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Scars of Dracula
Paul ( Christopher Matthews ) , a consummate ladies ' man , has the misfortune of being caught with the burgomaster's daughter by the father himself . Trying to evade his guards , Paul winds up at Dracula's castle when he can not find shelter anywhere else when his horse carriage was driven way too far from his village...
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The Diabolical Dr . Z
Those of the scientific community ( mainly three in particular , doctors Vicas , Moroni & Kallman ) who berated Dr . Zimmer ( Antonio Jiménez Escribano ) , whose experiments concerning mind control procedures which have the ability to cease the violent tendencies in the criminal element ( for a while Z worked on monkey...
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Children of the Damned
Little Paul is specially gifted as are other kids around the world ( six to be exact ) brought together because the UN is fascinated with their intellect . . bad mistake . As in the previous VILLAGE , these children are conceived through a female without sexual activity as the source of childbirth . Whatever these chil...
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Blind Beast
Aki ( Mako Midori ) is a famous model for an artist who frames her in all forms of sadomasochism such as being nude within tied ropes and buckled chains . A friend of that artist actually sculpted Aki's body with which , through gossip , beckons a blind sculptor to the gallery . Aki finds this man , Michio ( Eiji Funak...
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The Host
A member of the US military orders his Korean counterpart to unload lots of formaldehyde ( bottles upon bottles ) into the Han River of Seoul with a type of enormous mutated marine life form emerging as a result . In the opening of this film , a mass of people at the banks of the Han River are attacked by the monster a...
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Kill , Baby . . Kill !
Want to understand how to direct a film with style and atmosphere ? Well , in " Kill , Baby . . Kill ! " you are the student because the teacher is showing you how it's done . Exceptional cinematography , dreamlike score , and fluid camera-work heighten this unusual ghost story about victims forced to commit suicide by...
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Prince of Darkness
Father Loomis ( Donald Pleasence ) wishes for Prof . Howard Birack ( Victor Wong ) and his class ( . . along with some other students majoring in other scientific fields ) to use scientific data by way of technology and computers in deciphering what the ancient text written means guarding a mysterious green , circulati...
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Play Misty for Me
Disc Jockey David ( Clint Eastwood in one of his finest performances ) is quite the swinger , but he gets what's coming to him . . a psychopathic chick , Evelyn ( Jessica Walter , who is the epitome of creepy , twisted stalkers ) he beds who makes his life a living hell . While constantly stalking Dave , Evelyn has qui...
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The Parallax View
After a Senator is assassinated ( he was a popular candidate on the hinges of running for the presidency of the USA ) , those people surrounding him high on Seattle's Space Needle are being killed one by one . While the Warren Commission proclaims the hit as a work of a lone assassin ( who falls to his death when being...
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Dressed to Kill
Along with Body Double , De Palma's definitive homage to his greatest influence , Hitchcock , an answer to PSYCHO , brilliantly tongue-in-cheek from the daft title to the answer of who the killer REALLY is , the director is at his very level best , crafting one incredible set piece after another . The contemporary them...
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The Dark
I got existential with this film . It reminded me greatly of " The Blair Witch Project " where we see these characters unknowingly entering certain horror . . we know what will happen , but they have no idea what certain doom they willingly will be entering . You can not fault anyone but one and that is the guide who t...
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The Last Wave
David Burton ( Richard Chamberlain , quite good ) is a lawyer , more adept at handling corporate taxation ( . . and suffers from unusual dreams which bother him seeing this aboriginal man shrouded in darkness ) , who is called on to take a case concerning a group of aboriginals charged with the murder of one of their o...
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Daughters of Darkness
Euro-horror tale about what occurs when Countess Bathory and her " female companion " become " involved " with a troubled couple at a very elegant hotel . The husband is supposedly unkind towards his wife , who becomes seduced / bewitched by Bathory . I thought it was fantastic , but do believe many might be turned off...
