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The White Reindeer (1952)
If you watch The White Reindeer (1952) like I'm going to encourage you to do, try to find a better copy than the one on YouTube. It's...

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Oct 5, 20173 min read
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Review: The Phantom Carriage (1925)
With its story within a story within a story, The Phantom Carriage strikes me as being ambitious for a 1921 silent film. Not only that,...

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Oct 4, 20174 min read
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Lake of the Dead (1958)
Lake of the Dead (1958) is soaked in atmosphere, but I found its story to be a little dry. With a 7.3 rating on IMDb and the fact that...

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Oct 3, 20172 min read
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Review: Haxan (1922)
Usually a stickler for watching movies as they were originally presented, I nevertheless enjoyed the 1968 re-release version of Haxan:...

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Oct 2, 20173 min read
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Rituals (1977)
Rituals (1977) is a refreshing pre-slasher horror film because its victims are not horny teenagers or scantily-clad women. They're...

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Oct 1, 20173 min read
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Arrow Video Blu-ray Release: Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
Prior to watching Don't Torture a Duckling (1972), I was familiar with Lucio Fulci only through a handful of the more horrific films he...

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Sep 26, 20175 min read
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Arrow Video Blu-ray Release: The Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975)
The Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975) is an odd film to categorize, if, like me, you’re compelled to do that kind of thing. IMDb lists...

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Sep 26, 20173 min read
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Dementia 13 (1963)
Francis Ford Coppola was working in the sound department for a 1963 movie called The Young Racers when producer Roger Corman found...

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Sep 25, 20173 min read
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Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)
Five years after the release of Frogs, the "Nature Gone Wild" or "Eco-Horror" film subgenre was still going strong. Post-Jaws, there was...

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Aug 24, 20173 min read
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Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn (1936)
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn opens how I imagine the play on which it is based would open. However, I’ve never seen a play...

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Aug 18, 20172 min read
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Westworld (1973)
Twenty years before Steven Spielberg directed Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park, Crichton himself directed another movie about an...

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Aug 17, 20174 min read
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Review: The Penalty (1920)
What turns a young man into a criminal? How about having both his legs amputated above the knee, then overhearing his doctors say they...

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Aug 3, 20173 min read
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Mini-Review: Frankenstein 1970 (1958)
Victor Frankenstein (Boris Karloff), the great-great grandson of the original Frankenstein, rents his castle in Germany to a television...

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Jul 20, 20171 min read
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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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Recreating the Night of the Living Dead Cemetery Scene
During our recent trip to Monster Bash, we took an excursion to the Evans City Cemetery where the opening scene from Night of the Living...

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Jul 3, 20171 min read
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The Omen (1976)
One of my biggest disappointments rewatching movies from the 1970s has been the realization that I don't really like The Omen as much as...

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Jun 25, 20173 min read
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Willard (1971)
Note: Willard and its sequel, Ben, were the subjects of the sixth episode of The Classic Horrors Podcast. Click here to listen. . We...

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Jun 18, 20174 min read
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This Island Earth (1955)
In recent years, a creature from a space adventure has been added to the membership roster of the Universal Monsters. It is the Metaluna...

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Jun 10, 20173 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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