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Category Archives: Anthology

Features a collection of stories. Most often horror, but occasionally the format is used in other genres.

May 20th, 2013: The House that Dripped Blood

Leave a comment Posted in Anthology, Comedy, Horror, Movie of the Day, Spoof, Vampires, Wax Museum, Witches Tagged abandoned house, Amicus, Britain, Christopher Lee, cops, cursed objects, Denholm Elliott, father-daugther relationship, film within a film, filmmaking, Ingrid Pitt, it's not over, Joanna Lumley, Jon Pertwee, Joss Ackland, low-budget, overbearing father, Peter Cushing, Scotland Yard, twist, writer

April 6th, 2013: The Ten (2007)

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Leave a comment Posted in Animation, Anthology, Comedy, Computer Animation, Independent, Movie of the Day, Satire, Screwball, Sketch, Slapstick, Stoner Tagged adultery, bad animation, bar, Bobby Cannavale, children of famous people, courtroom scene, David Wain, doctor, drugs, ex-wife, Famke Janssen, Gretchen Mol, incompetent doctors, Janeane Garofalo, Jason Sudeikis, jealousy, Jessica Alba, Jesus, Joe Lo Truglio, Jon Hamm, Ken Marino, Liev Schreiber, Mexico, Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, murder, Oliver Platt, Paul Rudd, prison, rape, Rashida Jones, Rob Corddry, Ron Silver, talent agents, ten commandments, The State, ventriloquist, Winona Ryder

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

September 14th, 2012: Creepshow (1982)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Aliens, Animals Attack, Anthology, Based on a Comic Book, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black Comedy, Comedy, From Beyond the Grave, Horror, Killer Plants, Monster, Movie of the Day, Revenge, Spoof, The Original, Thriller, Zombies Tagged Adrienne Barbeau, alcoholic, beach, before they were famous, Christine Forest, college, college students, comic books, doctor, Drive-In, E.C. Comics, E.G. Marshall, Ed Harris, evil businessman, father-daugther relationship, father-son relationship, Fritz Weaver, Gaylen Ross, George A. Romero, Hal Holbrook, homage, incompetent doctors, insects, it's not over, Leslie Nielsen, low-budget, nightmares, ocean, overbearing father, patricide, professors, rednecks, scientists, shrew, Stephen King, Ted Danson, Tom Atkins, Tom Savini, unfaithful spouse, voodoo doll, Warner Brothers

July 21st, 2012: Dead of Night (1945)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Anthology, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Comedy, Ghost, Horror, Killer Dolls, Movie of the Day, Nightmares Tagged architect, asylum, Britain, Christmas, Christmas Party, dummy, Ealing Studios, ghost story, golf, insanity, it's not over, kid ghost, mirror, nightmares, psychiatrists, self fulfilling prophecy, time loop, ventriloquist

June 28th, 2012: History of the World (Part 1)

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Leave a comment Posted in Anthology, Biblical Epic, Comedy, Epic, Event Film, Independent, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, Slapstick, Spoof Tagged Barry Levinson, Bea Arthur, Brooksfilm, cameos, cavemen, Cloris Leachman, Dom DeLuise, France, French Revolution, Gregory Hines, Harvey Korman, Henny Youngman, Hugh Hefner, Jack Riley, Jackie Mason, John Hurt, Madeline Kahn, Mel Brooks, Moses, Orson Welles, Rome, Ron Carey, Shecky Greene, Sid Caesar, The Inquisition

June 10th, 2012: Really Rosie

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Animation, Anthology, Based on a Book, Comedy, Family, Made for TV, Movie of the Day, Musical, Short Tagged "let's put on a show", Carole King, Lou Adler, Maurice Sendak

January 1st, 2012: Kwaidan aka Kaidan (1964)

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May 19th, 2011: Twice-Told Tales

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Leave a comment Posted in Anthology, Based on a Book, Based on a Short Story(ies), Fantasy, From Beyond the Grave, Ghost, Gothic Horror, Horror, Independent, Mad Scientist, Movie of the Day, Old Dark House, Period Film, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged Beverly Garland, cash-in, low-budget, Richard Denning, Sebastian Cabot, United Artists, Vincent Price

Asylum

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Leave a comment Posted in Anthology, Full Reviews, Horror, Killer Dolls, Reviews Tagged Amicus, asylum, Britt Ekland, Charlotte Rampling, Herbert Lom, killer body parts, Lovecraftian, Patrick Magee, Peter Cushing, Robert Bloch, Roy Ward Baker, schizophrenic, the stars are right

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