Category: Thriller
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Five Dolls For An August Moon (1970)
Five Dolls For An August Moon (1970; 5 bambole per la luna d’agosto) feels like you’ve been invited to a swanky party at a cool pad resting on a hill by the coast of an island. The guests are all glamorous, the music on the stereo system is groovy (score by Piero Umiliani). And then… Read.
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Friday The 13th Part 6: Jason Lives (1986)
If only those counsellors unloading supplies at Camp Crystal Lake had been listening to the Alice Cooper song playing on the radio, warning them about Jason: “He’s back / the man behind the mask / and he’s crawled out of his hole…” They gave you all the clues! That Alice Cooper song – He’s Back… Read.
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The Black Cat (1934)
“It is better to be frightened… than to be crushed.” So says Bela Lugosi in The Black Cat (1934) after saving a woman from falling luggage – he plays the role of Dr. Vitus Werdegast, a Hungarian psychatrist returning to his homeland after spending more than a decade in a Siberian prison camp during WWI.… Read.
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The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957)
When I was a kid, I loved watching The World Of Hammer on SBS, the doco series that was basically a greatest hits package of Hammer Horror narrated by Oliver Reed. Seeing that Hammer Studios made their own version of Frankenstein, my kid brain had a weird brand loyalty to the Boris Karloff Frankenstein, like,… Read.
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Saint Maud (2019)
Saint Maud (2019) is a critically acclaimed contemporary horror movie – the feature film debut of British director Rose Glass – that didn’t get a cinema release in Perth, and is now available direct to digital. There’s a cliche now of A24 type modern horror movies that are more like psychological character studies that only… Read.
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