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Classic Horrors Club
Jun 8, 20174 min read
Mummy Week, Day 5: Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971)
Hammer's cycle of mummy movies provides evidence of the evolution of the studio, as well as film making styles in general. The Mummy...
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Classic Horrors Club
Jun 7, 20174 min read
Mummy Week, Day 4: The Mummy's Shroud (1967)
Although it sounds an awful lot like Peter Cushing to me, the uncredited narrator at the beginning of The Mummy's Shroud (1967) is...
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Classic Horrors Club
Jun 6, 20175 min read
Mummy Week, Day 3: Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964)
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964) blends the basic premise of most mummy movies with elements from other horror films, as well as...
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Classic Horrors Club
Jun 5, 20175 min read
Mummy Week, Day 2: The Mummy (1959)
Hammer's 1959 version of The Mummy is not a remake of Universal's 1932 classic; instead, it uses some of the best components from the...
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Classic Horrors Club
Jun 4, 20173 min read
Mummy Week, Day 1: The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
Although it spends the first 11 minutes using flashbacks to recap its inferior predecessor, The Mummy's Hand, the next 49 minutes of The...
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Classic Horrors Club
May 19, 20175 min read
Reviews: It's Alive (1974) & It Lives Again (1978)
Of all the 70s movies I've re-watched recently, I think the one that maintains the best feel of the decade is It's Alive. Perhaps it's...
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Classic Horrors Club
May 17, 20174 min read
Reviews: The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) & Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1973)
Like Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, I don’t remember the first time I saw The Abominable Dr. Phibes. I do, however, remember the...
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Classic Horrors Club
May 17, 20171 min read
Mini-Review: The Body Snatcher (1945)
IMDb Synopsis. A ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal...
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Classic Horrors Club
May 16, 20172 min read
Universal Monsters: She-Wolf of London (1946)
When I wrote about Werewolf of London, I mentioned pictures of Henry Hull in full makeup that appeared in monster magazines and books...
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Classic Horrors Club
May 1, 20171 min read
Mini-Review: Night Key (1937)
Night Key is in no way, shape or form a horror movie, although it was included in the Shock Theater package of syndicated films and stars...
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Classic Horrors Club
Apr 29, 20171 min read
Mini-Review: I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Betsy Connell (Frances Dee) travels to the Caribbean island of Saint Sebastian to play nurse to Jessica Holland (Christine Gordon), who...
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Classic Horrors Club
Apr 25, 20174 min read
Review: Caltiki, the Immortal Monster (1959)
Unaware of any historical significance of, or widespread critical opinion about, Caltiki, The Immortal Monster, I must say I really...
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Classic Horrors Club
Apr 25, 20173 min read
Universal Monsters: The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)
For what I would consider to be the final Universal Monsters movie, The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) seems fairly ambitious. It’s not...
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Classic Horrors Club
Apr 11, 20174 min read
Review: Panic in Year Zero (1962)
Try as I might, I have a hard time enjoying Panic in Year Zero! Watching it again recently, my mind acknowledges what it's trying to...
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Classic Horrors Club
Mar 30, 20171 min read
Mini-Review: Murders in the Zoo (1933)
IMDb Synopsis. A monomaniacal zoologist is pathologically jealous of his beautiful but unfaithful wife Evelyn and will not stop short of...
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Classic Horrors Club
Mar 28, 20172 min read
Universal Monsters: Revenge of the Creature (1955)
Unless there were two of them, the Gill-man survived being shot at the end of Creature from the Black Lagoon and returned for a sequel a...
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Classic Horrors Club
Mar 26, 20175 min read
Review: Sisters (1972)
When I was a child, there were no video stores. There was no Netflix, Amazon Instant Video or iTunes. Heck, there was no Internet, at...
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Classic Horrors Club
Mar 5, 20173 min read
Universal Monsters: Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
By the early 1950s, the classic, earth-bound creatures that served Universal so well for 20 years had become guest stars in comedies and...
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Classic Horrors Club
Feb 8, 20173 min read
Review: Dracula (TV-1974)
According to imdb, the most filmed character of all time is Dracula. As horror fans, I’m sure we’ll all seen at least a few different...
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Classic Horrors Club
Feb 8, 20171 min read
Mini-Review: The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)
IMDb Synopsis. In a turn-of-the-century Renaissance Italian mansion, its tyrannical owner, a one-handed, wheelchair-bound pianist, with...
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