SEVERIN BOX SET RELEASE: All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium Of Folk Horror Vol. 2: The White Reindeer (1952)
Before this, I don’t think I’ve watched many Finnish movies before, much less one with a werereindeer, which I didn’t even think was something. You learn something new every day and movies help you do it. At the 1953 Cannes Film Festival, this movie won Best Fairy Tale film from a Jean Cocteau-led jury. I […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Stolen Face (1952)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Stolen Face was first on Chiller Theater on Saturday, May 13, 1967 at 1:00 a.m. It also aired on March 11, 1972. Emma Matzo was born in Scranton, PA but became Lizabeth Scott in New York City, becoming a stage actress and the understudy for Tallulah Bankhead — actually, she was given the role […]
UNSUNG HORRORS HORROR GIVES BACK 2023: Chained for Life (1952)
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 is working to save the lives of cats and dogs all across America, giving pets second chances and happy homes. Today’s theme: Creepy twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were born […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla was first on Chiller Theater on Saturday, July 12, 1980 at 1 a.m. Sometimes, a movie connects stars on the rise and stars on the fall and other times, it captures stars that continue to burn no matter their trajectory. So consider this six-day wonder, this public domain piece […]
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)
Sometimes, a movie connects stars on the rise and stars on the fall and other times, it captures stars that continue to burn no matter their trajectory. So consider this six-day wonder, this public domain piece of nothing, as both the most important movie some people ever made, a forgotten piece of nothing made for […]
Der Frosch mit der Maske (1952)
The Frog with the Mask, aka Face of the Frog, was based on the Edgar Wallace book Fellowship of the Frog. All things both krimi and giallo flow from Mr. Wallace, so this film is rather essential, as the success of this picture led to Rialto making a series of 32 Wallace films over the next twenty […]
Invasion, U.S.A. (1952)
Invasion, U.S.A. was the second film from American Pictures Corporation, who had just made their first film, Captive Women. The company was made up of Albert Zugsmith (Girls Town, the bizarre The Chinese Room), Peter Miller, Aubrey Wisberg (who would write Hercules In New York) and Jack Pollexfen (Indestructible Man) with Joseph Justman as the producer. Their plan was to […]
Valkoinen Peura (1952)
I don’t think we’ve ever covered a Finnish movie before, much less one with a werereindeer, which I didn’t even think was something. You learn something new every day and movies help you do it. At the 1953 Cannes Film Festival, this movie won Best Fairy Tale film from a Jean Cocteau-led jury. I also […]
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