Category Archives: Theater Caligari

Horrors of Spider Island (1960)

Posted on June 20, 2020 at 7:23 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

The 1960 German film Horrors of Spider Island (Ein Toter hing im Netz, or “A Corpse Hangs in the Web,” among its many titles) is famously terrible – it was deservedly included in the tenth season of Mystery Science Theater … Continue reading →

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The Last Man on Earth (1964)

Posted on June 10, 2020 at 7:21 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel I Am Legend is one of the 20th century’s most influential pieces of genre fiction, the saga of a weary, grief-ravaged man who believes that he’s the last of his kind on Earth, all others having … Continue reading →

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The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

Posted on June 8, 2020 at 2:03 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

Essentially the second half of a diptych with the horror classic Doctor X (1932), The Mystery of the Wax Museum is another Warner Bros. horror film starring Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray, directed by the great Michael Curtiz, and filmed … Continue reading →

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