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Classic Horrors Club
Dec 24, 20193 min read
Holiday Horrors: Christmas Evil (1980)
While it's hard to imagine Christmas Evil (aka You Better Watch Out) being made without the success of Halloween (1978), it was...
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Classic Horrors Club
Dec 13, 20195 min read
Remake Rewind: Friday the 13th
In an unapologetic attempt to capitalize on the success of John Carpenter's Halloween a year and a half earlier, Paramount Pictures...
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Classic Horrors Club
Dec 2, 20191 min read
The Classic Horrors Club Podcast EP 38: A Happy Hagsploitation Holiday
If you love the holidays because you get to spend time with your grandmother, you're going to love this month's episode! Of course, if...
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Classic Horrors Club
Nov 4, 20191 min read
The Classic Horrors Club Podcast EP 37: Doctor Who?
Richard selflessly (and patiently) gives Jeff a formal introduction to Doctor Who by way of the two movies that really aren't part of...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 31, 20193 min read
Countdown to Halloween: "#" is for 4D Man (1959)
The fundamental requirement for enjoying an atomic age horror/sci-fi film is suspension of disbelief. It’s not usually difficult for me...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 30, 20193 min read
Countdown to Halloween: "Z" is for Z.P.G. (1972)
Who’s heard of the movie, Z.P.G. (1972)? I never had until I gazed upon the groovy cover art on the Kino Lorber Blu-ray release, read a...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 29, 20192 min read
Countdown to Halloween: "Y" is for You'll Like My Mother (1972)
For all intents and purposes, You'll Like My Mother (1972) is an early 70s television movie of the week thriller… except that it's not...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 29, 20191 min read
Tagline Tuesday #8
Guess the movie which used this tagline in its marketing campaign.. Please send your answers to classichorrors.club@gmail.com so everyone...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 28, 20194 min read
Countdown to Halloween: "X" is for The X from Outer Space (1967)
Since I take every chance I can to defend the appearance of the bird that's as big as a battleship in The Giant Claw (1957), it would be...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 26, 20193 min read
Countdown to Halloween: "W" is for The Wasp Woman (1959)
At 63 minutes, the theatrical version of The Wasp Woman (1959) is perfectly efficient with its storytelling, and that story is perfectly...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 25, 20193 min read
Countdown to Halloween: "V" is for The Vampire & the Ballerina (1960)
The way that The Vampire & the Ballerina (1960) begins, you’d think we were going to experience a standard vampire tale. Brigida, a...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 25, 20193 min read
TV Terror Guide 10-25-19: Kolchak the Night Stalker (The Devil's Platform)
Air Date: Nov. 15, 1974 Written by: Donn Mullally (teleplay), Tim Maschler (story) Directed by: Allen Baron . Monster of the Week: Evil...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 24, 20193 min read
Countdown to Halloween: "U" is for The Uncanny (1977)
Although one of its producers is Milton Subotsky, it’s not an Amicus Production. Nevertheless, The Uncanny (1977) would fit nicely among...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 23, 20193 min read
Countdown to Halloween: "T" is for Teenage Zombies (1959)
There’s no reason I should have any fondness for Teenage Zombies (1959), a movie that, perhaps not surprisingly, does not feature any...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 22, 20191 min read
Tagline Tuesday #7
Guess the movie which used this tagline in its marketing campaign.. Please send your answers to classichorrors.club@gmail.com so everyone...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 22, 20193 min read
Countdown to Halloween: "S" is for The Strangler (1964)
Supposedly based on the real-life Boston Strangler, The Strangler (1964) wants us to take it seriously. It opens with some words that...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 21, 20193 min read
Countdown to Halloween: "R" is for The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy (1958)
A large part of The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy (1958), I’m guessing about two-thirds of it, is told in flashback, which makes sense...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 19, 20193 min read
Countdown to Halloween: "Q" is for Queen of Blood (1966)
The final third of Queen of Blood (1966) is a great little film; however, the first two-thirds is a hot mess. You can easily find trivia...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 18, 20193 min read
Countdown to Halloween: "P" is for The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
Here’s one justification for not rushing to consume every movie in a particular genre, from a particular studio, or from a particular...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 18, 20194 min read
TV Terror Guide 10-18-19: Kolchak the Night Stalker (Firefall)
Air Date: Nov. 8, 1974 Written by: Bill S. Ballinger Directed by: Don Weis . Monster of the Week: Doppelganger . Kolchak is supposed to...
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