Violent Midnight 1. The Last Drive In. Days of schlock, shock! Films we LOVE and could watch over and over never tiring of them at all. Halloween is a day to celebrate masterpieces like The Haunting, The Tingler, House on Haunted Hill, Curse of The Demon, Pit and The Pendulum, Let’s Scare Jessica To Death, Psycho just to name a few favorites. But the days leading up to this fine night of film consumption, should be tempered with rare and weird beauties filled with a great cast of actors and actresses. Film’s that repulse and mystify, part oddity and partly plain delicious fun. Somewhat like Candy Corn is. Very surreal and disturbing, Perkins is a perfect delusional waif who is bare breasted most of the time. Ghost Story/Circle of Fear: Television Anthology series. The Phantom of Herald Square starring David Soul as a man who remains ageless, sort of. House of Evil, starring Melvin Douglas as a vindictive grandpa who uses the power of telepathy to communicate with his only granddaughter (Jodie Foster) Judy who is a deaf mute. Beware the creepy muffin people. A Touch of Madness, stars Rip Torn and Geraldine Page and the lovely Lynn Loring. Nothing is as it seems in the old family mansion. Is it madness that runs in the family or unsettled ghosts? Bad Connection starring Karen Black as a woman haunted by her dead husband’s ghost. The Dead We Leave Behind starring Jason Robards and Stella Stevens.
Do the dead rise up if you don’t bury them in time, and can they speak through a simple television set. Night Warning 1. 98. Susan Tyrrell plays Aunt Cheryl to Jimmy Mc. Nichol’s Billy, a boy who lost his parents at age 3 in a bad car wreck leaving him to be raised by his nutty Aunt. Overview of Violent Midnight, 1963, directed by Richard Hilliard, with Lee Philips, Shepperd Strudwick, Jean Hale, at Turner Classic Movies. Watch Violent Midnight (1963) movie online at free of cost. You can also download this movie in HD quality. So get ready for entertainment. VIOLENT MIDNIGHT - Promotional clip dsf2006. Subscribe Subscribed Unsubscribe 5,568 5K. Violent Midnight (1963) - Duration: 8:23. Billy’s on the verge of turning 1. Aunt Cheryl and she’ll kill anyone who gets in the way of keeping her beloved boy with her always. Wonderfully acted by veteran players, Hal Holbrook, Katherine Ross and Richard Anderson and Barry Bostwick. Holbrook plays a famous mentalist, and his cheating wife has plans to kill him off. Tension 1. 94. 9from IMDb - A meek pharmacist creates an alternate identity under which he plans to murder the bullying liquor salesman who has become his wife’s lover. Starring Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter , Cyd Charisse and Barry Sullivan. Messiah of Evil aka Dead People 1. A girl arrives on the California coast looking for her father, only to learn that he’s disappeared. The town is filled with eerie people, and a strange atmosphere of dread. She hooks up with a drifter and they both uncover the true nature of the weird locals and what they’re up to. They learn the horrific secret about the townspeople. Starring Marianna Hill, Michael Greer, Joy Bang and Elisha Cook Jr. Devil times Five aka Peopletoys 1. This film is a very unsettling ride about a bus load of extremely psychopathic children who escape after their transport bus crashes. Finding their way to a lodge, they are taken in by the vacationing adults and are eventually terrorized by these really sick kids. Claustrophobic and disturbing. Stars Sorrell Booke, Gene Evans. Leif Garrett plays one of the violently homicidal kids. The Night Digger 1. Starring the great Patricia Neal, this is based on the Joy Cowley novel and penned with Cowley for the screen by the wonderfully dark Roald Dahl, Neal’s husband at the time. From IMDb - Effective psychological love story with a macabre twist not found in the original Joy Cowley novel. The dreary existence of middle- aged spinster Maura Prince takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of young handyman Billy Jarvis, but there is more to Billy than meets the eye. This well- crafted film, full of sexual tension and Gothic flavor, was Patricia Neal’s second after her return to acting, her real- life stroke worked deftly into the story by then- husband Roald Dahl. Written by Shane Pitkin They Call It Murder (1. Made for TV movie)A small- town district attorney has his hands filled with several major investigations, including a gambler’s murder and a possible insurance scam. Starring Jim Hutton, Lloyd Bochner, Leslie Nielsen, Ed Asner and Jo Anne Pflug. A Knife For The Ladies 1. Starring Ruth Roman and Jack Elam, there is a jack the ripper like killer terrorizing this small Southwest town. Most all the victims are prostitutes. A power struggle ensues between the town’s Sheriff and Investigator Burns who tries to solve the murders. Born To Kill 1. 94. Directed by the amazing Robert Wise ( The Haunting, West Side Story, Day The Earth Stood Still )this exploration into brutal noir is perhaps one of the most darkly brooding films of the genre. Starring that notorious bad guy of cinema Lawrence Tierney who plays Sam Wild, of all things, a violent man who has already killed a girl he liked and her boyfriend. He hops a train to San Francisco where he meets Helen played by Claire Trevor who is immediately drawn to this dangerous man. The Strangler 1. 