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    Directors DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY - The Films of JAMES WHALE

    UPDATED.In order of merit: 1.Bride Of Frankenstein (1935) ****2.The Old Dark House (1932) ****3.The Invisible Man (1933) ****4.Frankenstein (1931) ****5.Hell's Angels (1930) ****6.The Man In The Iron Mask (1939) ***1/27.Remember Last Night? (1935) ***1/2 8.Showboat (1936) ***1/29.The Great...
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    *** Official 14th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge 2013 ***

    I'm also surprised by my high ranking...as there were several gaps over the month, and I certainly didn't reach my target of 3 movies per day! For the record, all 78 films I watched during this Challenge were FIRST-time viewings!
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    *** Official 14th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge 2013 ***

    My final tally for Halloween 2013 is 78: 1 01/10/13 And Soon The Darkness (1970) *** 2 The Maze **1/2 3 Orson Welles' Ghost Story (Return To Glennascaul) **1/2 4 02/10/13 The Final Programme ** 5...
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    *** Official 14th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge 2013 ***

    30/10/13: KILLER BEES {TV} (Curtis Harrington, 1974) ** The invasion of a community by a swarm of deadly bees was, for a time, a popular commodity in genre cinema: this was preceded by Freddie Francis’ THE DEADLY BEES (1966) and followed by THE SAVAGE BEES (1976; TV), its sequel TERROR OUT OF...
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    *** Official 14th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge 2013 ***

    27/10/13: THE MASTER OF HORROR {1965 Re-Edited U.S. Version} (Enrique Carreras, 1959) **1/2 This is another title I happened upon by pure chance on “You Tube”: an Argentinian genre effort that was typically retouched and distributed in the U.S. (in its case, by noted exploitationer Jack H...
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    *** Official 14th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge 2013 ***

    24/10/13: THE SIGN OF FOUR {TV} (Desmond Davis, 1983) **1/2 This was stage actor Ian Richardson’s second stab at playing master sleuth Sherlock Holmes in the same year; while quite fine in the role, he does occasionally resort to hamminess. Both films were sourced from two of Sir Arthur Conan...
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    *** Official 14th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge 2013 ***

    21/10/13: BLACKENSTEIN – THE BLACK FRANKENSTEIN (William A. Levey, 1973) BOMB I knew going in this did not have much of a reputation but, frankly, I was not expecting the result to be of such an utterly amateurish quality either! Anyway, after the runaway success that the Blaxploitation take on...
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    *** Official 14th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge 2013 ***

    19/10/13: TALES OF TOMORROW: PAST TENSE {TV} (Don Medford, 1953) *** This is another good entry in this interesting series: linking it to the recently-viewed H.G. Wells adaptation THE CRYSTAL EGG (1951) is the fact that, here, we deal with the invention of a time machine (obviously the title of...
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    *** Official 14th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge 2013 ***

    16/10/13: SUPERNATURAL: COUNTESS ILONA [TV] (Simon Langton, 1977) *** This was another vintage but obscure British horror TV series soon to be revived on DVD by the BFI; as with DEAD OF NIGHT (1972; TV), I came across two episodes on "You Tube" and opted to include them in the current Halloween...
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    *** Official 14th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge 2013 ***

    15/10/13: THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER [TV] (Alexandre Astruc, 1981) *** Edgar Allan Poe’s melancholy tale of doomed siblings is among his most popular, so it is small wonder that the cinema keeps returning to this one (among a handful of other choice stories). Interestingly, the premise...
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    *** Official 14th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge 2013 ***

    14/10/13: THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN (Bert I. Gordon, 1957) **1/2 For the most part, this is easily among director Gordon’s better genre outings: incidentally, the Atom Age of Fantasy movies supplied numerous titles in which animals expand to enormous size as an after-effect of radioactive...
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    *** Official 14th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge 2013 ***

    12/10/13: THE MASK OF DIIJON (Lew Landers, 1946) **1/2 Erich von Stroheim’s acting career often saw him playing some kind of variety-act performer: in THE GREAT GABBO (1929), which I own but have yet to watch, he was a ventriloquist; in THE GREAT FLAMARION (1945), an expert marksman; and here...
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    *** Official 14th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge 2013 ***

    GRIZZLY is the very first movie I watched on our-then new color TV...back in 1983! Haven't seen the movie in ages....but have fond memories of it as a result. Have also acquired the unreleased GRIZZLY II...but have yet to watch it! SON OF INGAGI is one of only a couple of 1940s horror films...
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    *** Official 14th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge 2013 ***

