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April 4th, 2013: The Cabin in the Woods (2011)

Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Cults, Degenerate Hillbillies, Ghost, Horror, Killer Dolls, Killer Kids, Mad Scientist, Monster, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Satire, Slasher, Spoof, Stoner, Werewolves, Zombies Tagged homage, twist, Richard Jenkins, children of famous people, it's not over, sacrifice, Chris Hemsworth, scientists, Final Couple, drugs, rednecks, stoners, college students, paramilitary group, final girl, mind control, cabin, "spam in a cabin", cultists, cult leader, Joss Whedon, Sigourney Weaver, Bradley Whitford, Amy Acker, Drew Goddard, archetypes

March 30th, 2013: Frankenstein Created Woman

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2 Comments Posted in From Beyond the Grave, Horror, Mad Scientist, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Revenge, Sequel Tagged Anthony Hinds, aristocracy, bar, bartender, Britain, Drive-In, fops, guillotine, Hammer, hunchback, mad scientist, Peter Cushing, reanimation, revenge, scientists, soul, Terence Fisher

March 11th, 2013: The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Horror, Mad Scientist, Monster, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Remake, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged Anthony Hinds, Britain, Christopher Lee, Drive-In, Frankenstein, Frankenstein's Monster, grave robbing, graveyard, Hammer, Hazel Court, Jimmy Sangster, mad scientist, mad surgeon, Mary Shelley, Michael Carreras, Peter Cushing, reanimation, scientists, Terence Fisher

January 22nd, 2013: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Black and White, German Expressionism, Horror, Mad Scientist, Movie of the Day, Silent, The Original, Thriller Tagged asylum, before they were famous, carnival, Conrad Veidt, Expressionism, flashback, Germany, insanity, it's not over, nightmares, Robert Weine, sleep walker, somnabulist, twist

January 11th, 2013: The Brain that Wouldn’t Die (1962)

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2 Comments Posted in Black and White, Horror, Independent, Mad Scientist, Monster, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good, The Original Tagged "what's locked in the closet", Acting!, artist model, bad special effects, burlesque, car accident, cash-in, decapitation, deformed assistant, disfigured face, double cross, Drive-In, father, fiance, grindhouse, head on a platter, head transplant, kidnapping, low-budget, mad scientist, models, nurse, organ transplantation, overbearing father, plastic surgery, quotably bad dialogue, rip-off, Sammy Petrillo, Science!, scientists, sleazy, strippers, surgery

January 7th, 2013: The Brood (1979)

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Leave a comment Posted in Horror, Killer Kids, Mad Scientist, Monster, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi Tagged abusive mother, abusive relationship, alcoholic, Art Hindle, asylum, before they were famous, body horror, Canada, Canadian Film Development Corporation, child abuse, David Cronenberg, Estranged parent, group therapy, Howard Shore, insanity, mad psychologist, Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, therapist

October 25th, 2012: I Was a Teenage Frankenstein

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Camp, Horror, Independent, Mad Scientist, Movie of the Day Tagged AIP, atheletes, car accident, cash-in, Drive-In, Frankenstein, Frankenstein's Monster, lover's lane, low-budget, mad scientist, plane crash, scientists, teens, Whit Bissell

October 14th, 2012: The Resurrected aka Shatterbrain (1992)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Detective, DTV, Gothic Horror, Horror, Independent, Mad Scientist, Monster, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Possession, Remake, Stop Motion Animation Tagged "New England", asylum, British Columbia, Chris Sarandon, Dan O'Bannon, Deep Roy, detective, diary, flashback, H.P. Lovecraft, Hartford, Jane Sibbett, John Terry, low-budget, nightmares, Rhode Island, Richard Band, Robert Romanus, the declining years, TV actors

September 21st, 2012: Island of Lost Souls (1932)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Horror, Issue Film, Mad Scientist, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged animal testing, anthropomorphic animals, before they were famous, Bela Lugosi, Charles Laughton, insanity, island, mad scientist, Paramount Pictures, scientists

August 27th, 2012: The Devil Bat (1940)

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Leave a comment Posted in Animals Attack, Black and White, Horror, Independent, Mad Scientist, Movie of the Day, Revenge, So-Bad-It's-Good, The Original Tagged Arthur Q. Bryan, bad special effects, bats, Bela Lugosi, cologne, cosmetics company, double cross, embiggened, evil businessman, French Maid, insanity, low-budget, perfume, photographer, Producer's Releasing Corporation, radio show, reporter, revenge, sins of the father

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