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Holiday Inn
Holiday Inn – Bing Crosby buys & renovates an old Inn, that’s only open on holidays. He & former partner Fred Astaire fight over Marjorie Reynolds
Read More »Holiday InnWeird Woman
Weird Woman (1944) starring Lon Chaney Jr., Anne Gwynne, Evelyn Ankers
Synopsis of Weird Woman
Weird Woman – When a college professor whose life work is the battle against superstition marries a beautiful woman with a voodoo background, the return to the university leads to bitterness, fighting, and murder. Is it due to voodoo — or something more mundane?
Read More »Weird WomanHouse of Frankenstein [monster movie]
House of Frankenstein (1944), starring Boris Karloff, John Carradine, Lon Chaney Jr., J. Carrol Naish, Glenn Strange, Lionel Atwill, Anne Gwynne, Peter Coe
Synopsis of House of Frankenstein
House of Frankenstein is the first of the Universal Studios monster mashes. In short, mad scientist Niemann and “friend Daniel” his hunchback assistant escape prison and enact a series of revenges on the people who had him imprisoned. They murder a proprietor of a travelling show of horrors, impersonate him and revive his corpse of Dracula. Dracula succeeds in the first part of the revenge scheme, but Niemann abandons him to be destroyed in the sunlight. Niemann then travels to the ruins of Frankenstein’s castle. He hopes to recover the dead doctor’s secrets, but instead recovers both the Wolf Man and Frankenstein’s monster. He revives them both, but a romantic triangle unravels the plot.
Read More »House of Frankenstein [monster movie]Isle of the Dead
Isle of the Dead (1949) starring Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew
Synopsis of Isle of the Dead
In Isle of the Dead, a group of disparate characters is quarantined on a Greek island during the Balkan Wars of 1912. Septicemic plague causes the quarantine, and the group’s only hope is for the hot, dry sirocco winds to kill the fleas that cause it. In addition, one of them suspects another of being the supernatural vorvolaka.
Read More »Isle of the DeadCyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950), starring José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince
Synopsis of Cyrano de Bergerac
France, 1640: Cyrano de Bergerac, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian.
Read More »Cyrano de BergeracIt! The Terror from Beyond Space
It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) starring Marshall Thompson, Shawn Smith, Kim Spalding
Synopsis of It! The Terror from Beyond Space
When his crew is brutally murdered on a Mars expedition, Commander Carruthers becomes the prime suspect. Taken into custody and facing a court-martial back on Earth, he discovers that the real killer is a grotesque monster. “It” has stowed aboard the earthbound ship. But the indestructible creature had already begun a harrowing in-flight rampage, knocking off the members of the crew, one by one. Now, as the spaceship heads home toward a panic-stricken Earth, the remaining crew must find some way to stop the unstoppable…”It! The Terror from Beyond Space”
Read More »It! The Terror from Beyond SpaceWaxwork
Waxwork (1988) starring Zach Galligan, Deborah Foreman, Michelle Johnson
Reviewed by: The Masked Reviewer
Waxwork begins with the robbery of a wealthy man who is brutally murdered by being set on fire. Decades later a wax museum opens up in the suburbs. One day the enigmatic owner appears out of nowhere and offers China (Michelle Johnson) and Sarah (Deborah Foreman) a free midnight showing with some of their friends.
Read More »WaxworkBlack Sabbath
Black Sabbath starring Boris Karloff, Michéle Mercier, Lidia Alfons, Mark Damon
Product Description of Black Sabbath
Mario Bava’s horror classic Black Sabbath (original Italian title: “Three Faces of Fear“) is a horror anthology. Boris Karloff hosts the stories, and stars in the most heartbreaking of them. An ex-lover terrorizes a beautiful woman who betrayed him, over the telephone. But he’s been executed … A family becomes a feeding ground when their father returns home wounded after ridding the countryside of a hideous vampire… The unknown haunts a nurse after stealing a ring from the finger of a dead medium!
Read More »Black SabbathCreature, aka. Titan Find
Creature, aka. Titan Find (1985) starring Stan Ivar, Klaus Kinski, Wendy Schaal, Lyman Ward, Robert Jaffe
Synopsis of Creature
When a mysterious canister is uncovered on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, a dormant, eons-old monster is released, making lunch of both the explorers who discovered it and the rival corporation’s exploration team, which investigates their disappearance.Read More »Creature, aka. Titan Find