MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The Island Monster (1954)
Il mostro dell’isola (The Monster of the Island) brought Boris Karloff to Cinecitta Studios to play Don Gaetano, who may speak softly but is also the leader of a gang of black market thieves and drug dealers who have kidnapped Fiorella (Patrizia Remiddi), the daughter of Detective Mario Andreani (Renato Vicario), who has come from […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The Incredible Petrified World (1959)
Jerry Warren sat on this movie for two years before playing it with Teenage Zombies. Shot in Colossal Cave in Tucson, Arizona, the monster costume looked so bad that Warren didn’t use it. Let’s think about that for a minute. An effect so bad that Jerry Warren wouldn’t use it. Professor Millard Wyman (John Carradine) has […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: Horror Express (1972)
Professor Sir Alexander Saxton — or is that Sir Professor, anyway, he’s played by Christopher Lee — is a British anthropologist taking the Trans-Siberian Express from Shanghai to Moscow. He’s not alone. He has the frozen remains of a caveman he found in Manchuria, which he believes are the missing link. Peter Cushing plays his […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The Ghost (1963)
An Italian horror remake of 1955’s Les Diaboliques, I’ll give you one reason to watch this movie: Barbara Steele. Otherwise, it’s a brooding take on murder and gaslighting. And while this is directed by Riccardo Freda, stars Steele and has a character named Dr. Hichcock, it is not the same movie as The Horrible Dr. Hichcock. While this movie […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The Fury of the Wolfman (1973)
La Furia del Hombre Lobo is a 1970 Spanish horror film that is the fourth in the saga of werewolf Count Waldemar Daninsky, played as always by Paul Naschy. It was not theatrically released in Europe until 1975, yet an edited U.S. version played on television as early as 1974 as part of the Avco […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The Farmer’s Wife (1928)
Tibby, the wife of Samuel Sweetland (Jameson Thomas), dies, and his daughter marries and leaves home. Now on his own, he decides to remarry with the help of his housekeeper, Minta (Lillian Hall-Davis). The women he chooses are too independent, too nervous or think he’s too old. You can see where this is going. Tibby and […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The Demon (1979)
Imagine a movie that starts with a fourteen year-old girl being killed by a faceless maniac wearing a black leather glove with razor-tipped fingers. If you’re ready for that before the first credits roll, then you’re ready for The Demon. That very same killer then kills a trucker, steals all his money and gets a place in a […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The Phantom Creeps (1938)
This Universal movie serial — told in twelve parts — shares some similarities with the earlier serial The Vanishing Shadow, including the inventions of an invisibility belt and a remote-control robot. That makes sense — at the time, Universal was all about recycling. This movie contains stock footage from The Invisible Ray and The Vanishing Shadow, […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: Easy Virtue (1928)
Based on the 1924 play by Noël Coward, this Alfred Hitchcock-directed movie opens with Larita Filton (Isabel Jeans) testifying at her divorce trial as she leaves her husband, Aubrey (Franklin Dyall). The scandal of it all is that Claude Robson (Eric Bransby Williams), an artist, is in love with Larita and a mistaken moment leads […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The Long Hair of Death (1964)
Adele Karnstein (Halina Zalewska, An Angel for Satan) is accused of witchcraft and burned, but really it’s because she wouldn’t sleep with Count Humboldt (Giuliano Raffaelli). When her daughter Helen (Barbara Steele) confronts him, she even offers her body to him to save her mother. The Count still watches as her mother is burned alive and […]
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