Author Archives: Jeff Kuykendall
Dead of Night (1945)
The anthology film Dead of Night (1945) has an insidiously unsettling quality which sinks slowly into you, seemingly out of nowhere, but stretching into your veins like a virus. Quite literally, watching it is to step into a nightmare, one … Continue reading
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Tagged 40's, Basil Dearden, Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Christmas, Comedy, dummy, Ealing, Ghosts, golfing, H.G. Wells, horror, Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Robert Hamer, Surreal, ventriloquist
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Double Feature: Mad Doctor of Blood Island (1969)/Beast of Blood (1970)
Having already taken a look at the first two titles in Severin’s limited edition box set The Blood Island Collection – Terror is a Man (1959) and Brides of Blood (1968) – let’s move on to our last pair of … Continue reading
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Tagged 60's, 70's, Eddie Romero, Gerry de Leon, horror, John Ashley, Mad Scientist, severed head
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Double Feature: Terror is a Man (1959)/Brides of Blood (1968)
Severin Films’ new Blu-ray set The Blood Island Collection (initially available as a limited edition box set; 3 of the 4 films are also for sale individually) brings together the full series of notorious horror films set on the titular … Continue reading
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Tagged 50's, 60's, Beverly Hills, Blood Island, Eddie Romero, Francis Lederer, Gerry de Leon, Greta Thyssen, Hemisphere, horror, John Ashley, Kane W. Lynn, Kent Taylor, Killer Plant, mutants, Richard Derr
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