96. Starring the inimitably imposing Victor Buono, who plays mama’s ( Ellen Corby/Grandma Walton) boy Leo Kroll, a psychopathic mysogynous serial killer, under the thumb of his emasculating mother. Kroll’s got a doll fetish and a fever for strangling young women with their own panty hose. The opening scene is chilling as we watch only Buono’s facial expressions as he masturbates while stripping one of the dolls nude by his last victim’s body. Part police procedural, this is a fascinating film, and Buono is riveting as Leo Kroll a psycho- sexual fetish killer who is really destroying his mother each time he murders another young woman. Really cool film by Allied Artist. Murder Once Removed (1. A doctor and the wife of one of his wealthy patients hatch a plot to get rid of her husband so they can be together and get his money. Starring John Forsythe, Richard Kiley and Barbara Bain. Scream Pretty Peggy (1. This stars Bette Davis who plays Mrs. Ted Bessell’s plays her son Jeffrey Elliot a sculptor who hires young women to take care of his elderly mother and his insane sister who both live in the family mansion with him. Also stars Sian Barbara Allen. I love Bette Davis in anything, especially made for tv movies, where something isn’t quite right with the family dynamic. Lots of vintage fun directed by Gordon Hessler. The Man Who Cheated Himself 1. A veteran homicide detective witnesses his socialite girlfriend kill her husband. Then what ensues is his inexperienced brother is assigned to the case. Starring Lee J. Cobb, Jane Wyatt and John Dall. The Flying Serpent 1. Classic horror/sci fi flick that just doesn’t get the attention it deserves. Almost as fun as The Killer Shrews. I’ve left my passion for Giallo films in the dust these days, but I decided to watch one that was a little off the beaten track. From IMDb- Two seemingly separate stories in New South Wales: a burned, murdered body of a young woman is found on the beach, and a retired inspector makes inquiries; also, Linda, a waitress and ferry attendant, has several lovers and marries one, but continues seeing the others. The police have a suspect in the murder, but the retired inspector is convinced they’re wrong; he continues a methodical investigation. Linda and her husband separate, and there are complications. Will the stories cross or are they already twisted together? Written by < jhailey@hotmail. Cul- de Sac 1. 96. Directed by Roman Polanski starring Donald Pleasance and. A bizarre dynamic unfolds as this eccentric couple once captives of the criminals at first, their relationship, strangely begins to evolve into something else. Dr Tarr’s Terror Dungeon aka Mansion of Madness 1. This is a mysterious and nightmarish excursion into “the inmates have taken over the asylum” theme. Based upon Edgar Allan Poe’s The System of Dr Tarr and Professor Feather. Blue Sunshine 1. 97. Three women are murdered at a party. What is the shocking truth behind these bizarre epidemic of . Old homes and old people! This is a wonderfully campy 7. I love Ruth Mc. Devitt as Miss Emily in Kolchak : The Night Stalker series. The ensemble cast is brilliantly droll and subtly gruesome as they try to stave off the impending eviction and relocation to the institutional prison life of a cold nursing home facility. A modern Gothic commentary on Urban Sprawl, the side effects of Capitalism on the elderly and their dust covered dreams, and the fine balance between reverence for the past, and the inevitability of modernity. The jaunty music by. Pierce whose style has somewhat of a documentary feel ( The Town That Dreaded. Starring one of my favorite unsung naturally beautiful actresses, Jessica Harper ( Suspiria, Love and Death, Stardust Memories, and the muse Pheonix in De. Palma’s. Faustian musical Phantom of The Paradise ) and another great actor Michael Parks. A young couple Ruth and Ben Watkins move into a beautiful old farmhouse in a small town in Louisiana. The house has a violent past, and things start happening that evoke fear and dread for the newlyweds. Are the townspeople trying to drive them out, or is there something more nefarious at work? Very atmospheric and quietly brutal at times. Also stars Vic Morrow. Jennifer 1. 95. 3Starring Ida Lupino and Howard Duff. Agnes Langsley gets a job as a caretaker of an old estate. The last occupant was the owner’s cousin Jennifer who has mysteriously disappeared. Agnes starts to believe that Jennifer might have been murdered. Is Jim Hollis the man whom she is now in love with. He taunts the police by sending cryptic notes right before he is about to murder again. Great cast includes Cedric Hardwicke, George Zucco and Charles Coburn.. Love From A Stranger 1. A newly married woman begins to suspect that her husband is a killer, and that she is soon to be his next victim. Starring John Hodiak and and Sylvia Sidney. Savage Weekend 1. Several couples head upstate to the country and are stalked by a murderer behind a ghoulish mask. Directed by the great Don Siegel ( Invasion of The Body Snatchers 1. The Killers 1. 96. Dirty Harry 1. 97. This stars Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page and Elizabeth Hartman. Eastwood plays John Mc.
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