THE MOVIES OF AL ADAMSON: Blood of Dracula’s Castle (1967)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jennifer Upton is an American (non-werewolf) writer/editor in London. She currently works as a ghostwriter of personal memoirs for Story Terrace London 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 […]
THE MOVIES OF AL ADAMSON: Blood of Ghastly Horror (1971)
Dr. Howard Vanard (John Carradine) implants a strange electronic machine into the brain of ‘Nam survivor Joe Corey (Roy Morton) who becomes a psychotic killer. This is the same story that we saw in The Fiend With the Electronic Brain. Joe Corey steals some diamonds and the jewels are thrown into the back of a pickup […]
THE MOVIES OF AL ADAMSON: The Fiend With the Synthetic Brain (1967)
The Fiend with the Electronic Brain is — sort of — Al Adamson’s 1965 movie Psycho-A-Go-Go which is also — sort of — Blood of Ghastly Horror. Psycho A-Go-Go is all about Joe Corey taking part in a diamond heist with the stolen contraband hidden inside a little girl’s doll when it isn’t about Tacey Robbins […]
Deaf Crocodile in December
Deaf Crocodile has two new releases: Bubble Bath: Hungarian director György Kovásznai’s wildly idiosyncratic animated musical is one of the most indescribably strange, personal and totally irresistible cartoon features ever made. A walking ball of anxieties, shop window decorator Zsolt (voiced by Kornél Gelley, with Albert Antalffy singing) bursts into the apartment of his fiancée’s […]
Fuzzy Head (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 […]
What’s On Shudder: December 2023
Here’s what’s playing on Shudder this month. Click on any title with a hyperlink to see our review. December 1: It’s a Wonderful Knife, Black Christmas, P2, Night of the Comet, To All a Good Night, The Children December 8: The Sacrifice Game December 11: Wendigo, Devil’s Pass, I Trapped the Devil December 15: Bay of Blood, Baron Blood, Black Sunday, Kill Baby Kill, Lisa and the Devil, The Evil […]
What’s On Arrow Player December 2023
December 1: Happy Horror-days! Celebrate trying to survive the festive season with a collection of cult films that are set around the holidays or are up to their knees in snow. Either way, there will be chills galore. From everyone at ARROW, we wish you Happy Horror-days! Titles include: Holiday Fear, The Leech, Chill Factor […]
THE MOVIES OF AL ADAMSON: Psycho-A-Go-Go (1965)
Al Adamson was the son of silent film stars Denver Dixon and Dolores Booth. After working on some of his father’s later films, he started his own production company with Sam Sherman called Independent-International Pictures. From tinting a Filipino horror movie neon hues and releasing it as a movie shot in Spectrum X — Horror of […]
THE MOVIES OF AL ADAMSON: Halfway to Hell (1960)
Al Adamson directed his first movie with his father, Victor, and wrote the script with Alan Greedy. His father was also the cowboy actor Denver Dixon. In the days before the Mexican Revolution, the daughter of a wealthy landowner named Maria San Carlos (Caroll Montour) is set to take part in an arranged marriage with […]
SUPPORTER DAY: Naked Came the Stranger (1975)
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