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Poison Ivy
“What Ivy wants, Ivy gets.” Depraved teen seductress Drew Barrymore is the houseguest from hell in TFH Guru Katt Shea’s erotic psycho thriller, which didn’t pack them in on its limited theatrical release but became a big enough hit on cable and home video to spawn three…
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The Frighteners
Before they were adapting J.R.R. Tolkien masterpieces and making brilliant archival documentaries, Peter Jackson and longtime creative collaborator Fran Walsh explored some far quirkier terrain. The post The Frighteners appeared first on Trailers From Hell .
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Macabre
For some directors a scream is as good as a standing ovation. William Castle spent his career chasing those screams and even when his movies veered from the implausible to the irrational, Castle soldiered on with the chutzpah of a born surrealist, demonstrating that when it came…
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The Silence of the Lambs
TFH stalwart and CineSavant reviewer Terry Morgan takes on the classic of serial killer pictures. In the almost one hundred years the Academy Awards have been in existence, this is the only horror film to receive the Best Picture Oscar. That's remarkable enough, but of course it…
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Son of Frankenstein
The last “official” appearance by a 52 year-old Boris Karloff as the Frankenstein monster gives this 1939 entry a melancholy tone that’s dispelled whenever Lionel Atwill and Bela Lugosi appear as the one-armed Inspector Krogh and the double-dealing Ygor. Basil Rathbone stars as…
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Happy Halloween
‘Tis the season to be scary. Cue the music: On October thirty-one, when the sun, goes to rest, that’s when drivers have to be extra careful not to run over the ghosts and goblins in the street. That’s my POV as an adult, anyway. Call me a spoilsport, but Halloween hasn’t really…
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The Mummy ’59
When Hammer signed their deal with Universal they seemed prepared to enthusiastically slog their way through every horror property in the studio vault. This one combines all five Universal mummy pix into one, and it works pretty darn well–although it would work less well once…
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WICKER writer/directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson
Wicker writer/directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson talk hosts Joe Dante and Josh Olson through the romantic movies that made them! Movies Referenced In This Episode Wicker (2026) Snowy Bing Bongs Across the North Star Zone (2017) Beauty and the Beast (1943) The Sound…
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Ryan’s Daughter
Studios big and small this Fall are putting out superb 4K discs of some of our favorites. Filmed in 70mm and scanned at 8K, David Lean's masterpiece wins us over with amazing visuals of the wild Irish coast, and an effective story of an illicit relationship in the shadow of a…
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Marked Woman
Warner Brothers wanted to keep Bette Davis, even after she sued them. The Production Code made this true-life gangland tale disguise its own subject matter, with prostitutes transformed into glamorous club hostesses and a crime syndicate reduced to one 'Mr. Big' hoodlum over…
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Army of Darkness
With the third film in his Evil Dead series, Sam Raimi honored Hunter S. Thompson’s credo, “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” The director transports Bruce Campbell back to the Middle Ages, where he battles both zombies and knights in rusty armor. It ain’t A…
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The First Films of Samuel Fuller
There's nobody like Samuel Fuller, a bolt of cinematic energy who kicked Hollywood filmmaking in exciting directions. His first three directed features are little works of art, with challenging subject matter and a willingness to confront controversial subject matter. The Steel…
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Duplicity — 4K
This one still impresses: the subject is industrial espionage, being played for keeps by two ex-security professionals. Tony Gilroy writes and directs his update of the romantic thriller staple, in which seductive spies steal from their corporate employers, while constantly…
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Rock ‘N’ Roll High School
Probably the most sheer fun New World Picture ever, Allan Arkush’s classic would probably never have attained its legendary status without its most brilliant component — the casting of The Ramones, the band your parents warned you about even though they didn’t know they existed!…
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Subject Two
Every Halloween, horror critics tend to produce lists of film suggestions to properly celebrate Samhain. I’ve done so myself, in this very column. These lists are helpful for people who are new to horror movies, but sometimes the choices on these lists for those of us who have…
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High School Angst
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week, we…
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Amy Heckerling’s raucous 1982 high school comedy based on screenwriter Cameron Crowe’s book is a virtual template for the dozens of teen flicks produced in its wake. Co-starring longtime character actor Ray Walston as the strait-laced history teacher engaged in a one-sided war…
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Skyscraper Souls
Pre-code delirium hits a sordid low (high?) in Edgar Selwyn's saga of financial conflict and sexual predation in a futuristic super-skyscraper run buy an incredibly devious scoundrel ... who else but star Warren William? He double-crosses his partners, manipulating stock to…
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Dear Heart
A square romance that needs rediscovery: Glenn Ford and Geraldine Page are the most endearing couple of the 1960s -- ordinary decent people looking for the right mate in the confusion of big city relationships. She's a postmaster attending a convention. He's getting ready to…
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Election
Tammany Hall’s corruption pales beside the den of iniquity known as Carver High School, a place of learning turned into a cesspool of backroom deals and ballot stuffing. Alexander Payne directed this inspired political satire with Matthew Broderick as Jim McAllister, Carver’s…