Category: Movie Discussions
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Taste of Fear (1961) aka Scream of Fear
Written by Jimmy Sangster Directed by Seth Holt Starring Susan Strasberg, Ronald Lewis, Ann Todd, Christopher Lee US Release Aug. 22, 1961 RT 81 min. Home Video Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Classic Horrors rating = 8 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers. Taste of Fear (aka Scream of Fear in the United States)…
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Stop Me Before I Kill! (1960)
Written by Val Guest and Ronald Scott Thorn Directed by Val Guest Starring Claude Dauphin, Diane Cilento, Ronald Lewis US Release June 21, 1961 RT 107 min. Video Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) Warning: review contains fundamental plot spoiler. There are two scenes in Stop Me Before I…
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The Snorkel (1958)
Written by Peter Myers and Jimmy Sangster Directed by Guy Green Starring Peter Van Eyck, Betta St. John, Mandy Miller US Release Sept. 17, 1958 RT 90 min. Home Video Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers. For most of The Snorkel, I felt as…
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Moon Zero Two (1969)
Written by Michael Carreras Directed by Roy Ward Baker Starring James Olson, Catherine Schell, Warren Mitchell US Release March, 1970 RT 100 min. Home Video Warner Bros. Classic Horrors rating = 4 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers; ending of movie revealed. Oh my goodness, what do I make of Moon Zero Two? …
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Quatermass & the Pit aka Five Million Years to Earth (1967)
Written by Nigel Kneale Directed by Roy Ward Baker Starring James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley, Julian Glover US Release Feb. 16, 1968 RT 97 min. Home Video Anchor Bay Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers. A decade after Professor Bernard Quatermass appeared in two Hammer Films (The…
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The Damned (1962) aka These Are the Damned
Written by Evan Jones Directed by Joseph Losey Starring Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors, Alexander Knox, Oliver Reed US Release July 7, 1965 RT 87 min. Home Video Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers. What do you make of The Damned, a…
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Quatermass 2 (1957) aka Enemy from Space
Written by Nigel Kneale and Val Guest Directed by Val Guest Starring Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sidney James, Bryan Forbes US Release Sept. 1957 RT 85 min. Home Video Anchor Bay Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers. When we last saw Professor Quatermass (Brian Donlevy) at the end…
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X the Unknown (1956)
Written by Jimmy Sangster Directed by Leslie Norman Starring Dean Jagger, Edward Chapman, Leo McKern, Anthony Newley US Release May, 1957 RT 81 min. Home Video Anchor Bay Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers; ending of movie revealed. Released in the United States less than a year after…
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The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) aka The Creeping Unknown
Written by Richard H. Landau & Val Guest Directed by Val Guest Starring Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Margia Dean, Richard Wordsworth US Release June, 1956 RT 78 min. Home Video Kino Lorber Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers; ending of movie revealed. The opening of The Quatermass Xperiment,…
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Spaceways (1953)
Written by Richard H. Landau, Paul Tabori Directed by Terence Fisher Starring Howard Duff, Eva Bartok US Release Aug. 7, 1953 RT 74 min. Home Video Image Entertainment Classic Horrors rating = 5 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers. If Four Sided Triangle was “nothing but a love story taking place in a…
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