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Written by Erik Blomberg Directed by Erik Blomberg, Mirjami Kuosmanen Starring Mirjami Kuosmanen, Kalervo Nissila Released July 25, 1952 (Finland) RT 67 min. (restored version) Home Video Filigra Nowa (DVD) Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) If you watch The White Reindeer (1952) like I’m going to encourage you to do, try to find a better copy…
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Written by Victor Sjostrom Directed by Victor Sjostrom Based on the novel by Selma Lagerlof Starring Victor Sjostrom, Hilda Borgstrom, Tore Svennberg, Astrid Holm Released January 1, 1921 (Sweden) RT 107 min. Home Video The Criterion Collection (DVD, Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating = 9 (out of 10) With its story within a story within a story, The Phantom Carriage…
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Written by Kare Bergstrom Based on the novel by Andre Bjerke Directed by Kare Bergstrom Starring Andre Bjerke, Bjorg Engh, Henki Kolstad, Per Lillo-Stenberg Released Dec. 17, 1958 (Norway) RT 76 min. (restored version) Home Video Sinister Cinema (DVD) Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) Lake of the Dead (1958) is soaked in atmosphere, but I found…
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Written by Benjamin Christensen Directed by Benjamin Christensen Starring Maren Pedersen, Clara Pontoppidan, Elith Pio, Oscar Stribolt Released Nov. 7, 1922 (Denmark) RT 77 min. (1968 re-release) Home Video Criterion Collection (DVD) Classic Horrors rating = 8 (out of 10) – 104 min., 9 (out of 10) – 77 min. Usually a stickler for watching movies as they were…
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Written by Ian Sutherland Directed by Peter Carter Starring Hal Holbrook, Lawrence Dane, Robin Gammell Released July 21, 1977 (Canada) RT 100 min. Home Video Nostalgia Family (DVD) Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10)Rituals (1977) is a refreshing pre-slasher horror film because its victims are not horny teenagers or scantily-clad women. They’re middle-aged professional men. Well, on…
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Written by Ernesto Gastaldi Directed by Sergio Martino Starring Claudio Cassinelli, Mel Ferrer, Adolfo Caruso, Massimo Girotti Released August 12, 1975 (Italy) RT 100 min. Home Video Arrow Video Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) The Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975) is an odd film to categorize, if, like me, you’re compelled to do that kind…
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Written by Lucio Fulci and Robert Gianviti and Gianfranco Clerici Directed by Lucio Fulci Starring Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian, Irene Papas, Marc Porel Released September 22, 1972 (Italy) RT 102 min. Home Video Arrow Video Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Prior to watching Don’t Torture a Duckling (1972), I was familiar with Lucio Fulci…
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Written by Francis Ford Coppola Directed by Francis Ford Coppola Starring William Campbell, Luana Anders, Bart Patton, Mary Mitchel, Patrick Magee Released September 25, 1963 (Los Angeles) RT 75 min. Home Video HD Cinema Classics (Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) Francis Ford Coppola was working in the sound department for a 1963 movie called The…
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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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