SEVERIN BOX SET RELEASE: All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium Of Folk Horror Vol. 2: The City of the Dead (1960)
Also known as Horror Hotel, this movie was the first film that John Llewellyn Moxey directed. It was also made in the UK but set in the U.S., so everyone is doing their best American accent. Back in In 1692 in Whitewood, Massachusetts, Elizabeth Selwyn (Patricia Jessel) and Jethrow Keane (Valentine Dyall) sold their souls […]
SEVERIN BOX SET RELEASE: All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium Of Folk Horror Vol. 2: From the Old Earth (1981)
Directed by Wil Aaron and written by Gwyn Thomas, this film was played in primary schools thanks to Bwrdd Ffilmiau Cymraeg, the Welsh Film Board, who produced it. While it seems odd and a bit scary to us as adults, imagine watching this if you were under ten years old and a captive grade school […]
SEVERIN BOX SET RELEASE: All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium Of Folk Horror Vol. 2: Akelarre (1984)
Garazi (Sílvia Munt) is the granddaughter of a woman burned as a witch who finds herself battling the Catholic Church just like her ancestor. The name of this film means “witches’ sabbath” in English and this goes into the witch trials against women of San Juan de Araiz, which is part of Navarre in northern […]
Tales from the Crypt S5 E7: House of Horror (1993)
Directed and written by Bob Gale, this is the tale of three pledges of the Gamma Delta Omega fraternity — Waters (Keith Coogan), Arling (Wil Wheaton) and Henderson (Jason London) — and the abuses they suffer at the hands of Les Wilton (Kevin Dillon). “Fright Court is now in session. Will the defendant please approach […]
B&S About Movies podcast episode 56: The Films of Bo Derek
As a lover of movies some people hate, even I have my limits. Those limits are all about Bo and John Derek. Allow me to tell you about Bolero, Tarzan the Ape Man and Ghosts Can’t Do It. I hate making fun of movies and being snarky, but sometimes, you have to deal with PTSD […]
SEVERIN BOX SET RELEASE: All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium Of Folk Horror Vol. 2: Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf (1975)
Directed by Leonardo Favio, who wrote it with his brother Jorge Zuhair Jury, this was based on the radio show Nazareno Cruz y el lobo by Juan Carlos Chiappe. Nazareno Cruz (Juan José Camero) is the seventh son of the now dead Jeremias, born when his mother Damiana (Elcira Olivera Garcés) wanted a son to […]
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