Category: Movie Discussions
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The Head (1959)
If you sucked all the humor out of The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962), you might be left with The Head (1959.) However, you’d then have to bloat it with almost 20 additional minutes. This leaves a deadly serious film that’s too long and not much fun. I’d take “Jan in the Pan” any day…
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Hell Night (1981)
All these years and I’d never seen Hell Night (1981.) I’m not going to say it was a revelation when I finally watched it; however, I will say I enjoyed it much more than I ever anticipated. It’s a typical Slasher, which is to say it’s imperfect, but there are enough interesting things about it…
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Night Terror (1977) aka Night Drive
Welcome to 1977. As we’ve evolved from the beginning of the decade, our TV terrors have become a little more bloated and a little less terrifying. Therefore, it’s nice to start a new year with a return to classic form: Night Terror (aka Night Drive), a tight, exciting thriller that is simple, efficient, and scary.…
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The Body Beneath (1970)
Andy Milligan was openly gay, but made a contradictory decision in 1968: he married a woman, Candy Hammond, who was in the film he was shooting at the time, Seeds of Sin (1968.) According to fangoria.com, Milligan “usually picked up his dates in dive leather bars and the seediest stretches of the Deuce” (42nd Street…
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Night Tide (1961)
Curtis Harrington (1926-2007) I was now reaching the age where the idea of sex began to go beyond the theoretical into the actual, and I must confess that I began to make a few explorations in this direction with some of my male school chums. Of course, I went to parties and school dances with…
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Nosferatu (1922)
There seem to be conflicting stories about how open F.W. Murnau was about his sexuality. During promotion for the 2000 film, Shadow of the Vampire, Susan King wrote In the January 4, 2001, issue of the Los Angeles Times, “Murnau was a closet homosexual, but his ‘secret’ came out with his death in a car…
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Gamera, Super Monster (1980)
Gamera: Super Monster (1980) is the Robot Monster (1953) of kaiju films. Both films feature a child’s dreams and, if you look at the movies as products of juvenile dream logic instead of straightforward storytelling, they’re a lot of fun. What if Gamera: Super Monster is entirely a dream with the boy reliving the giant…
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Gamera vs. Zigra (1971)
For some reason, I’ve been anticipating a decline in quality of the Gamera films, but it doesn’t arrive with Gamera vs. Zigra (1971.) I may like it slightly less than its predecessor; however, that’s a personal preference. In general, it maintains the level that I’ve come to expect, and I have yet to be disappointed.…
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Gamera vs. Jiger (1970)
When I watched Gamera vs. Guiron (1969) 11 months ago and paused my exploration of the Arrow Video box set, Gamera: The Complete Collection, I would have thought we were at the peak of the series. I remember rating it highly and commenting that the crazier the movies got, the more entertaining they were. Imagine…
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Eye of the Devil (1966)
Eye of the Devil (1966) fits into that odd and wonderful era of 1960s British genre films that gave us Village of the Damned, Day of the Triffids, and Night of the Eagle (aka Burn, Witch, Burn.) For me, this means they’re made with a perspective or sensibility that’s just slightly unfamiliar when compared to…
Classic Horrors Club 