Director: George A. Romero
Writer: John A. Russo and George A. Romero
Release Year: 1968
They keep coming back in a bloodthirsty lust for HUMAN FLESH!…
I realise anyone who calls himself somewhat of a horror fan must’ve seen this movie already, but I couldn’t very well leave it out of our collection of public domain cult movies could I?
Director: Jack Hill
Writer: Jack Hill
Release year: 1968
Seductive Innocence of LOLITA… Savage hunger of a BLACK WIDOW!
Enjoy this fantastic flick about two inbred little sisters with a condition that turns them into infantile vicious little demons!
The full review for this movie can be found here.
Director: Bernard Vorhaus
Writer: Muriel Roy Bolton and Ian McLellan Hunter based on a story by Crane Wilbur
Release Year: 1948
When Horror and Film Noir collide!
Historically, it’s always thought that after living a time of great splendor in America during the first decade of sound, the horror genre disappeared in the 40s, the years of World War II, to cede its place to the propaganda of war films, the paranoia of spy films, and the cynicism of Film Noir. Horror is supposed to be dormant, only to be resurrected in the 50s with Atom era horrors and the films of Hammer Studio.
Director: Crane Wilbur
Writer: Crane Wilbur based on a story written by Avery Hopwood & Mary Roberts Rinehart
Release Year: 1959
The next scream you hear may be your own!
On a dark and stormy night, two women are trapped inside a mansion with a crazed killer, known only as The Bat. As the two women try to hide from The Bat, outside the police are looking for a million-dollar stash that was stolen from a nearby bank. Can the police find the money in time before it’s lost forever and can they rescue the women before The Bat kills them both? It’s easy to see that this movie is a great mystery thriller but I think it serves as a great slasher movie as well.
To commemerate Edgar Allan Poe’s 200th birthday this very day, I thought it would be appropriate to break my rule of one movie a week and present you these wonderful films based on Poe’s story The Fall of the House of Usher. Both films are made in 1928 and are silent movies. If you don’t want to offend Edgar Allan Poe’s ghost, you should at least watch the fantastic surreal shortfilm by James Sibley Watson, but if you want to show his rotting corpse the respect it so deserves you’d better watch the full movie by Jean Epstein too.
