Homicidal (1961)
William Castle mortgaged his house and formed William Castle Productions in 1958. For his fifth movie after Macabre, House on Haunted Hill, The Tingler and 13 Ghosts, Castle had another of his gimmick ideas: the Fright Break. Before the end of the movie, a 45-second timer would tell audience members that they could get a […]
The Severed Arm (1973)
A few years in the past, Jeff Ashton (David G. Cannon), Doctor Ray Sanders (John Crawford), “Mad Man” Herman (Marvin Kaplan) and Ted Rogers (Ray Dannis), among others, were caught in a cave-in. With the prospect of survival seeming zero, they agreed — well, everyone except the victim — to cut off Ted’s arm and […]
Virgin Witch (1971)
Christine and Betty (Ann and Vicki Michelle, who are real-life sisters; Elke Sommer was their au pair as they grew up) are runaways who want to be models. Christine is soon hired by an agent, Sybil Waite (Patricia Haines) but as you can tell, this isn’t a movie about modeling. It’s about the occult and the […]
Les trottoirs de Bangkok (1984)
The Streets of Bangkok is based on the Boris Karloff film The Mask of Fu Manchu and it finds Jean Rollin not on a beach or a falling to pieces mansion with vampires living inside clocks, but instead a comic book mystery. Don’t worry. He didn’t forget to have naked women in it. Secret agent […]
La Nuit de la Mort (1980)
I discovered this movie from Unsung Horrors, who said that it was “Somewhere in between Jean Rollin and Ogroff.” How could I not want to see this? Martine (Isabelle Goguey) has just left her boyfriend and taken on a live-in job as a nurse and housekeeper for a retirement home. Is it weird that it’s […]
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