The Walking Dead (1936)
Imagine... Dr. Beaumont keeping this heart pumping for over twenty years! Jimmy (Warren Hull) Wish he could do something about making...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 17, 2022
- 3 min
Death Takes a Holiday (1934)
Love is greater than illusion, and as strong as death! Prince Sirki/Death (Frederic March) The origin of Death Takes a Holiday as a stage...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 3, 2022
- 3 min
The House of the Seven Gables (1940)
Little Phoebe was one of those persons who possess, as their exclusive patrimony, the gift of practical arrangement. It is a kind of...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 1, 2022
- 3 min
The Invisible Ray (1936)
What do they know? What will they ever know? I'll take them somewhere they've never been. Back into time. It will work well tonight. I'm...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Sep 26, 2022
- 3 min
The Devil & Daniel Webster (1941) aka All That Money Can Buy
The Devil & Daniel Webster (1941) evokes It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) for me. Both are about men who make unfortunate decisions but...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Sep 12, 2022
- 2 min
The Woman in the Window (1944)
Midway through his directing career, Fritz Lang is still going strong with The Woman in the Window (1944,) a nearly two-hour noir that...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 23, 2021
- 3 min
The Thirteenth Chair (1929)
If Tod Browning’s Dracula (1931) is criticized for being too much like a play, then The Thirteenth Chair (1929) doesn’t have a chance! On...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 11, 2021
- 2 min
Night Monster (1942)
For a 73-minute movie, Night Monster (1942) has a lot happening! In fact, it took a while for me to get acclimated and understand exactly...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Oct 2, 2021
- 4 min
The Mad Genius (1931)
When I think of Michael Curtiz, I automatically associate him with Casablanca (1942.) I forget the number of classic horror films he...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Jun 28, 2021
- 3 min
The Seventh Victim (1943)
I run to death, and death meets me as fast, and all my pleasures are like yesterday. Holy sonnet VII, Jonne Donne The Seventh Victim...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Apr 5, 2021
- 3 min
The Monster & the Girl (1941)
Universal monster movies from the 1940s have a distinct look. Had I not seen the Paramount logo at the beginning of The Monster & the...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Nov 30, 2020
- 4 min
A Night of Terror (1937)
Get out your whiteboards and markers for this one… In 1924, Agatha Christie (you may have heard of her) wrote a short story called,...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Aug 17, 2020
- 3 min
The Undying Monster (1942)
It doesn’t take a stretch of the imagination to believe Twentieth Century-Fox was eager to capitalize on the success of Universal’s The...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Jul 6, 2020
- 3 min
The Man with Nine Lives (1940)
Added to the many miracles performed by modern science that have accounted for the saving of thousands upon thousands of human beings,...
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Classic Horrors Club
- May 25, 2020
- 3 min
The Return of Doctor X (1939)
Talk about a bad rap! All right, The Return of Doctor X (1939) isn’t a fantastic movie; however, with a running time that's barely an...
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Classic Horrors Club
- May 4, 2020
- 5 min
Ripped from the Headlines: Return of the Ape Man (1944)
Return of the Ape Man (1944) opens with an ominous headline: A hand pulls a lever in a laboratory and Professor Dexter (Bela Lugosi)...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Apr 27, 2020
- 5 min
Ripped from the Headlines: The Ape Man (1943)
The Ape Man (1943) opens with members of the press waiting for a ship to dock. A newspaper story provides further exposition: Doctor...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Sep 2, 2019
- 3 min
Movie of the Week: The Black Room (1935)
Although produced by Columbia Pictures, the graveyard sets in The Black Room (1935) are as gorgeous as any number of Universal Pictures...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Aug 12, 2019
- 3 min
Movie of the Week: The Vampire Bat (1933)
The set-up for The Vampire Bat (1933) couldn't be any simpler and it's established in the film's opening moments. Bats fill the sky on a...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Aug 5, 2019
- 2 min
Movie of the Week: The Raven (1935)
When I recently re-watched The Raven (1935), I didn’t remember liking it as much the first time I saw it. In fact, if comparing it to my...
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