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February 10th, 2013: Son of Dracula (1943)

Feb10 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Dracula, Film Noir, Horror, In Name Only Sequel, Movie of the Day, Sequel, Vampires Tagged Alucard, black magic, cash-in, children of famous people, Curt Siodmak, Deep South, double cross, Drive-In, Evelyn Ankers, femme fatale, Jack P. Pierce, Lon Chaney Jr., Robert Siodmak, swamp, twist

November 24th, 2012: High Noon (1952)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Magazine Article, Black and White, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Revisionist Western, Western Tagged alcoholic, before they were famous, Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Harry Morgan, Jack Elam, Katy Jurado, Lee Van Cleef, Lloyd Bridges, Lon Chaney Jr., Quaker, Stanley Kramer, Thomas Mitchell, U.S. Marshall, United Artists

August 20th, 2012: The Haunted Palace (1963)

Aug20 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Poem, Based on a Short Story(ies), Cults, Gothic Horror, Horror, Monster, Movie of the Day, Possession Tagged AIP, cash-in, Charles Beaumont, cursed town, Debra Paget, Edgar Allan Poe, Elisha Cook Jr., H.P. Lovecraft, James H. Nicholson, Lon Chaney Jr., Roger Corman, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Vincent Price, warning from beyond the grave

August 2nd, 2012: Bride of the Gorilla (1951)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Black and White, Great White Hunter, Horror, Independent, Lycanthropy/Jekyll and Hyde, Movie of the Day, Mystery, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged "it's all in their heads-or is it?", before they were famous, curse, Curt Siodmak, Drive-In, femme fatale, gorilla suit, gorillas, insanity, it's only a dream, jungle, Lon Chaney Jr., low-budget, natives, older man, plantation, Raymond Burr, stock footage, the declining years, twist, witch, Woody Strode

March 3rd, 2012: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Mar3 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Buddy Flick, Comedy, Dracula, Horror, Lycanthropy/Jekyll and Hyde, Mad Scientist, Monster, Movie of the Day, Sequel, Slapstick, Spoof, Vampires, Werewolves Tagged Bela Lugosi, brain transplant, brains, Bud Abbott, children of famous people, delivery men, femme fatale, Frank Skinner, Glenn Strange, in over their heads, Invisible Man, it's not over, Larry Talbot, Lon Chaney Jr., Lou Costello, musical interlude, scientists, Universal International Pictures, Universal Pictures, Vincent Price

October 12th, 2011: The Wolf Man (1941)

Oct12 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in Black and White, Horror, Movie of the Day, The Original, Werewolves Tagged "are they mad or...", "England", autumn, Bela Lugosi, carnival, Claude Rains, curse, Curt Siodmak, Evelyn Ankers, father, George Waggner, gypsies, Jack P. Pierce, Lon Chaney Jr., Maria Ouspenskaya, pentagram, prodigal son, Ralph Bellamy, silver kills the monster, The Wolf Man, Universal Pictures, wolfsbane

July 25th, 2011: Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)

Jul25 by professormortis

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4 Comments Posted in Dracula, Horror, Independent, Lycanthropy/Jekyll and Hyde, Mad Scientist, Monster, Movie of the Day, Serial Killer, So-Bad-It's-Good, Vampires Tagged Angelo Rossitto, axe murders, bikers, blood, carnival, Drive-In, Forrest J. Ackerman, Frankenfilm, Frankenstein, funhouse, Greydon Clark, hallucinations, hippies, illusions, Independent International, J. Carroll Naish, Jim Davis, Ken Strickfaden, Little People, Lon Chaney Jr., lounge act, LSD, musical interlude, Regina Carrol, rip-off, Russ Tamblyn, Samuel W. Sherman, scientists

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