Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival: With Love and a Major Organ (2023)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joseph Perry writes for the film websites Gruesome Magazine, The Scariest Things, Horror Fuel and Diabolique Magazine; for the film magazines Phantom of the Movies’ VideoScope and Drive-In Asylum; and for the pop culture websites When It Was Cool and Uphill Both Ways. He is also one of the hosts of When […]
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival: Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
The film Jaromil Jires, directed before this one, 1969’s The Joke, has been described as “possibly the most shattering indictment of totalitarianism to come out of a Communist country.” As a result, it was banned for nearly twenty years. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is based on the 1935 Vítezslav Nezval novel. Much like that […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? aired on the CBS Late Movie on October 31, 1973 and March 8 and June 1, 1976. Following the success of What’s the Matter with Helen?, Curtis Harrington directed this intriguing psycho-biddy film. In it, Mrs. Rosie Forrest (Shelley Winters), the Aunty Roo of the title, is known by the children […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: The House That Screamed (1969)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The House That Screamed aired on the CBS Late Movie on January 30, 1973 and June 14, 1974. Spain’s first major horror film production, The House that Screamed—AKA La Residencia and The Boarding School—was based on a story by Juan Tébar. Because the cast included both English and Spanish actors, the film was shot in both languages and […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Curse of Frankenstein aired on the CBS Late Movie on May 24 and September 21, 1972 and June 28, 1974. Hammer was initially founded in 1934 by William Hinds, whose stage name was Will Hammer, as he grew up in the Hammersmith section of London. They produced the now-lost The Public Life of Henry the Ninth […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: The Green Slime (1968)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Green Slime was on the CBS Late Movie four times: March 23 and November 20, 1972; January 25, 1974 and March 10, 1976. Known in Japan as Ganmā Daisan Gō: Uchū Daisakusen or Gamma 3: The Great Space War, this was directed by Kinji Fukasaku (Battles Without Honor or Humanity, Battle Royale, Message from Space) and written […]
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival: Nightsiren (2022)
Two decades after a tragedy with her sister, Šarlota — pronounced Charlotta — comes back to her remote mountain hometown in Slovakia to claim an inheritance left by her dead mother. Yet when she gets there, her mother’s house has burned to the ground. Staying in her former neighbor’s abandoned cabin — rumored to have […]
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