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October 12th, 2012: I Married a Witch

Oct12 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Comedy, Fantasy, Independent, Movie of the Day, Romance, Screwball, The Original, Witches Tagged "lightning ressurects the dead", Best Score Nominee, burned at the stake, Cecil Kellaway, cranky ghost, curse, family curse, father, father-daugther relationship, fiance, flashback, Frederic March, interrupted wedding, light, love potion, love triangle, politician, Preston Sturges, Puritans, Rene Clair, Salem, Salem Witch Trials, shrew, United Artists, Veronica Lake, wedding, wedding night, witch

August 15th, 2012: Skullduggery (1983)

Aug15 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in Cults, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Slasher, So-Bad-It's-Bad Tagged Canada, cash-in, double cross, family curse, low-budget, surreal, Wendy Crewson

October 30th, 2011: Black Sunday (1960)

Oct30 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Gothic Horror, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Vampires Tagged AIP, Barbara Steele, castle, curse, cursed town, Drive-In, dual role, execution, family curse, gore, Italy, Les Baxter, Mario Bava, Nikolai Gogol, priest, prince, princess, Samuel Z. Arkoff, village, warnings from townsfolk

July 24th, 2011: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

Jul24 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Detective, Gothic Horror, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Period Film, Remake, Whodunnit Tagged "And I would have gotten away with it...", "The Moors", Andre Morell, Britain, Christopher Lee, curse, family curse, Hammer, low-budget, Peter Cushing, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Terrence Fisher

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