THE NIGHT STALKERProduction: USA, 1972Director: John MoxeyCategory: HorrorOne of the best-ever TV horror movies, scripted by Richard Matheson and starring Darren McGavin as Kolchak, a reporter who is relentless in his pursuit of unusual or supernatural news stories. Here he is in Las Vegas on the trail of a reported vampire, Skorzeny, Continue Reading
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FURANKENSHUTAIN TAI CHITEI KAIJU BARAGON
FURANKENSHUTAIN TAI CHITEI KAIJU BARAGON(“Frankenstein Versus Deep-Sea Monster Baragon”)Production: Japan, 1965Director: Honda IshiroCategory: Science Fiction/KaijuWhen Toho decided to produce the first ever Japanese Frankenstein film, instead of a straight horror movie they elected to place the character in the realm of kaiju eiga, pitching it against a typical giant sea-monster; atomic Continue Reading
MIAO JIE HUANG HOU
MIAO JIE HUANG HOU(“Queen Of Temple Street”)Production: Hong Kong, 1977Director: Kuei Chih-Hung & Sun ChungEnglish release title: Assault: The Criminals Part IVCategory: Crime/HorrorFilm #4 of a violent, exploitational 5-film series from Shaw Brothers, known collectively as The Criminals, which commenced in 1976 with the 3-episode Xiang Gang Qi An (“A Continue Reading
THE MUTATIONS
THE MUTATIONSProduction: UK, 1974Director: Jack CardiffCategory: Science Fiction/Freaks/HorrorA great cinematographer, Cardiff proved how bad a director he could be with the monumentally tedious Girl On A Motorcycle. The Mutations on the other hand is in monumentally bad taste, using real freaks to embellish a repulsive tale of human experimentation set in Continue Reading
CRYPT OF DARK SECRETS
CRYPT OF DARK SECRETS Production: USA, 1976 Director: Jack Weis Category: Vietnam/Horror A disturbed Vietnam vet is robbed and killed by thieves in the Louisiana bayou, but comes back to “life” with the help of Dambella, a sexy swamp witch who performs her snake-curses in the nude. A steamy conflagration of the Viet-vet, Continue Reading
ARCANA
ARCANA Production: Italy, 1972 Director: Giulio Questi Category: Occult The third, and least known, of the unconnected triptych of enigmatic features made by Questi at the end of the 1960s/early 70s. Whereas Se Sei Vivo Spara was a horror-tinged homo-erotic western and La Morte Ha Fatto L’Uovo a perverse, psychedelic Continue Reading
RETURN OF THE SORCERER
RETURN OF THE SORCERER Production: USA, 1972 Director: Jeannot Szwarc Category: Horror A 30-minute episode of the Rod Serling TV series Night Gallery, notable for being the first ever adaptation of a story by horror writer Clark Ashton Smith, a regular contributor to Weird Tales and other pulp magazines in the 1930s and Continue Reading
GONG GUI ZAI
GONG GUI ZAI (“Red Dwarf Ghost”) Production: Hong Kong, 1983 Director: Titus Ho Wing-Lam English title: Red Spells Red Category: Horror/Black Magic One of the most rare and extreme Hong Kong horror films of the early 80s, belonging to that small cluster of reptile, insect and arachnid revulsion freakshows that only Continue Reading
EVILSPEAK
EVILSPEAK Production: USA, 1981 Director: Eric Weston Category: Horror An early example of “computer horror” – a young outcast unlocks a gateway to demons through his screen. In the same vein as “teen Satanism” horror movies such as Fear No Evil, Trick Or Treat, Rock And Roll Nightmare, Black Roses, Continue Reading
THE MASK
THE MASK Production: Canada, 1961 Director: Julian Roffman Re-release title: Eyes Of Hell Category: Horror/Freak-Out With 3-D dream sequences devised by the great film montage-creator Slavko Vorkapich. Posted by Moonchild Zero