Category Archives: Theater Caligari
Thirteen Women (1932)
Twelve women – friends who were formerly sorority sisters – write to that great fortune-teller, the Swami Yogadachi (C. Henry Gordon), asking that he read their horoscopes. Each receives a doom-laden response. “It is ordained that someone close to you … Continue reading
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Tagged 30's, horror, Myrna Loy, psychic
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Fascination (1979)
Following Lips of Blood (1975), an artistic achievement in dream-like Gothic romanticism which he was financially compelled to re-edit and re-release as a bastardized, pornographic picture (Suce moi vampire), Jean Rollin entered the wilderness. He became Michel Gentil; he became … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's, Brigitte Lahaie, horror, Jean Rollin, Slasher
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This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse (1966)
Zé do Caixão, better known to English-speaking horror fans as Coffin Joe, is the creation of director José Mojica Marins, who began playing the character in At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul (1963), growing out his fingernails until they resembled … Continue reading
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Tagged 60's, Coffin Joe, horror, The Devil, Zombie
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