The Spiral Staircase (1946)
Mark of the Vampire (1935)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926)
The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
Raffles (1930)
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Monday, September 25, 2017
Sunday, September 24, 2017
#WomanEmpowermentWednesday #HalloweenEdition Zita Johann
- Gave private acting lessons to "disturbed" children
- Raised money for war related charities and put on shows for soldiers during World War 2
- When given a contract by MGM that would include script approval, she reportedly asked Irving Talbert "Why do you make such awful pictures?"
- Quit Hollywood after 7 movies in favor for the stage
- Applied to be in the Theater Guild as an understudy but was immediately offered lead roles
Remake This #HalloweenEdition: The Westport Murders Referenced in "The Body Snatcher" (1945)
"There is all that between them and more -- Burke and Hare and Knox...And did you hear them speak of the porter who testified against Burke? They did not tell you that the porter cried out in the witness box when the Kings Counselor pressed him hard -- how he cried out that he was shielding a gentleman of consequence. That porter was Gray and the gentleman of consequence who couldn't swallow the shame [was] McFarlane."
Both the Robert Lewis Stevenson short story and its Val Lawton adapted film have one thing in common in reference and plot. The Burke and Hare or the West Port Murders was a killing spree of 16 people in 1828 Edinburg, Scotland committed by William Burke and William Hare. Instead of being sent to their graves, the victims' bodies were sold to Doctor Robert Knox for anatomy classes. The infamous trial began on Christmas Eve 1828 and ran for a full 24 hours resulting in Burke's execution the next month and Hare's eviction from the country a month after that.
William Burke: Jamie Dornan
William Hare: Colin Morgan
Helen McDougal: Sarah Bolger
Margaret Laird: Karen Gillan
Robert Knox: Peter Capaldi
Sunday, September 17, 2017
#WomanEmpowermentWednesday #HalloweenEdition Cornelia Van Gorder in "The Bat" (1959)
- Is a female murder/mystery writer and character written by a female murder/mystery writer, Mary Roberts Rinehart in 1908
- Effectively locked all the windows and doors when a storm begins to hit, then themselves in a bedroom when The Bat attempts to kill Cornelia
- Searches for the secret room by herself
- Rents and lives The Oaks summer house BY HERSELF (with her maid Lizzy who is the only house staff member who will stay with her)
- Manages to lure The Bat into the secret room then locking him in
- Tells everyone to stay in the house when The Bat lights the garage on fire to get them outside
- Attempts to kill The Bat with a poker
#ManCrushMonday #HalloweenEdition Robert Donat in "Ghost Goes West" (1935)
Scotsman Murdoch Glourie prefers to spend time with women, many women and refuses to go off to war despite his dying father's wishes. But when the Gloure's rival family, the McClaggans, insults the them, Murdoch has to defend the family name. But while running away from the five McClaggan brothers to find a sword to defend himself, a hiding spot explodes and kills him. But his ghost haunts and walks the Glourie castle for centuries until he can find a McClaggan to kill, at least until an indirect descendant (also played by Donat) sells the well known castle to an American business man who ends up de-bricking it and rebuilding in Florida. Both the ghost of Murdoch and Donald become smitten with the business man's daughter. Robert Donat is in full Donat form despite the awful Scottish accent but oh so smooth and charming especially when he pulls the riddle "what is the difference between a thistle in the heather and a kiss in the dark?"
