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Professor’s Fall Journal: October Week 4

Nov29 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Let's Drive X Mad", Adaptation, Aliens, Animation, Based on a Book, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Camp, Comedy, Dracula, Family, Ghost, Horror, Independent, Lycanthropy/Jekyll and Hyde, Mad Scientist, Made for TV, Period Film, Quick Reviews, Reviews, Sci-Fi, Sequel, Short, Silent, Slasher, Space Travel, Thriller Tagged "homage is French for rip off", Brian Cox, Britain, cartoon, Donald Pleasence, Halloween, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Carpenter, Klaus Kinski, London, meta, Peter Cushing, Porky Pig, rip-off, sylvester cat

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

December 23rd, 2014: A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)

Dec23 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in Adaptation, Animation, Based on a Comic Strip, Comedy, Family, Holiday, Made for TV, Movie of the Day, Short, The Original Tagged Bill Melendez, Charles M. Schulz, children, Christmas, Christmas Pageant, Christmas Party, Christmas tree, commercialism, Outstanding Children's Program, piano, psychiatrists, TV special, United Features Syndicate, Vince Guaraldi

October 7th, 2014: An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe

Oct7 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Horror, Made for TV, Movie of the Day Tagged AIP, buried alive, cats, conscience, Edgar Allan Poe, James H. Nicholson, Les Baxter, low-budget, murder, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Spain, Spanish Inquisition, torture, torture chamber, Vincent Price

July 19th, 2014: Someone’s Watching Me! (1978)

Jul19 by Professor Mortis

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3 Comments Posted in Made for TV, Movie of the Day, Stalker, Thriller Tagged Adrienne Barbeau, apartment, asshole reporter, before they were famous, California, Charles Cyphers, high rise, homage, John Carpenter, Lauren Hutton, Len Lesser, lesbian, Los Angeles, low-budget, NBC, reporter, telephone, telephone company, telescope, TV director, Warner Bros. Television

June 10th, 2014: Really Rosie

Jun10 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Animation, Anthology, Based on a Book, Comedy, Family, Made for TV, Movie of the Day, Musical, Short Tagged "let's put on a show", Carole King, Lou Adler, Maurice Sendak

May 7th, 2014: The Night Strangler (1973)

May7 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Horror, Mad Scientist, Made for TV, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Sequel, Serial Killer, Thriller Tagged ABC Circle Films, Al Lewis, alchemist, Dan Curtis, Darren McGavin, immortality, insanity, John Carradine, Kolchak, Margaret Hamilton, newspaper, reporter, Richard Anderson, Richard Matheson, Seattle, Simon Oakland, underground

February 24th, 2014: The Last Seduction (1994)

Feb24 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Crime, Drama, Film Noir, Made for TV, Movie of the Day, Neo-Noir, The Original, Thriller Tagged bartender, before they were famous, Bill Nunn, Bill Pullman, Britain, Buffalo, Dean Norris, detective, double cross, drug dealers, femme fatale, it's not over, ITC, J.T. Walsh, Linda Fiorentino, New York City, Peter Berg, small town, transgender, twist

November 26th, 2013: Pride and Prejudice (1995)

Nov26 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Drama, Made for TV, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Romance Tagged ball, BBC, Britain, class issues, Colin Firth, elopement, father, father-daughter relationship, gentleman, Jane Austin, Julia Sawalha, Lucy Davis, mini-series, mother, mother-daugther relationship, overbearing mother, sisters, spoiled rich kids

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