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December 16th, 2014: Castle Keep

Dec16 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black Comedy, Independent, Last Stand, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Satire, War Movies Tagged academic, Al Freeman Jr., Avala Film, baker, Battle of the Bulge, before they were famous, Bruce Dern, Burt Lancaster, castle, Columbia Pictures, Filmways Pictures, France, Henri Decae, historian, James Patterson, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Nazis, Patrick O'Neal, Peter Falk, Scott Wilson, surreal, Sydney Pollack, Tony Bill, William Eastlake, World War Two

April 5th, 2014: The Terror (1963)

Apr5 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Period Film, Uncategorized Tagged AIP, before they were famous, Boris Karloff, castle, Dick Miller, Drive-In, fire, Francis Ford Coppola, imposter, insanity, it's not over, Jack Hill, Jack Nicholson, Jonathan Haze, low-budget, Monte Hellman, Roger Corman, Sandra Knight, twist, witch

October 11th, 2013: La Belle et La Bête aka Beauty and the Beast (1946)

Oct11 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on a Folk Tale, Black and White, Drama, Fairy Tale, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Romance Tagged castle, curse, evil sisters, fairy tale, father, father-daughter relationship, forest, France, Jean Cocteau, magic, robot servant, rose, twist

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 14th, 2013: Hour of the Wolf (1968)

Jul14 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Black and White, Drama, Ghost, Gothic Horror, Horror, Movie of the Day Tagged artists, Baron, castle, crazy old woman, dinner from hell, ex-girlfriend, hour of the wolf, Ingmar Bergman, insanity, island, Liv Ullmann, mad artist, Max Von Sydow, nightmares, painter, pregnancy, psychiatrists, Svensk Filmindustri, Sweden

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 23rd, 2012: Ladyhawke

Jan23 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Buddy Flick, Comedy, Event Film, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Romance, Sword and Sorcery Tagged Alfred Molina, Best Sound Effects Editing Nominee, Best Sound Nominee, bishop, black magic, castle, curse, John Wood, knights, Leo McKern, magic, Matthew Broderick, Michelle Pfeiffer, monks, Richard Donner, Rutger Hauer, thief, transformations

October 30th, 2011: Black Sunday (1960)

Oct30 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Gothic Horror, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Vampires Tagged AIP, Barbara Steele, castle, curse, cursed town, Drive-In, dual role, execution, family curse, gore, Italy, Les Baxter, Mario Bava, Nikolai Gogol, priest, prince, princess, Samuel Z. Arkoff, village, warnings from townsfolk

September 6th, 2011: Nosferatu (1922)

Sep6 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Black and White, Dracula, German Expressionism, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, The Original, Vampires Tagged Bram Stoker, castle, Expressionism, F.W. Murnau, Germany, Max Schreck, Nosferatu, plague, rats, rip-off, shipwrecks, sunlight kills, superstition, warnings from townsfolk

High Spirits (1988)

Mar30 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in Comedy, Fantasy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Full Reviews, Ghost, Independent, Old Dark House, Reviews, Screwball Tagged alcoholic, Beverly D'Angelo, Britain, castle, Jennifer Tilly, Liam Neeson, Neil Jordan, Peter Gallagher, Peter O'Toole, Steve Guttenberg, tempted priest, ugly Americans, yuppies

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