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May 27th, 2012: Q: The Winged Serpent

Leave a comment Posted in Crime, Heist, Cops, Horror, Black Comedy, Kaiju, Cults, Monster, Movie of the Day, Independent, Stop Motion Animation, Addicition, Satire Tagged musical interlude, low-budget, it's not over, New York City, drug addict, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Larry Cohen, David Carradine, Richard Rountree, Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, Arkoff International, Larco Productions, Chrysler Building, nest, SWAT, ex-con, diamonds, Aztecs, gods, museum

May 23rd, 2012: Ghostbusters (1984)

May23 by Mister Invisible

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Ghost, Movie of the Day Tagged Annie Potts, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Elmer Bernstein, Harold Ramis, Ivan Reitman, Rick Moranis, Sigourney Weaver, William Atherton

May 18th, 2012: House on Haunted Hill (1959)

May18 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Comedy, Ghost, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Old Dark House Tagged "And I would have gotten away with it...", acid, Allied Artists, bickering married couple, Carol Ohmart, dinner party, doctor, double cross, Drive-In, Elisha Cook Jr., Emergo, gimmick, gossip columnist, matinee, party, pilot, secretary, skeleton, Vincent Price, William Castle, William Castle Productions

May 13th, 2012: Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Cults, Demons, Drama, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, The Original, Thriller Tagged apartment, Charles Grodin, creepy neighbors, D'Urville Martin, deal with the devil, demon, doctor, Elisha Cook Jr., Ira Levin, John Cassavetes, Maurice Evans, Mia Farrow, new home, old men, pregnancy, Ralph Bellamy, Roman Polanski, Ruth Gordon, Satan, satanism, Victoria Vetri, William Castle, William Castle Productions

Konga (1961)

May12 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in Revenge, So-Bad-It's-Bad, Horror, Kaiju, Mad Scientist, Full Reviews, Reviews, Giant Apes Tagged rip-off, cash-in, college, Britain, college students, gorilla suit, chimpanzees, Michael Gough, Merton Park Studios, teacher's pet, botanist, carnivorous plants, embiggened

May 12th, 2012: The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

May12 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Horror, Adaptation, Thriller, The Original, Silent, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Based on a Book, Stalker Tagged insanity, Universal Pictures, secret identity, obsessed fan, color sequence, opera, apprentice/mentor relationship, Paris, "Cast of Thousands", masquerade, Lon Chaney Sr., sewers, Norman Kerry, "Phantom of the", Carl Laemmle, Paris sewers, sewer lair, opera house

May 3rd, 2012: Dracula aka The Horror of Dracula (1958)

May3 by professormortis

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1 Comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Dracula, Gothic Horror, Horror, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Remake, The Original, Vampires Tagged Anthony Hinds, before they were famous, Bram Stoker, Britain, Christopher Lee, freely adapted, Hammer, Jimmy Sangster, Michael Carreras, Michael Gough, Peter Cushing, sunlight kills, Switzerland, Terrence Fisher, vampire hunter

April 27th, 2012: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Apr27 by Mister Invisible

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Computer Animation, Epic, Event Film, Fantasy, Ghost, Last Stand, Monster, Movie of the Day, Remake, Road Trip, Sequel, Sword and Sorcery, War Movies Tagged Andy Serkis, Annie Lenox, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup, Best Original Song, Best Picture, Best Score, Best Sound Mixing, Best Visual Effects, Billy Boyd, Bob Weinstein, Brad Dourif, Bruce Spence, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, curse, cursed objects, Dominic Monaghan, dwarves, Elijah Wood, elves, Fran Walsh, Harvey Weinstein, Hobbits, Howard Shore, Hugo Weaving, Ian Holm, Ian McKellen, insanity, John Rhys-Davies, JRR Tolkien, Karl Urban, Liv Tyler, Lord of the Rings, mastermind, Miranda Otto, New Line Cinema, New Zealand, orcs, Orlando Bloom, Peter Jackson, prophecy, Sean Astin, Sean Bean, self immolation, sorcerer, under siege, Viggo Mortensen, Wing-Nut Productions, wizards

April 25th, 2012: Psychomania aka The Death Wheelers

Apr25 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Crime, Cults, Horror, Independent, Juvenile Delinquent, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good, Uncategorized Tagged black magic, Britain, butler, cash-in, double cross, Drive-In, George Sanders, immortality, it's not over, low-budget, mother, mother-son relationship, motorcycle gang, Stonehenge, suicide, the declining years, toad, twist, undead

April 23rd, 2012: Pale Rider (1985)

Apr23 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Period Film, Western, Coming of Age, Remake, Ghost, Movie of the Day, Independent Tagged miners, Clint Eastwood, The Malpaso Company, giant, Chris Penn, small town, Richard Dysart, mine, evil businessman, Michael Moriarty, showdown, John Russell, gunfighter, Billy Drago, Carrie Snodgress, Richard Kiel, gold panners, town vs. rednecks, preacher, stealth remake

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