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While I skipped through NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) this morning I stopped to watch this brief exchange between Tom (Keith Wayne) and Ben (Duane Jones) that I'd never really noticed before. It occurs just before the protagonists make their first proactive move to flee the farmhouse together. In the process of taking down the door that is being used as a barricade across the main entrance,

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Forget about the feckin' f'ugly keepcase art, which makes John Huston's THE DEAD (1985) look like a winsome MOONSTRUCK (1987)-style rom-com about a dreamy old spinster who finds love at long last - the reason this Lionsgate release has to be killed now by the popular consent of the informed is that the new DVD is (in addition to be improperly framed) missing ten minutes, roughly from the 8 minute

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This innocuous Disney retread is okay, I guess, but The Rock is no Eddie Albert, I'll tell you what. What's remarkable about RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN (2009) is how instantly recognizable are child actors Kimberly Richards and Ike Eisenmann in oh-so-slightly winking cameos - especially given that you won't remember the faces of their contemporary counterparts, AnnaSophia Robb and Alexander Ludwig,

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It's almost fitting that Michael Almereyda's NADJA (1995) is largely lost within the annals of vampire cinema, as the film is governed by fragments of remembrance and the shadows of suppressed emotions. Nowhere near a box office hit at the time of its limited theatrical release, NADJA got a lot of press in New York, where it was filmed, but received middling to dismissive reviews across the board

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"I don't know what's real anymore!" Candace HilligossHalloween - Betty GrableHalloween - Wade Denning & Kathy LandeHallowe'en, Hallowe'en - Oscar BrandFright - Philippe SardeYou'd Scream (If You Knew What I Did Last Halloween) - Zombina & the SkeletonesFearless Vampire Killers - Krzysztof KomedaCurse of the Zombies - Wade DenningFrankie & Igor at the R&R Party - Bob McFadden and DorSchool in

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And we come again to the end of another Halloween season and our second go-round of 31 Screams. Batting clean up this year is Barbara Steele in the climactic frames of Mario Bava's BLACK SUNDAY (1960). Seized at the apotheosis of her dastardy by a mob of swarthy, superstitious locals, Steele's witchay woman is pulled bodily from her mausoleum hidey hole, her pied a terror, and placed upon a pile

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Theme from Brides of Dracula - Malcolm WilliamsonI Put a Spell on You - Marilyn MansonHush, Here Comes the Bogeyman - Henry Hall and His OrchestraAccidents - Lubos FiserThe Witches' Reel - Vincent Price

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This is a first.I mean that quite literally. Very few horror movies toss us a scream screamed by a screamer on their very first (and, as it happens in this case, very last) day alive. But that's what makes BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) such a pisscutter.Elsa Lanchester's monster-demanded mate is but minutes old when she finds something to scream about. Brought face to face with her scarred,

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Something Wicked This Way Comes - Barry AdamsonLady Frankenstein, seq. 2 - Alessandro AlessandroniMonster Hop - Cathy MillsThe Exorcist, unused trailer music - Lalo Schifrin

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Running up against Nazis will always be, at best, at best, a crap shoot, even when the Reich observes the rules of physics and fair play. One's odds, even if not Jewish or queer, worsen considerably when Hans and Fritz et al are undead. So Brooke Adams learns to her soggy chagrin in SHOCK WAVES (1977), by consensus the best underwater Nazi zombie movie ever.At one point in the flick, Brooke and

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Feodor Chaliapin, Jr., THE 7TH VICTIM (1944). Dir. Mark Robson.Feodor Chaliapin Jr., INFERNO (1980). Dir. Dario Argento.

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It Must Be Swell To Be Laying Out Dead - Alex Bartha and His Hotel Traymore Orchestra Black Sabbath - Roberto NicolosiCarnival of Souls - Gene Moore"They're all going to laugh at you!" - Piper Laurie, Stefan Gierasch, Betty Buckley

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As "Dora," the streetwalker whose murder opens Michael Powell's PEEPING TOM (1960), Brenda Bruce is quite unlike the character etched by screenwriter Leo Marks. Instead of brunette, she's blonde; instead of "plump, attractive... still young enough to need two glances at the customers," she's middle-aged (Bruce was in her early forties), all business ("It'll be two quid") and a bit robotic in the

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Graveyard Shift - The Ghastly OnesA Hearse Is Not A Home - Frankie Stein and His GhoulsFiend Discovered & Main Title - Marc WilkinsonSounds of Terror: Jack the Ripper - Wade Denning

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You can keep God in his Heaven and his Choir of Heavenly Angels and being reunited with all your family, friends and pets... when I die, I want to go to this party.

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Eight minutes and thirteen seconds into DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978), George Romero and his cohorts blow a dude's head off in an unblinking cowboy close-up and in full color, with gallons of 3M gore spattering the wall and the dude's wife screaming her own head off until she too is taken down with a round from a .38.Eight minutes and thirteen seconds into DAWN OF THE DEAD, all bets are officially

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Teenage Brain Surgeon - Spike JonesTo Raise the Dead - Vincent PriceLestat's Tarantella - Elliot GoldenthalBoneshaker - Satan's Pilgrims

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GANJA & HESS (1973) is a loaded movie that often makes you feel as though you're loaded while watching it. Director Bill Gunn layers image and sound, bleeding (appropriate, for a vampire film) from one image to another while music, ambient sounds and unsettling electronic noise battle for domination... leaving you unsure as to what the characters are actually experiencing versus what they are

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At the Munsters - Jack Marshall & Bob Mosher, composersWho 'dat up dere? - Woody HermanMostly Ghostly - Hans Conried and Alice Pearce Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon

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I'd never call Catriona MacColl a scream queen but, goddamn, in Lucio Fulci's CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (1980) she sure does a lot of screaming. In fact, the movie pretty much begins and ends with her caterwauling like a dragstrip meat wagon.In the film, she plays a psychic, one Mary Woodhouse (not to be confused with Rosemary Woodhouse), who sees, in the middle of an otherwise ordinary seance, a

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While watching Don Weis' THE GHOST IN THE INVISIBLE BIKINI (1966) the other day, I was struck by how the above composition reminded me of Mario Bava's PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES (1965).Not an exact match-up, of course, but the basic idea of the leather-clad character lying in repose in the earth...... eyes open to the heavens seems awfully similar. Of course American International Pictures

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I savor the memory of my only viewing of Kaneto Shindô's ONIBABA (1964) because I found the experience so deliciously creepy.Fairly late in the film, Jitsuko Yoshimura's feudal war widow encounters a demon in the swampland in which she is forced, with her mother-in-law, to make a living. (It's worth noting that said living consists of welcoming deserters into their hut, killing them for their

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Alfred in the Crypt - Krzysztof Komeda The Library - Keith Emerson My Baby's Got a Crush on Frankenstein - Soupy Sales The Devil's Eyes - Donald Pleasence

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