Thursday, October 31, 2013

DVR Diary: BLUEBEARD (1944)

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J ohn Carradine spent nearly a decade making a name for himself as character actor in A pictures, mainly as a contract player for Twentieth ...
Monday, October 28, 2013

THE BLACK SLEEP (1956)

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I could understand someone wanting to make a movie in the style or spirit of Ed Wood in our time, after his posthumous canonization as a cin...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

DVR Diary: THE MAD MAGICIAN (1954)

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I t took a while for Vincent Price to become a full-fledged horror man. He appeared in two Universal horror films from the classic cycle -...
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Thursday, October 24, 2013

NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS (L'ultimo treno della notte, 1975)

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A ldo Lado's horror film is notorious for being a virtual remake of Wes Craven's seminal Last House on the Left . Then again, Craven...
Monday, October 21, 2013

DVR Diary: VERBOTEN! (1959)

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S amuel Fuller is sometimes described as a cinematic primitive. What that means is that he is often unsubtle in his writing or direction, bu...
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Saturday, October 19, 2013

DVR Diary: RAWHIDE (1951)

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T he first awesome thing about this Henry Hathaway western from Twentieth-Century Fox is that it's a remake of a 1935 modern-dress cri...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

DVR Diary: R.P.M.* (*Revolutions Per Minute, 1970)

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D uring the 1960s Stanley Kramer was one of the most popular and most despised directors in Hollywood. His films were Oscar bait, except whe...