What’s On Shudder: August 2023
Here’s what’s playing on Shudder this month. Click on any title with a hyperlink to see our review. August 1: Dagon, Dolls, The Dunwich Horror, From Beyond, The Haunted Palace, Manfish, Vampire and Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break August 7: Tower: A Bright Day and Monument August 11: The Communion Girl August 14: Elizabeth Harvest, A Dark Song, American Latina August 18: Bad Things […]
The Rat Savior (1976)
Directed by Krsto Papic, who wrote the script with Ivo Bresan and Alexander Grin (who wrote Morgiana), The Rat Savior is the tale of writer Ivan Gajski (Ivica Vidovic). He’s been evicted from his apartment for failing to pay the rent, as he has no money as no publisher will buy his novel about a plague. […]
Shadow of the Cat (1961)
The butler did do it. Ella Venable (Catherine Lacey) has been murdered by Andrew the butler (Andrew Crawford) and her body buried on her estate, a plot concocted by him, Ella’s husband Walter (André Morell) and Clara the maid (Freda Jackson). They didn’t count on Tabitha, Ella’s cat. The only witness to the crime, she […]
Thunder of Gigantic Serpent (1988)
This movie is why I keep on writing. Take King of Snake, also known as Da She Wang, a movie directed by Yu-Lung Hsu and starring Danny Lee — Infra-Man! — as Dr. Ling, an inventor who makes R19, a drug that can transform organic matter into gigantic things. Maybe that would be a good idea […]
Island Claws (1980)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jennifer Upton is an American (non-werewolf) writer/editor in London. She currently works as a freelance ghostwriter of personal memoirs and writes for several blogs on topics as diverse as film history, punk rock, women’s issues, and international politics. For links to her work, please visit https://www.jennuptonwriter.com or send her a Tweet @Jennxldn Island Claws was […]
HAVE SOME VALLEY NIGHTMARES THIS WEEK ON THE DIA DOUBLE FEATURE
This Saturday at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube channels, Roger Braden from Valley Nightmares will join Bill and me. Up first — Fright Night II, which you can find on YouTube. Each week, we watch movies, discuss them, look at their ads and make a drink for each one. Here’s the first recipe: […]
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