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Hot off the press! Well start easy (?) with the first installment of our weekly contest. 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. Good luck!
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Written by David D. Osborn (original screen story), Robert Blees and Jimmy Sangster (screenplay), Gavin Lambert (additional dialogue) Directed by Curtis Harrington Starring Shelley Winters, Mark Lester, Chloe Franks, Ralph Richardson, Lionel Jeffries Released March 15, 1972 (New York City) RT 91 min. Home Video Kino Lorber (Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) Nearly ¼ of the…
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Written by Curt Siodmak Directed by George Waggner Starring Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains, Patric Knowles, Bela Lugosi, Maria Ouspenskaya, Evelyn Ankers Released Dec. 12, 1941 RT 70 min. Home Video Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Until I recently re-watched The Wolf Man (1941), I would have told you it was the best…
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Gene W. Owens Jan. 23, 1940 – Aug. 20, 2018 When I told my father I wanted to set my alarm to wake up at midnight so I could watch The Ghost of Frankenstein on Sleepwalker’s Matinee with Count Gregor, he asked, “Why? They speak pig Latin.” At that age, I didn’t know if he…
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Derek M. Koch, from Monster Kid Radio, is currently hosting “Edgar August Poe” on his weekly podcast. This month, I’m taking his episodes as inspiration for my Friday Fright reviews and will be writing my opinions of the movies and posting them here on the day after his podcast becomes available. Any similarity in thought…
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Written by Massimo Dallamano, Ettore Sanzo Directed by Massimo Dallamano Starring Giovanna Ralli, Claudio Cassinelli, Mario Adorf, Franco Fabrizi, Farley Granger, Marina Berti Released August 10, 1974 (Italy) RT 96 min. Home Video Arrow Video (Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating = 8 (out of 10) My education in Eurofilm continues with my first poliziotteschi, What Have They Done to Your Daughters?…
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Derek M. Koch, from Monster Kid Radio, is currently hosting “Edgar August Poe” on his weekly podcast. This month, I’m taking his episodes as inspiration for my Friday Fright reviews and will be writing my opinions of the movies and posting them here on the day after his podcast becomes available. Any similarity in thought…
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On August 16, 1956, we lost horror legend Bela Lugosi at the age of 73. As we did with Boris Karloff in Episode 15, we pay tribute to Lugosi by discussing three films representing different stages of his career: Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932), The Return of the Vampire (1943) and the infamous Ed Wood…
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Derek M. Koch, from Monster Kid Radio, is currently hosting “Edgar August Poe” on his weekly podcast. This month, I’m taking his episodes as inspiration for my Friday Fright reviews and will be writing my opinions of the movies and posting them here on the day after his podcast becomes available. Any similarity in thought…
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Written by Kaneto Shindo Directed by Kaneto Shindo Starring Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Sato, Jukichi Uno Released November 21, 1964 (Japan) RT 103 min. Home Video The Criterion Collection (DVD & Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) As beautiful as it is terrifying, Onibaba (1964) is as much an experience as it is a narrative film.…
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