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‘The hell that was under the water’ Killer Fish – also Killerfish – is a 1978 Italian-French-Brazilian action crime horror film directed by Antonio Margheriti and starring Lee Majors, James Franciscus and …
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The Washing Machine – Italian title: Vortice Mortale, “Deadly Vortex” – is a 1993 French/Italian/Hungarian horror thriller directed by Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust). The movie stars Philippe Caroit, Ilaria Borrelli and Katarzyna Figura. Claudio Simonetti (Tenebrae) composed …
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Horror films and westerns are two of cinema’s great mainstays, having established their distinct identities and sets of conventions in the earliest days of the medium. So distinct from each …
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‘To avoid fainting keep repeating, it’s only a movie…’ Hallmark Releasing Corp. was a Boston-based American film distribution company. With a pointedly provocative approach, Hallmark’s first major success was with German …
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Red Nights is a 2010 French-Hong Kong film directed by Julien Carbon and Laurent Courtiaud and starring Frédérique Bel, Carrie Ng and Jack Kao. The filmmakers refer to it as a Hong Kong Giallo with …
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‘The nightmare returns… Let’s party!’ Demons 2 – Italian: Dèmoni 2, aka Demons 2: The Nightmare Returns – is a 1986 Italian supernatural horror film directed by Lamberto Bava and co-written and produced …
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StageFright -Aquarius- is a 1987 Italian slasher horror film directed by Michele Soavi (Dellamore, Dellamorte; The Sect; The Church). Also known as Stage Fright, Bloody Bird, Deliria. The movie stars Barbara Cupisti, David …
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‘Biting, gnawing terror claws at your brain!’ A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin is a 1971 Italian-Spanish Giallo thriller film directed by Lucio Fulci. The original Italian title is Una …
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‘They hunt… they feed… they kill… you’re next!’ Contamination .7 is a 1993 Canadian-Italian horror film directed by Aristide Massaccesi [as Joe D’Amato] and Fabrizio Laurenti, and produced by Filmirage. The film is …
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The Red Stained Lawn is a 1973 Italian horror film written and directed by Riccardo Ghione. The movie stars Marina Malfatti (Seven Blood-stained Orchids; They’re Coming to Get You; The Red Queen Kills …
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Inferno is a 1980 Italian supernatural horror film written and directed by Dario Argento. The movie stars Leigh McCloskey, Irene Miracle, Eleonora Giorgi, Sacha Pitoeff, Daria Nicolodi, Alida Valli and …
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Doctor Satan and Black Magic is a 1968 Mexican horror film directed by Rogelio A. González (Ship of Monsters) which stars Joaquin Cordero (Doctor Satan; The Hell of Frankenstein; The Terrible …
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The films on this ‘Essential’ list are important in terms of their global impact on the horror movie genre, either for their box office draw, artistic merit, cult credibility, or …
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In the lacklustre Milton Subotsky production The Uncanny, Peter Cushing plays a man desperate to expose a sinister cat conspiracy against the human race: ‘They prowl by night… lusting for …
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Paul Naschy – born Jacinto Molina Álvarez, September 6, 1934, to November 30, 2009 – was a Spanish movie actor, screenwriter, and director working primarily in horror films. His portrayals …
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David Alexander Hess was an American actor, musician and songwriter, best known for his appearances in a trio of extreme horror films in the 1970s, in which he played a variety …
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There are essentially three things required to contact the dead; a dead person; a living person to whom they are acquainted (or would like to be); a very open mind. …
The Ouija Board: A history and its influence – article Read More
Leviathan is a 1989 American/Italian science fiction horror film about a hideous creature that stalks and kills a group of people in a sealed environment, in a similar vein to …
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‘He’ll leave you on the cutting room floor!’ The Editor is a 2014 Canadian comedy horror film written and directed by the Astron-6 (Father’s Day) collective. The movie stars Udo Kier, …
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‘The name written in blood!’ Eegah is a 1962 American sci-fi fantasy horror film written by Bob Wehling. The movie stars Arch Hall, Jr. (The Sadist), Arch Hall, Sr. (who directed …
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Cannibals is a 1980 French/Spanish horror film directed by prolific Spanish exploitation director Jesús Franco starring Sabrina Siani. It is one of two cannibal films directed by Franco featuring Al Cliver, the other being Devil Hunter. …
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‘Beauty after beauty dragged to a sunken crypt… Petrified play-captives of’ The Embalmer is the English release title for Il mostro di Venezia (“The Monster of Venice”), a 1965 Italian mystery …
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Snuff Trap is a 2003 Italian horror thriller film written and directed by Bruno Mattei [as Pierre Le Blanc] (Hell of the Living Dead; Rats: Night of Terror; Cruel Jaws; Zombies: The Beginning), with …
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Necrophobia is a 2014 Argentinian giallo-inspired horror film produced and directed by Daniel de la Vega from a screenplay co-written with Nicanor Loreti and Germán Val. The movie stars Julieta Cardinali, Luis Machín, Gerardo Romano, Viviana Saccone and Raúl …
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Nightmare USA is a huge (528 pages) tome by musician and author Stephen Thrower (Eyeball Compendium; Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci; Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesus Franco and …
