Category: Thriller
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Theatre Of Blood (1973)
Vincent Price playing a hammy theatre actor, delivering Shakespeare monologues, right before taking revenge on a critic who’s wronged him, played by a gallery of great British character actors (Harry Andrews, Robert Morley, Jack Hawkins), and the bloody murder has some thematic tie to a Shakespeare play. And then you have Diana Rigg playing Price’s… Read.
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The Old Dark House (1932)
All I knew about The Old Dark House (1932) was its director, James Whale, and star Boris Karloff, were together again after the success of Frankenstein. Based on a novel by J.B. Priestley, the story concerns two parties of debonair British people – one group is a married couple (Raymond Massey and Gloria Stuart –… Read.
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Night Train To Terror (1985)
“Is there anything else I can get for you, Mr. Satan?” Night Train To Terror (1985) was on Mubi for a long time and I always passed it by, until it left Mubi. When I finally wanted to watch it for the spooky movie season, it was only available on Tubi (using the US settings).… Read.
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Slumber Party Massacre II (1987)
While the first Slumber Party Massacre held a light satirical bent, with the phallic power drill wielded by the male serial killer, it also gave horror fans what they wanted: nudity and violence. With the sequel, Slumber Party Massacre II (1987), it feels like a parody with how everything is heightened, right down to the… Read.
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Séance (2000)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa knows how to make a ghost an eerie presence within a frame. Simple and effective in design. A blur where a face should be. An identifying colour in their clothing. Something that registers the eye eventually as they emerge from a shadow or appear in the visual dimension. They don’t seem aggressive in… Read.
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