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Night of the Big Heat (1967)
Note: After today's review, Classic Horrors is taking a late summer vacation during the month of September while classichorrors.club gets...

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Aug 28, 20232 min read
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
Quake Threat Worsens It’s Never Been So Hot Cyclone Horror No, these aren’t actual headlines from this week’s newspapers, although they...

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Aug 14, 20232 min read
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The Curse of the Crying Woman (1961) aka La maldición de la Llorona
Released in 1963, two years after production was completed, The Curse of the Crying Woman, is the fourth Mexican horror film dealing with...

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Jul 31, 20233 min read
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The Witch's Mirror (1962) aka El espejo de la bruja
In my review of Black Pit of Dr. M (1959), I wrote about a characteristic that seemed common among the Mexican horror films I’d seen so...

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Jul 24, 20233 min read
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The Brainiac (1962) aka El baron del terror
In the wonderful and fact-filled book that comes with Indicator’s Mexico Macabre box set, Jose Luis Ortega Torres says about The...

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Jul 17, 20233 min read
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The Seventh Grave (1965)
You must pay attention when you’re reading subtitles in a foreign film. When an inexplicably curious guest at Sir Reginald Thorne’s...

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May 8, 20232 min read
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The Monster of the Opera (1964)
The Monster of the Opera (1964), aka The Vampire of the Opera, has been on my watch list for quite some time, but I’m not sure how I...

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May 1, 20232 min read
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The Mad Room (1969)
Before watching The Mad Room (1969), I knew it was based on a play called, Ladies in Retirement; however, I didn’t realize until later...

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Mar 27, 20232 min read
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Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
There’s something about mid-century British films that make them distinctively British. While it’s hard to describe, you can recognize...

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Jan 9, 20233 min read
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The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (1967)
If nothing else, The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (1967) is beautiful to watch. It’s the only color, full-length feature film included...

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Dec 19, 20223 min read
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Crypt of the Vampire (1964)
When I first watched Crypt of the Vampire (1964), it was to include it in an article about film adaptations of Sheridan Le Fanu’s novel,...

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Dec 15, 20223 min read
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The Castle of the Living Dead (1964)
There are a number of interesting things about The Castle of the Living Dead (1964), but they didn't add up to a pleasurable experience...

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Dec 12, 20222 min read
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Secret of the Red Orchid (1962)
Secret of the Red Orchid (1962) is one of the least twisted adaptations of an Edgar Wallace novel that I’ve seen. It’s a straight-forward...

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Dec 8, 20222 min read
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Bloody Pit of Horror (1965)
As “racy” as it is for 1965, I can’t help but think Bloody Pit of Horror would have been more effective had it been made a few years...

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Nov 21, 20223 min read
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Picture Mommy Dead (1966)
From the time I was a very young kid I didn’t want to do anything but make movies the rest of my life. Bert I. Gordon With Picture Mommy...

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Oct 31, 20223 min read
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Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1966)
Unfortunately, "Hillbillys in a Haunted House" was Rathbone’s last film -- a sad epitaph for one of the world’s greatest actors. Marcia...

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Oct 29, 20222 min read
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Mr. Sardonicus (1961)
When my master says, "Krull, do this thing," I do the thing, whatever it may be. Krull (Oskar Homolka) Director William Castle emerges...

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Oct 27, 20222 min read
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The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959)
Since you know that I'm dead, I suppose you know that you can't kill me. Dr. Emil Zurich (Henry Daniell) There may be a fair number of...

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Oct 7, 20222 min read
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Master of the World (1961)
What you did was an act of pure barbarism, and were it not for the love I bear my daughter, and for the respect and esteem in which I...

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Oct 5, 20223 min read
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Night Tide (1961)
Curtis Harrington (1926-2007) "I was now reaching the age where the idea of sex began to go beyond the theoretical into the actual, and I...

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Jun 13, 20223 min read
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