Cinematic Void January Giallo 2025: Blood and Black Lace (1964)
Editor’s note: Cinematic Void will be playing this movie on January 6 at 7:00 p.m. at the Music Box Theater in Chicago, IL. You can get tickets here. It is also playing January 18 at 7:30 PM ET at The Sie Film Center in Denver and will be hosted by Theresa Mercado of Scream Screen. […]
MOVIES THAT PLAYED SCALA (AND SEVERIN BLU RAY RELEASE): The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-up Zombies!!? (1964)
Thanks to the British Film Institute, there’s a list of films that played Scala. To celebrate the release of Severin’s new documentary, I’ll share a few of these movies every day. You can see the whole list on Letterboxd. Made for $38,000, this film beat The Horror of Party Beach as the first monster musical […]
RETURN OF KAIJU DAY: Dogora (1964)
Giant Space Monster Dogora, directed by Ishiro Honda with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya, is a kaiju movie that I would have hated as a child. It’s mostly a cops and robbers movies about diamonds, then it’s all about scientists. Dogora only randomly shows up and it’s a floating jellyfish that seems like one of […]
RETURN OF KAIJU DAY: The Flesh Eaters (1964)
Jack Curtis, who directed this movie, was the voice of Pops Racer and Inspector Detector on the American localization of Mach GoGoGo, which we know as Speed Racer. He also wrote The Deadly Organ, which blows my mind, and did voiceovers for so many Japanese movies and shows. Sadly, he died at 44, as he had pneumonia […]
SEVERIN BOX SET RELEASE: All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium Of Folk Horror Vol. 2: František Hrubín (1964)
Directed by Tomás Skrdlant and written by its subject, Frantisek Hrubín, this is a remembrance of childhood from Hrubín, who started the Czech children’s magazine, Mateřídouška (The Thyme) and would go on to write 18 movies, including one of the films that this is in the same box set with, the 1978 Juraj Herz directed Beauty and […]
SEVERIN BOX SET RELEASE: All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium Of Folk Horror Vol. 2: Haida Carver (1964) and Nalujuk Night (2021)
These two short films appear with Edge of the Knife on Severin’s All the Haunts Be Ours Vol. 2 set. Haida Carver (1964): On Canada’s Pacific coast, director Richard Gilbert shot this short film about young Haida artist, Robert Davidson, and shows how he shapes miniature totems from argillite, a jet-like stone. While many of the Haida people his […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Castle of the Living Dead (1964)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Castle of the Living Dead was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, February 5, 1972 at 1:00 a.m. Castle of the Living Dead is a movie of mystery. Who directed it? Warren Kiefer, who couldn’t be directly credited for the film as the film required an Italian director? Herbert Wise — Luciano Ricci, the film’s first […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: My Tale Is Hot (1964)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! Lucifer U. Devil (Max Gardens, AKA Manny Goodtimes) is mad that Hell hasn’t seen any new arrivals of note since Hitler. He wants the soul of Ben-Hur Ova (Jack Little) and is trying to figure out how to lure […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Bunny Yeager’s Las Vegas (1964)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! You know, this movie isn’t very good, but I just want to talk about Bunny Yeager, so indulge me. Linnea Eleanor “Bunny” Yeager was born in Wilkinsburg, one of the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and moved to Florida when she […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Day Dream (1964)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! Hakujitsumu is based on a 1926 short story by Junichiro Tanizaki that plays with the nature of reality. An artist and a young woman are in a dentist’s waiting room and the man is too shy to even connect […]
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