VCI BLU-RAY RELEASE: Santo Vs. Hombres Infernales (1961)
Santo Contra Hombres Infernales and Santo Contra Cerebro Del Mal were the first two movies made with El Santo, filmed in Cuba just as Castro took power, and smuggled out in a coffin. Enrique J. Zambrano realized he didn’t have enough coverage for two films, so he mixed footage between the two movies. Joaquin (Joaquin Cordero) […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (1961)
“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” is a seventh-season episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and was scheduled to be episode 39 of season 7. However, the network was worried about it. Robert Bloch, who wrote the screenplay and the short story that it was based on — it was in the January 1949 issue of Weird Tales — […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The Devil’s Messenger (1961)
I know that Lon Chaney Jr.’s career highlight was being in the Universal monster movies. I realize that the end of his life seems sad — he suffered from throat cancer and heart disease after decades of hard drinking and smoking. In fact, Robert Stack claimed in his autobiography that Chaney and Broderick Crawford were […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Atlas (1961)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Atlas was on Chiller Theater on Sunday, February 2 at 11:10 p.m. and Saturday, March 14, 1964 at 4:00 p.m. A movie that caused writer Charles B. Griffith to say, “Atlas was a mess. It was a doomed project.” Corman was on his way to England to make a film about Gary Powers’ U2 crash […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Curse of the Doll People (1961)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Curse of the Doll People was on Chiller Theater on Saturday. August 17, 1968 at 1:00 a.m. Known in Mexico as Munecos Infernales, this movie was directed by Benito Alazraki, who was also behind Santo contra Los Zombies and Espiritismo, both of which were made the same year as this film. Four men have […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The World of the Vampires (1961)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The World of the Vampires was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, September 17, 1966 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, March 29, 1969 at 11:30 p.m. A year after making this movie, which translates as World of the Vampires, Alfonso Corona Blake would direct Santo vs. Las Mujeres Vampiro. Count Sergio Subotai is a vampire who is […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Konga (1961)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Konga was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, March 20, 1965, at 11:15 p.m., Saturday, May 25, 1968, at 1:00 a.m., Saturday, October 18, 1969, and Saturday, January 30, 1971, at 1:00 a.m. Dr. Charles Decker (Michael Gough) has been presumed dead, but he’s really been hiding out in Africa, learning how to grow […]
RADIANCE BLU-RAY RELEASE: The Tale Of Oiwa’s Ghost (1961)
When the daughter of an elite family falls in love with a poor samurai named Iemon (Tomisaburo Wakayama), he gets rid of his wife Oiwa by dumping her into a swamp. She comes back on the night of his marriage as a monstrous ghost. Yes, it’s the Ghost Story of Yotsuya remade. Directed and written […]
RADIANCE FILMS BLU RAY RELEASE: Girl With a Suitcase (1961)
Aida (Claudia Cardinale) shows up at the door of Marcello, the rich man she’s fallen for, only to have it slammed in her face. Yet the man’s brother, Lorenzo (Jacques Perrin), despite being dispatched to get rid of her, immediately falls for her. However, their worlds are so far apart, and she has already become […]
EUREKA BOX SET: Mabuse Lives! Dr. Mabuse At CCC: 1960-1964: The Return of Doctor Mabuse (1961)
The second of the 1960s CCC Films Dr. Mabuse film series, this movie follows up Fritz Lang’s The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse. Gert Fröbe, who plays Inspector Lohmann, was the selling point in the U.S., as he had become known as Goldfinger. The lawman is called away from his vacation to investigate a series […]
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