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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

The Professor’s Fall Journal: October Week One

Oct25 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Animation, Based on a Book, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Comedy, Demons, Drama, Fairy Tale, Fantasy, Found Footage, Ghost, Gothic Horror, Horror, Independent, Made for TV, Melodrama, Monster, Mummy, Mystery, Nightmares, Period Film, Quick Reviews, Sci-Fi, Short, Silent, Spoof, Stop Motion Animation, Werewolves, Whodunnit Tagged ABC, Arch Oboler, Best Picture, Bigfoot, Bugs Bunny, Canada, CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Christopher George, Claude Akins, cops, cruise ship, Dark Fantasy, David Keith, David Suchet, Dirk Benedict, Dracula, Edgar Allan Poe, Egypt, fishmen, France, George Melies, Guillermo Del Toro, Halloween, Halloween party, haunted house, Hugh O'Brien, Italy, John Forysythe, John Schneider, Kevin Smith, Lee Merriwether, Lights Out, low-budget, Lucio Fulci, Lynda Day George, Maya, Mel Blanc, Michael Shannon, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Ovidio G. Assonitis, park ranger, Poirot, Pre-Columbian contact, Quiet Please, radio show, Ray Milland, Roger Mosley, Satan, satanism, seance, Sears Radio Theater, Spain, Stella Stevens, toxic waste, Vincent Price, Wil Wheaton, Yugoslavia

October 17th, 2014: Hell Night (1981)

Oct17 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Gothic Horror, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Old Dark House, Slasher Tagged "Nobody Here but Us Monsters", abandoned house, Chuck Russell, Compass International Pictures, costume ball, degenerate family, fake ghost, final girl, fraternity, Hell Night, insanity, Irwin Yablans, Linda Blair, mansion, Media Home Entertainment, Peter Barton, pledges, police station, shotgun, sorority, survivor goes crazy, twist, Vincent Van Patten

July 31st, 2014: I Tre Volti Della Paura aka Black Sabbath (1963)

Jul31 by Professor Mortis

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3 Comments Posted in Anthology, Ghost, Gothic Horror, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Stalker, Thriller, Vampires Tagged "scared to death", AIP, Boris Karloff, breaking the fourth wall, Britain, co-production, corpse, Drive-In, family, father, France, ghost story, Italy, Les Baxter, lesbian, maid, Mario Bava, Mark Damon, obscene phone call, pimp, Russia, telephone, vengeful ghost

January 21st, 2014: Lisa and the Devil (1973)

Jan21 by Professor Mortis

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4 Comments Posted in Fantasy, Ghost, Gothic Horror, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Old Dark House, Period Film, Thriller Tagged abusive mother, Alida Valli, Drive-In, Elke Sommer, game with the devil, ghost story, grindhouse, insanity, it's not over, Italy, mansion, Mario Bava, multiple endings, Satan, Spain, studio interference, Telly Savalas, tourist, twist, West Germany

October 14th, 2013: The Resurrected aka Shatterbrain (1992)

Oct14 by Professor Mortis

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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

October 7th, 2013: The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)

Oct7 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Camp, Drama, From Beyond the Grave, Gothic Horror, Horror, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Revenge, Thriller Tagged abbey, AIP, Britain, co-production, Edgar Allan Poe, evil cat, fire, honeymoon, insanity, it's not over, Roger Corman, Samuel Z. Arkoff, twist, Vincent Price, widower

July 14th, 2013: Hour of the Wolf (1968)

Jul14 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Black and White, Drama, Ghost, Gothic Horror, Horror, Movie of the Day Tagged artists, Baron, castle, crazy old woman, dinner from hell, ex-girlfriend, hour of the wolf, Ingmar Bergman, insanity, island, Liv Ullmann, mad artist, Max Von Sydow, nightmares, painter, pregnancy, psychiatrists, Svensk Filmindustri, Sweden

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

May3 by Professor Mortis

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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

February 1st, 2013: City of the Dead aka Horror Hotel

Feb1 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Cults, From Beyond the Grave, Gothic Horror, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Revenge, So-Bad-It's-Good, Witches Tagged Amicus, Christopher Lee, Drive-In, low-budget, Vulcan, warnings from townsfolk

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