MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: Young and Innocent (1937)
Released in the U.S. as The Girl Was Young, this Hitchcock film was based on the novel A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey. In the book, the storyline involving Robert, Erica, and the missing coat is a subplot, not the main tale. Christine Clay (Pamela Carne), a successful actress, and her ex-husband, Guy (George Curzon), […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The Ring (1927)
“One Round” Jack Sander (Carl Brisson) is defeated by Australian heavyweight champion Bob Corby (Ian Hunter), whose manager offers to have Jack be Bob’s full-time sparring partner. But oh, Bob— he’s all over Jack’s girlfriend, Mabel (Lillian Hall-Davis), buying her a bracelet and canoodling with her. On their wedding day, Jack starts to believe that […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: Sabotage (1936)
Released in the U.S. as The Woman Alone, this Alfred Hitchcock film starts with movie theater owner Karl Verloc (Oskar Homolka) shutting down the power in London before working with a group of terrorists to leave bombs all over the city. Detective Sergeant Ted Spencer (John Loder) is working undercover to catch him, posing as a […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The Werewolf vs. the Vampire Woman (1971)
La Noche de Walpurgis (released in the United States as The Werewolf vs. The Vampire Woman and in the UK as both Shadow of the Werewolf and Werewolf Shadow) was the fifth time that Paul Naschy played the doomed lycanthrope Waldemar Daninsky. Written by Naschy and directed by Leon Klimovsky (The People Who Own the Dark, The Dracula Saga), this film […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The Ticket of Leave Man (1937)
Based on The Ticket-of-Leave Man, an 1863 play by Tom Taylor that introduced the character Hawkshaw the Detective, a popular figure in Victorian literature known for his cunning and relentless pursuit of justice, the name of this movie is a reference to the ticket of leave issued to convicts upon release. Robert Brierly (John Warwick) […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: End of the World (1977)
Bill from Groovy Doom and Drive-In Asylum always jokes about movies where nothing happens as being his favorite movies. If that’s true, he must absolutely adore this movie. Christopher Lee, the main selling point of this movie, said, “Some of the films I’ve been in I regret making. I got conned into making these pictures in […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
Man, what a title. Better than the original one, Dracula is Dead…and Well and Living in London, which upset Christoper Lee so much that he was outspoken at the press conference that introduced the movie: “I’m doing it under protest… I think it is fatuous. I can think of twenty adjectives — fatuous, pointless, absurd. It’s […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn (1935)
This is based on a true story, as The Red Barn Murder refers to an 1827 murder in Polstead, Suffolk, England. There, a young woman named Maria Marten was shot dead by her lover, William Corder, at the Red Barn, which was a local landmark. The two were going to elope, and afterward, Corder sent letters […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The Face at the Window (1939)
A series of murders happens with a face appearing at each victim’s window, the image of what people begin to call the Wolf Man. A bank clerk named Lucien Cortier (John Warwick) is blamed, which pleases Chevalier Lucio del Gardo (Tod Slaughter), as he’s the real killer. According to Wikipedia, “Slaughter’s blood-and-thunder films were too […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: Jamaica Inn (1939)
Daphne Du Maurier wrote the books that Hitchcock based Rebecca and The Birds, as well as this, his last British movie. Those two are way better, trust me. Mary Yellan (Maureen O’Hara), with her Aunt Patience (Marie Ney) and Uncle Joss (Leslie Banks), works at the Jamaica Inn, which kind of does what Antonio Bay did […]
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