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Classic Horrors Club
Jul 14, 20171 min read
Mini-Review: The Clairvoyant (1935)
Faux mind-reader Maximus (Claude Rains) discovers he can really see the future whenever love Christine (Jane Baxter) is in close...
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Classic Horrors Club
Jul 11, 20171 min read
Mini-Review: Mad Love (1935)
Mad Love is one of several adaptations of Maurice Renard's story, The Hands of Orlac, and was Peter Lorre's first American film. He plays...
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Classic Horrors Club
Jun 8, 20173 min read
Universal Monsters: The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)
This movie should really be called "An" Invisible Man's Revenge, not "The" Invisible Man's Revenge. I know, it's just semantics, but the...
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Classic Horrors Club
Jun 4, 20173 min read
Mummy Week, Day 1: The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
Although it spends the first 11 minutes using flashbacks to recap its inferior predecessor, The Mummy's Hand, the next 49 minutes of The...
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Classic Horrors Club
May 17, 20171 min read
Mini-Review: The Body Snatcher (1945)
IMDb Synopsis. A ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal...
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Classic Horrors Club
May 16, 20172 min read
Universal Monsters: She-Wolf of London (1946)
When I wrote about Werewolf of London, I mentioned pictures of Henry Hull in full makeup that appeared in monster magazines and books...
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Classic Horrors Club
May 1, 20171 min read
Mini-Review: Night Key (1937)
Night Key is in no way, shape or form a horror movie, although it was included in the Shock Theater package of syndicated films and stars...
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Classic Horrors Club
Apr 29, 20171 min read
Mini-Review: I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Betsy Connell (Frances Dee) travels to the Caribbean island of Saint Sebastian to play nurse to Jessica Holland (Christine Gordon), who...
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Classic Horrors Club
Mar 30, 20171 min read
Mini-Review: Murders in the Zoo (1933)
IMDb Synopsis. A monomaniacal zoologist is pathologically jealous of his beautiful but unfaithful wife Evelyn and will not stop short of...
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Classic Horrors Club
Feb 8, 20171 min read
Mini-Review: The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)
IMDb Synopsis. In a turn-of-the-century Renaissance Italian mansion, its tyrannical owner, a one-handed, wheelchair-bound pianist, with...
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Classic Horrors Club
Jan 12, 20172 min read
Universal Monsters: The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
The Universal sequel The Invisible Man Returns (1940) was made seven years after The Invisible Man, but takes place nine years after the...
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Classic Horrors Club
Dec 31, 20162 min read
Universal Monsters: The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
Although they’re not great, the movies in the Universal Monsters mummy series at least had a consistent recipe. Beginning with The...
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Classic Horrors Club
Dec 27, 20162 min read
Universal Monsters: The Invisible Woman (1940)
With the exception of the "Abbott & Costello Meet…” movies, I never really expected other comedies to be part of a Universal Classic...
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Classic Horrors Club
Dec 22, 20162 min read
Universal Monsters: The Mummy's Curse (1944)
The Mummy’s Curse (1944) strays ever so slightly from the recipe established in the previous four Universal Monsters mummy movies, but...
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Classic Horrors Club
Dec 22, 20162 min read
Universal Monsters: The Mummy (1932)
Of all the wonderful elements in Universal’s The Mummy (1932), there’s one that’s largely absent: a mummy. The cloth-wrapped version of...
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Classic Horrors Club
Nov 13, 20163 min read
Universal Monsters: The Invisible Man (1933)
Although I often feel like other people don’t see me, particularly when I’m driving, I wonder what it would feel like to be truly...
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Classic Horrors Club
Nov 5, 20162 min read
Universal Monsters: Son of Dracula (1943)
If there’s anything worse than Lon Chaney Jr. as Frankenstein’s monster, it’s Lon Chaney Jr. as Dracula. With his pencil mustache and...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 15, 20164 min read
Early Hammer: Phantom Ship aka The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (1935)
On December 5, 1872, an American merchant ship named "Mary Celeste" was discovered adrift and deserted in the Atlantic Ocean, off the...
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Classic Horrors Club
Sep 26, 20162 min read
Review: Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)
Some of today’s non-superhero comic book movies could learn a lesson from Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome, a movie made almost 70 years ago. ...
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Classic Horrors Club
Sep 20, 20162 min read
Criterion Collection Blu-ray Release: Cat People (1942)
For the first time on Blu-ray, the movie known for its look, looks the best it ever has. We’d expect nothing less from the Criterion...
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