Category: Occult Age
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The Classic Horrors Club Podcast EP 98: Giant Killer Shrews
The much-maligned Atomic Age films, The Giant Gila Monster and The Killer Shrews, both from 1959, may have been made on the cheap, but they accomplish something few Hollywood blockbusters do: inspire our imaginations! Join Jeff and Richard as they travel back in time to the Tri-City Drive-In in San Pedro, California, for the ultimate…
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Cake of Blood (1971)
Of the four segments in Cake of Blood (1971) aka Pastel de Sangre, my favorite is the second, ‘Victor Frankenstein’. As the title indicates, the character is a familiar one, but this Frankenstein (Angel Carmona Ristol) isn’t your ordinary monster-maker, and El monstrou (Eusebio Poncela) is even more unique. First of all, this isn’t a…
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Necrophagous (1971)
At one point during Necrophagous (1971), I considered shipping the blu-ray back to Severin Films with a note that the chapters were out of order. For nearly the first hour, I was completely confused about who the characters were and what the heck was happening. Shifting blame from Severin to the film’s editor, Maria Luisa…
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Private Parts (1972)
Paul Bartel was an openly gay filmmaker who also appeared on screen in over 90 movies and television shows. He directed his first feature film, Private Parts in 1972, which was produced by Gene Corman. Gene’s brother, Roger, subsequently hired him as second unit director on Big Bad Mama (1974) and director on Death Race…
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The Classic Horrors Club Podcast EP 97: Freaky Poltergeist
Join Jeff and Richard as they travel only a few months into the past to watch two movies released 50 years apart, one of them that’s 92-years old! First up is Poltergeist (1982) and then it’s Freaks (1932.) If you think that’s an odd double feature, consider that the third movie on the triple bill…
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The Week of the Killer (1972) aka The Cannibal Man
Eloy de la Iglesia was a gay filmmaker best known for portraying “urban marginality and the world of drugs and juvenile delinquency.” Many of his films dealt with homosexual themes. He became addicted to drugs and stopped making films for 15 years, but returned sober in 2003, making one more film before dying of kidney…
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I Drink Your Blood (1971)
David E. Durston wrote and directed episodes of Playhouse 90 in the mid-1950s through 1960, before branching into movies. After four films, though, he shifted to hardcore gay pornography with movies like Boy ‘Napped (1971) and Manhole (1978.) He died in 2010 of complications from pneumonia. With as lurid a title as I Drink Your…
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The Classic Horrors Club Podcast EP 96: Go Ape at the Drive-In
Surprise! We’re hitting the road early with the first of four summer trips to the drive-in. It’s the weekend of June 15, 1973, and Battle for the Planet of the Apes has just opened, giving the Hillcrest Drive-In in Cedar Falls, Iowa, the opportunity to host an unofficial “Go Ape” marathon. We both started our…
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The Classic Horrors Club Podcast EP 95: Musical Monsters
For a bit of a change of pace, Jeff and Richard discuss two films where there are as many songs as there are monsters: Phantom of the Paradise (1974) and The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975.) Both did their time on the Midnight Movie circuit before the advent of home video boosted one’s reputation and…
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Tender Dracula (1974)
The poster for Tender Dracula (1974) aka The Big Scare, gives us a good idea about how conflicted the movie is going to be. Drawn with dripping red blood in the background is a gorgeous image of Peter Cushing baring fangs as a vampire (perhaps the titular Dracula,) yet in the foreground are green caricatures…