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Written by Richard Robinson and Alan Caillou Directed by John “Bud” Cardos Starring William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling, Woody Strode, David McLean, Natasha Ryan US Premiere August 24, 1977 (San Francisco) RT 97 min. Home Video Shout! Factory Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Five years after the release of Frogs, the “Nature Gone Wild” or “Eco-Horror” film
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Written by Randall Faye Directed by Milton Rosmer Starring Tod Slaughter, Sophie Stewart, Eric Portman US Release August 18, 1936 RT 70 min. Home Video AlphaVideo Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn opens how I imagine the play on which it is based would open. However, I’ve
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Written by Michael Crichton Directed by Michael Crichton Starring Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin US Release August 17, 1973 RT 88 min. Home Video Warner Brothers Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Twenty years before Steven Spielberg directed Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, Crichton himself directed another movie about an amusement park gone wrong.
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Written by Gouverneur Morris, adapted from his famous novel Directed by Wallace Worsley Starring Lon Chaney, Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason, Milton Ross, Ethel Grey Terry, Kenneth Harlan, Claire Adams US Release Aug. 8, 1920 (Detroit) RT 90 min. Home Video Kino International Classic Horrors rating = 8 (out of 10) What turns a young man
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Written by Richard H. Landau, George Worthing Yates Directed by Howard W. Koch Starring Boris Karloff, Tom Duggan, Jana Lund, Don “Red” Barry US Release July 20, 1958 RT 83 min. Home Video Warner Brothers Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Victor Frankenstein (Boris Karloff), the great-great grandson of the original Frankenstein, rents his castle
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Written by Charles Bennett & Bryan Edgar Wallace Based on the novel by Ernest Lothar Directed by Maurice Elvey Starring Claude Rains, Fay Wray, Jane Baxter US Release July 15, 1935 RT 81 min. Home Video Synergy Ent. Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Faux mind-reader Maximus (Claude Rains) discovers he can really see the
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Written by P. J. Wolfson and John L. Balderston From the novel Les Mains D’Orlac by Maurice Renard Directed by Karl Freund Starring Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive US Release July 12, 1935 RT 68 min. Home Video Warner Brothers Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Mad Love is one of several adaptations of Maurice Renard’s
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During our recent trip to Monster Bash, we took an excursion to the Evans City Cemetery where the opening scene from Night of the Living Dead (1968) was filmed. We painstakingly attempted to recreate some of the scene’s iconic images, with (as you can see) mixed results. While most of the gravestones remain the same after
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Written by David Seltzer Directed by Richard Donner Starring Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw, Harvey Stephens, Patrick Troughton US Release June 25, 1976 RT 111 min. Home Video 20th Century Fox Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) One of my biggest disappointments rewatching movies from the 1970s has been the realization that
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Written by Gilbert Ralston Based on the Novel by Stephen Gilbert Directed by Daniel Mann Starring Bruce Davison, Sondra Locke, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Borgnine US Release July 30, 1971 RT 95 min. Home Video Scream Factory Classic Horrors rating = 8 (out of 10) Note: Willard and its sequel, Ben, were the subjects of the sixth episode
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