    11/10/13: ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE (Bert I. Gordon, 1958) **1/2 Typically, director Gordon here puts his mark on a popular horror theme – in this case, the shrinking of human beings (displayed in glass receptacles very similar to the ones in which Dr. Praetorius showed off his own ‘little...
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    *** Official 14th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge 2013 ***

    It figures that as soon as I decide to bump up my reviews here to meet IMDb's minimum 10-line requirement, that site dies out on me........
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    *** Official 14th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge 2013 ***

    01/10/13: AND SOON THE DARKNESS (Robert Fuest, 1970) *** Two British girls vacationing in rural France find themselves at the mercy of a sex maniac. This somewhat arty and slow-burning suspenser on THE LADY VANISHES lines was production designer-turned-director Fuest’s third directorial effort...
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    *** Official 14th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge 2013 ***

    07/10/13: REVENGE OF THE STEPFORD WIVES [TV] (Robert Fuest, 1980) **1/2 A lady TV reporter arrives in Stepford to hold a survey on its standing as the perfect American community. The concept of the ‘makeover’ is curiously (and implausibly) reworked here, events play out more like a straight...
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    *** Official 14th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge 2013 ***

    I got these 2 in my collection: the 2nd didn't even occur to me it could be included. As for LA BRUJA, I have many Mexican & Spanish horror flicks on the backburner...but, at this pace, I don't know how many I'll be able to include (if any). Again, it didn't occur to me that THREE CASES OF...
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    *** Official 14th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge 2013 ***

    06/10/13: THE FOOD OF THE GODS (Bert I. Gordon, 1976) ** The animal life of a remote farming community grows to enormous size after eating from a mysterious product and threatens the locals; in the meantime, members of an inland food-manufacturing company seek to exploit the discovery as a...
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    *** Official 14th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge 2013 ***

    Thanks for posting this, Joe! Although I'm going through lesser versions of famous horror novels right now, including the 3 "Blaxploitation" efforts - SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM, BLACKENSTEIN and DR. BLACK, MR. HYDE - didn't even occur to me... :P
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    *** Official 14th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge 2013 ***

    Why am I not being allowed to edit my master list on Pg. 4? Anyone else having this problem...?!
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    *** Official 14th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge 2013 ***

    Thanks for the greeting, ye olde sparring partner :D! You're right, of course...but there are, at least, 3 equally essential later adaptations: Jean Renoir's THE TESTAMENT OF DR. CORDELIER (1959; TV), Giorgio Albertazzi's 4-part mini-series JEKYLL (1969; TV) and Walerian Borowczyk's DOCTEUR...
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    *** Official 14th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge 2013 ***

    05/10/13: ABC WEEKEND SPECIALS: THE GOLD BUG [TV] (Robert Fuest, 1980) ***A lonesome boy, who finds solace in studying the insect life on a desert island, stumbles upon adventurers seeking Captain Kidd’s buried treasure.Modest, likeable, evocative and quite faithful rendition of Edgar Allan...
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    *** Official 14th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge 2013 ***

    It has taken a "Halloween Challenge" to lure me back, Mike...and it's good to see that Joe Karlosi's still around, too!
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    *** Official 14th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge 2013 ***

    01/10/13: AND SOON THE DARKNESS (Robert Fuest, 1970) *** Two British girls vacationing in rural France find themselves at the mercy of a sex maniac. Somewhat arty and slow-burning suspenser: agreeably streamlined, it is reasonably well sustained by an eerie setting and glossy visuals...
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    *** Official 14th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge 2013 ***

    01/10/13: AND SOON THE DARKNESS (Robert Fuest, 1970) *** 01/10/13: THE MAZE (William Cameron Menzies, 1953) **1/2 01/10/13: RETURN TO GLENNASCAUL: A STORY THAT IS TOLD IN DUBLIN aka ORSON WELLES' GHOST STORY [Short] (Hilton Edwards, 1951) **1/2 02/10/13: THE FINAL PROGRAMME aka LAST DAYS OF MAN...
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    *** Official 14th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge 2013 ***

    I'd like to participate, but I'm not sure whether it's obligatory to write reviews...as I have pretty much given up on them due to time constraints.
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    Track the Films You Watch (2011)

    12/30/11: CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY (Robert Siodmak, 1944) *** This is a strange noir, made even more so by the odd casting of the usually wholesome Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly as a barely-disguised ‘floozie’ and an inveterate gambler and murderer respectively! Besides, the title is most ironic since...
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    Track the Films You Watch (2011)

    12/28/11: THE CHRISTMAS TREE (Terence Young, 1969) **1/2 This was shown at Christmastime on local TV in the late 1980s, back when Leslie Halliwell’s conservative Film Guide was the ‘Bible’ of movie-reviewing tomes – and, since he had disparagingly labelled this “the most lachrymose film of the...
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