2024 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 1: Moonrunners (1975)
1. JUMP-OFF POINT: Kick off the Challenge festivities by watching a movie that inspired a TV series. The first time I watched Moonrunners, it was a strange realitization halfway through that I was watching The Dukes of Hazzard, except instead of being silly, it was depressing. I learned later — years later, the internet had to be […]
UNSUNG HORRORS HORROR GIVES BACK 2024: The Mummy’s Curse (1944)
Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which is working to save the lives of cats and dogs all across America, giving pets second chances and happy homes. Today’s theme: Universal Horror The fifth entry in Universal’s original […]
I HOPE YOU SUFFER OCTOBER FILM CHALLENGE: Amityville Death House (2015)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The I Hope You Suffer podcast said that “Since everybody is doing these movie challenges now, we made the only one worth doing.” Bring the pain. Mark Polonia also made Empire of the Apes, so it stands to wonder why he waited so long to make a cash-in on the Amityville series. I mean, this […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Swamp of the Lost Monsters (1957)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Swamp of the Lost Monsters was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, September 20 at 11:20 p.m. and Saturday, January 2 at 1 a.m. A small Mexican village is dealing with not just the death of a man, but the fact that his body has disappeared too. Now, his brother and a cowboy detective […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Before I Hang (1940)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Before I Hang was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, June 4, 1966 at 11:20 p.m. and Saturday June 14, 1969 at 11:30 p.m. Another in the series of mad scientist movies starring Boris Karloff for Columbia, this was directed by Nick Grinde and written by Robert Hardy Andrews. Karloff is Dr. John Garth […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Not of This Earth (1957)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Not of This Earth was on Chiller Theater on Sunday, January 19, 1964 at 11:10 p.m.; Saturday, February 6, 1965 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, September 16, 1967 at 1:00 a.m. At 67 minutes, this movie was made to be shown with Attack of the Crab Monsters. Its stars Paul Birch as Mr. […]
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