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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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Jul 15, 20171 min read
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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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Jul 12, 20171 min read
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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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Jun 9, 20173 min read
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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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Jun 5, 20173 min read
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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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May 17, 20171 min read
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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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May 17, 20172 min read
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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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May 2, 20171 min read
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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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Apr 30, 20171 min read
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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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Mar 31, 20171 min read
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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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Feb 8, 20171 min read
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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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Jan 12, 20172 min read
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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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Dec 31, 20162 min read
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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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Dec 27, 20162 min read
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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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Dec 22, 20162 min read
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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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Dec 22, 20162 min read
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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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Nov 13, 20163 min read
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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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Nov 5, 20162 min read
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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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Oct 15, 20164 min read
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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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Sep 26, 20162 min read
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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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Sep 20, 20162 min read
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