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Sea of Love
Detective Frank Keller ( Al Pacino , in a perfect star vehicle ) is a middle-aged lonelyheart , recently divorced , whose ex is married to his partner . He begins thinking about his mortality as his 20 years of duty on the force has come up and longing for a female presence in his life has weighed on the mind . He's on...
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Christine
Arnie Cunningham ( Keith Gordon , who has never been better ) finds a junker Plymoth sitting in a yard for sale . It is shown at the opening of the film to have smashed one automaker's hand with it's hood while suffocating another with carbon monoxide . So we know what Arnie doesn't . . that this car whose name is Chri...
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School of the Holy Beast
Boy , this sure doesn't hold back when casting a scathing view of the Catholic church . No stone is unturned . Everything is in this film . Duck for that kitchen sink because the hypocrisy and secrets hidden within the abbey of the church of nuns examined here is riddled with sin and deprivation . The kick is that , th...
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The Devil Rides Out
Hammer studios scores a knock-out with this superb supernatural horror flick starring Christopher Lee as Duc de Richleau who finds a battle on his hands with a Satanic cult , led by Mocata ( Charles Gray ; played the villain Blofeld in DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER ) . Richleau had a war pal who died and so he took over fatherl...
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Violent Cop
How apt the film's title really is ! A blood feud enrages when a detective and drug lord's assassin lock horns . Corruption is plaguing the police force as Azuma's ( Beat Yakeshi ) colleague , Iwaki ( Sei Hiraizumi ) , is helping deal drugs for a drug lord , Nito ( Ittoku Kishibe ) Nito's assassin , Kiyohiro ( Hakuryu ...
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Spider Baby
Bizarre cannibal comedy regarding a family of mental savages under the " parental supervision " of Uncle Bruno , The Chauffeur ( played with heart and gusto by the great Lon Chaney , JR ) who just wants them to quit killing passersby . You have Virginia ( Jill Banner , who despite her insanity is oddly sexy ) who loves...
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The Pit and the Pendulum
The Grand Inquisitor , Torquemada ( Lance Henriksen ) , known for his public executions and torturous methods of those he and his foot-soldiers deem heretics and witches , is overcome with lust when he gazes upon the naked body of baker Antonio's ( Jonathan Fuller ) lovely wife Maria ( the stunning beauty Rona De Ricci...
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The Beast from 20 , 000 Fathoms
A prehistoric dinosaur , Rhedosauras , is awakened from it's North Pole icy prison by atom explosion testings , and follows the Arctic current to NYC destroying whatever lies in it's path along the way . Scientist Tom Nesbitt ( Paul Hubschmid ) who survives an avalanche which kills his fallen colleague , tries to tell ...
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The House of Fear
Murder is an insidious thing , Mr . Watson . Once a man has dipped his fingers in blood , sooner or later he'll feel the urge to kill again . Wealthy members of a prestigious club , known as The Comrades ( . . retired friends without ancestral heirs , live together in a Scotland castle ) are being bumped off by a mys...
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Son of Frankenstein
Stunning sequel to " Bride of Frankenstein " has the son of Baron returning to the castle and being met by villagers with less than welcome salutations . The village nearby is so traumatized by the monster's rampaging violent past that even the name of Frankenstein gives them the willies . Bela Lugosi stars as broke-ne...
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The Nameless
I think what makes THE NAMELESS so terrifying is the fact that it's grounded in realism . . the idea that a flock , perverted by the deranged fundamental ideas of a very sick man , are arranging this diabolical plan to achieve an imagined profound state ( . . synthesis ) through the absolute act of evil , in turn , cau...
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Don't Come Knocking
One day , out of the blue , western star ( this is ironic that he's a western star since in our modern times , the American western genre is quite quiet ) Howard Spence ( the terrific , laconic Sam Shepard , who also wrote the screenplay ) rides off from his movie set in Utah . He calls up his mother ( Eva Marie Saint ...
