Check out Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages

Cat People (1942). Surprisingly effective and subtle horror. The "stalking" scene is exceptional.

Other great silent films-
Vampyr
Der Golem
Fall Of The House Of Usher
Faust (though I admit the second half drags on a bit too long)
The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari

Thanks for the silent film recommendations guys. Gonna have to check more of them out.

"The Creeping Terror" (1964)
-Vic Savage

Plot: For lack of a better term

A spaceship lands near a small Calif town and a giant walking carpet emerges to eat the local population.

Phantom's Review: This film makes "Plan 9 From Outer Space" seem like "Citizen Kane"
Quite possibly the worst monster movie ever made, so of course ....I Loved It!
Bad from start to finish. A true crap classic.

In the past 3 months Ive watch Black Sunday, The Bad Seed and The Birds. I own the birds so i watch it often. Black Sunday is a really good movie. The Bad Seed is also great. The little girl does a superb job. I highly reccomend all 3.

I watched one last week on an old vhs tape I got at a yard sale called Invasion, USA. its a movie about the russians invading the U S and nuking all the major cities. It came out in 1950, it was a low-budget film with primitive special effects and unknown actors but it had a good story line and the ending had a unique twist. I saw it when I was about 12 years old in a theatre and it scared the hell out of me. For a long time I thought the Russians were going to invade at any minute.

Die! Die! My Darling! (1965)

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A pretty entertaining psycho-biddy from Hammer. I was just wondering how it would turned out if James Bond had a boss (M) like Mrs. Trefoile (also played by Tallulah Bankhead)!:D

>>: B+

"The Invisible Man" (1933)
-Claude Rains


James Whales brilliant classic.This is one that can't be beat.

Murders In The Rue Morgue (1932)-I really enjoyed this-I guess it helps if you're a Poe fan and don't mind Bela Lugosi hamming it up. Still it was very good.

psycho, didnt realise before that Norman Bates is kinda cute! well at least the guy that played him:o

Mother Joan of the Angels (1961)

In a remote convent on the barren plains of 17th-century Poland, a young priest arrives to exorcise the demons from a group of possessed nuns. When he meets the beautiful head of the convent, her blasphemies against the church both repel and excite him, with tragic consequences.

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Based on the same historical events that inspired Ken Russell's 1971 film The Devils, but actually the events of MJOA take place immediately after the "wicked" priest (who was later to be the central male character of THE DEVILS, played by Oliver Reed) has been burned at the stake as a sorcerer, and accuses by the 'possessed' nuns. So, when the film starts the possession and exorcism attempts are already well under way. Given the ten-year gap between the two films, the scenes here of rampaging nuns are nowhere near as explicit as in Russell's film...especially since it mainly concentrates on the man's inner torture and crisis of faith (somewhat like Ingmar Bergman's Seventh Seal fashion) portrayed with high contrast black and white cinematography.

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Nevertheless the possession & exorcism scenes in the first half are beautifully done, however, with the first revelation of evil being particularly unsettling and brilliantly handled. Even the first meeting between the two main characters is fascinating; black beard and black robe of priest against possessed Mother Joan's pure white habit & headdress…the classic colors of good and evil are actually reversed here.
Overall in MOTHER JOAN OF THE ANGELS the Polish director Jerzy Kawalerowicz showed a disturbing exploration of faith, oppression, and desire. It’s indeed a spellbinding character drama & a highly accomplished piece of film making in its own right.

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What a great review. I'll have to check this out some time.

Not only as a great film with art house attributes but also I think surely an overlooked gem for the genre fans that they need to give a watch must.:)

I agree, excellent review! Just added it to the queue at Netflix.

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Tomb of Ligeia is perhaps my favorite Corman Poe adaptation. Price is a haunted. tortured soul and it's one of his greatest performances.

I actually thought Tomb Of Ligeia was Roger Corman's weakest Poe adaptation to me it felt too much like a cash in-as though they had very few ideas where to take this film and relied solely on Vincent Price's reputation to get people to watch. The Fall Of The House Of Usher however I felt to be one of the best of them by being superbly macabre and tantalisingly atmospheric.

Well, Ligeia is actually a pretty faithful adaptation of the story, so if you feel it's berift of ideas, you might want to blame Mr. Poe...

Maniac (1963)

Early Hammer horror offering, written by their star Jimmy Sangster and directed by Michael Carreras.

The first 10 minutes includes a rape and a murder by acetaline torch. Not one of Sangster's greatest scripts but worth a watch.

Spalovac mrtvol aka The Cremator (1969)

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Karel Kopfrkingl has the perfect life: a beautiful and faithful wife and two lovely children. His income allows him to surround his family with art and beauty. And more importantly he LOVES his job as a crematorium operator or the title character The Cremator. He finds the idea of burning people every day in the crematorium very much practical as he believes that cremation relieves earthly suffering and sends the soul to Heaven much faster than a standard burial. But as you peel back the layers of this weirdly uncanny character, you will find there is a lot more going on than just Kopfrkingl's desperate attempt to raise his position in life.

