Issue 45 of The Monster Times has Horror Themes for the Taping, an interview with John Carradine, the Teletype and Trek Talk, and coverage on Bug! and Jaws mania. For horror comics fans, Atlas' Monsters and Heroes gives a good rundown on their horrific comics. Enjoy.
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The City of the Dead (although I prefer the more sensational U.S. title, Horror Hotel) was a staple for horror television back in the black and white days. Milton Subotsky rewrote the script and produced it, so this pretty much makes it the first Amicus production. And a good one it is, too. The poster art is killer.
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Fellow Zombos' Closet denizen Matthew Banks was super enough to send over some PDFs from the Internet Archive for Castle of Frankenstein. (Thanks!) They are posting a lot of monster mags for posterity (you'll see quite a few from ZC, too, with due credit of course; unlike some bloggers who simply grab my scans). But the Internet Archive doesn't capture the magazines in stunning horrific color like ZC does 🙂 Anyhow, the PDF quality is poor (though there are other formats you can download), so here's the Comic reader version instead: Download Castle of Frankenstein Issue 20
In this issue of CoF, the Ray Harryhausen interview concludes, Vault of Horror gets buried in coverage, and The Frankenstein TV Movie Guide gives the lowdown on what horrors you could see on the small screen…maybe…depending on when it was aired. Of course, we just stream everything and binge watch now. We are so spoiled. There's also lots of letters coverage and book reviews. (And for more magazines to read late at night, under the bedsheets, go to the magazine morgue.) Special thanks to Matthew Banks for reminding me to get the rest of the CoF and The Monster Times magazines posted. Your wish is my command!)
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How can you go wrong with an Italian horror starring Barbara Steele and a German one with Klaus Kinski? A solid double bill of terror.
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The Ghost (1963) and
Dead Eyes of London (1961)
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I don't know which movie (or television series) this lobby card is for but it packs a wallop with just two illustrations that let your mind's eye sum to a terror-sell for seeing it.
One of the more out-there illustrations for a horror movie. Mother gives birth to baby possessed by dwarf she once spurned. That's pretty out-there too.
Funny how you can take a lively television animated series and make it a dull and lifeless-actioner for the big screen. Costuming was especially lazy, and would it have hurt to inject some humor–any humor–into this misfire?
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It's on YouTube, but in Spanish. Lo siento. See beautiful female aliens handling 1960s "futuristic" set design on a minuscule budget.
Yes, in the movie, she does fight crime in her bikini outfit. Some crazy scientist is grabbing wrestlers for their spinal fluid to make a gill man. Every villain needs a gill man. Now that I know about her, I'm sorry she never hooked up with Adam West's Batman. You can see a trailer on YouTube and grab a 27×40 poster on Amazon. Not that I ordered it or anything like that, of course.
Of course the original title, Night of the Demon, wasn't sensational enough for American distribution, so they went and spiced it up with the change to Curse of the Demon, while splicing out some minutes of the original running time, too, unwisely. This is an excellent supernatural horror that is brought home by the appearance of the demon (a hotly contested point to be sure), another Americanization, over the objections of director and writer Jacques Tourneur and Charles Bennett. For an engrossing read on the movie's production trials and tribulations, get Tony Earnshaw's book, Beating the Devil: The Making of the Night of the Demon.
I found out about this movie after reading Night Gallery: An After Hours Tour (which I highly recommend). Dark Intruder was the pilot for a potential series for television called The Black Cloak, produced by Jack Laird. Dailymotion is currently offering a slightly blurry copy for view, and it's well worth the time spent.
Here's the pressbook to whet your appetite. Bon appetite.
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The colorful and provocative cover for this 1948 movie pressbook caught my eye. I'm sure Forbidden Women was a spliced together cheapie set for drive-in consumption. Lloyd Friedgen also released the "throbbing drama of shackled youth" Child Bride (1938). He also edited some episodes of The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (1968). Go figure.
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