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R-Point
Those who liked " Deathwatch " may wish to check out this ( even better ) Korean ghost tale from director Su-chang Kong about a group of South Korean troops in Vietnam searching for a missing group they heard a distress signal from . Once they get up to a location called R-Point where these old Temple Ruins are located...
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The Fifth Cord
Exceptional giallo thriller from director Luigi Bazzoni starring Franco Nero as a boozing news journalist , Andrea Bild , who is assigned a story regarding various individuals who are murdered on Tuesdays representing a specific horoscopic point of birth by a killer whose chilling voice diabolically whispers on a recor...
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Body Double
An out-of-work actor , Jake Scully ( Craig Wasson , quite good in a rare starring role ) , struggling after a broken relationship and a career marred by his claustrophobia , is allowed to stay in the fine , palatial home of another actor , Sam Bouchard ( Gregg Henry ) . Jake is a certified peeper and Sam introduces him...
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Miller's Crossing
Tom ( Gabriel Byrne ) is Leo's ( Albert Finney ) right hand man and intelligent voice of reason . Being the city's top gangster , Leo depends on Tom's advice . The pot is stirred when Leo's moll , Verna ( Marcia Gay Harden ) has a pesky brother Bernie ( John Turturro ) who is stealing from rival mob boss , Casper ( Jon...
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The Scarecrow reviews " Lady in a Cage "
Olivia de Havilland ( in a performance that could've easily been hammy , but instead is completely true and heartbreaking ) portrays Cornelia Hilyard , a widow with a bad hip who uses an elevator to move from one floor to another . On one unfortunate day , her son leaves for a few days ( there is a sad angle to his lif...
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Alice's Restaurant
A moment in the life of a folk singer , Arlo ( Arlo Guthrie ) who spends time trying to make it in the music biz by doing the bar scene while also frequenting at a hippie commune / restaurant derived from a former Catholic church . His many numerous acquaintances are a major part of this story as we get to know those w...
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To Live and Die in L
Secret Service Agent Richard Chance ( William Peterson , who is brooding with intensity ) wants counterfeiter Eric Masters ( Willem Dafoe , wonderfully slimy with an underlying menace ) really bad for the murder of his partner Jim ( Michael Greene ) , who was two days to retirement . They had been working hard on a cas...
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Control
Inside a fictitious underground subway system ( the entire film is set in a real Budapest subway transit , but what occurs within it is all fiction ) ticket inspectors go through the torments and doldrums of daily life when dealing with the unruly , disrespectful , and cruel public who often don't pay for their tickets...
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It's Alive !
A family is riddled with tragic repercussions when a baby is born a mutated monstrosity with an urge to rip the throats of victims after it escapes the hospital . Starting with the hospital staff in the delivery room , Frank and Lenore's ( John P Ryan & Sharon Farrell ) monster baby goes on a rampage , attacking citize...
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Next Stop , Greenwich Village
Slice-of-life piece about a young Jewish man , Larry Lapinsky ( Lenny Baker ) , with designs on being an actor , struggling not only to make ends meet so he can carry out his profession and grow as an actor through a studio teacher , but also overcoming the domineering presence of his overbearing , at-times maniacal mo...
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Pépé le Moko
Pépé le Moko ( Jean Gabin ) , an elusive gangster ( with a special gift as a master thief ) hides out from the French authorities in the labyrinthine Algerian Casbah . The citizens within this place assist their local celebrity because he represents that anti-authoritarian way of life against the government outside the...
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Vital
A troubled , enigmatic amnesiac , Hiroshi ( Tadanobu Asano ) , who lost his memory and beloved Ryôko ( Nami Tsukamoto ) in an accidental car crash , discovers that the one he's assigned to dissect in his medical class is her ! Ikumi ( Kiki ) , whose adulterous lover and medical professor committed suicide after she rej...
