Category: TV Terror Guide

  • How Awful About Allan (1970)

    How Awful About Allan (1970)

    Anthony Perkins is in reverse-Psycho mode in How Awful About Allan, a 1970 TV-movie perfectly representing the surfeit of small screen psychological thrillers of the era. He’s the victim in this one, still perhaps a little cuckoo, but really the victim of malicious intent rather than the perpetrator. I have a great fondness for all…

  • How Awful About Allan (1970)

    How Awful About Allan (1970)

    Next off my stack of unwrapped, unwatched movies… Written by Henry Farrell Directed by Curtis Harrington Starring Anthony Perkins, Julie Harris, Joan Hackett Released September 22, 1970 (TV) RT 90 min. Home Video Alpha Video (DVD) Classic Horrors rating =  5 (out of 10) WHY I’VE NEVER SEEN IT I may very well have seen How…

  • Tales of Tomorrow: “Frankenstein” (1952)

    Tales of Tomorrow: “Frankenstein” (1952)

    Written by Henry Myers Starring John Newland, Lon Chaney Jr., Mary Alice Moore First Aired Jan. 18, 1952 RT  24 min. Watch On YouTube Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers; ending of episode revealed. For a 30-minute live television show from 1952 that now resides in the public…

  • The Outer Limits: “I, Robot” (1964)

    The Outer Limits: “I, Robot” (1964)

    Written by Robert C. Dennis Directed by Leon Benson Starring Howard Da Silva, Marianna Hill, Leonard Nimoy, Peter Brocco, Ford Rainey First Aired Nov. 14, 1964 RT 51 min. Watch On iTunes Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers; ending of episode revealed. Though not a literal “Frankenstein” story,…