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  • Tom Jennings (June 11, 1968)

    After finishing a wiring project upstairs at what we call, “the house by the sea,” I asked its new resident, Nicholas Blair, if I could take a look around the cellar to get an idea of how much more work needed to be done. You can never tell in these old houses.  I entered a

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  • Jaws 2 (1978)

    Jaws 2 (1978)

    When you have as perfect a movie as Jaws (1975), it’d be misguided, to say the least, to think a sequel could match it, much less exceed it. Well, I guess The Empire Strikes Back (1980) exceeded Star Wars (1977), but that was another chapter in a larger story. Once you explode a killer shark,

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  • Coming Soon

    Coming Soon

    Experience Dark Shadows in bite-sized pieces as the characters tell its stories in their own words with only the information they possess at the time they make entries in their diaries. If you’re not familiar with the show, this will be an easy way to get into it, and if you are, the format just

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  • Jaws (1975)

    Jaws (1975)

    Last week, I claimed that Jaws (1975) is a nearly perfect movie. Now, since it’s shark week and seems like a good time to do it, I’m going to go ahead and put my money where my full-of-razor-sharp-teeth mouth is and share some of the reasons why. Interestingly, few of them feature the shark. If

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  • The Evil Within-The Spider’s Web

    Writers | David E. Durston, Manya StarrDirector | Don MedfordAir Date | May 1, 1953 How would you explain a sudden overpowering unnatural urge to destroy everything you love? In a variation of the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, Anne (Margaret Phillips) accidentally consumes a serum when a glass vial of it breaks and drips

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  • The Classic Horrors Club Podcast EP 107: The Terror of Dementia 13

    We’re back to the drive-in for a 1963 double feature of troubled productions involving the likes of Roger Corman, Jack Nicholson, and Francis Coppola: The Terror and Dementia 13. Listen what happens when a 57-year old child is careless with his words. Out of the resulting turmoil appears podcasting royalty: Chris Franklin of the Fire

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  • Ghost Writer-Past Tense

    Writer | Mann RubinDirector | Don MedfordAir Date | March 27, 1953 Here’s a switch: a wife supports her husband during hard times instead of nagging at him to get a job. Joan (Gaby Rodgers) encourages Bert (Leslie Nielsen) to keep writing his novel rather than take a paying job. After answering a newspaper ad

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  • Memories of Jaws (1975)

    It was a hot summer afternoon in Enid, Oklahoma as I stood in line outside the Chief Theater to see Jaws (1975.) This would not have been my first time, although I don’t remember my first time. I saw it repeatedly, but there’s something about this particular day that sticks with me. I don’t remember

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  • The Fury of the Cocoon-Read to Me, Herr Doktor

    Writer | Frank De FelittaDirector | Don MedfordAir Date | March 6, 1953 Famous last words… At the end of “The Cocoon,” Professor John Blanforth said he couldn’t help but rejoice that he’d seen the last of the hideous invisible creature that he and his niece, Susan, discovered in the jungle. We then saw another

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  • Hide & Go Shriek (1988)

    The queer content of Hide & Go Shriek (1988) is clear from the opening shot. As the camera slowly enters what looks like an old warehouse, a man shaves… and then puts on makeup. We don’t know the exact nature of his orientation, though. He looks at both the male and female prostitutes as he

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