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The Hired Hand
Harry Collings ( Peter Fonda ) decides it's time to head back to a home where a wife of his he left behind resides ( he has been traveling for seven years as a hired hand making ends meet and moving to the next town ) . Arch Harris ( the great Warren Oates ) has been riding with Harry pretty much seven years and tags a...
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Reincarnation
We'll stay together forever . College Professor , Kazuya Omori ( Shun Oguri ) claims the lives of eleven victims ( including his wife , son & daughter ) before committing suicide in a hotel in 1970 , the 45th day of Showa . Movie director Ikuo Matsumura ( Kippei Shiina ) is motivated to create a portrait which focuse...
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Horrors of Malformed Men
Let me just start by saying this film is crazy . . but , I had such a thrill and few films leave me as breathless with my jaw hanging in shock as " Horrors of Malformed Men " . It was like the door to an asylum of depravity and insanity was opened and we bare witness to the madness that springs forth . It starts out ra...
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Withnail and I
Two down-on-their-luck actors awaiting that chance to be on stage must overcome the obstacles of poverty while also battling various addictions . Withnail ( Richard E Grant who is excellent ) and Marwood ( Paul McGann who also narrates ) are pretty fed up with the city and take to the countryside for some rest and rela...
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Dellamorte Dellamore
A caretaker for Buffalora cemetery has the difficult task , along with his mute subservient simple-minded assistant , to keep the dead ( . . who rise from their graves days after their demise ) from leaving their new homes , using specially marked bullets which split apart their skulls on impact . The job weighs on him...
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Deranged
A film inspired by the notorious killer , Ed Gein has Roberts Blossom portraying Ezra Cobb , a man who slowly grows sociopathic after his mother dies . We see more of how Cobb becomes crazy rather than his killing which comes out towards the end . I felt the film is completely a black comedy playing off the absurd gimm...
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Pelts
A fur-company owner , Jake ( Meat Loaf ) is an abusively nasty bastard to his employees and lusts after a stripper , Shanna ( Ellen Evusie ) unattainable to him because of not being a strong fixture in the market place . Father and son fur-trappers , Jeb & Larry ( John Saxon & Mical Suchánek ) find these remarkably bea...
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All the Colors of the Dark
Unrelenting suspensor about a woman so tormented by her nightmares ( after losing a child stillborn when her boyfriend Richard hit a tree ) , she's willing to try anything including black mass ritual performed by a Satanic cult introduced to her by a neighbor , Mary . Her sister , Barbara has tried to get her psychiatr...
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Night Call
An elderly cripple is terrified of night calls from an ominous voice and demands answers as to who it is . What is truly unsettling is who / where the calls derive from . It's not surprising that one of Twlight Zone's superior tales comes from the pen of Richard Matheson and is directed by the great Jacques Tourneur . ...
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The Cranes are Flying
While Boris ( Aleksey Batalov ) is off to fight in war against the Germans for his Mother Russia , his beloved Veronika ( Tatyana Samojlova ) marries his conniving cousin Mark ( Aleksandr Shvorin ) in a moment of weakness shortly after her parents were killed in an air raid over Moscow . Through various trials and betr...
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Anatomy of a Murder
Long time former DA , Paul Biegler ( Jimmy Stewart , simply amazing ) is told by his buddy , Parnell ( Arthur O'Connel , simply wonderful as the boozer trying to keep sober because of the privilege of being asked by Paul to partner up with him ) to take a case concerning the murder of an Inn bar owner , Barney Quill . ...
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Afraid of the Dark
A young boy , Lucas ( stunning , haunting performance from young Ben Keyworth ) who is slowly going blind , dreams up a horrifying nightmare about a serial slasher of blind women nearby his London home ( . . with a graveyard located outside his window , no less ) . It seems to take shape when he places his thick-lensed...
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Dracula
I know that over the years many do not consider Tod Browning's Dracula film to be as great as reputed to be , but I just continue to love it each and every time I view it . I certainly believe this is a crash course in how to shoot Gothic horror the real way . The opening is just astounding with all the cobwebs , possu...
