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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 25, 20172 min read
Review: A Page of Madness (1926)
How Wikipedia can offer two complete paragraphs describing the plot for A Page of Madness (1926), I’ll never know. I don’t usually like...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 23, 20172 min read
Night of Fear (1972)
If you’re designing a room for a haunted house, you might want to get some ideas from Night of Fear (1972), an Australian horror film...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 22, 20172 min read
Yongary, Monster from the Deep (1967)
Yongary, Monster of the Deep (1967) is South Korea's entry into the daikaiju (large strange beast) subgenre during the time when Japan...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 21, 20173 min read
Mahal (1949)
I once watched a three-hour and twenty-minute Bollywood movie about cricket (Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India, 2001). Against all...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 20, 20173 min read
Brides of Blood (1968)
The poster for Brides of Blood (1968) promises a lot of sensational things and, in a rare case of truth in advertising, the movie...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 19, 20173 min read
The Awful Dr. Orloff (1962)
The history of The Awful Dr. Orloff (1962) is a little confusing to me without conducting more in-depth research into it. I understand...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 18, 20173 min read
Inquisition (1978)
Thanks to Jon Kitley, Rod Barnett, and the general excitement in the air surrounding "the year of Naschy," I started giving the films of...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 17, 20173 min read
Tombs of the Blind Dead (1971)
In The Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972), it’s not what the Knights Templar do when they’re dead that’s so horrific; it’s what they do when...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 17, 20173 min read
Criterion Collection Blu-ray Release: Vampyr (1932)
Reflecting on an article I wrote some time ago about film adaptations of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's novella, "Carmilla" (which is part of...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 16, 20173 min read
Don't Deliver Us from Evil (1971)
Watching a lot of horror films, there have been times when they cease to shock me. Don’t get me wrong; I’m never completely desensitized...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 16, 20173 min read
Review: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
This time I know what version of a silent film I watched; however, I don’t believe it’s an “official” one. I found The Fall of the House...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 13, 20173 min read
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) is not a horror movie; however, since it was directed by Fritz Lang (Destiny, Metropolis, M) and...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 13, 20173 min read
Review: The Student of Prague (1913)
When watching silent movies, I don't know that you can ever see one in an environment that replicates its original presentation. The...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 11, 20173 min read
Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971)
As much gialli as I've watched lately (Don't Torture a Duckling, The Suspicious Death of a Minor, The Girl Who Knew Too Much, and The...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 10, 20173 min read
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
Once again, I'm not sure exactly which version of a foreign movie I just watched. I'm guessing that the dubbed DVD of The Bird with the...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 10, 20175 min read
Arrow Video Blu-ray Release: Blood Feast (1963)
In a 1987 archival interview with Herschell Gordon Lewis on Arrow Video's latest release of Blood Feast, the "Godfather of Gore" defines...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 9, 20173 min read
Castle of Blood (1964)
With foreign films, you often have to specify which version you're watching. For Castle of Blood (1964), originally known in Italian as...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 8, 20174 min read
The Girl Who Knew Too Much aka Evil Eye (1963)
How significant should we consider Mario Bava's The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963) to be? It is the first and the last of something in...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 6, 20173 min read
Seytan (1974)
Today's movie takes us into a bizarre subgenre called "Turksploitation." Wikipedia defines turksploitation as "a tongue-in-cheek label...
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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 5, 20173 min read
Viy (1967)
"Viy is a colossal creation of the imagination of simple folk. The tale itself is a purely popular legend. And I tell it without...
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