Uncle Was a Vampire (1959)
It’s never impossible to be surprised. I was not expecting to enjoy Uncle Was a Vampire (1959) nearly as much as I did. It may seem that...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Jul 11, 2022
- 2 min
The Head (1959)
If you sucked all the humor out of The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962), you might be left with The Head (1959.) However, you’d then have...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 30, 2021
- 3 min
The Leech Woman (1960)
It’s impossible for me not to compare The Leech Woman (1960) with The Wasp Woman (1959.) Both are, in essence, about women seeking...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 28, 2021
- 3 min
Them! (1954)
It’s a good thing horror fans are such an accepting group, rarely participating in social media vitriol. Otherwise, I wouldn’t feel...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 27, 2021
- 3 min
UFO (1956)
This one is a real curiosity. It’s a documentary about UFOs made during the 1950s UFO craze that was sweeping the nation. I can’t say I...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 19, 2021
- 3 min
Satellite in the Sky (1956)
Now comes Satellite in the Sky, a version of the mid-century British sci-fi film I’ve mentioned the last couple of days… but one with a...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 18, 2021
- 3 min
The Strange World of Planet X (1958)
The Strange World of Planet X (1958), aka Cosmic Monsters, aka The Cosmic Monster, belongs to that sometimes-odd sub-genre of mid-century...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 10, 2021
- 3 min
The Land Unknown (1957)
After descending through a thick fog in Antarctica and landing a damaged helicopter in a crater where the temperature is 91 degrees, one...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Nov 23, 2020
- 4 min
Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
Author, Phil Hardy (The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Movies), marks Roger Corman’s Attack of the Crab Monsters as a high point for...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 12, 2020
- 4 min
Beast from Haunted Cave (1959)
In addition to Universal, Roger Corman, Dean of the Poe films, made his mark on the man-monster genre. His contributions were mostly in...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Sep 14, 2020
- 3 min
Robot Monster (1953)
Robot Monster (1953) is one of those supposedly awful sci-fi movies that I’ve never been able to bring myself to watch. However, when...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Jul 27, 2020
- 3 min
The War of the Worlds (1953)
In the Movie Archaeologists bonus feature on Criterion’s beautiful new Blu-ray edition of The War of the Worlds (1953), Craig Barron and...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Jul 20, 2020
- 3 min
The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
In his on-air introduction of The Hitch-Hiker (1953) on TCM, Ben Mankiewicz shared the kind of perceptions about the film that I wish I...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Jun 29, 2020
- 3 min
From Hell It Came (1957)
At least I found two brief references to Destination Inner Space (1966) in my vintage monster movie reference books. I found none for...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Apr 13, 2020
- 4 min
The World, The Flesh and The Devil (1959)
Besides wanting to watch it ever since I read its synopsis, I was encouraged when TCM host Ben Mankiewicz spoke highly of The World, The...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Mar 16, 2020
- 4 min
The Monolith Monsters (1957)
From time immemorial the Earth has been bombarded by objects from outer space, bits and pieces of the universe piercing our atmosphere in...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 31, 2019
- 3 min
Countdown to Halloween: "#" is for 4D Man (1959)
The fundamental requirement for enjoying an atomic age horror/sci-fi film is suspension of disbelief. It’s not usually difficult for me...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 26, 2019
- 3 min
Countdown to Halloween: "W" is for The Wasp Woman (1959)
At 63 minutes, the theatrical version of The Wasp Woman (1959) is perfectly efficient with its storytelling, and that story is perfectly...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 23, 2019
- 3 min
Countdown to Halloween: "T" is for Teenage Zombies (1959)
There’s no reason I should have any fondness for Teenage Zombies (1959), a movie that, perhaps not surprisingly, does not feature any...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 21, 2019
- 3 min
Countdown to Halloween: "R" is for The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy (1958)
A large part of The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy (1958), I’m guessing about two-thirds of it, is told in flashback, which makes sense...
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