MILL CREEK THRILLERS FROM THE VAULT: The Return of the Vampire (1943)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was originally on the site on April 21, 2022. This isn’t an official sequel to the 1931 Universal Studios film Dracula but it really feels like it, except that Lugosi’s name is Armand Tesla and this is made by Columbia. This would be the actor’s last major studio movie. Lady Jane Ainsley […]
MILL CREEK THRILLERS FROM THE VAULT: The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942)
The last movie Karloff made under his contract with Columbia Pictures and filmed in after his success in the 1941 Broadway production of Arsenic and Old Lace, this is the last of the Columbia Karloff as mad scientist films and is a comedy version of that story. It was directed by Lew Landers (The Return […]
NEW WORLD PICTURES MONTH: Beast of the Yellow Night (1971)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was originally on the site on January 17, 2020. Eddie Romero directing and John Ashley starring? That was all I really needed to know. Man, anything remotely connected with these two — like the Blood Island films — and I’m ready to go. This was also the first release for Roger Corman’s distribution […]
NEW WORLD PICTURES MONTH: The Student Nurses (1970)
When Roger Corman got New World Pictures running, he hired Stephanie Rothman — who started working for him since 1964 as his assistant — to write and direct its second film. Rothman had no idea what an exploitation movie was until she saw a review that called her movie one. She said to Interview, “I had […]
NEW WORLD PICTURES MONTH: Scream of the Demon Lover (1970)
Scream of the Demon Lover goes by many names. Blood Castle. Il castello dalle porte di fuoco (The Castle With Doors of Fire). El Castillo de Frankenstein. Killers of the Castle of Blood. Altar of Blood. El asesino del castillo sangriento (The Bloody Castle Killer). Scream of the Demon Lover. Le monstre du château (The Castle Monster). Murhaaja kauhujen linnassa (The Murderer In the Castle of Horrors, […]
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