Category Archives: Theater Caligari
Double Feature: Terror is a Man (1959)/Brides of Blood (1968)
Severin Films’ new Blu-ray set The Blood Island Collection (initially available as a limited edition box set; 3 of the 4 films are also for sale individually) brings together the full series of notorious horror films set on the titular … Continue reading
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Tagged 50's, 60's, Beverly Hills, Blood Island, Eddie Romero, Francis Lederer, Gerry de Leon, Greta Thyssen, Hemisphere, horror, John Ashley, Kane W. Lynn, Kent Taylor, Killer Plant, mutants, Richard Derr
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Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (1971)
Hammer’s Mummy series, unlike its Frankensteins and Draculas, offered no continuity between installments, which were released only sporadically. Following Terence Fisher’s The Mummy (1959), which capped a classic Peter Cushing/Christopher Lee monster trilogy that began with The Curse of Frankenstein … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's, Andrew Keir, Hammer, horror, Michael Carreras, Mummy, Seth Holt, severed hand, Valerie Leon
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The Old Dark House (1932)
Dismissed on these shores in its day, James Whale’s follow-up to Frankenstein (1931), The Old Dark House (1932), is something of a wonder with its graceful balance of comedy, romance, and a light dash of terror. Adapting the 1927 novel … Continue reading
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Tagged 30's, Boris Karloff, Charles Laughton, Ernest Thesiger, Gloria Stuart, horror, James Whale, Lilian Bond, Melvyn Douglas, Old Dark House, Raymond Massey
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