TV Terror Guide: The Death of Ocean View Park (1979)
Which came first: an 80-year-old amusement park scheduled to be purposely demolished or a Hollywood studio making a TV movie about an...
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Classic Horrors Club
- 7 days ago
- 1 min
The Classic Horrors Club Podcast EP 78: It Only Hurts When I Laugh
Vampires and man-made monsters are usually the subject of horror movies, but what happens when they're used for comedic purposes? Are the...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Mar 17
- 3 min
TV Terror Guide: Vampire (1979)
In 1981, Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll created the classic television series, Hill Street Blues. Throughout the 1980s, Bochco was an...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Mar 13
- 2 min
The Mad Ghoul (1943)
Maybe it’s because I just watched a ratty old print of The Mad Monster (1942) on YouTube and a crisp new transfer of The Mad Ghoul (1943)...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Mar 10
- 2 min
TV Terror Guide: Death Car on the Freeway (1979)
It’s been a while since we’ve had a 70s TV movie with so many familiar faces, although they’re mostly underutilized. Leading the cast is...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Mar 6
- 2 min
The Mad Monster (1942)
In the book, “Hollywood’s Pre-Code Horrors 1931-1934,” Raymond Valinoti Jr. reports that during the production of Island of Lost Souls...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Mar 3
- 2 min
TV Terror Guide: The Darker Side of Terror (1979)
With the old bait and switch, CBS emphasized the salacious aspects in its advertising for The Darker Side of Terror (1979). Yes, what we...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Feb 27
- 2 min
Flesh & Fantasy (1943)
When a man (Robert Benchley, I Married a Witch) has a “rough night” combination of a chat with a fortune teller and then a bad dream, his...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Feb 24
- 3 min
TV Terror Guide: Express to Terror (1979)
If you search for Express to Terror (1979) on the internet, you’re likely to find Horror Express (1972) first. Take my advice: watch the...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Feb 20
- 3 min
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
All good things must come to an end. Be careful what you wish for. I jinxed it. Insert the expression of your choice. The point is, after...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Feb 17
- 2 min
TV Terror Guide: Terror Out of the Sky (1978)
Back in June, I called The Savage Bees (1976) “the best killer bee movie I’ve seen.” Back in the day, others must have liked it, too,...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Feb 13
- 1 min
The Classic Horrors Club Podcast EP 77: Ladies' Night
It's February and love is in the air. What hot-blooded man wouldn't be be attracted to these lovely ladies? Sure, they're selfish and...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Feb 10
- 2 min
TV Terror Guide: Someone's Watching Me! (1978)
In 1976, Warner Bros. hired a mostly unknown director named John Carpenter to write a screenplay for a feature film based on the...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Feb 6
- 3 min
Invaders from Mars (1986)
Another week, another rewatch of a 1986 movie I originally hated, but now kind of enjoy. This may be blasphemous since the movie is...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Feb 3
- 2 min
TV Terror Guide: A Fire in the Sky (1978)
The following are excepts from my feature about A Fire in the Sky (1978) in the We Belong Dead publication, Spotlight on Science Fiction,...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Jan 30
- 2 min
Deadly Friend (1986)
What was wrong with me in the mid-1980s? I didn’t like most horror films. Take 1986, the year today’s film, Deadly Friend, was released....
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Classic Horrors Club
- Jan 27
- 2 min
TV Terror Guide: Summer of Fear (aka Stranger in Our House) 1978
Linda Blair and her hair star in Summer of Fear (1978), but, contrary to the appearance of the latter, they’re not the ones possessed....
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Classic Horrors Club
- Jan 23
- 1 min
The Classic Horrors Club Podcast EP 76: It's a Disaster II
While the world falls apart around us, Jeff and Richard focus on two specific disasters. In San Francisco, a fire rages out of control in...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Jan 20
- 3 min
TV Terror Guide: Devil Dog The Hound of Hell (1978)
In the vein of not judging a book by its cover, Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978) isn’t nearly as ridiculous as it sounds. If demons...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Jan 16
- 2 min
Possession (1981)
Spoiler Alert! . It’s going to take a while to fully understand how I feel about Possession (1981)... and I may never understand the...
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