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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 4, 20173 min read
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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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 4, 20174 min read
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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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 2, 20172 min read
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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Classic Horrors Club
Oct 2, 20173 min read
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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Classic Horrors Club
Sep 30, 20173 min read
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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Classic Horrors Club
Sep 26, 20175 min read
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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Classic Horrors Club
Sep 26, 20173 min read
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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Classic Horrors Club
Sep 24, 20173 min read
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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Classic Horrors Club
Aug 23, 20173 min read
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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Classic Horrors Club
Aug 17, 20172 min read
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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Classic Horrors Club
Aug 16, 20174 min read
Westworld (1973)
Twenty years before Steven Spielberg directed Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park, Crichton himself directed another movie about an...
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Classic Horrors Club
Aug 3, 20173 min read
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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Classic Horrors Club
Jul 19, 20171 min read
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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Classic Horrors Club
Jul 14, 20171 min read
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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Classic Horrors Club
Jul 11, 20171 min read
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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Classic Horrors Club
Jul 3, 20171 min read
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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Classic Horrors Club
Jun 24, 20173 min read
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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Classic Horrors Club
Jun 17, 20174 min read
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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Classic Horrors Club
Jun 9, 20173 min read
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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Classic Horrors Club
Jun 8, 20173 min read
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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