CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Creature From the Haunted Sea was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, December 14, 1968 at 1:00 a.m. Sparks Moran is also known as XK150. Played by Robert Towne, he is to get into the gang of Renzo Capetto (Antony Carbone) and stop them before they steal money from Cuba and pay for General […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Gorgo (1961)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Gorgo was on Chiller Theater eleven times! The first airing was Saturday, April 17, 1965 at 11:20 p.m. It was part of an all night show on October 30, 1965, then aired on April 29, 1967; February 22, 1969; December 4, 1971; April 13, 1974; June 14, 1975; December 18, 1976; November 28, […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Mothra (1961)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Mothra was first on Chiller Theater on Saturday, October 16, 1965 at 11:20 PM. It also was on September 30, 1967. Godzilla may be the most popular kaiju there is, but at least when it comes to Toho’s stable, Mothra is number two, appearing in thirteen of Godzilla’s movies and her own trilogy in the […]
Shadow of the Cat (1961)
The butler did do it. Ella Venable (Catherine Lacey) has been murdered by Andrew the butler (Andrew Crawford) and her body buried on her estate, a plot concocted by him, Ella’s husband Walter (André Morell) and Clara the maid (Freda Jackson). They didn’t count on Tabitha, Ella’s cat. The only witness to the crime, she […]
Bored Hatamoto: The Cave of the Vampire Bats (1961)
The most popular samurai in Edo, Saotome Mondonosuke is also known as Bored Hatamoto. Utaemon Ichikawa first started playing this role all the way back in 1930, making this the longest running Japanese film series starring a single actor — thanks Japanonfilm — even if Shintaro Katsu played Zatoichmore more times if you count the TV […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 2: The Wonders of Aladdin (1961)
April 25: Bava Forever — Bava died on this day 43 years ago. Let’s watch his movies. According to camera operator Marcello Gatti, Henry Levin (That Man Bolt, Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die) directed 80% of this movie, while Mario Bava did the second unit direction and supervised the special effects. Because Bava was also […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 2: Dondi (1961)
April 2: Forgotten Heroes — Share a superhero movie that no one knows but you. OK, I’m cheating. This is a comic strip not a comic book, but Dondi was created by Gus Edson and Irwin Hasen and at the height of its fame, it ran in more than a hundred newspapers from September 25, […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: 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 […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 30: The Scare Film Archives Volume 1: Drug Stories!
Something Weird has made out lives so much richer, saving the strange, the smutty, the scary and everything in between. Working with the American Genre Film Archives, they created this mixtape of sheer lunacy which adds up the scare films of the past. You’ll never do drugs again until the next time to do drugs. […]
CURTIS HARRINGTON WEEK: Night Tide (1961)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Originally running on our site on April 4, 2019, this is a movie that has obsessed me in the same way Marjorie Cameron, the occult, Crowley and Jack Parsons have for many years. Remember the words of Ms. Cameron, who said, “I shall plunge down into the abysmal horror of madness and death—or […]
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