Classic Horrors Club

It seems like I’ve always known the story of Dorian Gray. I never paid it much attention, though, until I watched Penny Dreadful on Showtime and was a bit smitten by Reeve… Read more: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

It was thrilling for me to learn that I could watch an Alfred Hitchcock film as one of the movies for this year’s #countdowntohalloween. Number 17 (1932) was his 21st film and… Read more: CTH24: Number 17 (1932)

Captain Paul Onslow (Warner Baxter) has only 6 Hours to Live (1932) and it’s not because he’s ingested poison (he hasn’t) or that he’s the target of an assassination attempt (he is.)… Read more: CTH24: 6 Hours to Live (1932)

If Two on a Guillotine (1965) seems familiar, like one of William Castle’s early 1960s thrillers, please note it was directed by a different William… William Conrad. Conrad is perhaps best known… Read more: CTH24: Two on a Guillotine (1965)

Insurance salesman Albert L. Tuttle (Jack Haley) crashes the reading of a millionaire Cyrus J. Rutherford’s will because he’s had an appointment with him for a month and is not aware that… Read more: CTH24: One Body Too Many (1944)

Jeff and Richard belatedly celebrate the birthday of Ol’ Blood and Thunder, or Mr. Murder, Tod Slaughter. Slaughter has been called a British Boris Karloff. Indeed he made a series of films… Read more: The Classic Horrors Club Podcast EP 94: Mr. Murder