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Martin . . The Scarecrow says Wow .
I'll be honest , when I got my DVD in the mail from netflix I never thought this film would knock my block off like it does . I think this is an amazing achievement from George A Romero in just how to shoot a very scary , ultra-realistic horror film which feels like some documentary filmmaker decided to follow this fam...
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Petulia
Archie Bollen ( George C Scott , very good ) is a square peg in a very circular world . He seems to be a Waldo amongst flower children . There's a scene I find humorous ( . . while others might find strange and / or pathetic ) that shows Archie in the middle of a crowd of hipsters dancing in a psychedelic hall as some ...
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The Face of Another
Disturbing portrait of a disfigured man graveling in self-loathing at the circumstances presented to him wearing bandages covering his face severely burned after a disastrous fire . Mr . Okuyama ( the great Kurosawa regular Tatsuya Nakadai ) is a client of psychiatrist ( Mikijiro Hira ) who offers the troubled man a ch...
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Gumshoe dick Steve Martin is called on by lovely Rachel Ward to find her missing father , a cheese manufacturer . When he finds a list containing names , people put a licking on him to keep those names from turning up in the wrong hands . An exhilarating , amazing , and rewarding film experience for Classic Movie fans ...
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Assault on Precinct 9 , Division 13
Director John Carpenter's ode to Howard Hawks , " Night of the Living Dead " amongst others is really well made on a low budget . Carpenter , I'm sure , has a metaphor regarding the youth drones who kill without emotion ( perhaps making a statement about how he depicts America's descent into violence . . has a potent p...
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What Have You Done to Solange ?
Catholic School teacher Enrico Rosseni ( the very cool Fabio Testi ) and a student he's in love with are on the verge of having sex in a canoe when she partially sees the murder of a fellow classmate take place . A psychopath is murdering members of a clique of girls who behave naughty outside the school grounds by sta...
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A Scanner Darkly
Substance D and how the drug has caused societal collapse with nearly everyone experimenting ( . . or totally hooked ) on it . Our main character is Bob Arctor ( Keanu Reeves , perfectly cast ) who has a " split-brain phenomenon " where the two hemispheres of his brain ( the right and the left ) are " competing " with ...
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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
You know I looked at director Jaromil Jires's film from a different perspective , hoping to perhaps take an " outside the box " view regarding the bewildering madness which continues for 80 minutes . I felt that Valerie's situation was a thirteen year old , blossoming with curiosity about sex , in a sexually repressed ...
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Memories of Murder
Two rural detectives , their chief & a well-educated Seoul detective search for a serial killer who specifically chooses certain victims when it rains , using their own undergarments to bound and strangle them while he rapes their tied up bodies . We watch as the rural detectives , who often use rough tactics to secure...
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The Whip and the Body
The suicide of a jilted fiancé holds a scar over the House of Menliff as the black sheep who left her returns , Kurt ( Christopher Lee , who is simply outstanding in his limited presence . . even dubbed he holds you under his ominous spell ) wanting to reclaim his heritage , but receiving scorn from his ailing father (...
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Bay of Blood
A husband hangs his wheelchair-bound ancient wife of wealth and is subsequently stabbed viciously . A developer , illegitimate son , and heiress ( with her patsy husband who obeys her every command ) all wish to secure the dead woman's land and bay for there's quite possibly a very lucrative tourist future in the area ...
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Santa Sangre
A young man escapes an insane asylum and " meets up " with his arm-less mother . As a young boy , Fenix ( Axel Jodorowsky ) was a performing magician for a circus where his father was a portly knife-thrower and his mom did acrobatics while dangling by her hair way in the air . His mother , Concha ( Blanc Guerra ) , is ...
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Suspiria
American New Yorker Suzy Bannion ( Jessica Harper ) finds that the prestigious European ballet school she is attending could very well be operated by practicing witches ! It seems certain females who might've gotten a bit too close to the truth of where the teachers were meeting inside the school at night , meet grisly...
