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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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Movies Till Dawn: A Case of the Creeps
“Let’s Scare Jessica to Death” (1974, Shout! Factory) It’s true that Jessica (Zohra Lampert) has just left an asylum, but surely, her fragile mental state can’t account for all the strange things that have happened after she, her husband (Barton … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Mill Creek Entertainment, Severin Films, shout factory, Warner Archives Collection
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Movies Till Dawn: Siren Calls
“The Letter” (1940, Warner Archives Collection) That Bette Davis, the wife of a rubber plantation owner in British Malaya, was justified in shooting the man who attempted to assault her, is accepted without question by the area’s white/wealthy community, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Cohen Media Group, Dark Sky Films, MVD Visual, Severin Films, Warner Archives Collection
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Movies Till Dawn: Holiday House of Hairy Horrors
“Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1932, Shout! Factory) Barking mad scientist Bela Lugosi attempts to put the crackpot evolutionary theory behind his sideshow act – which features Erik (career Hollywood apesuit actor Charles Gemora), a gorilla that can “talk” after … Continue reading
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Tagged Kino Lorber, Mill Creek Entertainment, Severin Films, shout factory
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Movies Till Dawn: New and Notable
“Ready or Not” (2019, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment) In order to marry her wealthy fiancé, Samara Weaving must participate in his family’s tradition of forcing brides-to-be to survive a night in their Old Dark House while the intended in-laws, … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, CBS Home Video, Kino Lorber, Severin Films, Shout Studios
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Movies Till Dawn: Dr. Evil and His Terrors of the Unknown (Halloween 2019, Part 4)
“Two Evil Eyes” (1990, Blue Underground) Dario Argento and George Romero offer broad and bloody interpretations of stories by Edgar Allan Poe: Romero’s “The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar” adds a “Creepshow“/E.C. Comics spin, with Adrienne Barbeau as … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Blue Underground, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Severin Films, shout factory
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Cult Filmmaker Al Adamson Doc ‘Blood & Flesh’ Opens in Los Angeles November 1
From the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, director and Hollywood native Al Adamson made genre films – mostly horror, but also science fiction, Westerns, biker pictures, comedies and the occasional hybrid of all of those genres – that due to … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Adamson, Blood & Flesh, David Konow, Severin Films
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Movies Till Dawn: Dr. Caligari’s Cabinet of Horrors (Halloween 2019, Part 2)
“Anna and the Apocalypse” (2018, Cinedigm) High schooler Ella Hunt discovers that the only thing worse than unrequited romance or stubborn parents is a zombie outbreak. Director John McPhail‘s mix of living dead horror and teen musical never quite gels … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Cinedigm, IndiePix, Severin Films, shout factory, VInegar Syndrome
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Movies Till Dawn: Midnight Spook Party (Halloween 2019, Part 1)
“The Dead Don’t Die” (2019, Lionsgate Home Entertainment) Polar fracking, or something equally ominous in tone, causes the dead to rise from their graves, which, if judged by the muted responses of police officers Bill Murray, Adam Driver and Chloe … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: A Slew of Saturday Morning Strange
“Boom!” (1968, Shout! Select) Wealthy, pill-popping Sissy Goforth (Elizabeth Taylor) is interrupted in her task of writing her memoirs at her sprawling Italian villa by Christopher Flanders (Richard Burton), a struggling poet/artist who may or may not also be the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Severin Films, shout factory, VInegar Syndrome, Warner Archives Collection
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