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We Are The Flesh / The Lovers on the Bridge
Teetering on that thin edge between the ludicrous and the even more ludicrous, Emiliano Rocha Minter’s We Are The Flesh is a…
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Witchfinder General
The troubled young British director Michael Reeves was credited with only three films and then, just as his star was ascending, died…
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Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
Next week at TFH we’re featuring a modest tribute to Bela! … Lugosi, of course. The films include Invisible Ghost (helmed by Gun…
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Confessions of an Opium Eater
Next week at TFH features a trio of trippy films gathered together under the banner “Just Say No”. They include Requiem for…
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Tashlinesque – The Hollywood Comedies of Frank Tashlin
In all of Frank Tashlin’s work, there is nothing quite so boldly staged as the delirious sequence in 1961′s THE LADIES MAN, in…
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The Real Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes
Roger Corman sat down with Conan O’Brien last week for a spirited interview (promoting his latest Sy-Fy spectacular, Sharktopus Vs. Pteracuda) turning in a charismatic performance that provoked…
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The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
A group of scientists in the Antarctic rig an atomic blast that releases a dinosaur from its icy hibernation. Only one of…
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Help!
Help!, the 1965 musical comedy directed by Richard Lester, stars Leo McKern as the venal Clang, a deranged cult leader and Victor…
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
The current BBC production of Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch is a lifetime away from director Terence Fisher’s take on the great detective, The…
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TFH Saturday Matinee – Lolita
Mr. Hillary, meet Mount Everest. Mr. Kubrick, let me introduce you to Lolita. There are some challenges that will test an adventurer…
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TFH Saturday Matinee – The Cyclops
Even for such a low budget movie, Bert Gordon’s THE CYCLOPS has an unusually hungry appearance. With its undernourished special effects, desolate…
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TFH Saturday Matinee – Queen of Outer Space
During a routine assignment in outer space, stalwart space jockey Neil Patterson (Eric Fleming) and his trusty crew crash land on the…
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TFH Saturday Matinee – The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
In Mad Magazine’s 1954 send-up of Alice In Wonderland, Alice finds herself once again surrounded by the nightmare inhabitants of Lewis Carroll’s…
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TFH Saturday Matinee – The Court Jester
The Court Jester was a vanity project put together in 1956 by Danny Kaye’s own production company and, at nearly four million…
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TFH Saturday Matinee – Jason and the Argonauts
The title, Jason and the Argonauts, is slightly misleading. It’s really the story of Zeus, an overworked Greek god who is beginning…
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TFH Saturday Matinee – Strait Jacket
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Robert Aldrich’s morbidly fascinating Hollywood gothic starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, had its premiere in October of…
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The Video Watchdog Archives go Digital
The compact 6 X 8 inch magazine first appeared in 1990 featuring one of the waterlogged ghosts from Carnival of Souls framed…
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TFH Saturday Matinee – Valley of the Dragons
Based on Jules Verne’s CAREER OF A COMET, Valley of the Dragons stars Cesare Danova (Mean Streets) and Sean McClory (The Quiet…
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TFH Saturday Matinee – The Flesh and the Fiends
John Gilling’s The Flesh and the Fiends is the story of Burke and Hare, graverobbers who find that murder is a more…
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Homecoming & The 25 Best Horror Movies Since The Shining
The internet is nothing if not list-crazy but New York Magazine critics David Edelstein and Bilge Ebiri have put together an insightful “best…
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Video Watchdog Goes Digital
If Trailers From Hell has a literary soul-mate, it must surely be the long-running film magazine, Video Watchdog. Launched in June of…