Kopfrkingl got the full camera attention every second of the film. The film shares his sadistic thoughts, reveals his gradually developing madness along with his tainted logic through a time to time monologue of his from the beginning to end. This is one of those rare psychological horror features where the audience senses it all the way with a hallucinatory & morbid touch in its every reel.
Though billed as partly a black comedy, this creepy Czech classic is just a bit too uncomfortable and surreal to truly meet that label. Made in the golden decade of Psycho, Repulsion and Carnival of Souls, The Cremator remains unlike any movie you have ever seen before. It's slow, deliberate and genuinely horrifying where the black and white cinematography is haunting but beautiful; musical score is enthralling and aesthetically intriguing.

With barely a Nazi in sight, The Cremator brilliantly captures the political horror of 1930s Europe & the Holocaust as it takes over from within and makes monsters of the most boringly normal of men. And with barely a drop of blood to be found, The Cremator still manages to be brutally real. This is a pure horror and along with the director Juraj Herz, all the credit also goes to the actor (Rudolf Hrusinsky) who magnificently played the lead role...a performance that accurately and metaphorically fills the screen, an upsetting portrayal of a deceiving and psychotic character that steadily become occupied with Nazi political dogma.

Highly recommended.

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"Sweeny Todd: Demon Barber Of Fleet Street"(1936) I actually saw this a few weeks ago for the second time and forgot to post about it. This scared me a lot when I saw it the first time as a kid possibly cos this was the early 90s when urban myths about satanism and ouija boards were rife in the UK. Not that this has anything to do with the film but those associations were going through my head at the time. Anyway on second viewing I noticed how sharp the dialogue was and how full of contrasting views it was such are the immortal lines given by the character of Sweeny Todd especially to do with his customers throats lol highly recommended.

On the Subject of Tomb Of Ligeia-I'm surprised that this was faithful to the original "Ligeia" Poe story-its been years since I read it-but I guess I need to read it again I had thought it was more macabre and exciting than the film was-unless I was getting it confused with another Poe story-luckily a friend of mine translated the original latin quotes for me so I'll dig them up as well.

The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935)
Plot: IMDB

Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when.arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country gentleman with a mysterious past. Holmes' methods baffle Watson and Lestrade, but his results astonish them. In a long flashback, the victim's wife tells the story of the sinister Vermissa Valley.

Phantom's Review: One of the dullest Holmes movies I have ever seen. Not worth the effort

The Sadist
 

I watched The Sadist a couple nights ago, it was a good one. About a serial killer who holds hostage some people in a gas station. It had Arch Hall Jr. in the lead role. He and his father made a series of movies in the late 50's and early 60's. Most of them were garbage, Like EGAAH! The Teen age Caveman and Wild Guitar and some stupid western where he played Billy the Kid. But in The Sadist they had a winner. It was damn good, Hall even looked the part and his acting was very realistic. He must have taken some acting lessons before he did The Sadist, Because in his other movies he couldnt act his way out of a paper bag. I highly recomend it.

Hey now, how can you dis EGAAH?? That's a masterpiece!

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Fantastic little Hitchcock-ian masterpiece. Watch it, if you haven't. Highly recommended by me.

Downloaded a torrent link already. :)

The House On Haunted Hill-Just saw this for the fourth time and I was still gripped as much as the first time. Just an amazingly well done film I can't get enough of.

A weekend of classic crap:

They Saved Hitlers Brain
The Creeping Terror
Hot Rods From Hell
Bucket Of Blood

Devil Doll (1964)

Not the best, seemed more like an episode of The Twilight Zone or something that belonged in an anthology but i still liked it. A couple of small creepy parts and an interesting ending at least.

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normally I love this grindhouse camp.....but this was just awful......if they added some boobs....maybe

The Flesh & the Fiends (1960)

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Though I gladly noticed his name on the opening title credits but it took me quite some time to recognize Donald Pleasence in the role of Hare! Where Cushing delivered another outstanding performance but the surprise package was here Donald Pleasence in the mean & cruel character of Hare, IMO. I'm sure that would make Michael Myers proud:D...to see his therapist in a killing spree for 8 Ginnie per body!

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Btw, in speaking of boobies (as newb was saying about She-Devils on Wheels) bit surprised (& glad!) to see some boobies in the middle of this very early 60s classic!

>>: A-

Island of Terror (1966)

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Pretty good sic-fi feature but damn! Why Cushing had to lose a hand in the end?:mad:

>>: B+

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...two relatively lesser known Price works, to commemorate the legend's 100th birthday tomorrow.

Planning a double bill of The Comedy of Terrors & The Raven for tomorrow night.

The Tower of London is such an amazing film- love it!

And that's a great double bill for tomorrow. The quandry would be which to watch first and which to save for last...

The Flesh & the Fiends is defianlly underrated..

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Remake of the Todd Browning silent movie and Chaneys last flick. Its pretty stagey and a bit forced but I so love the basic premise of the films. Chaney is amazing and I always have a soft spot for HArry Earles. A personal fave..

Weirdly I have yet to watch the original.

Indeed. Fantastic film and Price is at his most creative act. I daresay it's one of the best performances he has given in his career.

Comedy first, Raven second. Wife loves Comedy of Terrors and I am not complaining!

The Last Man on Earth (1964)

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So...this is how it all started, Mr. Romero?:D

Loved it see Price on a post-apocalyptic scenario!

>>: A-

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)

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A question for everyone: "There was one passenger who didn't tap the cards for 3 times...who was it?"

The winner will get 2 HDC points!;)

>>: B+

His middle name is Frank Carandini. :cool:

One of the most amazing aspects of that film is how the stark landscapes really portray a post-apocalyptic world.