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The Professor’s Fall Journal: October Week 2

Oct30 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Blobs, Comedy, Cults, German Expressionism, Ghost, Gothic Horror, Horror, Independent, Kaiju, Lists, Mad Scientist, Made for TV, Monster, Mummy, Musical, Mystery, Quick Reviews, Short, Silent, So-Bad-It's-Bad, The Original Tagged Agatha Christie, Australia, Bing Crosby, Bugs Bunny, celebration, comet, curious george, Daffy, E. F. Benson, Emil Jannings, endurance film, folk tale, Frankenstein, Germany, Gossamer, Halloween, Halloween party, holiday fair, home invasion, Italy, M. R. James, Marvin the Martian, Mary Shelley, Mayans, Mel Blanc, mesmerism, Mexico, nepotism, Nicholas Cage, Panos Cosmatos, party, prom, Thomas Hood, TV special, Walt Disney, Warner Brothers, Washington Irving

October 23rd, 2014 – Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

Oct23 by retrozombi

8 more days ’till Halloween!

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2 Comments Posted in Cults, Holiday, Horror, In Name Only Sequel, Movie of the Day, Sequel Tagged Halloween, television

August 20th, 2014: The Call of Cthulhu (2005)

Aug20 by Professor Mortis

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3 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Cults, Horror, Kaiju, Monster, Movie of the Day, Silent, Stop Motion Animation Tagged cult, cult leader, cultists, dream, dream sequence, H.P. Lovecraft, insanity, island, Lovecraftian, low-budget

April 29th, 2014: The Devil Rides Out

Apr29 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Cults, Horror, Movie of the Day, Period Film Tagged Britain, Charles Gray, Christopher Lee, cult leader, cultists, Dennis Wheatley, Great War veteran, Hammer, low-budget, occult, pilots, Richard Matheson, ritual, sacrifice, satanism, Seven Arts Productions, Terence Fisher

February 15th, 2014: The Final Sacrifice aka The Quest for the Lost City (1990)

Feb15 by Professor Mortis

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3 Comments Posted in Adventure, Buddy Flick, Cults, Fantasy, Independent, Movie of the Day, Mystery, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged Canada, cult leader, cultists, lost city, low-budget, mullet, pick-up, teens

November 1st, 2013: House of the Devil (2009)

Nov1 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Cults, Demons, Horror, Independent, Old Dark House, Period Film, Slasher Tagged baby sitters, college students, Connecticut, Dee Wallace, demon, Gerta Gerwig, Jocelin Donahue, low-budget, lunar eclipse, Mary Woronov, retro, satanism, Ti West, Tom Noonan

October 12th, 2013: Night of the Demon aka Curse of the Demon (1957)

Oct12 by Professor Mortis

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11 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Cults, Demons, Horror, Movie of the Day Tagged Britain, Columbia Pictures, Dana Andrews, double cross, Jacques Tourneur, Niall MacGinnis, scientists

September 7th, 2013: Suspiria (1977)

Sep7 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Cults, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Witches Tagged "memory is the key", airport, Alida Valli, ballet, ballet academy, blind, Claudio Argento, Claudio Simonetti, coven, cult, cultists, dance, Daria Nicolodi, Dario Argento, doctor, forest, Germany, Goblin, Italy, Jessica Harper, Joan Bennett, maggots, razor wire, seeing eye dog, taxi, teachers, Udo Kier, witch

May 29th, 2013: Shriek of the Mutilated

May29 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Cults, Horror, Independent, Monster, Movie of the Day Tagged "And I would have gotten away with it...", "New York", alcoholic, Bigfoot, cannibalism, college students, Drive-In, electric knife, electrocution, goofy monster suit, graduate student, grindhouse, husband and wife team, insanity, island, it's not over, low-budget, Michael Findlay, Roberta Findlay, Sasquatch, traps, twist, Yeti

May 15th, 2013: Blood Feast (1963)

May15 by Professor Mortis

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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

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