Category Archives: Theater Caligari
A Halloween Marathon, Midnight Only-Style
In years past I’ve proposed 24 hour horror marathons on this site, as a method to just recommend a bunch of great horror films – but this year I’m not going to be quite as rigorous. Having just put myself … Continue reading
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Tagged 60's, 70's, 80's, Christopher Lee, Coffin Joe, Dario Argento, Deborah Kerr, Dracula, Ghosts, Halloween Marathon, Hammer, Haunted House, horror, Jack Clayton, Japan, John Carpenter, Linda Hayden, Susan Strasberg, Tommy Lee Wallace, Val Lewton, Vampire, Vincent Price
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Deep Red (1975)
Dario Argento’s Deep Red (Profondo Rosso, 1975) is a suffocating film, as if you can slowly feel a noose tightening around your neck. Although it was not to be his last giallo, it’s perhaps his maximum giallo. It is also a horror … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's, Creepy Dolls, Daria Nicolodi, Dario Argento, David Hemmings, giallo, Goblin, horror, Italy, Mystery, psychic, Slasher
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The Mummy (1959)
The Mummy (1959) was the third in Hammer’s classic trilogy of Peter Cushing/Christopher Lee match-ups, revisiting and revitalizing classic monsters of horror. The first, The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), completely reimagined the Mary Shelley novel and, like the studio’s earlier SF … Continue reading
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Tagged 50's, Christopher Lee, Egypt, Hammer, horror, Mummy, Peter Cushing
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