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Classic Horrors Club
Apr 25, 20222 min read
Eye of the Devil (1966)
Eye of the Devil (1966) fits into that odd and wonderful era of 1960s British genre films that gave us Village of the Damned, Day of the...
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Classic Horrors Club
Apr 18, 20222 min read
Eye of the Cat (1969)
David Lowell Rich should be a familiar name to those who join us on Fridays for TV Terror Guide. Beginning his career in the 1950s, he...
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Classic Horrors Club
Feb 28, 20223 min read
Mill of the Stone Women (1960)
Although I can find no evidence of this, I remember a horrible VHS cover box for Mill of the Stone Woman (1960.) It was light brown with...
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Classic Horrors Club
Jan 3, 20222 min read
Horror Castle (1963)
With its plot happening within the span of a couple days, much of Horror Castle, aka The Virgin of Nuremberg (1963), plays like one of...
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Classic Horrors Club
Dec 27, 20213 min read
Challenge the Devil (1963)
The second film Christopher Lee made during his three months in Italy beginning In May of 1963 was originally titled, Faust ’63. Written...
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Classic Horrors Club
Dec 20, 20214 min read
The Whip & the Body (1963)
In an instance of the age-old style vs substance argument, I find myself struggling with my thoughts about The Whip & the Body (1963.)...
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Classic Horrors Club
Dec 6, 20213 min read
Sherlock Holmes & the Deadly Necklace (1962)
One thing I am not is a Sherlock Holmes aficionado. A couple friends who are, and who have read the books and seen the movies, tell me...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 16, 20213 min read
Snow Devils (1967)
Here we go again. I guess after four movies in the “Gamma 1” series, it’s time to admit that any continuity is spotty at best, regardless...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 15, 20213 min read
War Between the Planets (1966)
Well, I couldn’t have been any more wrong about what I thought the next movie in the “Gamma 1 Quadrilogy” was going to be, at least as...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 14, 20213 min read
War of the Planets (1966)
Wow, talk about being disappointed. After my surprise affection for The Wild, Wild Planet, my expectations for the second film in the...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 13, 20213 min read
The Wild, Wild Planet (1966)
There’s a lot to love about The Wild, Wild Planet (1966), and I love a lot about it. From the opening shot of a futuristic city with...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 8, 20212 min read
I Saw What You Did (1965)
Great idea; poor execution. What could go wrong with a film about teenagers making prank phone calls and accidentally telling an actual...
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Classic Horrors Club
Sep 27, 20212 min read
Let's Kill Uncle (1966)
Until Uncle Kevin (Nigel Green) arrives at 32 minutes into Let’s Kill Uncle (1966), I was having an excruciatingly hard time getting into...
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Classic Horrors Club
Sep 13, 20212 min read
She Freak (1967)
What you ultimately think of She Freak (1967) may depend upon how much patience you have waiting for a money shot that will come as no...
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Classic Horrors Club
Aug 9, 20212 min read
Castle of the Creeping Flesh (1968)
Not all blind buys result in the revelation of unknown cinema treasures, but I’ve had a run of good luck during recent years. That is,...
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Classic Horrors Club
May 31, 20213 min read
Gamera vs. Guiron (1969)
What secrets are hidden in these countless stars? Apparently, a planet that is in trouble. Terra sits in space opposite Earth. (Since...
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Classic Horrors Club
May 24, 20213 min read
Gamera vs. Viras (1968)
If you find it strange, like I did, that the two boys who lead Gamera into full-fledged children’s movie territory with Gamera vs. Viras...
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Classic Horrors Club
May 17, 20213 min read
Gamera vs. Gyaos (1967)
One of the cost-cutting measures Daiei implemented in the third Gamera film, Gamera vs. Gyaos (1967), was giving Noriaki Yuasa double...
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Classic Horrors Club
May 10, 20214 min read
Gamera vs. Barugon (1966)
Following the surprise box office success of Gamera: The Giant Monster, Daiei Studios put more money, but not more time, into producing a...
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Classic Horrors Club
May 3, 20215 min read
Gamera: The Giant Monster (1965)
Welcome to the five-week series I’m calling, “GaMAYra.” I have to start by saying that I’ve never (until now) seen a Gamera movie (that I...
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