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Exploito All’Italiana: Poliziotto Sprint / ‘Highway Racer’ (Stelvio Massi, 1977)
Stelvio Massi’s appealingly titled ‘Poliziotto Sprint’ [less attractively/ accurately released as ‘Highway Racer’ in English-speaking territories] stands out as a real oddity in the canon of late ‘70s...
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Krimi Casebook: Monk with a Whip (Alfred Vohrer, 1967)
There are few things in life I enjoy more than a mid-week Krimi. Settling down with a glass of single malt to savour the delights of ‘Monk with a Whip’, aka ‘The College Girl Murders’, whilst my...
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Horror Non-Express Disclaimer / Urgent Hammer Vampire Update.
As you will have noted, today is the 1st of October - the date upon which, for the past few years at least, this blog has launched an annual posting marathon, providing some suitably horror-centric new...
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Monster Books # 1: Monsters Galore ‘resurrected’ by Bernhardt J. Hurwood...
One curious phenomenon birthed by the commercial imperatives of mid 20th century paperback publishing is that of what I like to call MONSTER BOOKS; hastily thrown together compendiums of public domain...
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Gothic Originals: La Cripta e L’Incubo / ‘Crypt of the Vampire’ (Camillo...
One of the more frequently overlooked entries in Italy’s cycle of ‘60s gothic horrors, ‘La Cripta e L’incubo’ had escaped my attention prior to its re-emergence this year as part of Severin’s Eurocrypt...
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Monster Books # 2: Family Ghosts by Elliot O’Donnell (Consul, 1965)
In contrast to the horror/monster-related expectations raised by the eye-catching cover, Elliot O’Donnell’s subject here is, quite literally, ‘family ghosts’, and, without providing a contents page or...
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Horror Express: Beast From Haunted Cave (Monte Hellman, 1959)
Woe betide anyone who comes to this Gene Corman-produced quickie looking for the roots of the late Monte Hellman’s later, auteurist films. I suspect Hellman was just getting to grips with the basics of...
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Horror Express: A Reencarnação do Sexo / ‘The Reincarnation of Sex’ (Luiz...
‘80s Brazilian sex-horror films don’t come down the pike very often round these parts, so you’ll need to forgive the total lack of cultural context and background info in the review that follows. But,...
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Monster Books # 3: 1st Armada Monster Book edited by R. Chetwynd-Hayes...
A lighter, more family-friendly take on the ‘monster book’ concept here, from children’s imprint Armada, cover artwork by hands unknown. As you will note, this one has the distinction of being edited...
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Nippon Horrors: Girl Divers of Spook Mansion [Ama no Bakemono Yashiki]...
After hitting on the idea that making films about the female Ama divers of Japan’s remote coastal communities could prove a great way to get red-blooded males into cinemas, Shintoho studios must have...
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DEAD EARS OF LONDON:Being Thee 11th Stereo Sanctity/Breakfast in the Ruins...
As is traditional, eighty-something minutes of ultra-creepy sounds to get you in the mood for next weekend’s festivities.Mainly contemporary stuff this time around, and don’t expect many toe-tapping...
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Delayed Express.
Well, I hope everybody had a good Halloween weekend. I’m painfully aware that I rather flunked by responsibilities this October, vis-à-vis keeping a steady stream of relatively brief ‘Horror Express’...
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Pre-War Thrills: Dark Eyes of London (Walter Summers, 1939)
Until recently, I’d tended to accept the received wisdom that the few, scattered, horror films made in the UK during the 1930s were pretty creaky and timid affairs, their ambition stymied both by the...
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Deathblog: Dean Stockwell (1936-2021)
A bit of a belated deathblog I’m afraid, but it goes without saying that I was really sad to hear that Dean Stockwell had passed away this week, and didn’t want to let the moment pass without offering...
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Horror Express / Gothic Originals: Flesh For Frankenstein (Paul Morrissey, 1973)
As part of my portfolio of horror-related activities this October, I decided to belatedly revisit the two “Andy Warhol”/Paul Morrissey horror films for the first time in many years, purely to try to...
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Horror Express / Gothic Originals: Blood For Dracula (Paul Morrissey, 1974)
On first viewing, ‘Blood for Dracula’ was by far my favourite of the two Paul Morrissey / Udo Kier horror films. Long story short: upon returning to the film for the first time in many years, my...
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Horror Express: Night Visitor (Rupert Hitzog, 1989)
It is the 1980s, in anonymous American suburbia. Generic off-brand hair metal blasts from the radios of shiny new convertibles, as obnoxious, sub-Michael J. Fox high school wise-acres cruise around the...
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Horror Express: The Devil Commands (Edward Dmytryk, 1941)
Darker, creepier and more intense than the other ‘mad doctor’ movies Boris Karloff made for Columbia between 1939 and 1941, this fourth and final instalment in the loosely connected series finds...
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Horror Express: A Name For Evil (Bernard Girard, 1973)
Goddamn hippies. They turn up when you least expect it, don’t they? I thought I had pretty much mapped out the entirety of the ‘hippie horror’ sub-genre a few years back (around the time I started...
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BEST FIRST TIME VIEWINGS: 2021 (part # 1 of 3)
I realise I’m getting started on this list pretty late this time around, for which apologies, but, we’re all living with delays at the moment, right? Post, vinyl pressing, medical procedures… weblogs?...
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