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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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  • Orgies of Edo (1969)

    Orgies of Edo (1969)

    Written by Teruo Ishii, Masahiro KakefudaDirected by Teruo IshiiStarring Teruo Yoshida, Toyozo Yamamoto, Masumi TachibanaReleased January 9, 1969 (Japan)RT 89 min.Home Video Arrow VideoClassic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) According to authorPatrick Maccias (TokyoScope: The JapaneseCult Film Companion), “pinky violence” refers to a subgenre that emerged in Japan during the late 1960s when audiences were staying at home…

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  • Devil’s Partner (1961)

    Devil’s Partner (1961)

    Written by Stanley Clements, Laura Jean MathewsDirected by Charles R. RondeauStarring Edgar Buchanan, Jean Allison, Richard Crane, Spencer Carlisle, Byron Foulger, Ed NelsonReleased September, 1961RT 73 min.Home Video Alpha VideoClassic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) As I’ve stated previously, I proudly have the Netflix package that sends me physical DVDs and Blu-rays one at a time.  When I hear about…

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  • Hump Day Headlines #10

    Hump Day Headlines #10

    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 Richard Chamberlain, who correctly guessed that last week’s Hump Day Headline was from The Devil Bat (1940).

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