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Horror Double Feature: Eaten Alive & Night Creature

In today’s Shocktober Double Feature, we will be startled by a very hungry crocodile, Robert Englund, a ferocious leopard, and yummy Nancy Kwan! It’s Eaten Alive and Night Creature!

EATEN ALIVE (1976)

Tobe Hooper’s debut film, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), although not nearly as graphically violent as popularly believed, is nevertheless quite a nightmarish experience to sit through. His sophomore effort, 1977’s comparatively unknown Eaten Alive, is almost as nightmarish and ups the gore quotient considerably.


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Horror Double Feature: Die, Monster, Die! & I, Monster

In today’s Shocktober Double Feature we have two curious stories, courtesy of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert Louis Stevenson. It’s Die, Monster, Die! and I, Monster!

DIE, MONSTER, DIE! (1965)

“The Colour Out of Space” has long been one of my favorite H.P. Lovecraft stories, so I was curious to see how this 1965 film adaptation, directed by Daniel Haller, had turned out. Very well indeed, I’m happy to report. In this solid little AIP chiller, Nick Adams, an American, comes to Arkham, England to visit his college girlfriend.


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Horror Double Feature: The Gore Gore Girls & The Slumber Party Massacre!

In today’s Shocktober Double Feature, we will deal with strippers, boiling oil, acid, a driller killer and tasty Doritos! It’s The Gore Gore Girls and The Slumber Party Massacre!

THE GORE GORE GIRLS (1972)

Say what you will about cinema’s “Wizard of Gore,” Herschell Gordon Lewis, it must be conceded that from his first films (1963’s trashy Blood Feast and 1964’s crackerbarrel massacre Two Thousand Maniacs) to his last (1972’s The Gore Gore Girls), the man remained faithful to his muse,


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Horror Double Feature: Violent Midnight & Theatre of Death

In today’s installment of the Shocktober Double Feature, we will encounter a serial knife killer, near nudity, a Parisian blood drainer and Christopher Lee. It’s Violent Midnight and Theatre of Death!

VIOLENT MIDNIGHT (1963)

A film probably better known by its alternate, later title of Psychomania, Violent Midnight proved a very pleasant surprise for me indeed. The film centers around Elliott Freeman, a young, reclusive painter who won’t be a free man much longer if the local police have their way.


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Horror Double Feature: Womaneater & Please Don’t Eat My Mother

In today’s Shocktober Double Feature, we will encounter Amazonian natives, a carnivorous tree, a man-eating houseplant and full-frontal nudity. It’s Womaneater and Please Don’t Eat My Mother!

WOMANEATER (1958)

For those of you wondering whether Pittsburgh-born beauty Marpessa Dawn ever made another film besides 1959’s classic Black Orpheus, here is your answer. She appeared one year earlier, as an Amazonian native at the opening of Charles Saunders’ Womaneater, being sacrificed to a carnivorous tree. That tree is stolen by English scientist George Coulouris,


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Horror Double Feature: The Black Scorpion & Dinosaurus

In today’s Shocktober Double Feature, we will encounter giant insects, prehistoric beasties and a very befuddled caveman! It’s The Black Scorpion and Dinosaurus!

THE BLACK SCORPION (1957)

By the late 1950s, filmmakers must have been running out of insects that they could mutate and transform into giant monsters. Audiences had already been treated to such fare as Them (giant ants), Tarantula (spiders), The Monster From Green Hell (wasps), The Beginning of the End (grasshoppers), The Deadly Mantis (praying mantises),


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Horror Double Feature: The Bells & The Cat and the Canary

In today’s Shocktober Double Feature, we encounter mesmerism, murder, insanity, a spooky house and an escaped madman, in two wonderful old silent films! It’s The Bells and The Cat and the Canary!

THE BELLS (1926)

The Bells is a very fine silent movie from 1926 that is not at all creaky and should manage to impress modern-day viewers. As revealed in my beloved Psychotronic Video Guide, this story was, remarkably, filmed no less than four times prior to this 1926 version,


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Horror Double Feature: Killers From Space & Mars Needs Women

Although I was born a little too late to experience the Golden Age of the cinematic double feature – that is to say, the 1940s and ‘50s – I have been able to enjoy the next-best thing, thanks to where I happen to live. Back in the 1970s and ‘80s, NYC boasted well over a dozen so-called “revival theaters” that showed the classic old movies, usually in double-feature format. Most of those theaters are no more, and the ones that remain today, sadly enough, no longer show two films paired together for a single ticket price. But those wonderful theaters still remain fondly in my memory.


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Facial Justice: Jael Bait

Facial Justice by L.P. Hartley

It was Anthony Burgess, writing in his 1984 overview volume 99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939, who first made me aware of L.P. Hartley’s truly remarkable creation Facial Justice. In his essay in that volume, Burgess tells us that Hartley’s novel is “a brilliant projection of tendencies already apparent in the post-war British welfare state.” It is one of the very few sci-fi novels that the Clockwork Orange author chose to spotlight in his book,


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The Feast of Bacchus: It’s Greek to me

The Feast of Bacchus by Ernest G. Henham

Tenebrae (1898), by the London-born writer Ernest G. Henham, had turned out to be one of my favorite reading experiences of 2023, and I had been wanting to read another book from this same author ever since. A Gothically inflected tale dealing with fratricide, madness, and a 20-foot-long spider monstrosity, Tenebrae was a deliciously morbid treat; one that had been rescued from over a century’s worth of oblivion by the fine folks at Valancourt Books.


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