Category: Movie Discussions
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Hump Day Headlines #3
Due to a technical user error, this apparently didn’t post on Wednesday. Here is this week’s contest… Guess the movie in which this headline appears. Please send your answers to classichorrors.club@gmail.com so everyone has a chance to play. We’ll announce winners during next week’s contest. (See last week’s winner below.) Good luck! Congratulations to last…
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The Baby (1973)
Written by Abe Polsky Directed by Ted Post Starring Anjanette Comer, Ruth Roman, Marianna Hill, Susanne Zenor, Beatrice Manley, David Mooney Released March, 1973 RT 84 min. Home Video Arrow Video (Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating = 5 (out of 10) Watching The Baby (1973) has left me in a rare state: I don’t know what to say. If I thought there…
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Magic (1978)
Written by William Goldman Directed by Richard Attenborough Starring Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith, Ed Lauter Released November 8, 1978 RT 107 min. Home Video Dark Sky Films (Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating = 9 (out of 10) “Abracadabra, I sit on his knee. Presto, change-o, and now he’s me! Hocus Pocus, we take her to bed. Magic is fun…when…
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Hump Day Headlines #2
Guess the movie in which this headline appears. Please send your answers to classichorrors.club@gmail.com so everyone has a chance to play. We’ll announce winners during next week’s contest. (See last week’s winners below.) Good luck! Congratulations to last week’s winners! Both Rich Chamberlain and Michael Colacicco correctly guessed that the Hump Day Headline was from…
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Horrors of Malformed Men (1969) & The Pyjama Girl Case (1977)
Horrors of Malformed Men (1969) Written by Teruo Ishii & Masahiro Based on the novel by Rampo Edogawa Directed by Teruo Ishii Starring Teruo Yoshida, Yukie Kagawa, Teruko Yumi, Mitsuko Aoi, Michiko Kobata Released October 31, 1969 (Japan) RT 99 min. Home Video Arrow Video (Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) Several times during the first…
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The Devil’s Rain (1975)
Written by Gabe Essoe & James Ashton and Gerald Hopman Directed by Robert Fuest Starring Ernest Borgnine, Eddie Albert, Ida Lupino, William Shatner, Keenan Wynn, Tom Skerritt, Joan Prather, John Travolta Released July, 1975 RT 86 min. Home Video Severin Films (Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) At some point in the mid-1970s, my memories of…
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Hump Day Headlines #1
Hot off the press! Well start easy (?) with the first installment of our weekly contest. Guess the movie in which this headline appears. Please send your answers to classichorrors.club@gmail.com so everyone has a chance to play. We’ll announce winners during next week’s contest. Good luck!
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Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972)
Written by David D. Osborn (original screen story), Robert Blees and Jimmy Sangster (screenplay), Gavin Lambert (additional dialogue) Directed by Curtis Harrington Starring Shelley Winters, Mark Lester, Chloe Franks, Ralph Richardson, Lionel Jeffries Released March 15, 1972 (New York City) RT 91 min. Home Video Kino Lorber (Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) Nearly ¼ of the…
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The Wolf Man (1941)
Written by Curt Siodmak Directed by George Waggner Starring Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains, Patric Knowles, Bela Lugosi, Maria Ouspenskaya, Evelyn Ankers Released Dec. 12, 1941 RT 70 min. Home Video Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Until I recently re-watched The Wolf Man (1941), I would have told you it was the best…
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The Best Dad a Monster Kid Could Ever Have!
Gene W. Owens Jan. 23, 1940 – Aug. 20, 2018 When I told my father I wanted to set my alarm to wake up at midnight so I could watch The Ghost of Frankenstein on Sleepwalker’s Matinee with Count Gregor, he asked, “Why? They speak pig Latin.” At that age, I didn’t know if he…
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