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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 25th, 2014: 5 Card Stud (1968)

Oct25 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Period Film, Revenge, Western, Whodunnit Tagged before they were famous, card game, church bell, Dean Martin, Hal B. Wallis, hanging, Henry Hathaway, John Anderson, lynching, Maurice Jarre, Mommy issues, musical interlude, Paramount Pictures, poker, reverend, Robert Mitchum, Roy Jenson, vigilantes, Whit Bissell, Yaphet Kotto

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

September 7th, 2014: L’uccello Dalle Plume di Cristallo aka The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

Sep7 by Professor Mortis

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3 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Giallo, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Serial Killer, Thriller, Whodunnit Tagged artists, bait, before they were famous, cat eater, cats, cops, Dario Argento, Drive-In, Ennio Morricone, grindhouse, hit man, incompetent cops, it's not over, Italy, low-budget, mad artist, murder, murderer chases witness, Reggie Nalder, Salvatore Argento, serial killer, witness must solve murder

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 18th, 2014: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Jun18 by Professor Mortis

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3 Comments Posted in Comedy, In Name Only Sequel, Movie of the Day, Music, Remake, Romance, Satire, Sequel, Spoof, Whodunnit Tagged 20th Century Fox, attempted suicide, Charles Napier, cross dressing, decapitation, double cross, ingenues, Los Angeles, Nazis, porn stars, producer, rise and fall, rock and roll, Roger Ebert, Russ Meyers, The Strawberry Alarm Clock

May 17th, 2014: Club Dread (2004)

May17 by Professor Mortis

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3 Comments Posted in Comedy, Horror, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Revenge, Slapstick, Slasher, Spoof, Stoner, Whodunnit, Workplace Tagged beach, Bill Paxton, Brittany Daniel, Broken Lizard, Broken Lizard Industries, camp fire tale, Fox Searchlight, golf cart, homage, insanity, island, it's not over, Jay Chandrasekhar, Jordan Ladd, jungle, kukri, low-budget, M.C. Gainey, masseuse, Pac Man, private island, washed up rock star

May 4th, 2014: The Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941)

May4 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Comic Book, Black and White, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Pulp, Serial, Superheroes, The Original, Whodunnit Tagged alter ego, Captain Marvel, cub reporter, explorers, Fawcett Comics, idol, low-budget, MacGuffin, machine gun, masked criminal, mastermind, mystics, reporter, scientific expedition, scientists, secret identity, Siam, Tom Tyler, William Witney

January 12th, 2014: Evil Under the Sun (1982)

Jan12 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Crime, Detective, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Period Film, Sequel, Thriller, Whodunnit Tagged Adriatic, Britain, diana rigg, drug smugglers, EMI Films, Guy Hamilton, Hercule Poirot, heroin, island, James Mason, Jane Birkin, jewel thieves, Maggie Smith, murder, Peter Ustinov, resort, Roddy McDowall, Sylvia Miles

December 10th, 2013: Dead Again (1991)

Dec10 by Professor Mortis

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3 Comments Posted in Black and White, Detective, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Period Film, Thriller, Whodunnit Tagged amnesia, Andy Garcia, artists, bad makeup, before they were famous, butcher, Campbell Scott, composer, courtroom scene, Derek Jacobi, dual role, electric chair, Emma Thompson, execution, flashback, Hollywood, hypnosis, Kenneth Branagh, Los Angeles, maid, masquerade, murder, nun, orphanage, photographer, priest, psychologist, refugees, reincarnation, reporter, scissors, supermarket, Sydney Pollack, trial, twist, Wayne Knight

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