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Brian De Palma unleashes 101 ferocious Hitchcock references for this great horror opus, all bolstered by Bernard Herrmann's nerve-jangling music score. Plus…
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The Satanic Rites of Dracula
Hammer's Dracula goes out with a whimper in this final Chris Lee-Peter Cushing vampire opus, which posits the Prince of Darkness as…
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TERENCE FISHER AND THE GREATEST HAMMER HORROR OF THEM ALL
The cry came forth from a dark corner of my living room as it usually does this time of year, as it…
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William Castle at Columbia – Volume One
1959’s The Tingler was produced on the heels of House on Haunted Hill and once again the mayhem swirls around the darkly comic…
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Valley Girl
One of the oldies celebrated by lovers of '80s fare, Martha Coolidge's ode to pampered teens in La La Land has aged…
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Gun Shy (2000)
I had never heard of this comedy-thriller, and the good news is that it's a pleasant surprise, thoroughly enjoyable. The toughest kind…
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Music & Stories – Going Electric
Welcome to “Going Electric,” Music & Stories Chapter 5, Part 2. This story is one of the main reasons that I wanted…
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Evil Dead II
With Halloween fast approaching, this writer wanted to unpack one of his all-time favorite horror movies, Evil Dead II (a.k.a. Evil Dead 2:…
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The Spiral Staircase
There's a storm outside, the cook has drunk herself to sleep, the other servants are gone, the old lady is an invalid…
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12 Monkeys
Terry Gilliam's second big-star 'retrench' movie benefits from his fertile imagination, and his handling of an overly complicated sci-fi script. Did happy…
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Night of the Demon
A top horror title gets the Powerhouse Indicator treatment just in time for Halloween -- it's not a domestic release but it…
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Dracula A.D. 1972
Dracula and Van Helsing seem more than a little confused, fighting the good fight of virtue against evil in a modern setting…
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Music and Stories – Hydrogen Jukebox
“Something is happening here and you don’t know what it is, do you Mr. Jones?” The first half of a two-parter: Chapter…
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The Night Stalker/The Night Strangler
In January of 1972 ABC broadcast the story of a middle-aged newsman hot on the trail of a vampire seemingly escaped from…
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Shampoo
Beverly Hills 1968 -- Sunset Blvd., The Strip, The Bistro, the haze in the Hollywood Hills -- where a lowly hairdresser-stud is…
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Les Parents Terribles
Jean Cocteau's film work wasn't limited to fairy tales and art-house fantasies; this adaptation of his hit play shows us fine theater…
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Game Night
Game Night is as high concept a comedy as they come—a group of very competitive friends who do a weekly game night…
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
A super-classic receives a super 'Olive Signature' Blu-ray release. CineSavant clears up some online rumors complaining that the disc producers didn't do…
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The Swarm
It's time to celebrate the Irwin Allen disaster epics for what they are -- huge, indigestible spectacles that first seem funny and…
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The Official Story
Political terror hits home, as a Buenos Aires teacher and housewife discovers that her family life is not only a lie, it's…
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Venom
Back in the summer of 2008, I absorbed all the terrible advance notices that the Wachowskis’ Speed Racer was racking up, saw it…
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Music & Stories: FLHS – Bridgemen Forever
I was in the Class of 1966 at Fort Lee High School. Our team’s nickname was The Bridgemen because of our proximity…
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Trilogy of Terror
The 70s brought forth some well-remembered TV horror movies, that shocked impressionable kids back in the days of Watergate and Sonny &…
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The Last Hurrah
In the last decade of his career, John Ford produced and directed this ode to crony politics, with Spencer Tracy as an…
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Horrors of Malformed Men
The Toei Company made their mark in the 50s with a series of atmospheric horror films like Kinnosuke Fukada‘s Ghost Cat of…