"House On Haunted Hill" (1959)
-Vincent Price
Plot: IMDB
Eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren and his 4th wife, Annabelle, have invited 5 people to the house on Haunted Hill for a "haunted House" party. Whoever will stay in the house for one night will earn ten thousand dollars each. As the night progresses, all the guests are trapped inside the house with ghosts, murderers, and other terrors.

Phantom"s Review: My all time favorite Vincent Price movie. atmospheric, spooky with the right amount of camp. a perfect movie for a dark and stormy night

Hope you enjoy it you can see easily how it must of influenced later films like The Wicker Man and The Blood On Satan's Claw.

dracula prince of darkness on blu-ray...gorgeous

Psycho 1961

It's amazing when you think about how influential this movie was. It changed the definition of horror, and single handedly revived an almost dead genre. The 50's were really lean when it comes to horror. Unless it was some gimmicky William Castle flick, or some sci-fi movie with irradiated bugs, there was nothing going on in horror for the entire decade. Psycho also forced Horror movies to "grow up", become more realistic.

It had been awhile since I last watched it, and forgot just how uncomfortable parts of the movie make me. The one scene where marion and norman are having a bite to eat in the motel parlor still makes me cringe. The way it starts off as average chit chat and slowly spirals downward, getting more uncomfortable as it goes on. It leaves you feeling totally tense, and then it's shower time! Such a great movie.

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Thanks. Every now and then, my stoned ramblings will make a little sense. It doesn't happen often, but once in awhile I'll type out something that's somewhat cogent.

I watched Son of Frankenstein 1939 last night. I thought I had watched this one before, but to my surprise, I never did. IMO this is probably the best screen performance of Bela Lugosi that I've ever seen (I've yet to see Glen or Glenda). Karloff isn't bad, and Basil Rathbone is... Basil Rathbone (he's a little too dramatic for film if you ask me) but Bela's performance is great. It almost makes up for that snotty kid being in the movie.

On a side note, It's weird watching the old frankenstein movies and seeing the police officers in those SS type uniforms.

Also, Who hooked up The Monster with that funky sweater vest? Now that I think about it, why was he even clothed to begin with? If you were doing an experiment like Frankenstein was, why would you bother dressing him up in clothes, let alone a suit. I could understand a robe or something, but a suit?

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)

Monster Zero (1965)


Phantom's Review: Two of the best "Godzilla" films from the '60's. Great monster action, cool man in suit FX and lots of fun. Best scenes, in "Ghidorah" the monster conversation and in "Monster Zero", Godzilla's victory dance. A great double feature
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The Bride of Frankenstein

been a long time since I had seen this one. Totally forgot about the little people That Dr. Pretorius made. Which by the way I feel is more fantastic than bringing The Monster to life.....he created little people fer christ sakes

haha love that movie

I love the dark sense of humor throughout that movie, too. Amazing stuff.