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June 19th, 2014: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Jun19 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Aliens, Based on a Musical, Camp, Comedy, Mad Scientist, Movie of the Day, Musical, Old Dark House, Sci-Fi, Spoof Tagged 20th Century Fox, Barry Bostwick, before they were famous, cannibalism, car breakdown, Charles Gray, cross dressing, Cult Film, dark and stormy night, degenerate aliens, dinner from hell, fiance, greasers, homage, Jim Sharman, laboratory, Lou Adler, mad scientist, mansion, Meat Loaf, midnight movie, muscle man, Richard O'Brien, scientists, Susan Sarandon, swimming pool, Tim Curry, wedding

April 17th, 2014: The Attic (1980)

Apr17 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in Black Comedy, Drama, Horror, Independent, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Old Dark House, So-Bad-It's-Good, Thriller, Tragedy, Women's Picture Tagged abusive father, Atlantic Releasing Corporation, attic, Carrie Snodgress, chimpanzees, disappearance, double cross, fantasy sequence, father-daughter relationship, fiance, fire, Frances Bay, Gary Graver, George Edwards, home movies, it's not over, librarian, library, low-budget, movie theater, murder, overbearing father, paralysis, pyromaniac, Ray Milland, sailors, secret, twist, wheelchair

January 11th, 2013: The Brain that Wouldn’t Die (1962)

Jan11 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Black and White, Horror, Independent, Mad Scientist, Monster, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good, The Original Tagged "what's locked in the closet", Acting!, artist model, bad special effects, burlesque, car accident, cash-in, decapitation, deformed assistant, disfigured face, double cross, Drive-In, father, fiance, grindhouse, head on a platter, head transplant, kidnapping, low-budget, mad scientist, models, nurse, organ transplantation, overbearing father, plastic surgery, quotably bad dialogue, rip-off, Sammy Petrillo, Science!, scientists, sleazy, strippers, surgery

October 12th, 2012: I Married a Witch

Oct12 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Comedy, Fantasy, Independent, Movie of the Day, Romance, Screwball, The Original, Witches Tagged "lightning ressurects the dead", Best Score Nominee, burned at the stake, Cecil Kellaway, cranky ghost, curse, family curse, father, father-daughter relationship, fiance, flashback, Frederic March, interrupted wedding, light, love potion, love triangle, politician, Preston Sturges, Puritans, Rene Clair, Salem, Salem Witch Trials, shrew, United Artists, Veronica Lake, wedding, wedding night, witch

April 18th, 2012: Gunga Din (1939)

Apr18 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Poem, Black and White, Buddy Flick, Cavalry, Comedy, Event Film, Movie of the Day, Period Film, The Original, War Movies, Western Tagged Alfred Newman, Ben Hecht, Best Cinematography Nominee, brawl, Britain, British Army, bugle, captured by the enemy, Cary Grant, cult leader, cultists, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Eduardo Ciannelli, elephant, fanatic, fiance, George Stevens, India, Joan Fontaine, John Sturges, loosely adapted, Montagu Love, National Film Registry, noble savage, noble servant, RKO, Rudyard Kipling, Sam Jaffe, schemer, Thuggee, treasure, Victor McLaglen, water boy

The Innkeepers (2011)

Jan14 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Double Header, Ghost, Horror, Independent, Indy, Reviews Tagged actress, barrista, basement, clerks, coffe shop, Connecticut, faith healer, fiance, ghost hunters, ghost story, has beens, hotel, Kelli McGillis, location shooting, low-budget, Pat Healy, psychic, Sara Paxton, suicide, Ti West, wage slaves, washed up actress

April 6th, 2011: The Big Parade (1925)

Apr6 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Movie of the Day, Romance, Silent, War Movies Tagged fiance, France, Great War, Irving Thalberg, John Gilbert, King Vidor, MGM, Rene Adore

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