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Blu-ray Review: Universal Horror Collection: Volume 6 (1952 – 1961)

The last five Universal Horror Collections brought to us courtesy of those delightful devils over at Scream Factory have been creepy cornucopias containing a beastly bevy of fiendishly fun fright flicks (Don’t believe me? Head here, here, here, here and lastly here, to read my thoughts for your own sinister self)! Let’s see if Volume 6 lives up to it’s preternatural predecessors! Starting things off we have The Black Castle from 1952: Sir Ronald Burton (Richard Greene) is playin’ sleuth and diving into the disappearance of a few of his pals… pals that payed a visit to the ornate Austrian estate of Count von Bruno (Stephen McNally). You see, ol’ Bruno is pissed as all get-out at the leaders of a British military force that got the native population of colonial occupied Africa to hand Big B his ass. So that explains where those friends of Burton’s got off to… but Burton was part of that action, and soon finds

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Aug 6, 2020
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Even (4) More B-Movies You Can Watch On YouTube Right Now (Part 6)

Back with more creatures and bumps in the night to fill your days/nights with the fun campiness that is B-film goodness and other happy finds on YouTube! The Snow Creature (1954) The film is told in two acts involving a scientist (Paul Langton) finding a Yeti (Lock Martin) in the Himalayas and bringing it back to Los Angeles where it escapes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlKnq-3ICYs Tales from the Crypt (1972) Five strangers (Jone Collins, Ian Hendry, Robin Phillips, Richard Greene, and Nigel Patrick) get lost while on a tour of a crypt and meet the infamous Crypt Keeper (Ralph Richardson) who makes them relive their misdeeds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-MngattgrI The Robot VS the Aztec Mummy (1958) The third film in the Mexican “Aztec Mummy” film series, tells about the return of a mad scientist and criminal mastermind who wants revenge against the ancient mummy that thwarted his plans in the previous films by creating a robot to fight it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNQWSJ570rg Indestructible Man (1956) A detective

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Mar 27, 2020
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4 B-Movies You Can Watch On YouTube Right Now!

In a world where we can’t agree on anything, there is something we can indeed agree on… B-Movies are awesome! For being out there in storytelling, bad special effects, campy acting, and let’s face it just fun to watch, B-Movies or films like them are always pleasant to watch anytime. What’s better than a B-Movie? The fact that many of these films are in the public domain and can be watched for free on sites like YouTube! Here are 4 films you can watch right now! Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957) This film takes place in a small town that is suddenly invaded by aliens and is told through three different storylines, a teenage couple (Steven Terrell and Gloria Castillo) who accidentally hit an alien with their car, two drifters (Frank Gorshin and Lyn Osborn) visiting town trying to make money, and Air Force officials (Douglas Henderson and Sam Buffington) trying to cover up the landing of the flying

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Mar 14, 2020
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Blu-ray Review: Universal Classic Monsters: Complete 30-Film Collection (1931 – 1956)

Holy hell creeps; here comes the monstrous mother-load…thirty classic Universal released fright flicks all in one handy-dandy Blu-ray collection! Let’s take a very, very deep dive into the Universal Classic Monsters: Complete 30-Film Collection as we feast our eerie eyeballs on every film and the eerie extras these devilish discs contain! (Fair warning: this is going to be one hell of an insanely long-ass review!!!) Kicking things of we have the Frankenstein Complete Legacy Collection Frankenstein (1931): Ol’ Doc Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) and his deformed assistant Fritz (Dwight Frye) are up to the totally reasonable and completely sane task of digging up graves and disassembling corpses with the intent of putting the best bits together like a human jigsaw puzzle. Well, thanks to janky science and lightning they succeed, but the end result isn’t the human perfection for which they strove; rather he is a misshapen monstrosity (played to putrid perfection by Boris Karloff) possessed of great strength,a child

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Sep 29, 2018

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Blu-ray Review: Universal Horror Collection: Volume 6 (1952 – 1961)

The last five Universal Horror Collections brought to us courtesy of those delightful devils over at Scream Factory have been creepy cornucopias containing a beastly bevy of fiendishly fun fright flicks (Don’t believe me? Head here, here, here, here and lastly here, to read my thoughts for your own sinister self)! Let’s see if Volume 6 lives up to it’s preternatural predecessors! Starting things off we have The Black Castle from 1952: Sir Ronald Burton (Richard Greene) is playin’ sleuth and diving into the disappearance of a few of his pals… pals that payed a visit to the ornate Austrian estate of Count von Bruno (Stephen McNally). You see, ol’ Bruno is pissed as all get-out at the leaders of a British military force that got the native population of colonial occupied Africa to hand Big B his ass. So that explains where those friends of Burton’s got off to… but Burton was part of that action, and soon finds

Continue reading →
Aug 6, 2020
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Even (4) More B-Movies You Can Watch On YouTube Right Now (Part 6)

Back with more creatures and bumps in the night to fill your days/nights with the fun campiness that is B-film goodness and other happy finds on YouTube! The Snow Creature (1954) The film is told in two acts involving a scientist (Paul Langton) finding a Yeti (Lock Martin) in the Himalayas and bringing it back to Los Angeles where it escapes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlKnq-3ICYs Tales from the Crypt (1972) Five strangers (Jone Collins, Ian Hendry, Robin Phillips, Richard Greene, and Nigel Patrick) get lost while on a tour of a crypt and meet the infamous Crypt Keeper (Ralph Richardson) who makes them relive their misdeeds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-MngattgrI The Robot VS the Aztec Mummy (1958) The third film in the Mexican “Aztec Mummy” film series, tells about the return of a mad scientist and criminal mastermind who wants revenge against the ancient mummy that thwarted his plans in the previous films by creating a robot to fight it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNQWSJ570rg Indestructible Man (1956) A detective

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Mar 27, 2020
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4 B-Movies You Can Watch On YouTube Right Now!

In a world where we can’t agree on anything, there is something we can indeed agree on… B-Movies are awesome! For being out there in storytelling, bad special effects, campy acting, and let’s face it just fun to watch, B-Movies or films like them are always pleasant to watch anytime. What’s better than a B-Movie? The fact that many of these films are in the public domain and can be watched for free on sites like YouTube! Here are 4 films you can watch right now! Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957) This film takes place in a small town that is suddenly invaded by aliens and is told through three different storylines, a teenage couple (Steven Terrell and Gloria Castillo) who accidentally hit an alien with their car, two drifters (Frank Gorshin and Lyn Osborn) visiting town trying to make money, and Air Force officials (Douglas Henderson and Sam Buffington) trying to cover up the landing of the flying

Continue reading →
Mar 14, 2020
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Blu-ray Review: Universal Classic Monsters: Complete 30-Film Collection (1931 – 1956)

Holy hell creeps; here comes the monstrous mother-load…thirty classic Universal released fright flicks all in one handy-dandy Blu-ray collection! Let’s take a very, very deep dive into the Universal Classic Monsters: Complete 30-Film Collection as we feast our eerie eyeballs on every film and the eerie extras these devilish discs contain! (Fair warning: this is going to be one hell of an insanely long-ass review!!!) Kicking things of we have the Frankenstein Complete Legacy Collection Frankenstein (1931): Ol’ Doc Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) and his deformed assistant Fritz (Dwight Frye) are up to the totally reasonable and completely sane task of digging up graves and disassembling corpses with the intent of putting the best bits together like a human jigsaw puzzle. Well, thanks to janky science and lightning they succeed, but the end result isn’t the human perfection for which they strove; rather he is a misshapen monstrosity (played to putrid perfection by Boris Karloff) possessed of great strength,a child

Continue reading →
Sep 29, 2018