CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Mothra vs. Godzilla was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, February 17, 1968, at 11:20 p.m. and Saturday, July 26, 1969, at 11:30 p.m. as Godzilla vs. The Thing. With the box office success of King Kong vs. Godzilla and Mothra, Toho chose to send Godzilla against the butterfly in a movie that was meant for […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Dagora the Space Monster (1964)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Dagora was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, April 22 at 1:00 a.m. and December 16, 1967 at 11:20 p.m., Saturday, October 16, 1968 at 11:20 p.m., Saturday, May 16, 1970 at 11:30 p.m. and Saturday, April 24, 1971 at 11:30 p.m. Giant Space Monster Dagora, directed by Ishiro Honda with special effects by […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Dr. Orloff’s Monster (1964)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. Orloff’s Monster was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, December 17, 1966 at 11:20 p.m. and Saturday, May 17, 1969 at 11:30 p.m. Jess Franco on Chiller Theater! He had enough money for film stock and some of the cast; the rest of this movie was made thanks to the kindness of others. And […]
88 FILMS BLU-RAY RELEASE: Gate of Flesh (1964)
The destroyed neighborhoods of Tokyo are home to a group of prostitutes who form a sex worker union and build their own dancehall, Purgatory. Then, the gangsters and pimps make a play for what the women have earned and an unexploded bomb appears. Based on a novel by Taijiro Tamura and directed by Seijun Suzuki, […]
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, […]
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