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At the IMAX :: They Came and Got Me, Barbara :: Night of the Colorized Ghouls...
Since not one single theater in my entire state participated in TCM and Fathom Film's double-feature of Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein this past week -- and every movie house from Omaha to...
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The Post Halloween, Holiday Seasonal Effective Disorder Blues...
I had big plans for October this year. Massive, creepy and kooky updates for the Brewery, the Archive and the Morgue, and even toyed around with idea of participating in one of those 31 Days of Horror...
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Recommendations :: What I've Been Watching. And So Should You (or Not.)
By no means great, but, when considering it's lackluster reputation, even among William Castle's fans, Macabre wasn't nearly as bad as I'd anticipated. In fact, I found it to be pretty good. (Who...
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Good Reads :: Verily, Get Thee to the Bookstore, True Believers! 'Nuff Said.
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___"[Martin] Goodman never missed an opportunity to change a name, and Marvel Comics became Marvel Mystery Comics with the second issue....
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Hrrmmmmmm ... Now Where I Have I Seen that Before?
The Haunting (1963): Robert WiseThe Evil Dead (1981): Sam Raimi Now take a breath, Boils and Ghouls. I'm in no way insinuating some kind of rip-off, here. Far from it as I love both films...
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Favorites :: Vintage VHS :: When Sybil Danning Says Watch, You Watch, Pilgrim.
Here's a batch of Sybil Danning's Adventure Videos courtesy of U.S.A. Home Video, a combination of standard and over-sized boxes that used to be littered all over the lost and lamented Video Kingdom,...
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Shamless Plugs :: Meanwhile, Over at the Morgue...
In case you missed it, we're spending the entire month of November throwing a spotlight on the first wave of 3-D films to hit theaters back in 1953-54 over at the Morgue. Here's what you've been...
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Where the Stageline Ends :: A Beer-Gut Reaction to Harold Kress' Apache War...
When the latest stage reaches a remote station in the New Mexico territory for a fresh set of horses, the manager (Horton) won't let them leave and asks all the passengers to unload and make themselves...
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Movie Poster Spotlight :: *blam*blam*blam* This is Edgar Wallace Posting a...
And while we're here, here's a gorgeous Italian locandina:I have been on a voraciously huge krimi kick lately. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, krimi refers to certain breed of German film...
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Recommendations :: What I've Been Watching, and so Should You -- Or not.
So, finally saw The Twonky, which could have been an inspired take on Harvey that, alas, falls into the untapped potential pile due to Arch Oboler's penchant for telling and not showing, a problem that...
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Ephemera :: Signs of the Season.
Inner-Scrooge dissolving. Cannot ... maintain ... the Grinch. ERROR! ERROR! ERROR!
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Vintage Review Spotlight :: Muscles and Mayhem x 3 :: Pietro Francisi's...
For several weeks a giant sea serpent has laid siege on the coastal village of Ithaca, causing several fishermen, tired of being the beast's personal buffet, to petition King Leyeritis for some much...
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Sounds of the Season :: Gift of the Elvi.
About ten days ago I had some birthday money burning a hole in my pocket, and thus and so, broke one of my cardinal seasonal rules. The rule being to avoid going to any retail store between...
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Prime Cuts :: Clearing Out the Amazon Instant Que :: Around the World and...
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___"Filmmaking in Europe was a little different from working in the United States. There's a scene in Hercules where I'm in chains -- they...
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Happy Holidays :: The 7th Annual All Night Christmas Craptacular Movie Marathon!
Geez. Is it that time of year already? Wow. Okay, then, folks, time once again for Yours Truly to gird up the loins and lube the liver for another annual All-Night Christmas Craptacular Movie Marathon...
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Operation 00-Oddballs :: Matt Helm vs. the Magic Sparkomatic Bartender and...
Wow. Has it really been over six months since I last tinkered with this marathon? That, my friends, is a lot of Red Tape or something. Anyhoo, due to somebody's procrastinating and a running headstart...
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Vintage Tuneage :: Take THAT, Winter.
As the winter winds blow and the snow piles up, I think a healthy dose of sun and fun is definitely in order, don't you? Right-O. Hit it!Video courtesy of Sids60sSounds. Al Casey The K-C-Ettesa/k/a...
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The Glenda Farrell Project :: Take 1 :: It'll Take More than That to Stop...
Here, our latest cinematic obsession grabs a cab after another grump-off with her long time beau over who will solve the latest murder mystery first, the reporter (she) or the cop (he), before anymore...
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YouTube Finds :: Gettin' Funky with the Fearsome Foursome on Shindig! (1965)
Though they were technically the third incarnation of the dreaded Fearsome Foursome to dominate the Sunday gridirons, the Los Angeles edition (1963-1967) is probably the most notorious -- and I mean...
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