Category: Movie Discussions
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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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Four Sided Triangle (1953)
Written by Terence Fisher Directed by Terence Fisher Starring Barbara Payton, James Hayter, Stephen Murray, John Van Eyssen US Release June 15, 1953 RT 81 min. Home Video Starz/Anchor Bay Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers. Until it completely squanders its opportunity for an amazing twist ending, I…
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Written by Edmund H. North Directed by Robert Wise Starring Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe US Release Sept. 28, 1951 RT 92 min. Home Video 20th Century Fox Classic Horrors rating = 8 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers; ending of movie revealed… Although it’s undoubtedly a classic, the plot of The…
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Carnival of Souls (1962)
Written by John Clifford Directed by Herk Harvey Starring Candace Hilligoss, Sidney Berger US Release Sept. 26, 1962 RT 91 min. Home Video The Criterion Collection Classic Horrors rating = 8 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers; twist of movie revealed. There’s not much I can write about the cult classic, Carnival of Souls,…
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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)
Written by Robertson White and Eric Taylor Directed by John Rawlins Starring Boris Karloff, Ralph Byrd, Anne Gwynne US Release Sept. 26, 1947 RT 65 min. Home Video VCI Entertainment Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers. Some of today’s non-superhero comic book movies could learn a lesson from…
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Horror Express (1972)
Written by Arnaud d’Usseau, Julian Zimet Directed by Eugenio Martin Starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Alberto de Mendoza, Telly Savalas US Release Feb. 1, 1967 RT 91 min. Home Video Severin Films Classic Horrors rating = 9 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers. If there’s ever a case for giving a movie a…
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The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968)
Written by Jess Franco, Peter Welbeck Directed by Jess Franco Starring Christopher Lee, Richard Greene, Howard Marion-Crawford US Release Sept. 24 1969 RT 94 Home Video Blue Underground Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers; ending of movie revealed… You learn all you need to know about supervillian Fu…
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Remake Rewind: Cat People
From time to time, Classic Horrors will feature movies released after 1978 when they have a direct connection to those released before 1978. Beginning in May, 2010, until it expanded its content to include more than just the horror genre as Boom Howdy.com, I wrote a column for Downright Creepy.com called “Remake Rewind.” With permission of Boom Howdy, we present an…
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The Mummy’s Hand (1940)
The Mummy’s Hand (1940) is not a sequel to Universal’s 1932 hit, The Mummy; instead, it’s a variation of the tale that introduces some of the stereotypes about the monster that we’ve come to know and love today. Unfortunately, it’s an inferior product in nearly every way. Most egregiously, it plays like a test run…
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