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October 20th, 2014: Night Monster (1942)

Oct20 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Horror, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Old Dark House, Revenge, Whodunnit Tagged B-Movie, before they were famous, Bela Lugosi, butler, chauffeur, constable, doctor, Frank Reicherto, incompetent doctors, Indian-face, insanity, Leif Erickson, Lionel Atwill, low-budget, mansion, mystery writer, mystics, psychiatrists, racism, Ralph Morgan, revenge, swami, swamp, twist, Universal Pictures, writer

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

August 30th, 2014: Topper Returns

Aug30 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Comedy, Fantasy, Ghost, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Old Dark House, Screwball, Sequel, Slapstick, Spoof, Whodunnit Tagged "only I can see it", Billie Burke, car accident, car chase, cash-in, cave, chauffeur, cops, ditz, Donald MacBride, Eddie Anderson, George Zucco, ghost must solve own murder, H. B. Warner, Hal Roach, Hal Roach Studios, heiress, hen pecked husband, husband, incompetent cops, Joan Blondell, low-budget, maid, mansion, Roland Young, room switch, scared working class people, seal, secret door, smugglers, stereotypes, United Artists, wife, wrong victim

June 19th, 2014: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Jun19 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Aliens, Based on a Musical, Camp, Comedy, Mad Scientist, Movie of the Day, Musical, Old Dark House, Sci-Fi, Spoof Tagged 20th Century Fox, Barry Bostwick, before they were famous, cannibalism, car breakdown, Charles Gray, cross dressing, Cult Film, dark and stormy night, degenerate aliens, dinner from hell, fiance, greasers, homage, Jim Sharman, laboratory, Lou Adler, mad scientist, mansion, Meat Loaf, midnight movie, muscle man, Richard O'Brien, scientists, Susan Sarandon, swimming pool, Tim Curry, wedding

April 17th, 2014: The Attic (1980)

Apr17 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in Black Comedy, Drama, Horror, Independent, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Old Dark House, So-Bad-It's-Good, Thriller, Tragedy, Women's Picture Tagged abusive father, Atlantic Releasing Corporation, attic, Carrie Snodgress, chimpanzees, disappearance, double cross, fantasy sequence, father-daughter relationship, fiance, fire, Frances Bay, Gary Graver, George Edwards, home movies, it's not over, librarian, library, low-budget, movie theater, murder, overbearing father, paralysis, pyromaniac, Ray Milland, sailors, secret, twist, wheelchair

March 10th, 2014: The Uninvited (1944)

Mar10 by retrozombi

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Leave a comment Posted in Based on a Book, Black and White, Ghost, Movie of the Day, Old Dark House, Possession, Romance Tagged Best Cinematography Nominee, Britain, Paramount Pictures, Ray Milland

February 22nd, 2014: Scaredy Cat (1948)

Feb22 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in Animation, Comedy, Horror, Movie of the Day, Old Dark House, Short, Slapstick, Spoof Tagged Carl W. Stalling, Chuck Jones, haunted house, Looney Tunes, Mel Blanc, mice, Porky Pig, Sylvester the Cat, Warner Brothers

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

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

September 14th, 2013: Saturday the 14th (1981)

Sep14 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in Comedy, Horror, Monster, Movie of the Day, Old Dark House, Spoof, The Original, Vampires Tagged annoying children, bath attack, bathtub, before they were famous, cash-in, cursed book, Drive-In, gillman, inheritance, Jeffrey Tambor, Julie Corman, low-budget, New World Pictures, Paula Prentiss, real estate agent, Richard Benjamin, Severn Dardin, sleazy, the declining years

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