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British horror film The Abominable Dr Phibes was released on the 18th of May, 1971, and stars Vincent Price and Joseph Cotten. With its […]
Director Roy Del Ruth’s science fiction B-shocker for Associated Producers, The Alligator People, was released on the 3rd of July, 1959. Starring Beverly Garland, […]
The dark comedy classic Arsenic and Old Lace brought Joseph Kesselring’s acclaimed Broadway play to the big screen. Directed by Frank Capra, the movie […]
Universal’s Black Friday, released in 1940, is a slick, science fiction thriller starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. Much has been made over the […]
The Black Room, released by Columbia in 1935, sees Boris Karloff wonderfully cast in a dual role as evil twin Gregor de Berghman, and […]
The Blood Beast Terror, made by Tony Tenser’s Tigon in 1968, has possibly one of the most peculiar monsters in horror film history – […]
by Nige Burton The Val Lewton RKO psychological horror pictures of the 1940s tend to be universally regarded as some of the finer entries […]
