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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 4th, 2014: Aelita aka Aelita: Queen of Mars

Dec4 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Aliens, Arthouse, Black and White, Drama, Event Film, Fantasy, Issue Film, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Propaganda, Sci-Fi, Silent, Space Travel Tagged aliens as monarchist allegory, allegory, aristocracy, Communism, engineers, extraterrestrial radio signals, king, Mars, Queen, Radio, revolution, Soviet, Soviet Union, Soviets, space exploration, workers

October 4th, 2014: One Week (1920)

Oct4 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Comedy, Movie of the Day, Short, Silent, Slapstick Tagged accidents, building a house, Buster Keaton, Joseph M. Schenck, Joseph M. Schenck Productions, National Film Registry, sabotage, Sybil Seely

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 12th, 2014: The General (1926)

Apr12 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Black and White, Chase, Comedy, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Silent, Slapstick, War Movies Tagged behind enemy lines, Buster Keaton, Civil War, train, train attack, train station, train wreck, triple threat, United Artists

January 27th, 2014: The Playhouse (1921)

Jan27 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Comedy, Independent, Movie of the Day, Short, Silent, Slapstick Tagged Buster Keaton, camera tricks, Joseph Schenck, theater

October 4th, 2013: Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Oct4 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Comedy, Disaster, Fish-Out-of-Water, Independent, Silent, Slapstick Tagged boat, Buster Keaton, class issues, college boy, cyclone, father-daughter relationship, father-son relationship, jail, meet cute, overbearing father, prison break, river, shopping for clothes, steamboat, storm

September 17th, 2013: Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam aka The Golem (1920)

Sep17 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Based on Myths, Black and White, Fantasy, German Expressionism, Horror, Mad Scientist, Monster, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Prequel, Silent Tagged Astaroth, deal with the devil, demon, Expressionism, Germany, ghetto, golem, lightning, Prague, Rabbi

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