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At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul DVD

Coffin Joe on DVD! It cannot be stressed enough that before 1963’s At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul there had never been (to the best of my knowledge) a horror film made in Brazil. There had been a version of … Continue reading

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Kill Baby Kill! DVD

Follow the bouncing ball The march of Eurothrillers onto American DVD continues with this Mario Bava classic, originally known as Operazione Paura. The opening of the film echoes Dracula, with a handsome young foreigner (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart) arriving by coach to … Continue reading

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The Beyond on DVD

Injury to Eibon This 1981 Lucio Fulci gorefest followed his success with Zombie, and can be seen as a companion feature to his City of the Living Dead (aka Gates of Hell), and perhaps even Dario Argento’s incomplete Three Mothers … Continue reading

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Habit VHS

Reality Bites Look around the average video store these days and you’ll see that the vampire movie is still alive, undead and well. The shelves are crowded with direct-to-tape bloodsuckers, all vying for the rental bucks of goth-bedecked Anne Rice … Continue reading

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Black Sabbath on DVD

Karloff and Bava’s trilogy of terror The liner notes for this DVD presentation of Mario Bava’s contribution to the anthology film flap of the early ’60s are provided by Tim Lucas. This is so fitting it’s almost ironic. If not … Continue reading

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Something Weird DVD

Psychotronic man Some time in the mid-1960s, Herschell Gordon Lewis met James F. Hurley, a teacher at Triton College and a firm believer in psychic phenomena. Hurley wanted to promote his theories via film, and convinced Lewis to use his … Continue reading

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Carnival of Souls DVD

The Ghosts of Saltair In 1961, after years of directing and acting in hundreds of educational and industrial films for the Centron Corporation of Lawrence, Kansas, Herk Harvey was itching to do something more creative. While driving back from an … Continue reading

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Autopsy (1975) DVD

Autopsy-turvy There’s been a string of sensational murders and suicides across Rome throughout the summer months. Some psychologists consulted by the media are saying that an unusually high amount of sunspot activity could be to blame, but no one really … Continue reading

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Two Thousand Maniacs DVD

2000 severed thumbs up As Two Thousand Maniacs begins, some tourists and a schoolteacher, motoring south to Atlanta, are detoured to Pleasant Valley, where they find themselves guests of honor at the town’s centennial celebration. Although suspicious as to why … Continue reading

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Eye of the Beholder

Eye-yi-yi! Ewan McGregor plays a spy who maintains an aura of mystery so dense that not even his co-workers know him that well. Truth is, he’s shut himself off from the world — viewing it only through surveillance devices, communicating … Continue reading

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