Tag: 1963

EDITOR’S NOTE: X: The Man With the X-Ray Eyes was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, February 28 at 1:00 a.m. and  October 31, 1970 at 11:30 p.m. Roger Corman originally made this movie about a scientist, but that was “too obvious” so he changed the lead to be “a jazz musician who had taken too […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Terror was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, May 10, 1966 at 1:00 a.m., Saturday, May 24, 1969 at 11:30 p.m., Saturday, May 16, 1970 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, January 8, 1972 at 11:30 p.m. In his book How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime, Roger Corman […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Curse of the Crying Woman was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, May 10, 1969 at 1:00 a.m. An older Mexican horror film that actually played in the U.S. — American-International Pictures offered it for syndication in 1965 — The Curse of the Crying Woman is another film that attempts to translate the legend […]

Based on White Carpet by Bryan Edgar Wallace, The Mad Executioners has fog — so much fog — and a serial killer who loves to cut the heads off of beautiful women. A mob is organized by a secret court — The Mad Executioners, anyone — forms and starts to hang anyone they think could be […]

Directed by Harald Reinl, Der Würger von Schloß Blackmoor is a Bryan Edgar Wallace adaptation. Not Edgar Wallace, but his son. He wrote books of his own, adapted his father’s stories for movies and even had some of his stories turned into films like this and The Phantom of Soho and The Dead Are Alive. There’s also a rumor […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: Twilight of Honor was on the CBS Late Movie on February 16 and June 5, 1972, April 11, 1974 and January 14, 1976. Boris Sagal directed The Omega Man and died while making the miniseries World War III when he got out of a helicopter the wrong way in the parking lot of the Timberline Hotel in […]