thrills and chills, although it’s usually treated with humor (whether intentional or not.) The Frozen Dead does a pretty
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The set-up for The Vampire Bat (1933) couldn’t be any simpler and it’s established in the film’s opening moments. Bats fill the sky on a dark night as the tower clock chimes, a mysterious figure leaps across the rooftops, and a woman screams. Cut to Burgermeister Gustave Schoen (Lionel Belmore) and his cronies struggling to
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When I recently re-watched The Raven (1935), I didn’t remember liking it as much the first time I saw it. In fact, if comparing it to my memories of The Black Cat (1934), I might like The Raven even more. It’s a nasty little thriller, letting Bela Lugosi shine as an evil madman, while letting
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Day the World Ended (1955), the fourth film directed by Roger Corman and his first genre film, has some clever ideas and, for the low budgets and resourcefulness we know he’d continue utilizing throughout his career, is not bad. Neither is it necessarily good, though. I’d call it “average,” certainly not the best he’d later
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Henry Smedhurst (James Mason) and his wife (Barbara Mullen) have always wanted a place of their own and, at retirement age, they are finally able to buy one… for a steal. While they’re aware that Bellingham House has sat vacant for 40 years, if they knew its reputation, I’m not sure they wouldn’t have bought
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