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Return of the Fly (1959)
Return of the Fly is the first sequel to the 1958 horror film The Fly. It was released in 1959, and directed by Edward Bernds. Unlike the preceding film, Return of the Fly was shot in black and white....
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The Snow Creature (1954)
‘Half man! Half monster!’ The Snow Creature – promoted as Snow Creature – is a 1954 monster movie produced and directed by W. Lee Wilder (Fright; Phantom from Space; Killers from Space), based on a...
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Bad Movies = Great Trash – article by Bret McCormick
“Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.” This quote is attributed to Pauline Kael, one of cinema’s best known...
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The Haunted Strangler aka Grip of the Strangler (1957)
‘Their wild beauty marked them for death by…’ The Haunted Strangler – aka Grip of the Strangler – is a 1957 – released 1958 – British-American horror film directed by Robert Day (The Initiation of...
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I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957)
Poster designed by Reynold Brown ‘Body of a boy! Mind of a monster! Soul of an unearthly thing!’ I Was a Teenage Frankenstein – aka Teenage Frankenstein – is a 1957 American science fiction horror film...
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The Head (1959)
‘It just won’t lay down and stay dead’ The Head is a 1959 German science fiction horror thriller written and directed by Russian-born Victor Trivas. It stars Michel Simon, Horst Frank and Paul Dahlke....
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The Hearse Song aka The Worms Crawl In – song
“The Hearse Song” is a song about burial and human decomposition, of unknown origin. It was popular as a World War I song, and was popular in the 20th century as an American and British children’s...
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The Devil’s Messenger (1961)
The Devil’s Messenger is a 1961 anthology horror film combining three episodes of the 1959 Swedish television series 13 Demon Street directed by Curt Siodmak (Donovan’s Brain; The Wolf Man) and...
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The Brutal Practice of Head Shrinking – article
The practice of shrinking a human head is extremely dark. While numerous cultures have participated in the practice of headhunting, the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Peruvian Amazon Jivaro Indian Tribe did...
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Hyde and Hare (1955)
Hyde and Hare is a 1955 American Warner Bros Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon, directed by Friz Freleng [as I. Freleng] from a story by Warren Foster. The scenario was inspired by Robert Louis...
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The Brain from Planet Arous (1957)
‘It’s becoming an obsession. All this power and money. Who needs it?’ The Brain from Planet Arous is a 1957 American science fiction horror film directed by Nathan Juran [as Nathan Hertz] (The Boy Who...
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The Unknown Terror (1957)
‘They dared to enter the Cave of Hell to explore the secrets of Hell and find the…’ Unknown Terror – aka The Unknown Terror – is a 1957 American science fiction horror film directed by western...
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Adam West – actor
Adam West (September 19, 1928 – June 9, 2017), born as William West Anderson, was an American actor whose career spanned seven decades. He is best known for portraying Batman in the campy 1960s TV...
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The Bat (USA, 1959)
‘When it flies… someone dies!’ The Bat is a 1959 American murder mystery film written and directed by playwright Crane Wilbur (screenplay for Mysterious Island; The Mad Magician; House of Wax;...
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Martin Landau – actor (1928 – 2017)
Martin Landau (June 20, 1928 – July 15, 2017) was an American film and television actor. His career took off in the 1950s, with appearances that included a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock’s North...
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Scared Stiff (USA, 1953)
Scared Stiff is a 1953 American musical comedy film directed by George Marshall from a screenplay by Herbert Baker and Walter DeLeon (The Cat and the Canary), loosely based on the 1909 play The Ghost...
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Terror from the Year 5000 (USA, 1958)
‘From time unborn… a hideous she-thing!’ Terror from the Year 5000 is a 1958 American science fiction horror film written, produced and directed by Robert J. Gurney Jr. It is based (uncredited) on...
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The Vampire’s Coffin – Mexico, 1958
The Vampire’s Coffin – original title: El ataúd del Vampiro – is a 1958 Mexican supernatural horror film directed by Fernando Méndez (The Living Coffin; Black Pit of Dr. M; The Vampire; et al) from a...
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War of the Colossal Beast – USA, 1958
War of the Colossal Beast is a 1958 science fiction horror film written, co-produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon (Empire of the Ants; Necromancy; The Cyclops; et al) and produced by Carmel...
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Jack the Ripper – UK, 1959
‘This lady of the night has taken her last walk!’ Jack the Ripper is a 1959 British horror thriller film produced, photographed and directed by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman (producers of The Flesh...
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