Category: Movie Discussions
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Dementia 13 (1963)
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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Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)
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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Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn (1936)
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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Westworld (1973)
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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The Penalty (1920)
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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Frankenstein 1970 (1958)
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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The Clairvoyant (1935)
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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Mad Love (1935)
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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Recreating the Night of the Living Dead Cemetery Scene
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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The Omen (1976)
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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