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The Universal Horror Collection Volume 1 is a Scream Factory Blu-ray box set release that includes four films co-starring the horror icons: The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1934), The …
Island of Lost Souls is a 1932 American science fiction horror feature film directed by Erle C. Kenton (House of Dracula; House of Frankenstein) from a screenplay co-written by science fiction writer Philip Wylie. …
Read More‘Some fans love you to death’ 13 Fanboy is a forthcoming American slasher horror feature film co-produced and directed by Deborah Voorhees (who, as an actress, appeared in Appointment with …
Read MoreThe Dark Eyes of London - aka The Human Monster - is a 1939 British horror film directed by Walter Summers from a screenplay co-written with Patrick Kirwan and John …
Read MoreMurders in the Rue Morgue is a 1932 American horror feature film directed by Robert Florey (The Beast with Five Fingers) from a screenplay co-written with Ethel M. Kelly, Tom Reed …
Read More‘The king of horror thrills… excites… terrifies… as a doctor-turned-demon!’ The Man They Could Not Hang is a 1939 American science fiction horror feature film directed by Nick Grinde (The …
Read MoreUniversal Classic Monsters: Complete 30-Film Collection is a Blu-ray set being released in North America on August 28, 2018. “Showcases all of the original films featuring the most iconic monsters …
Read More‘She was not alive… nor dead… just a’ White Zombie is a 1932 American supernatural horror feature film directed and produced by brothers Victor Halperin and Edward Halperin. The screenplay by Garnett Weston tells the story …
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The Phantom is a 1931 American thriller film written and directed by Alan James (as Alvin Neitz). It stars Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams, Allene Ray, and Niles Welch. Review: An ‘Old Dark House’ thriller haphazardly …
Read More‘Things you never saw before or ever dreamed of!’ The Black Cat - aka The Vanishing Body (reissue) and House of Doom (UK title) - is a 1934 American horror film directed …
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Tower of London is a 1939 American historical and quasi-horror film produced and directed by Rowland V. Lee (Son of Frankenstein) from a screenplay by his brother Robert N. Lee for Universal Pictures. It …
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The bizarre practice of shrinking a human head has an extremely dark history. While numerous cultures have participated in the practice of headhunting, the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Peruvian Amazon Jivaro …
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“The Hearse Song” is a song about burial and human decomposition, of unknown origin. It was initially popular as a World War I song, and was widely sung in the …
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The Vampire Bat is a 1933 American horror film directed by Frank R. Strayer (Condemned to Live; The Monster Walks) from a screenplay by Edward T. Lowe (House of Dracula; House of Frankenstein). …
Read MoreWilliam Peter Blatty (January 7, 1928 – January 12, 2017) was an American writer and filmmaker. The Exorcist, written in 1971, is his most well-known novel; he also wrote the screenplay …
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For some, all the world’s a stage, for others, a battlefield. Circumstances sometimes mean that these two options are thrust upon a person, both socially and as a career. It’s …
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‘Sex and horror in one gigantic thrill show!’ Revolt of the Zombies is a 1936 American horror film directed and produced by the Halperin Brothers which stars Dean Jagger and Dorothy Stone. It is one of …
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Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917 - September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, horror, fantasy and science fiction, from Milwaukee,Wisconsin. Bloch is best known as the writer of …
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The art of selling a movie, particularly a horror movie, is often based on a distinctive and memorable ad campaign. An intriguing, horrific or even repellent image - aligned with a few …
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The act of slaying one or more of your fellow human beings in a ritual, usually as a token to a God or spiritual ancestors, extends back to the first …
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“A terrible thought crept like a snake into my mind - hunting was beginning to bore me.” Like calamitous oceanic buses, two shipwrecks have left Bob Rainsford (Joel McCrae) and …
Read More‘Mascot’s mirthful mystery’ One Frightened Night is a 1935 American comedy mystery thriller feature film directed by Christy Cabanne (The Mummy’s Hand; Scared to Death) from a screenplay by Wellyn …
Read MoreAngus Scrimm (born Lawrence Rory Guy; August 19, 1926 – January 9, 2016) was an American actor and author, best known for playing the Tall Man in the 1979 horror …
Read MoreHoward Phillips Lovecraft aka H.P. Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only …
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Mad Love - aka The Hands of Orlac - is a 1935 American horror film, an adaptation of Maurice Renard’s story The Hands of Orlac. The film was directed by German-émigré film …
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Betty Boop’s Hallowe’en Party is a 1933 American animated short film directed by Dave Fleischer and produced by Max Fleischer. It stars Betty Boop, obviously. Plot: It’s Halloween, and Jack Frost (in his ice-covered airplane) covers …
Read MoreHorror films and westerns are two of cinema’s great mainstays, having established their distinct identities and sets of conventions in the earliest days of the medium. So distinct from each …
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Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English actor, singer, and author. With a career spanning nearly seventy years, Lee initially portrayed villains and became …
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Montague “Monty” Rhodes James OM, MA, FBA (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936), who used the publication name M. R. James, was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost …
Read MoreThe Loch Ness Monster, also called Nessie, is a cryptid that reputedly inhabits the Loch Ness lake in the Scottish Highlands. It is similar to other supposed lake monsters in …
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