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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...

Classic Horrors Club
Jun 8, 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...

Classic Horrors Club
Jun 7, 20174 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...

Classic Horrors Club
Jun 6, 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...

Classic Horrors Club
Jun 5, 20175 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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Jun 4, 20173 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...

Classic Horrors Club
May 19, 20175 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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May 17, 20174 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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May 17, 20171 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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May 16, 20172 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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May 1, 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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Apr 29, 20171 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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Apr 25, 20174 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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Apr 25, 20173 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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Apr 11, 20174 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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Mar 30, 20171 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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Mar 28, 20172 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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Mar 26, 20175 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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Mar 5, 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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Feb 8, 20173 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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Feb 8, 20171 min read
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