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Children of the Damned
Wolf Rilla’s Village of the Damned was an alien invasion thriller that was genuinely invasive—all around the world women of child-bearing age…
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Kolchak: The Night Stalker – The Complete Series
“I saw what I saw when I saw it.” That was the mantra of Wilbur Grey, an anonymous shipping clerk who made…
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Onibaba
Kaneto Shindô’s Onibaba is a campfire tale not for the faint of heart. The director was just a child when he first…
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Ad Nauseam
Ad Nauseam: Newsprint Nightmares from the '70s and '80s 1984 Publishing, October 5, 2021 Michael Gingold (Author), Joe Dante (Foreword)
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A Night at the Opera
When the Marx Brothers bolted the scrappy but frugal Paramount for the gilded halls of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, fans of the comedians…
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Cold War Creatures: Four Films from Sam Katzman (Part 2)
CineSavant's reviews for the new Blu ray set, Cold War Creatures-Four Films from Sam Katzman, are in two parts. You can find…
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The Herculoids: The Complete Original Series
Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera produced 114 Tom and Jerry cartoons for MGM between 1940 and 1956—and then they were fired. The…
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The Little Rascals Volume 2
Religion may be the opiate of the masses but nostalgia runs it a close second. And there’s no narcotic more soothing or…
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Hammer Horror: Four Gothic Horror Films
In December of 1959, Hammer Studios released a bit of Yuletide cheer called The Stranglers from Bombay, a censor-baiting melodrama highlighted by…
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The Daimajin Trilogy
Japanese monsters seem to bring out the best in home video companies—Arrow Films’ The Daimajin Trilogy is the most beautifully wrought Blu…
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The Last Man on Earth
The Last Man on Earth is the very definition of a one-man show—Vincent Price stars as a lonesome medico who isn’t lacking…
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The Raven/The Comedy of Terrors
Roger Corman helped Vincent Price create his reputation as a horror movie star and in 1962 he helped him to dismantle it—already…
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The EuroCrypt of Christopher Lee
While Hammer Studios depended on bosoms and blood to rejuvenate a listless horror industry, their new contract player had some high octane…
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Alias Nick Beal
The most sinister light comedian in Hollywood, Ray Milland was never more charming than when he was fixing to cut your throat.…
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The Little Rascals Volume 1
An epic celebration of the American melting pot, E. L. Doctorow’s Ragtime ends with a beginning; an immigrant named Tateh escapes the…
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HAMMER VOLUME SIX: NIGHT SHADOWS
Once an upstart and now a company to contend with, Britain's Indicator continues their series of Hammer Studio releases with Hammer Volume…
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The Yearling
Based on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s 1938 novel, The Yearling revels in the solitary adventures of Jody Baxter, a boy whose untamed nature…
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It Happened Tomorrow
René Clair takes a trip through The Twilight Zone in It Happened Tomorrow, the story of a reporter’s perilous adventure with a…
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The Producers
At his most unrestrained, Mel Brooks would have made Voltaire blush. Would such uninhibited comedy survive under the gaze of today’s self-appointed…
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THE DUNGEON OF ANDY MILLIGAN COLLECTION
“I should have killed Andy.” – Jimmy McDonough In 1987 Andy Milligan was working on his latest film, a bloody revenge saga…
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THE INVISIBLE MAN APPEARS / THE INVISIBLE MAN VS. THE HUMAN FLY
Founded in 1942, Daiei Films appealed to the hearts and minds of movie-goers with a remarkably diverse catalog. Movies like Akira Kurosawa’s…
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Isle of the Dead
The Swiss symbolist Arnold Böcklin produced several versions of Isle of the Dead in the late 1800’s—none of them suggested a typical…
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The Bad News Bears
W.C. Fields’ final screen appearance was a brief walk-on in Sensations of 1945, an overloaded variety show that barely found time for…
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Twentieth Century
All the world’s a stage and that includes the Twentieth Century, a deluxe passenger train transformed into an itinerant theater thanks to…
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Baby Doll
Depraved, degenerate, and dreadfully funny, the genre known as Southern Gothic blurred the line between humor and horror and helped define the…
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So Evil My Love
In 1944 Ray Milland starred in The Uninvited, the story of an orphan plagued by the vengeful spirit of her mother. The…