Inquisition (1978)
Thanks to Jon Kitley, Rod Barnett, and the general excitement in the air surrounding "the year of Naschy," I started giving the films of...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 18, 2017
- 3 min
Tombs of the Blind Dead (1971)
In The Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972), it’s not what the Knights Templar do when they’re dead that’s so horrific; it’s what they do when...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 17, 2017
- 3 min
Criterion Collection Blu-ray Release: Vampyr (1932)
Reflecting on an article I wrote some time ago about film adaptations of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's novella, "Carmilla" (which is part of...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 17, 2017
- 3 min
Don't Deliver Us from Evil (1971)
Watching a lot of horror films, there have been times when they cease to shock me. Don’t get me wrong; I’m never completely desensitized...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 16, 2017
- 3 min
Review: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
This time I know what version of a silent film I watched; however, I don’t believe it’s an “official” one. I found The Fall of the House...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 14, 2017
- 3 min
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) is not a horror movie; however, since it was directed by Fritz Lang (Destiny, Metropolis, M) and...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 13, 2017
- 3 min
Review: The Student of Prague (1913)
When watching silent movies, I don't know that you can ever see one in an environment that replicates its original presentation. The...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 12, 2017
- 3 min
Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971)
As much gialli as I've watched lately (Don't Torture a Duckling, The Suspicious Death of a Minor, The Girl Who Knew Too Much, and The...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 11, 2017
- 3 min
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
Once again, I'm not sure exactly which version of a foreign movie I just watched. I'm guessing that the dubbed DVD of The Bird with the...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 10, 2017
- 5 min
Arrow Video Blu-ray Release: Blood Feast (1963)
In a 1987 archival interview with Herschell Gordon Lewis on Arrow Video's latest release of Blood Feast, the "Godfather of Gore" defines...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 10, 2017
- 3 min
Castle of Blood (1964)
With foreign films, you often have to specify which version you're watching. For Castle of Blood (1964), originally known in Italian as...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 9, 2017
- 4 min
The Girl Who Knew Too Much aka Evil Eye (1963)
How significant should we consider Mario Bava's The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963) to be? It is the first and the last of something in...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 7, 2017
- 3 min
Seytan (1974)
Today's movie takes us into a bizarre subgenre called "Turksploitation." Wikipedia defines turksploitation as "a tongue-in-cheek label...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 6, 2017
- 3 min
Viy (1967)
"Viy is a colossal creation of the imagination of simple folk. The tale itself is a purely popular legend. And I tell it without...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 5, 2017
- 3 min
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, 2017
- 4 min
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 3, 2017
- 2 min
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, 2017
- 3 min
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
- Oct 1, 2017
- 3 min
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, 2017
- 5 min
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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