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May 15th, 2013: Blood Feast (1963)

2 Comments Posted in Cults, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Serial Killer, Slasher, So-Bad-It's-Good, The Original, Thriller Tagged beach, caterer, Connie Mason, cops, David F. Friedman, Drive-In, dump truck, Egyptians, feast, gore, grindhouse, H.G. Lewis, incompetent cops, Ishtar, Miami, Playboy bunnies turned actresses, plot specific radio, serial killer

May 3rd, 2013: Dracula aka The Horror of Dracula (1958)

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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 21st, 2013: The Fog (1980)

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Leave a comment Posted in From Beyond the Grave, Ghost, Independent, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Slasher, The Original Tagged "We Can't Close the Beaches!", Adrienne Barbeau, alcoholic, annoying children, baby sitters, centenary, Charles Cyphers, children of famous people, cursed town, Darwin Joston, Dean Cundey, DJ, double cross, Drive-In, fishermen, George "Buck" Flower, ghost story, grindhouse, Hal Holbrook, hitchhiking, it's not over, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Houseman, low-budget, Nancy Kyes, ocean, priest, Rob Bottin, Tom Atkins, weatherman

April 14th, 2013: The Music Man (1962)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Assumed Identity, Based on a Musical, Comedy, Con, Event Film, Family, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, The Original Tagged before they were famous, Best Adapted Score, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Sound Nominee, Buddy Hackett, con artist, Hank Worden, Hermione Gingold, librarian, library, marching band, Meredith Wilson, parade, pool, pool hall, Rance Howard, Robert Preston, Ron Howard, Shirley Jones, small town, train, turn of the century, Warner Brothers

April 5th, 2013: Teenage Caveman (1958)

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Leave a comment Posted in Apocalypse, Black and White, Coming of Age, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged "And I would have gotten away with it...", "it was the future all along", adults playing teens, AIP, bad special effects, before they were famous, cave, cavemen, Drive-In, futures past, it's not over, James H. Nicholson, Jonathan Haze, low-budget, Malibu Pictures, Robert Vaughn, Roger Corman, Samuel Z. Arkoff, teens, terrible bear suit, twist

April 1st, 2013: April Fool’s Day (1986)

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2 Comments Posted in Comedy, Holiday, Horror, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Slasher, Spoof, The Original, Whodunnit Tagged Amy Steel, Charles Bernstein, Clayton Rohner, college students, Danilo Bach, Deborah Foreman, ferry, Frank Mancuso Jr., Fred Walton, island, it's not over, jack-in-the-box, Ken Olandt, low-budget, Paramount Pictures, party, prank gone awry, pranks, spoiled rich kids, Thomas F. Wilson

March 24th, 2013: The Great Escape (1963)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Buddy Flick, Drama, Epic, Event Film, Independent, Movie of the Day, P.O.W., Period Film, Prison, The Original, War Movies Tagged before they were famous, Best Film Editing Nominee, blind, Charles Bronson, claustrophobia, David McCallum, Donald Pleasence, Elmer Bernstein, James Coburn, James Garner, John Sturges, motorcycle, Nazis, Nigel Stock, pilots, prison, prison break, Richard Attenborough, solitary, Steve McQueen, The Mirisch Corporation, tunnel, World War Two

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

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

March 3rd, 2013: Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla aka Godzilla vs. The Cosmic Monster aka Godzilla vs. The Bionic Monster

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Event Film, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Robots, Sci-Fi, Sequel, The Original, War with Aliens Tagged Akihiko Hirata, Anguirus, archaeological dig, archaeologist, doppelganger, Drive-In, fakeitonium, globe trotting, Godzilla, Interpol, Japan, Jun Fukuda, Kenji Sahara, killer robots, King Seesar, King Shisa, Masaru Sato, Mechagodzilla, music summons the monster, musical interlude, Okinawa, prophecy, psychic, rip-off, scientists, space titanium, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka

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