La Residencia

Saturday, July 26th, 2008 by Carlos Lohan -

La Residencia   laresidencia 80x120 dramaDirector: Narciso Ibañez Serrador
Writers: Juan Tebar & Narciso Ibañez Serrador
Release Year: 1969
English title: The House That Screamed

The horror of all-girl schools: Spanish style!

This little known Spanish shocker tells the story of a naive teenage girl who arrives at a boarding school with a very dark (and dangerous) secret, all told in the most spooky and stylish way possible.

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The Face at the Window

Saturday, June 21st, 2008 by J. Luis Rivera -

The Face at the WindowDirector: George King
Writers: Ronald Fayre, A.R. Rawlinson & Randall Faye, based on a play by Brooke Warren
Release year: 1939

Horror and mystery with the master of Victorian melodrama!

While in the U.S a British actor with the stage name of Boris Karloff was becoming the ultimate icon of the horror genre in American cinema during the decade of the 30s, another British actor was doing exactly the same for the industry of the United Kingdom. His name was, quite appropriately, Tod Slaughter, and even when his work was focused mainly on stage, through the 30s and 40s he brought to the silver screen his talent for playing the charismatic villains of the grim Victorian melodramas.

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The Pit And The Pendulum

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 by Vomitron -

The Pit And The PendulumDirector: Roger Corman
Writer: Richard Matheson based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe
Release Year: 1961

Roger Corman has always been a versatile film-maker and a very productive one at it too. He can also be considered a pioneer of genre movies for more than one reason, and one could be that he was already shocking audiences at the end of a movie since the early sixties.

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