Category: Movie Discussions
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Blood of Dracula’s Castle (1969)
October 5, 1969 As much as I struggled to complete watching Blood of Dracula’s Castle (1969) and as many problems as I found with it while doing so, it’s still a masterpiece compared to Al Adamson’s (popular-with-everyone-but-me) Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971.) Repeated attempts to appreciate that one have failed, but with only one viewing, I…
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The Doctor & the Devils (1985)
October 4, 1985 As I popped The Doctor & the Devils (1985) into the ol’ Blu-ray machine, I wondered why in the world I owned a copy of The Doctor & the Devils on Blu-ray in the first place. It only just now dawned on me that I probably had it confused with The Flesh…
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Repulsion (1965)
October 3, 1965 Purposeful or not, the opening of Repulsion evokes Psycho. However, instead of the camera slowly zooming-in on an eye, it slowly zooms out. This indicates we’re going to see events from the character’s (also a lovely blonde woman) point of view. At full frame, we immediately know something’s not right with Carol…
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Phantom Killer (1942)
October 2, 1942 As a lifelong DC Comics fan, it was a thrill to hear reference to Superman in a film from 1942. Only “four years-old” at the time, it indicates to me the immediate popularity of the character. In Phantom Killer (1942), when assistant district attorney Edward Clark (Dick Purcell) is certain about the…
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The Brain from Planet Arous (1957)
October 1, 1957 I bet Steve March (John Agar) is really going to be in trouble tomorrow. During the course of The Brain from Planet Arous (1957), he demonstrates power that makes atomic bombs look like firecrackers. Sure, he’s been possessed by a big translucent brain from outer space, but how’s he going to convince…
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Night of the Big Heat (1967)
Note: After today’s review, Classic Horrors is taking a late summer vacation during the month of September while classichorrors.club gets a fresh coat of paint in preparation for October and the Halloween season. Follow us on social media for quick fixes so you don’t get out of the habit… There’s an explosive opening to Night…
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
Quake Threat Worsens It’s Never Been So Hot Cyclone Horror No, these aren’t actual headlines from this week’s newspapers, although they may as well be. Instead, they’re fictitious headlines from newspapers in the 1961 film, The Day the Earth Caught Fire. Apparently, the kind of disasters we’re experiencing now with climate change can also occur…
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Hot Money Girl (1959)
You may have seen Hot Money Girl (1959) and not even have known it. It’s also called The Treasure of San Teresa and Long Distance. A late-50’s Euro-thriller by any other name… is still a late-50s Euro-thriller. Were it not for the fact that Christopher Lee appears in a small, but important role, you wouldn’t…
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The Curse of the Crying Woman (1961)
Released in 1963, two years after production was completed, The Curse of the Crying Woman, is the fourth Mexican horror film dealing with the subject of La Llorona, “the crying woman” or “the wailer.” However, it’s the furthest removed from the original legend of a vengeful ghost that roams near bodies of water mourning the…
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The Witch’s Mirror (1962)
In my review of Black Pit of Dr. M (1959), I wrote about a characteristic that seemed common among the Mexican horror films I’d seen so far. The Witch’s Mirror (1962) corroborates it. Three out of four movies from the Indicator Mexico Macabre box set, plus the handful I’ve seen at Monster Bash, all have…
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