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Written by Yasunari Kawabata & Teinosuke Kinugasa & Minoru Inuzuka & Banko Sawada Based on the short story by Yasunari Kawabata Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa Starring Masuo Inoue, Ayako Iijima, Yoshie Nakagawa Released September 24, 1926 (Japan) RT 78 min. Home Video Flicker Alley (Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating = 5 (out of 10) How Wikipedia can offer two complete
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Written by Terry Bourke Directed by Terry Bourke Starring Norman Yemm, Carla Hoogeveen Released November, 1972 (Australia) RT 54 min. Home Video Sinister Cinema (DVD) Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) If you’re designing a room for a haunted house, you might want to get some ideas from Night of Fear (1972), an Australian horror film that,
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Written by Ki-duk Kim, Run-sung Set Directed by Ki-duk Kim Starring Yeong-il Oh, Jeong-im Nam, Sun-jae Lee, Moon Kang, Kwang Ho Lee Released August 13, 1967 (South Korea) RT 80 min. Home Video Kino Lorber (Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) Yongary, Monster of the Deep (1967) is South Korea’s entry into the daikaiju (large strange
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Written by Kamal Amrohi Directed by Kamal Amrohi Starring Ashok Kumar, Madhubala, M. Kumar, Vijayalaxmi, Kanu Roy Released 1949 (India) RT 165 min. Home Video Bollywood Films Home Entertainment (DVD) Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) I once watched a three-hour and twenty-minute Bollywood movie about cricket (Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India, 2001). Against all
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Written by Cesar Amigo Directed by Gerardo de Leon, Eddie Romero Starring Kent Taylor, Beverly Powers, John Ahsley, Eva Darren, Mario Montenegro Released May 29, 1968 (Lima, OH) RT 97 min. Home Video Alpha New Cinema (DVD) Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10)The poster for Brides of Blood (1968) promises a lot of sensational things and, in a rare
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Written by Jesus Franco Directed by Jesus Franco Starring Conrado San Martin, Diana Lorys, Howard Vernon, Perla Cristal, Ricardo Valle Released May 14, 1962 (Madrid) RT 90 min. Home Video Redemption (Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) The history of The Awful Dr. Orloff (1962) is a little confusing to me without conducting more in-depth research
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Written by Paul Naschy Directed by Paul Naschy Starring Paul Naschy Released January 9, 1978 (Madrid) RT 86 min. Home Video Mondo Macabro (Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Thanks to Jon Kitley, Rod Barnett, and the general excitement in the air surrounding “the year of Naschy,” I started giving the films of Paul Naschy a
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Written by Amando de Ossorio Directed by Amando de Ossorio Starring Lone Fleming, Cesar Burner, Maria Elena Arpon, Jose Thelman Released April 10, 1972 (Spain) RT 101 min. Home Video Blue Underground (DVD) Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) In The Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972), it’s not what the Knights Templar do when they’re dead
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Written by Joel Seria Directed by Joel Seria Starring Jeanne Goupil, Catherine Wagener, Gerard Darrieu, Michel Robin Released April 5, 1971 (Cannes Film Festival) RT 102 min. Home Video Mondo Macabro (DVD) Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Watching a lot of horror films, there have been times when they cease to shock me. Don’t get me
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Written by Christen Jul and Carl Theodor Dreyer Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer Starring Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz, Jan Hieronimko, Henriette Gerard Released May 6, 1932 (Germany) RT 83 min. Home Video The Criterion Collection Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Reflecting on an article I wrote some time ago about film adaptations of
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