Sunday, September 10, 2017
Turner Classic Movies October 2017 Schedule
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| Dracula (1931) |
Sunday, October 1
Monster of the Week: Dracula
7:00 pm Dracula (1931)
8:30 Dracula's Daughter (1936)
10:00 Son of Dracula (1943)
11:30 Nosferatu (1922)
Tuesday, October 3
TCM Spotlight: Classic Horror
7:00 pm Frankenstein (1931)
8:30 Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
10:00 The Mummy (1932)
11:30 The Wolf Man (1941)
1:00 am Island of Lost Souls (1933)
2:30 The Black Cat (1934)
3:45 The Invisible Man (1933)
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| House of Dracula (1945) |
Sunday, October 8
Monster of the Week: Dracula
7:00 pm The Return of Dracula (1958)
8:30 House of Dracula (1945)
9:45 Billy the Kid vs. Dracula (1966)
11:15 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
1:00 am Jigoku (1960)
3:00 Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan (1959)
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| I Walked with a Zombie (1943) |
Tuesday, October 10
TCM Spotlight: Classic Horror
7:00 pm Cat People (1942)
8:30 The Body Snatcher (1945)
10:00 Martin Scorsese Presents, Val Lewton: the Man in the Shadows (2007)
11:30 I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
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2:30 Bedlam (1946)
4:00 The Leopard Man (1943)
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| A Place of One's Own (1945) |
Friday, October 13
5:30
7:00 Snake Woman (1961)
8:30 Village of the Damned (1961)
10:00 The Nanny (1965)
12:00 pm The Innocents (1961)
1:45 A Place of One's Own (1945)
3:30 The Bad Seed (1956)
5:45 The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
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| The Brides of Dracula (1960) |
Sunday, October 15
Monster of the Week: Dracula
7:00 pm Horror of Dracula (1958)
8:45 The Brides of Dracula (1960)
10:30 Black Cats and Broomsticks (1955)
11:00 The Phantom Carriage (1921)
1:00 am Diabolique (1955)
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| The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) |
Tuesday, October 17
TCM Spotlight: Classic Horror
7:00 pm The Devil's Bride (1968)
8:45 The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
10:15 The Mummy (1959)
12:00 am The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
1:45 The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
3:30 The Reptile (1966)
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| Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1965) |
Sunday, October 22
Monster of the Week: Dracula
7:00 pm Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1965)
9:00 Dracula Has Risen from The Grave (1969)
11:00 The Monster (1925)
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2:45 Kwaidan (1965)
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| Carnival of Souls (1962) |
Tuesday, October 24
TCM Spotlight: Classic Horror
7:00 pm The Innocents (1961)
9:00 Diary of a Mad Man (1963)
11:00 The Curse of the Demon (1958)
1:00 Carnival of Souls (1962)
2:30 From Beyond the Dead (1973)
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| Mark of the Vampire (1935) |
Saturday, October 28
5:15 am Mark of the Vampire (1935)
6:30 The Devil Doll (1936)
8:00 Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
10:30 Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
12:00 Village of the Damned (1961)
1:30 Children of the Damned (1963)
3:15 House of Dark Shadows (1970)
5:00 Night of Dark Shadows (1971)
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| Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) |
Sunday, October 29
Monster of the Week: Dracula
7:00 pm Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
9:00 Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)
11:00 Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922)
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| House of Wax (1951) |
Tuesday, October 31
7:30 am White Zombie (1932)
9:00 Mad Love (1935)
10:30 Dementia 13 (1963)
12:00 pm 13 Ghosts (1963)
1:30 The Fearless Vampire Killers (1966)
3:30 House of Wax (1953)
5:00 Poltergeist (1982)
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| The Old Dark House (1932) |
7:00 The Old Dark House (1932)
8:30 The Haunting (1963)
10:30 The House on Haunted Hill (1958)
12:15 The Cat and the Canary (1939)
1:45 The Old Dark House (1963)
3:30 The Bat (1959)
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
#WomanEempowermentWednesday #SilentFilmEdition Mary Pickford
- Was paid 10 dollars a hour under D.W. Griffith when most Biograph actors were being paid 5
- Sold liberty bonds during World War 1 and made fundraising speeches
- Appeared in 51 movies in 1909
- Leftover liberty bonds went on to create the Motion Picture Relief Fund which helped financially needy actors, becoming its vice president
- Asked for pay raises from "Hearts Adrift" (1914) based on the reviews and profits
- Conceived of the Payroll Pledge Fund that offered a payroll deduction plan to studio crew members who donated one half of one percent to the MPRF
- Had a deal with Adolph Zukor that allowed her authority over the production of her films
- Helped create United Artists with Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith and husband Douglas Fairbanks
- Continued to produce after her retirement from acting
Monday, September 4, 2017
#ManCrushMonday Edmund Lowe as Philo Vance in "The Garden Murder Case" (1936)
Super sleuth Philo Vance has had many faces, but no one has captured the debonair personality quite like Edmund Lowe. In "The Garden Murder Case," Vance is out to uncover if the murders of a horse jockey and his father is murder or a suicide as he finds interest in the blackmailed niece. Although Lowe is one of the older casted actors playing the detective, there is nothing wrong with an older distinguished gentleman detective.
Sunday, September 3, 2017
#ManCrushMonday Times When Ernst Lubitsch Nailed Life
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| To Be or Not to Be (1942) |
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| The Shop Around the Corner (1940) |
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
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| The Shop Around the Corner (1940) |
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| Ninotchka (1939) |