CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The Living Coffin (1959)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Living Coffin was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, June 17, 1966, at 11:20 p.m., Saturday, December 7, 1968, at 11:20 p.m. and Saturday, August 28, 1971, at 1:00 a.m. The Screaming Death was directed by Fernando Méndez, who also made El Vampiro, The Black Pit of Dr. M and Ladrón de Cadáveres. It was written […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: A Bucket of Blood (1959)
EDITOR’S NOTE: A Bucket of Blood was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, May 8, 1965, at 1:00 a.m. A Bucket of Blood aspires to art as much as it does junk. Written by Charles B. Griffith, whose name you can associate with films as disparate as Smokey Bites the Dust, Barbarella and Death Race 2000, it’s a tale of […]
JUNESPLOITATION: Ragazzi del Juke-Box (1959)
June 17: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie— is Lucio Fulci! This is 39 of 57 movies directed by Lucio Fulci, so I have made my way through all of his genre films and am now in the comedy and musical movies. Like 1960’s Urlatori alla Sbarra, The Jukebox Kids is […]
SEVERIN BOX SET RELEASE: Fear In the Philippines: The Complete Blood Island Films
From 1959 to 1971, Filipino filmmakers Eddie Romero and Gerry de León —along with Hemisphere Pictures marketing consultant Samuel M. Sherman—booked flights for drive-in audiences to Blood Island. This dark den of zombies, medical experiments, wanton women and terror would last four movies that fans of exploitation films have obsessed over ever since. I’ve loved these movies ever since I […]
RADIANCE FILMS BOX SET RELEASE: Daiei Gothic: Japanese Ghost Stories: The Ghost of Yotsuya (1959)
Director Nobuo Nakagawa is known for his takes on Japanese folk horror, including Kaidan hebi-onna, Jigoku, Onna Kyuketsuki and Borei Kaibyo Yashiki. This is his adaption of the kabuki play Yotsuya Kaidan. Umbrella maker and would-be samurai Iemon Tamiya (Shigeru Amachi) wants to marry Oiwa (Katsuko Wakasugi) and stands outside the home of her father Samon, beginning […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: First Man Into Space (1959)
EDITOR’S NOTE: First Man Into Space was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, June 13, 1964 at 4:00 p.m. U. S. Navy Commander Charles “Chuck” Prescott (Marshall Thompson) is worried if his brother Lt. Dan Milton Prescott (Bill Edwards) is the right man to be first into space. He doesn’t follow orders — he went to […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Horrors of the Black Museum was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, June 3, 1967 at 11:20 p.m. Producer Herman Cohen was inspired by reading a series of newspaper articles about Scotland Yard’s Black Museum. He got to visit the museum and wrote this with Aben Kandel. Many of the weapons in this — […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The Giant Gila Monster (1959)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Great Gila Monster was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, June 18, 1966 at 1 a.m. Filmed near Dallas, Texas, this movie was produced by Dallas drive-in theater chain owner Gordon McLendon who wanted his own movies. This was shot back-to-back with The Killer Shrews. Unlike most regional drive-in films, both received national and even […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Attack of the Giant Leeches was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, December 5, 1964 at 1 a.m. and Saturday, July 3, 1965 at 1:00 a.m. Gene Corman broke into the film industry before his brother Roger, working as an agent before becoming vice president of MCA, representing such clients as Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, […]
2024 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 2: The Alligator People (1959)
2. DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: Mad scientists never seem to follow the rules… Jane Marvin used to be Joyce Webster and they’re both played by Beverly Garland. She has amnesia because of something that happened in her past, something that scientists plan on getting to the bottom of. She used to be married to Paul Webster […]
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