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Scooby Doo, Where Are You! was the first incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon series, Scooby-Doo. Created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, the cartoon premiered on CBS on …
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‘Mother may I go out and kill?’ The Psychopath is a 1966 British horror thriller film directed by Freddie Francis from a screenplay by Robert Bloch (Psycho). The Amicus production stars Patrick Wymark, Margaret Johnston, Alexander Knox, and …
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‘In the flesh… her most erotic adventures yet!’ Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals is a 1977 Italian horror film, directed by Joe D’Amato (Aristide Massacessi). The film is part of …
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Oakley Court is a Victorian Gothic country house overlooking the River Thames at Water Oakley in Bray in the English county of Berkshire. It was built in 1859 and is currently a luxury hotel. In the past, it has been often used as …
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‘When the dead first walked, they had no time for appetizers.’ Zombies: The Beginning is a 2007 Italian horror film – original title: Zombi: La creazione – directed by Bruno …
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Doctor Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine is a 1965 American International Pictures (AIP) comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Vincent Price, Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Susan Hart (The Slime People) and Jack Mullaney and …
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Demons – original title: Dèmoni – is a 1985 Italian supernatural horror film directed by Lamberto Bava and produced by Dario Argento, starring Urbano Barberini and Natasha Hovey. The screenplay was written by Bava, Argento, Franco Ferrini and Dardano Sacchetti, from a story by …
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Riziero “Riz” Ortolani was an Italian film composer. Born on 25 March 1926, he died in Rome, on 23 January 2014. In the early 1950s, Ortolani began his musical career as a founder …
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‘A new vision of terror’ Trauma is a 1993 Italian Giallo horror film directed by Dario Argento, starring Asia Argento, Piper Laurie, Christopher Rydell and Brad Dourif. Shot in and …
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Bronson Canyon, and more particularly Bronson Caves, is a section of Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California that has become famous as a filming location for a large number of movies and TV shows, especially westerns, horror and science fiction, from the …
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Queens of Evil is a 1970 Italian/French supernatural horror film directed by Tonino Cervi. The movie stars Haidee Politoff, Silvia Monti, Evelyn Stuart and Ray Lovelock (Let Sleeping Corpses Lie). A …
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‘Terrible daughter. Perfect killer’ Slaughter Daughter is 2012 American horror film co-written and directed by Travis Campbell (Mr. Bricks: A Heavy Metal Murder Musical). Lauren Miler was the co-writer and …
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Nightmare City – aka City of the Walking Dead, Italian title: Incubo Sulla Cittá Contaminata – is a 1980 Italian-Spanish horror film directed by Umberto Lenzi from a screenplay by Piero Regnoli (Patrick Still Lives; The Playgirls and the …
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(Agnes) Elisabeth Lutyens (9 July 1906 – 14 April 1983) was an English composer of classical music but is best known for her contribution for scores to horror films throughout the 1960’s. Born …
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The Mummy can, in many respects, hold claim to being the most unloved of the classic movie monsters – if not, then surely the most inconsistently served. The oft-quoted line …
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The Last House on the Beach (Italian: La settima donna, also known as Terror and The Seventh Woman) is a 1978 Italian revenge thriller film directed by Franco Prosperi. Although the title it is best known for in English-language …
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Patrick: Evil Awakens is a 2013 Australian sci-fi horror film directed by Mark Hartley (Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!) from a screenplay by Justin King. It was produced …
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Kiss of the Tarantula is a 1975 American horror film directed by Chris Munger from a screenplay written by Daniel Cady (Dream No Evil, Garden of the Dead, Dolly Dearest) and Warren …
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The 1970s saw many old cinematic taboos falling away, and few horror film sub-genres benefited from the relaxation in censorship more than the cannibal film. In fact, this is a …
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‘Then it’s too late for exorcism!’ Enter the Devil is a 1972 American horror film directed by Frank Q. Dobbs from a screenplay co-written with David S. Cass Sr, who …
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Electronically produced sound has been available to adventurous film composers since the silent era. Among the earliest electronic instruments were the Ondes-Martenot (invented in 1928), which produced a characteristic quivering …
The Synth of Fear: Horror and Sci-Fi Films with Synthesizer Scores – Article Read More
Lokis Rękopis profesora Wittembacha (often called simply Lokis) is a 1970 Polish horror film directed by Janusz Majewski. It stars Józef Duriasz, Edmund Fetting, Gustaw Lutkiewicz, Małgorzata Braunek, Zofia Mrozowska …
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The Case of the Bloody Iris is a 1972 Italian Giallo horror-thriller film directed by Giuliano Carnimeo (RatMan) [as Anthony Ascott] from a screenplay by Ernesto Gastaldi. The original title …
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Mania is a 1973 Italian horror thriller film written, directed and produced by Renato Polselli (Delirium; Black Magic Rites) as Ralph Brown. The movie stars Isarco Ravaioli, Eva Spadaro, Carla …
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Opera aka Terror at the Opera – is a 1987 Italian Giallo horror thriller film written and directed by Dario Argento. The movie stars Cristina Marsillach, Urbano Barberini, and Ian Charleson. The film’s …
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