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Healter Skelter
Stunning , matter-of-fact television film runs around three hours but holds it's grip the entire time . Steve Railsback is absolutely mesmerizing ( . . and terrifying ) as Charles Manson , the cult leader claiming to be Jesus Christ and commanding his followers ( four of them mainly ) to murder rich " pigs " in Califor...
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Revenge of Frankenstein
This is the 1958 sequel to the wonderful first film , Curse of Frankenstein . It stars Cushing as the Baron , saved from certain head-chopping thanks to a badly paralyzed Karl who is promised a brand new host body with his brain being transplanted into it . Assisting Baron is Dr . Kleve , but the experiment hits a snag...
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The Invisible Man
One could say that Claude Rains ' invisible man is just as much the Universal Studios monster as any of the rest of them for his madness is so unhinged and wacky he even turns over a woman's baby carriage in a nearby village during quite a temperamental outburst . Claude Rains stars as a scientist who invents this form...
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Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Chilling masterpiece from Bryan Forbes about a supposed medium , Myra , whose hold on her husband Bill is so tightly gripped he's willing to kidnap a wealthy man's child to prove her gift legit . It's quite evident Myra is deeply wounded and a bit off-her-rocker , but Bill's love for her is so entrenched he'll sacrific...
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The Wages of Fear
Incredibly underrated and very intense re-imagining of " Wages of Fear " has four men , forced from their respected countries having fled to this Latin American village due to criminal activities , who wish to seek enough monetary gain to get out of the hellish poverty-stricken wasteland they inhabit . In order to see ...
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Mania
Shocking , surprisingly potent horror feature about the possible downfall of Edinburgh anatomy professor Dr . Robert Knox ( Peter Cushing with one eyelid collapsing ) who illegally accepts murdered bodies from supposed graverobbers Hare & Burke ( Donald Pleasence and George Rose ) . Burke and Hare's scheming of killing...
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The Changeling
Superb ghost story starring George C Scott as a recently widowed pianist who moves to Seattle in an old mansion . That mansion is haunted by the restless spirit of a male child who will not stop until Scott seeks out the truth regarding his demise . The truths Scott finds along the way are quite stunning . Trish Van De...
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The Haunted Palace
Warlock Joseph Curwen ( Vincent Price ) is burned alive by the worrisome folk amongst the village of Arkham as they catch him in the middle of his almost giving a hypnotized innocent girl over to his monster summoned by the Necronomicon . If Curwen finishes this process , the monster gods from the " other world " will ...
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Roman
Roman ( Lucky McKee ) is a welder who lives a pretty monotonous existence while he obsesses after work over a young , beautiful woman ( Kristen Bell , her name is never mentioned , but Roman calls her Isis ) who walks nearby his apartment everyday . He fantasizes about her and can not stop thinking about this woman . A...
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Hatchet for the Honeymoon
A handsome sociopath named John Harrington ( Stephen Forsyth , perfectly cast ) , stuck in a bad marriage with a wife who holds her fortune over his head like a badge of honor , enjoys murdering females before they wed . Taking place in Paris , John has a breeding ground to work from since marriages occur frequently th...
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The Vanishing Point
You know I can not really answer the question that is posed to cross-country car deliverer , Kowalski ( Barry Newman ) towards the end of the film by a man he made a daring , ridiculous bet with stating he could take a car from Colorado to California in 15 hours , but there's no doubt in my mind , he knew the answer as...
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Marat / Sade
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade . The title pretty much sums up this powerfully visualized " play " , set in 1808 , during France's supposed success rate at educating the insane . This play by de Sade ...
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Witness
John Book ( Harrison Ford in perhaps his best film as an actor ) discovers through the eye-witness of a young Amish boy , Samuel ( Lukas Haas ) , that cops have murdered one of their own because said slain had uncovered a drug ring taking place with confiscated materials used to create speed . Unfortunate for John , he...
