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  • Trog (1970)

    Trog (1970)

    Written by Aben Kandel Original story by Peter Bryan and John Gilling Directed by Freddie Francis Starring Joan Crawford, Michael Gough, Bernard Kay, Kim Braden Released October 24, 1970 RT 93 min. Home Video Warner Archive (DVD) Classic Horrors rating = 4 (out of 10) One of the movies I remember not liking from my adventures at the

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  • The Classic Horrors Club Podcast EP 25: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

    Happy Holidays from The Classic Horrors Club podcast!  Not only is this special episode our gift to you, but the movie we discuss is a really fun package to unwrap: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964).  (Well, at least it’s better than a lump of coal.) Speaking of lumps of coal, is that what Jeff

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  • Hump Day Headlines #14

    Hump Day Headlines #14

    Guess the movie in which this headline appears.  Please send your answers to classichorrors.club@gmail.com so everyone has a chance to play.  We’ll announce winners during next week’s contest.  (See last week’s winner… or lack thereof below.)  Good luck! Unfortunately, no one correctly guessed that last week’s Hump Day Headline was from Bride of the Monster (1955)!

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  • Night Watch (1973)

    Night Watch (1973)

    Written by Tony Williamson Based on the play by Lucille Fletcher Directed by Brian G. Hutton Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw, Bill Dean, Linda Hayden Released August 9, 1973 (New York City) RT 99 min. Home Video Warner Archive (DVD) Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Growing up in Enid, Oklahoma with a mother who

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  • Hump Day Headlines #13

    Hump Day Headlines #13

    Guess the movie in which this headline appears.  Please send your answers to classichorrors.club@gmail.com so everyone has a chance to play.  We’ll announce winners during next week’s contest.  (See last week’s winner below.)  Good luck! Congratulations to Troy Howarth who correctly guessed that last week’s Hump Day Headline was from Devils of Darkness (1965)!

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  • The Classic Horrors Club Podcast EP 24: A Creepy Cohen Christmas

      Nothing says Christmas like monster babies!  And no one gives ’em to us like Larry Cohen, the king prince of low budget movies.  Two out of three ain’t bad, as we discuss It’s Alive (1974), It Lives Again (1978) and It’s Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987). Grab a bottle of milk, some

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  • The Night Stalker (1972) & The Night Strangler (1973)

    Written by Richard Matheson Story by Jeff Rice Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey Starring Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland, Ralph Meeker, Claude Akins, Barry Atwater Released January 11, 1972 RT 74 min. Home Video Kino Lorber Studio Classics (Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Written by Richard Matheson Some characters created by Jeff Rice Directed by

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  • Hump Day Headlines #12

    Hump Day Headlines #12

    Guess the movie in which this headline appears.  Please send your answers to classichorrors.club@gmail.com so everyone has a chance to play.  We’ll announce winners during next week’s contest.  (See last week’s winner… or lack thereof… below.)  Good luck! Congratulations to Rich Chamberlain who correctly guessed that last week’s Hump Day Headline was from Superatural (1933).

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  • Strange Illusion (1945)

    Strange Illusion (1945)

    Written by Adele Comandini, Fritz RotterDirected by Edgar G. UlmerStarring Jimmy Lydon, Warren William, Salley Eilers, Regis Toomey, Charles ArntReleased March 31, 1945RT 87 min.Home Video Alpha VideoClassic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) Not a horror movie, per se, Strange Illusion nevertheless revolves around a ghostly, perhaps supernatural, dream.  Haunted by the mysterious death of his father, college

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  • Hump Day Headlines #11

    Hump Day Headlines #11

    Guess the movie in which this headline appears.  Please send your answers to classichorrors.club@gmail.com so everyone has a chance to play.  We’ll announce winners during next week’s contest.  (See last week’s winner… or lack thereof… below.)  Good luck! Unfortunately, nobody correctly guessed that last week’s Hump Day Headline was from I Was a Teenage Frankenstein

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