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October 31st, 2014: Halloween (1978)

Oct31 by Professor Mortis

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7 Comments Posted in Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Slasher, The Original, Thriller Tagged abandoned house, annoying children, Arthur Malet, asylum, baby sitters, Blue Oyster Cult, boogeyman, bullies, Charles Cyphers, Compass International Pictures, Dean Cundey, Debra Hill, dogs, Donald Pleasence, final girl, graveyard, Halloween, homecoming, Irwin Yablans, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Carpenter, killer in the back seat, Kyle Richards, marijuana, Moustapha Akkad, Nancy Kyes, Nancy Stephens, P.J. Soles, psychiatrists, sheriff, sorroricide, Tommy Lee Wallace, unstoppable killer, urban legend

August 13th, 2014: High Anxiety

Aug13 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Movie of the Day, Spoof, Thriller Tagged 20th Century Fox, asylum, Barry Levinson, Charlie Callas, Cloris Leachman, Crossbow Productions, Dick Van Patten, frame up, Harvey Korman, hit man, homage, Jack Riley, Madeline Kahn, Mel Brooks, mistaken identity, musical interlude, psychiatrists, Ron Carey

May 26th, 2014: Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1973)

May26 by Professor Mortis

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3 Comments Posted in Horror, Mad Scientist, Monster, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Sequel Tagged Anthony Hinds, asylum, Bernard Lee, Britain, David Prowse, Drive-In, grindhouse, Hammer, insanity, it's not over, low-budget, Patrick Troughton, Peter Cushing, Terence Fisher

May 11th, 2014: The Final Terror

May11 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in Adventure, Degenerate Hillbillies, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Slasher, Survival Tagged Adrian Zmed, Andrew Davis, asylum, before they were famous, booby trap, bus, bus driver, campfire story, canoes, Daryl Hannah, Drive-In, forest, forest rangers, ghile suit, grindhouse, insanity, Joe Pantoliano, John Friedrich, juvenile delinquent, Lewis Smith, Mark Metcalf, mother, mother-son relationship, opening kill, red herring, river, Samuel Z. Arkoff, son, traps

May 8th, 2014: God Told Me To

May8 by Professor Mortis

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5 Comments Posted in Aliens, Cops, Crime, Horror, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller Tagged alien abduction, ancient astronauts, Andy Kaufman, asylum, cops, Drive-In, grindhouse, insanity, Larry Cohen, location shooting, low-budget, mass shooting, maverick cops, New World Pictures, New York City, parade, Richard Lynch, Sandy Dennis, St. Patrick's Day, St. Patrick's Day Parade, stock footage, Tony Lo Bianco, water tower

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 9th, 2013: The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Oct9 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in Comedy, Cops, Crime, Detective, Espionage, Movie of the Day, Sequel, Slapstick, Spoof Tagged asylum, Best Original Song Nominee, blackmail, Blake Edwards, Britain, Burt Kwouk, castle, co-production, Deep Roy, doomsday machine, France, Germany, Henry Mancini, Herbert Lom, hit man, incompetent cops, insanity, Lesley-Anne Down, Oktoberfest, Omar Sharif, Peter Sellers, scientists, secret agent

July 7th, 2013: They Might Be Giants (1971)

Jul7 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "are they mad or...", Al Lewis, ambigious ending, Anthony Harvey, asylum, blackmail, Don Quixote, Eugene Roche, F. Murray Abraham, gambling debts, George C. Scott, insanity, Jack Gilford, James Goldman, James Tolkan, Joanne Woodward, John Barry, librarian, library, M. Emmet Walsh, New York City, Paul Newman, psychiatrists, Rue McClanahan, Sherlock Holmes, supermarket, telephone, telephone company

June 2nd, 2013: The Ninth Configuration aka Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane

Jun2 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black Comedy, Comedy, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Satire, Thriller Tagged "who is the madman?", afterlife, astronauts, asylum, attempted rape, bikers, brothers, castle, it's not over, Joe Spinell, message from beyond the grave, Moses Gunn, Neville Brand, psychiatrists, rape, Richard Lynch, Robert Loggia, Scott Wilson, Stacy Keach, Tom Atkins, twist, U.S. Army, Vietnam, Vietnam veterans, William Peter Blatty

January 22nd, 2013: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Jan22 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Black and White, German Expressionism, Horror, Mad Scientist, Movie of the Day, Silent, The Original, Thriller Tagged asylum, before they were famous, carnival, Conrad Veidt, Expressionism, flashback, Germany, insanity, it's not over, nightmares, Robert Weine, sleep walker, somnabulist, twist

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