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Death has no Master
Death himself , cloaked in red , delivers a plague to a village under the rule of the cruel , corrupt Prince Prospero ( Vincent Price , in one of his finest roles ) . Prospero is offended by two villagers who ridicule the way he treats their people and decides to imprison them keeping them in a dungeon alive temporaril...
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Pit and Pendulum
A nobleman from England , Francis ( John Kerr ) comes to an old castle once occupied by a torturer of the Spanish Inquisition , now lived in by his son Nicholas ( Vincent Price ) . Francis is at the castle to find out about how his sister , Elizabeth ( Barbara Steele ) died and to visit her final resting place . It see...
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Blood Simple
Abby ( Frances McDormand , so beautiful and young ) decides to have a torrid affair with Ray ( John Getz ) , her husband's employee . She is just plain tired of her husband , Marty ( Dan Hedaya ) who runs a beer joint in Texas and is a little nutty . Loren Visser ( M Emmet Walsh's finest hour ) is a slimy PI who takes ...
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The Brother from Another Planet
A black skinned alien , who doesn't utter a single word yet understands what others are saying , crashlands in Harlem . He meets various people , such as some quirky , interesting black characters in a bar setting who would befriend him even though he doesn't say anything to them . He often sits or looks on as people j...
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The Unknown
Alonzo , the " Armless " ( the master of expressionistic cinema , Lon Chaney ) is in love with assistant Nanon ( the alluring Joan Crawford ) . Nanon grows tired to the brink of psychological woe because of men's desires to grope her with their hands . Malabar , the Mighty ( Norman Kerry ) , a Strongman who works for A...
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Deep Red
A vicious stabbing silhouetted on a wall , the bloody butcher knife thrown to the floor , an unsettling children's tune chanting away on a record player , and a pair of children's legs walking onto the scene of the crime . . Argento masterly introduces us to the central event where all the other events that come after ...
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Creature from the Black Laggon
The finding of a large amphibious hand leads a research team in a quest to find any form of fossil of past life . . perhaps extra remains to back up the hand . What they do not expect is a living , breathing gillman who will kill anyone who threatens or draws near his habitat . In a fascinating developing angle , the g...
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The Devils
Nicole and Christina believe they have committed the perfect murder of a lover and husband who was anything but the tenderhearted , most loving person in the world . That man is Michel , a principal of a male boarding school his wife Christina paid for with her wealth . Michel holds everyone at bay because he has this ...
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Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Lucio Fulci's " Schizoid " pulls you in so many directions you know you are watch a filmmaker at his finest point of his career . While I feel other later films were shoddily plotted and illogically unbalanced , this film is right on the mark in every moment . It takes a unique premise using dream logic , the mind's su...
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Malpertuis
A sailor stops by his old town , realizes his family's home had been removed , attempts to find his sister , gets stuck in a bar fight over a dance hall girl , gets hit across the skull knocking him unconscious , awakening in the home of his bedridden uncle , Cassavius ( Orson Welles ) . The sailor is Jan , portrayed b...
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Sleepless
I feel " Sleepless " is a fine example of how to make a giallo and make it right . The red herrings , the reasons behind why and how the killer works , the violence which is jarring and graphic , the strength of having a legend , Max Von Sydow , as the central sleuth detecting , and the great finale which is actually q...
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The Blair Witch Project
We are going to die out here . Hard to believe it's been practically a decade since " The Blair Witch Project " was all the buzz , revolting some with how it would not give in allowing us to see what is terrorizing these three unfortunate would-be documentarian filmmakers , causing some audience-goers to almost up-ch...
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Targets
Byron Orlok ( Boris Karloff , essentially playing himself , but wonderful to watch in every moment he's on screen . . WHAT A VOICE THAT MAN HAD ) wishes to retire from making movies after seeing a screening of a Gothic horror he made called " The Terror " ( . . a Roger Corman quickie ) that made him quite depressed . H...
