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June 12th, 2013: The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Short Story(ies), Buddy Flick, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Road Trip Tagged "Are you a God?", "no man has lived to tell the tale", Afghanistan, Albert Moses, Alexander the Great, avalanche, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, British Army, British Empire, Christopher Plummer, Classical allusion, Classical Mythology, gods, husband and wife team, India, John Huston, journalist, less famous spouse, Martini Henry Rifle, Maurice Jarre, Michael Caine, mountains, natives, nepotism, pact, pith helmet, rope bridge, Rudyard Kipling, Saeed Jaffrey, Sean Connery, Shakira Caine, train, tribes

June 10th, 2013: Dead End Drive-In

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black Comedy, Comedy, Dark Future, Drama, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Thriller Tagged adults playing teens, allegory, Brian Trenchard-Smith, cops, Drive-In, Hammer of Symbolism, low-budget, Ozploitation, scavengers, teens, totalitarian society

May 24th, 2013: I Bury the Living (1958)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Let's Drive X Mad", Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Revenge, Thriller Tagged "are they mad or...", Albert Band, before they were famous, board, board member, cemetery, Drive-In, insanity, Louis Garfinkle, low-budget, map, retirement, Richard Boone, superstition

April 3rd, 2013: Guys and Dolls (1955)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Comedy, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, Romance Tagged "I bet you can't x that girl", Ben Hecht, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture Nominee, bet, cops, craps, Cuba, Damon Runyon, Frank Sinatra, gambler, George E. Stone, Havana, Jean Simmons, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Marlon Brando, MGM, missionary, prohibition, Samuel Goldwyn, Samuel Goldwyn Company, Stubby Kaye

March 23rd, 2013: Candyman (1992)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Ghost, Horror, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Slasher, The Original Tagged adultery, anthropologist, Chicago, Clive Barker, graduate student, hook hand, housing project, Philip Glass, Ted Raimi, urban legend, Vanessa Williams, Virginia Madsen, Xander Berkeley

January 19th, 2013: The Black Cat (1934)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Cults, Horror, Movie of the Day, Old Dark House, Revenge, Thriller Tagged "This Lair is Gonna Blow!", Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Carl Laemmle Jr., designated hero, double cross, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar G. Ulmer, explosives, flayed alive, Great War, Great War veteran, incest, insanity, Jack P. Pierce, John Carradine, necrophilia, revenge, satanism, torture, torture chamber, twist, Universal Pictures, war crimes, World War One

January 3rd, 2013: Premature Burial

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Leave a comment Posted in "Let's Drive X Mad", Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Gothic Horror, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Nightmares, Period Film, Thriller, Whodunnit Tagged AIP, Alan Napier, buried alive, cash-in, Charles Beaumont, Dick Miller, double cross, Drive-In, Edgar Allan Poe, Gene Corman, Hazel Court, insanity, low-budget, Ray Milland, rip-off, Roger Corman, the declining years

January 1st, 2013: Kwaidan aka Kaidan (1964)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Anthology, Arthouse, Based on a Folk Tale, Based on a Short Story(ies), Fantasy, From Beyond the Grave, Ghost, Horror, Jidaigeki, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Revenge, The Original Tagged Best Foreign Language Picture Nominee, blind, ghost story, Japan, Lafcadio Hearn, Masaki Kobayashi, meta, monks, musicians, Samurai, Takashi Shimura, Toho, vengeful ghost

November 1st, 2012: The Body Snatcher (1945)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Crime, Movember, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Thriller, True Crime Tagged anatomists, before they were famous, Bela Lugosi, body stealing, Boris Karloff, cemetery, doctor, grave robbing, graveyard, Henry Daniell, RKO, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Wise, surgery, Val Lewton

October 28th, 2012: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Animation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Family, Ghost, Holiday, Horror, Movie of the Day, Musical, Remake, Short Tagged "And I would have gotten away with it...", Bing Crosby, Disney, farmer, farmers, ghost story, manipulative woman, RKO, teachers, Walt Disney, Washington Irving

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