Author Archives: Jeff Kuykendall
More Hammer (and Amicus) on Blu-Ray
DVD Drive-In has announced that Legend Films will be releasing a double-feature Blu-Ray upgrade of two of the titles they released a couple years back on DVD: The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959), an early Hammer horror of the … Continue reading
Posted in The Lobby
Tagged 50's, 60's, Amicus, Christopher Lee, Hammer, horror, Peter Cushing
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The Seventh Victim (1943)
This is my favorite of the Val Lewton-produced films, a very curious mixture of horror and film noir that fans of either genre should embrace with equal zeal. Mark Robson was not as naturally gifted a director as Jacques Tourneur, … Continue reading
Posted in Theater Caligari
Tagged 40's, film noir, horror, Satanism, Val Lewton
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Double Feature: Not of This Earth (1957/1988)
The plot of Roger Corman’s Not of This Earth (1957) is simple and efficient B-movie fare: a space vampire named Mr. Johnson (Paul Birch) is killing off Earthlings and draining them of blood with a device he carries in his … Continue reading
Posted in Double Feature, Theater Fantastique
Tagged 50's, 80's, cheesecake, Dick Miller, horror, Roger Corman, Science Fiction, Vampire
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