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The Midnight Room: September 2012
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Saturday, September 29, 2012. Dumber of the Beast: The Mephisto Waltz by Fred Mustard Stewart. Here’s another “classic” piece of late 60s quasi-Satanic hooey, Fred Mustard Stewart’s debut novel, The Mephisto Waltz. Just look at the reviews on the cover of the 1970 Signet paperback:. A gripping ride into a world of Satanism and Black Magic… impossible to put down. 8211; Saturday Review. Mr Stewart weaves his eerie plot with diabolical skill. The Mephisto Waltz. 8211; New York Times Book Review. Stewart sc...
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The Midnight Room: October 2013
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Saturday, October 5, 2013. Black Hole Reviews has a post about Sheffield Park House (location for The Innocents -1961). Filming Location: THE INNOCENTS (1961) - not far from HELL HOUSE! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Midnight Room on Facebook. Barrymore Tebbs Official Website. Barrymore Tebbs on Facebook. View my complete profile. All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By. At the Mountains of Madness. Curse of the Demon. Danvers State Mental Hospital. Day of the Arrow. House of Dark Shadows. Sons of the Wolf.
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The Midnight Room: December 2012
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Saturday, December 29, 2012. The Life and Loves of Alfred Hitchock. When I was a kid racing home from school to watch Dark Shadows. And staying up late on Saturday night to watch Shock it to Me. Our local sci-fi/horror double feature in glorious black and white, I was as much a fan of Alfred Hitchcock as I was of Lugosi and Karloff, and Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Television showings of Psycho. It’s “the voice” that actors Anthony Hopkins in Hitchcock. And Toby Jones in The Girl. The Rebello book,...
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The Midnight Room: Spaghetti Gothic 101: Nightmare Castle
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013. Spaghetti Gothic 101: Nightmare Castle. Not my favorite Barbara Steele movie (that would be The Horrible Dr. Hichcock. Coming to The Midnight Room next week), but any way you slice it Nightmare Castle. Packs an awful lot of bang for your buck. This is another one I originally purchased on VHS from Sinister Cinema years ago. The censored version as originally released in the. Is in public domain, so there are numerous DVD editions floating around at various price ranges. Arrow...
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The Midnight Room: July 2012
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Sunday, July 29, 2012. Bela Lugosi Kicks the Habit. Is on a brief hiatus. Commentary will return next week. In the meantime, please enjoy this vintage 1955 interview with Bela Lugosi upon his release from the State Hospital where he was treated for heroin addiction. Sunday, July 22, 2012. All Heads Turn When the Snake Woman Slithers By. I’m not talking about 50 Shades of Grey. But an overblown piece of Southern Gothic reptilian nonsense hailed as one of the 100 Greatest Horror Novels of All Time. Imagine...
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The Midnight Room: June 2012
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Saturday, June 30, 2012. Mini Hitchcocks: Scream of Fear. Any serious fan of Hammer Films knows all about these juicy little gems, but for the more casual viewer who thinks of Hammer’s output as the Christopher Lee Dracula. And Peter Cushing Frankenstein. Series, you’re in for quite a treat. The film company itself coined the term “mini-Hitchcock” which had a two-fold meaning. These stories were modeled after the suspense films Psycho. And to a lesser degree, Vertigo. I’m a big fan of psychological...
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The Midnight Room: January 2013
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013. Two Birds With One Stone: Whip and the Body (1963). Bridging my mini-series on ghosts at the movies with a mini-series on Italian Gothic Cinema comes Mario Bava's bizarre bit of S&M Gothic, Whip and the Body. Kurt’s return throws the entire castle into turmoil. Everyone has a bone to pick with Kurt in one way or another, so it comes as no surprised that Kurt is stabbed to death in the shadows at the climax of Act One. The colors are eye-popping. I would not recommend the mo...
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The Midnight Room: "She's downstairs." The Mysteries of "The Awakening" (2011)
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Saturday, March 16, 2013. She's downstairs." The Mysteries of "The Awakening" (2011). With my fondness for the late Victorian/Edwardian period of British history, I’m as addicted to Downton Abbey. A Gothic heroine, n’cest pas? Hot on the heels of the release of Downton. Season Three stateside, along comes Nick Murphy’s tidy Gothic ghost thriller, The Awakening. There are no lords and ladies here, no scheming lady’s maid or vicious gay footman – this is the life as it was in post War. Parlor hoping to spe...
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The Midnight Room: Yawn of the Devil: Eye of the Devil (1966)
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Thursday, April 18, 2013. Yawn of the Devil: Eye of the Devil (1966). The reputation of Eye of the Devil. Eye of the Devil. Depending on your tolerance for moldy oldies like Eye of the Devil,. Film fans seem to love it or hate it . Eye of the Devil. Came from an uninspired Gothic horror novel by Phillip Loraine, Day of the Arrow. 8211; which would have made a better title for the movie. I guess have issues with a Gothic horror film with the Devil in the title but not in the actual story line. I had a gli...
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The Midnight Room: October 2012
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012. Son of the Beast: Rosemary's Baby. Since the beginning of cinema as a universally shared human interest some one hundred years ago, readers who also love movies and movie fans who must read the book on which a movie is based have argued the age-old debate: the book was better than the movie or the movie was better than the book. Picture if you will, those of you who are as familiar with the scenes in Rosemary’s Baby. As you are with other favorite classics –. Rosemary looked ...