EUREKA! BOX SET RELEASE: TERROR IN THE FOG: THE WALLACE KRIMI AT CCC
As Italy made Giallo and America had Hitchcock, West Germany had Krimi. Freely adapted from works by the British crime writer Edgar Wallace and his son Bryan Edgar Wallace, they combined the traditional murder mystery with horror. Masked and gloved killers stalked their victims like ghosts in the fog of London, starting with Face of the […]
EUREKA! BOX SET RELEASE: TERROR IN THE FOG: THE WALLACE KRIMI AT CCC: The Racetrack Murders (1964)
Das siebente Opfer (The Seventh Victim) was released in English speaking countries as The Racetrack Murders. Based on a novel by Bryan Edgar Wallace, it’s one of several films — hey, we covered a bunch this week — by Rialto Film, who had succes making movies based on the books of his father, Edgar Wallace. This comes […]
EUREKA! BOX SET RELEASE: TERROR IN THE FOG: THE WALLACE KRIMI AT CCC: The Monster of London City (1964)
Who would have thought that a series of Jack the Ripper-style murders would happen at the same time as a new play about the infamous Whitechapel murderer was playing on the London stage? And what if the actor, Richard Sand (Hansjörg Felmy), who plays Jack becomes a suspect in an example of the ultimate in […]
EUREKA! BOX SET RELEASE: TERROR IN THE FOG: THE WALLACE KRIMI AT CCC: The Phantom of Soho (1964)
Based on a novel by Bryan Edgar Wallace, this Franz Josef Gottlieb-directed and Ladislas Fodor-written movie takes place in a sex den in Soho, the Sanisbar, which is ruled over by wheelchair — and not just for respect — bound crime domme Joanna Filiati (Elisabeth Flickenschildt). There are a bunch of murders by someone in […]
MILL CREEK BLU-RAY BOX SET: Bewitched The Complete Series
Bewitched aired throughout the most tumultuous time in modern history — hyperbole, that could also be today, but true, as rehearsals for this show’s first episode were on the day Kennedy was shot and the episode “I Confess” was interuppted by Martin Luther King Jr.’s death — from September 17, 1964, to March 25, 1972. […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2025 Red Eye #7: At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul (1964)
All hail David Dastmalchian! He picked the last Red Eye of the Chattanooga Film Festival, and man, he did it right! Coffin Joe! Also: How amazing is it that this movie was made in 1964? It had to scare the hell out of people. How badass is Zé do Caixão, or as we know him, […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2025 Red Eye #1: The Horror of Party Beach (1964)
I love the CFF Red Eye movies and honestly, they’re the start of my summer. This is a perfect movie for the weather that is heating up, a film that won’t make too many demands on your brain and goes well with, well, drugs. Shot in two weeks for $50,000 outside Stamford, Connecticut by local […]
88 FILMS BLU RAY RELEASE: Jakoman & Tetsu (1964)
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku, based on an earlier screenplay by Akira Kurosawa — previously filmed by director Senkichi Taniguchi in 1949 and based on the novel Nishin gyogyo by Keizo Kajino — Jakoman & Tetsu, as Kyubei (Isao Yamagata) and his son-in-law Sotaro (Shiro Osaka), borrow money to buy a herring net and hire migrant workers […]
EUREKA BOX SET: Mabuse Lives! Dr. Mabuse At CCC: 1960-1964: The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse (1964)
A co-production between France, Italy and West Germany, this is also known as The Secret of Dr. Mabuse. Maj. Bob Anders (Peter van Eyck, who despite his character’s name keeps coming back to fight Dr. Mabuse; here he’s renamed so they don’t have to pay Bryan Edgar Wallace again) is investigating a death ray created by […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 4: Blood and Black Lace (1964)
April 25: Bava Forever — Bava died on this day 43 years ago. Let’s watch his movies. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jennifer Upton is an American (non-werewolf) writer/editor in London. She currently works as a freelance ghostwriter of personal memoirs and writes for several blogs on topics as diverse as film history, punk rock, women’s issues, and international […]
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