2024 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 3: Rainbow (2022)
3. BLURRING THE LINES: Magical realism is the key for today’s witnessing. Dora (Dora Postigo) has been raised by her father Diego (Hovik Keuchkerian) but has always heard that she looks nothing like him and everything like her mother Piral. Yet she has no memories and asks her father for his. She decides to seek […]
UNSUNG HORRORS HORROR GIVES BACK 2024: Maligno (1977)
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: Philippines Celso Ad. Castillo made Patayin sa Sindak […]
I HOPE YOU SUFFER OCTOBER FILM CHALLENGE: Amityville In the Hood (2021)
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. First, there was Amityville Toybox, in which a cursed toy monkey from the house on 112 Ocean Avenue caused chaos. That was followed by Amityville Clownhouse, which amped up the Satanic […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Castle of the Living Dead (1964)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Castle of the Living Dead was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, February 5, 1972 at 1:00 a.m. Castle of the Living Dead is a movie of mystery. Who directed it? Warren Kiefer, who couldn’t be directly credited for the film as the film required an Italian director? Herbert Wise — Luciano Ricci, the film’s first […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The Black Cat (1941)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Black Cat was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, January 4, 1975 at 1:00 a.m.; Saturday, August 28, 1976 at 1:00 a.m.; Saturday, July 23 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, June 11, 1983 at 1:00 a.m. Cat lady Henrietta Winslow (Cecilia Loftus) lives in what looks like a haunted house. But that’s where […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Cat Girl (1957)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Cat Girl was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, November 28, 1964 at 1:00 a.m.; Saturday, July 3, 1965 at 11:20 p.m. and Saturday, August 6, 1966 at 1:00 a.m. An unofficial remake of Cat People, this Alfred Shaughnessy-directed (he wrote Upstairs Downstairs) film is all about Leonora Johnson (Barbara Shelley, perhaps Hammer’s best-known female actress […]
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