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Karloff Comes Back as The Walking Dead (1936)
Decades before zombies marched through Georgia on TV, a mechanical heart–based on a device co-designed by Charles Lindbergh–brought executed convict Boris Karloff back to life in The Waking Dead. Guest blogger Cliff Alpierti reviews the 1936 chiller.
Read more →Six Pix: Summer
Six Pix presents a sextet of movie posters representing a particular actor/director/genre. You pick the one you feel is visually the most artistic or best sums up the film. In this installment we welcome the weekend solstice with a salute to summer.
Read more →The President’s Analyst: Spoofing Spies, Hippies and the Phone Company
Renowned New York psychiatrist James Coburn’s professional and personal worlds are turned upside down when he takes on a new patient, the President of the United States, in the wild ’67 comedy The President’s Analyst, reviewed here as part of the 1967 in Film Blogathon.
Read more →Tarzan’s Revenge
Glenn Morris played Tarzan once…and most think once was enough! A strange piece of trivia led me to sit down with “Tarzan’s Revenge”; let’s have a look now at one of the lesser-regarded entries in the apeman’s long screen history.
Read more →What’s Robert Mitchum’s Best Pre-1964 Film Role?
Debuting as a B-Western heavy in the early ’40s, Robert Mitchum would go on to become one of Hollywood’s top tough guys. This week’s poll asks for your pick for your favorite pre-1964 Mitchum performance.
Read more →This Week in Film History, 06.15.14
It’s been 54 years since theatergoers found themselves implored not to reveal the ending of
Alfred Hitchcock’s transformative stunner Psycho. We’ve many more Tinseltown tidbits to shower you with.
Underrated Films of the ’60s
Our nods to neglected cinema continue, as we look back from Camelot to Woodstock to cull a selection of flicks too good to forget.
Read more →Night Must Fall (1937): Dark Fantasy
Robert Montgomery earned an Academy Award nomination playing a handyman whose charming demeanor hides a deadly secret in Night Must Fall. Guest writer The Nitrate Diva shines a light on his chilling turn in the 1937 suspense classic, which co-starred Rosalind Russell.
Read more →Cannon Fodder: In Praise of Golan and Globus
During the videocassette’s boom years, Israeli producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus kept the output from Cannon Films coming, from prestige projects to pure exploitation. We’re looking back at a one-of-a-kind industry legacy.
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