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Gabba Gabba Hey
Fascist principal Miss Togar ( Mary Woronov , who is lensed by expert photographer Dean Cundy as if she were ten feet tall ) has a plan to turn her high completely square . Complications ensue which challenge that goal in delightful rock'n'roller Riff Randell ( PJ Soles who lights up the screen - - she's got a hot bod ...
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The Three Faces of Fear
Trio of macabre terror tales from Italian Horror Master Mario Bava , with the great Boris Karloff opening and closing the anthology . This is a minor review for the newly restored Italian Language version , The Three Faces of Fear . In " The Telephone " , an evil voice across the phone terrorizes a beautiful young woma...
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If " No Moose Is a Good Moose " is a typical " Laurel and Hardy " cartoon episode , then I'm not sure I want to see any more
Just discovered this , the fifth episode of Hanna-Barbera's " Laurel and Hardy " s cartoon series , on the Saturday Morning Blog as linked from YouTube . Both comedians were dead by then so Hardy is voiced by Jim MacGeorge and Laurel is voiced by the owner of their likeness-Larry Harmon . In this one , they are hunting...
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Plane Dumb features the worst in racial stereotyping
While credited as a Tom and Jerry cartoon , this is not the cat-and-mouse team but an earlier Mutt-and-Jeff rip-off featuring them going to Africa and disguising themselves in the stereotypical burnt cork makeup to try to blend in . While the dialect humor is mostly lame , there is a brief musical sequence involving " ...
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Easy Virture is one of Alfred Hitchcock's very lesser works
Don't expect typical Hitchcock touches in this early silent of his called Easy Virture since this isn't even a suspense film but more of a melodrama about a divorced woman who can't escape her past , a past in which her then-husband discovered her painter's infatuation with her , which he mistakes for an affair , and g...
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This " Milton the Monster " cartoon entry was enough for my curiosity . . .
Being a frequent seeker on the Saturday Morning Blog , I discovered this ' 60s television cartoon series there in their Halloween sites . The episode shown was called " The Hearse Thief " which concerns Prof . Weirdo and Count Kook's searching for the one who stole their funeral car . Milton is the chief suspect since ...
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This version of " Buck Rogers " is one of the most amateurish things I've ever seen
This early film version of the comic strip " Buck Rogers in the 25th Century " which was drawn by Dick Calkins ( who appears as himself in the beginning at the drawing board ) and published by the John F . Dille company , is a very amateurish 10-minute short with stilted writing , monotonous acting , and laughable spec...
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Open the Door Richard was a complete waste of time for me
In a sketch performed in front of a nightclub audience that provides scattered laughs throughout , a drunk in top hat gets thrown out by a bar proprietor along with a ladder the drunk brought in . He constantly tries to get his roommate Richard to open the door to no avail . He also climbs the nearly closed ladder for ...
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Santa's Enchanted Village is another of K . Gordon Murray's piece of . . . well read below
Like Santa's Magic Kingdom that I reviewed last year , this was another ineptly made children's holiday short produced by schlockmeister K . Gordon Murray and filmed on location at a Santa's Village in California and Illinois . For one thing , the narrator claims that to make Santa feel at home , each of the village ma...
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Santa's Magic Kingtom is awful but mercifully short
Through some links at Cartoon Brew , I discovered the name K . Gordon Murray who was known for some of the schlockiest films of the ' 60s and early ' 70s . Santa's Magic Kingdom was the first of these I found on YouTube . It basically takes place in Santa's Village in the summer in either the Midwestern or southern Cal...
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All Amateur Ecstasy was a pretty lame short I found on atom . com
Just watched this very brief short on atom . com . Three women in separate rooms all seem to be reaching orgasm . There are constant cuts between all three of them . In addition , a man is watching one of them ( the woman is at work so the man is supposedly her boss ) . And then . . . they all sneeze ! The end . I supp...