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Movies Till Dawn: House of the Saturday Morning Strange
“House of Terrors” (1965, Mondo Macabro) In the wake of her husband’s mysterious death, Yuko Kusunoki inherits the titular manse, a gloomy country estate on a mountain side with a hunchbacked caretaker (Ko Nishimura) and spirits intent on doing harm … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Cauldron Films, Kino Lorber Fims, Mondo Macabro, Raro Video, Synapse Films
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Movies Till Dawn: Haunted Castle (Halloween 2022, Part 2)
“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (1931, Warner Archives Collection) Frustrated by a request by the father (Halliwell Hobbes) of his fiancée (Rose Hobart) to hold off on their wedding, kindly Victorian scientist Henry Jekyll (Fredric March) finds an outlet for … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Mondo Macabro, Severin Films, Synapse Films, Unearthed Films, Warner Archives Collection
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Movies Till Dawn: Cracked
“Straight to VHS” (2021, Indiepix) Willfully odd but often compelling documentary about an obscure 1988 Uruguayan film, “Act of Violence in a Young Journalist,” and its hold on filmmaker Emilio Silva Torres, who attempts to not only root out information … Continue reading
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Tagged Code Red, IndiePix, Kino Lorber, Mondo Macabro, Severin Films, The Film Detective
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Movies Till Dawn: Velour
“The Naked Ape” (1973, Code Red) Vintage curiosity produced by Playboy Enterprises attempts to deliver a “now” interpretation of anthropologist Desmond Morris’s 1967 book on human evolution but instead offers up a fragmented mix of psychedelic animation, tame sex comedy, … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Code Red, Kino Lorber, Mondo Macabro, Severin Films, Shaw Brothers
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Movies Till Dawn: Peanut Butter Frankencup (Halloween 2021)
“Yokai Monsters Collection” (1968-69/2005, Arrow Video) Trio of period supernatural fantasies from Daiei, home of Gamera and Majin, concerning Japan’s rich and bizarre tradition of ghosts and monsters, as well as a newer take from cult director Takashi Miike. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Flicker Alley, Halloween, Kino Lorber, Mondo Macabro, Universal Home Entertainment
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Movies Till Dawn: Horror Business (Global Terror Network)
Boilerplate: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided me with a free copy of the Blu-ray I reviewed in this blog post. The opinions I share are my own. “The Awakening” (2011, Cohen Media Group) Writer Rebecca Hall’s skepticism in regard to … Continue reading
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Tagged Cohen Media Group, Mondo Macabro, Severin Films, Shudder Films, Warner Bros. Home Video
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Movies Till Dawn: Horror Business (Slaying in the Seventies)
“Grizzly” (1976, Severin Films) “Jaws” in a nature park, essentially, with ranger Christopher George, helicopter pilot Andrew Prine, and scientist Richard Jaeckel battling “18 feet of gut-crunching, man-eating terror” (to the quote the one-sheet, featuring art by Neal Adams). William … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: Chills in Springtime
“The Bloodhound” (2020, Arrow Video) “The Fall of the House of Usher,” transposed to Middle America, where Liam Aiken accepts an invitation from oddball friend Joe Adler (the 2017 “Twin Peaks”) to visit his lonely midcentury modern home, where Adler’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Kino Lorber, Mondo Macabro, Paramount Home Video, Severin Films
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Movies Till Dawn: The Saturday Morning Strange Must Die!
“The Beast Must Die” (1974, Severin Films) Wealthy hunter Calvin Lockhart invites a gaggle of Very Suspicious-Seeming individuals – among them Michael Gambon, Charles Gray and Peter Cushing – to his English manor home in order to determine which among … Continue reading
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Tagged Kino Lorber, Mondo Macabro, RLJE Films, Severin Films, Warner Archives Collection
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Movies Till Dawn: The Saturday Morning Strange Stays Home
“RoboCop” (1987, Arrow Video) In a future that bears alarming similarities to our present (though pandemic-free, it should be noted), a mega-corporation enlists a criminal gang to take over Detroit for re-development while also manufacturing a robotic super-cop – created … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Kino Lorber, Mondo Macabro, Severin Films, shout factory, Shout Select
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