2025 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 1: The Cry Baby Killer (1958)
1. INTRODUCING…: A well-known actor’s first movie. Bonus points if it has an “introducing” credit. “YESTERDAY a Teenage Rebel… TODAY a mad-dog slayer! ” Jimmy Wallace (Jack Nicholson in his first movie ever) is in love with Carole (Carolyn Mitchell, soon to be the wife of Mickey Rooney; she was murdered by stuntman and actor […]
UNSUNG HORRORS HORROR GIVES BACK 2025: The Mummy’s Ghost (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 works to save the lives of cats and dogs across America, giving pets second chances and happy homes. Today’s theme: Lon Chaney (Jr. or Sr.) I do love a mummy […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Curse of the Aztec Mummy (1957)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Curse of the Aztec Mummy was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, October 8, 1966, at 11:20 p.m. K. Gordon Murray seems like the perfect person — if Jerry Warren wasn’t going to do it — to bring this movie to the U.S. as The Curse of the Aztec Mummy. None of the voices seem […]
UNSUNG HORRORS HORROR GIVES BACK 2025: Spider Baby (1967)
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 works to save the lives of cats and dogs across America, giving pets second chances and happy homes. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Adam Hursey is a pharmacist specializing in health informatics […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Deliver Us From Evil (1975)
The trailer for this movie claims that it’s “a movie that tells it like it is about blacks. The beautiful blacks. The evil blacks.” It’s also a movie that’s preaching to its audience about ending the drugs and violence in black communities to the point that it moves from blacksploitation to Godsploitation. It starts with […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The Pharaoh’s Curse (1957)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Pharaoh’s Curse was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, January 2, 1965, at 1 a.m., Saturday, May 6, 1967, at 11:20 p.m., and Saturday, April 6, 1968, at 1:00 a.m. King Diamond once sang, “Now, if you breaking the seals And disturbing the peace Then you’re startin’ up a curse Bringin’ evil disease […]
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