Burning, The

The slasher genre had been alive and kicking for a good few years before The Burning (1981) came along, but even at this early stage in the game, its summer camp setting felt pretty old hat. Starring Brian Mathews, Leah Ayres, Jason Alexander, Fish...

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Carrie

While considering their roles in Carrie (1976), Sissy Spacek and John Travolta probably never imagined they would long be remembered for their part in one of the most acclaimed horror movies. Based on the novel by horror-master Stephen King, and di...

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Dark Night of the Scarecrow

By all accounts, 1981's Dark Night of the Scarecrow shouldn't have startled a tree stump. The title monster is something Dorothy would shuffle down the Yellow Brick Road with, and having been made for broadcast television, graphic content i...

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Hangover Square

In Hangover Square George Harvey Bone (Laird Cregar) is a classical composer living in Hangover Square in London and suffering from periods of blackouts, disillusionments and dizziness. When Sir Henry Chapman (Alan Napier) invites George to finish ...

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Incredible Melting Man, The

The Incredible Melting Man (1977) is part of the newest selection of films released in MGM's Limited Edition Collection. The ‘70s was a lot about space travel, so that this film is about an a few astronauts heading off to space is not so unus...

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Living Ghost, The

The Living Ghost (1942) is part of the newest selection of films released in MGM's Limited Edition Collection. A spoof on a horror film that wants to be a comedy isn't great, but it didn't make me want to fast-forward through it either....

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Lodger, The

This remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1927 silent film about Jack the Ripper, and based on Marie Belloc Lowndes's book, was very well done. In addition to the terror plot, the scenes of London's Victorian actress Kitty Langley (Merle Oberon...

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Mummy, The 1932 DVD

The Mummy (1932) stars Boris Karloff and Zita Johann as two lovers separated by millennia. The tragic romance is tinged with enough of the supernatural to make their story much deeper than the average fright film. This was unlike most  Universal Pi...

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Undying Monster, The

Adapted from Jessie Douglas Kerruish's novel, The Undying Monster (1942) is another early picture about the myth that a man can become a werewolf and turn into a wolf late at night and stalk victims. The Hammond family lives in a gated English ...

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