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32 Days of Halloween X, Day 21: Nightmare Castle!
For tonight’s mayhem, let’s start with the very first episode of Boris Karloff’s anthology series Thriller. It’s very useful if you’re allowing TV episodes for Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, since you...
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32 Days of Halloween X, Day 26: Grizzly!
Some more classic radio for you tonight. We start with Jack Benny’s Halloween program from 1940, then we go straight to Inner Sanctum and their episode from 1945: “Wailing Wall.” It stars Boris...
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32 Days of Halloween X, Day 33: Voodoo Man!
No, not a hallucination. Not an alternate reality. It’s the 33rd day of 32 Days of Halloween, because it’s Thanksgiving, which I celebrate as 2nd Halloween. Trust me, it’s therapeutic. For our opening...
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32 Days of Halloween XI, Day 2: The Boogie Man Will Get You!
No, I’m not kidding. That is an actual movie and not only is Boris Karloff in it but Peter Lorre is as well. But more on that in a moment. It’s the time of year for turning pumpkins into decoration...
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32 Days of Halloween XI, Day 5: Dementia!
Before we get to tonight’s feature presentation, let’s stop in 1941 for some Halloween hijinks courtesy of Jack Benny. And, of course, Jell-O. We’ve entertained ourselves with previous Jack Benny...
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32 Days of Halloween XI, Day 6: Les Diaboliques!
Tonight we’re in 1955 with the French classic thriller Les Diaboliques, but first…we stop in with our old friend Boris Karloff. His series, Tales of the Frightened, we’ve touched on before. Short...
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32 Days of Halloween XI, Day 10: Dr. Renault’s Secret!
For tonight’s Halloween madness, before we get to our feature from 1942, we need to stop back with what’s probably the only spoken word bit I have yet to post from Closed on Account of Rabies, the...
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32 Days of Halloween XI, Day 26: Fangs of the Living Dead!
Let’s make a stop back on the Swedish/American show known as 13 Demon Street, which we’ve mentioned to you before. And I’ll point you there to get the back story on just WTF this is, exactly. Because...
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32 Days of Halloween XI, Day 28: Macabre!
First, it’s time for some more old-time radio with Boris Karloff in the 1941 episode of Inner Sanctum called “Fog.” If you’re on a time budget, at least listen to the announcer and his intro. Sanctum...
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32 Days of Halloween XI, Day 31: Curse of the Faceless Man!
The New Scooby-Doo Movies teamed up Scooby and the Gang with Batman & Robin, The Three Stooges, and here, of course, The Addams Family. I’ve long advocated making a new round of these with the...
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32 Days of Halloween XII, Day 2: The Strange Door!
For tonight’s feature, we’re going to 1951 and a team-up of Charles Laughton and Boris Karloff in The Strange Door. But first, for today’s #TrackoftheDay, we go to the classic 1990 Concrete Blonde...
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32 Days of Halloween XII, Day 3: Before I Hang!
Our feature film for tonight is 1940’s Before I Hang with Boris Karloff. But before we get there, it’s time for our #TrackoftheDay. This one’s from the Nightmare Revisited album–basically a Nightmare...
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32 Days of Halloween XII, Day 6: The Ape!
For tonight and our #TrackoftheDay, we start with some classic Pink Floyd. There are two songs that spring to mind for a Halloween type endeavor: “One of These Days” and “Careful With That Axe,...
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32 Days of Halloween XII, Day 7: Frankenstein!
Out of the starting gates, we go to our #TrackoftheDay. And this time, it’s 1953 and Eartha Kitt with “I Want to Be Evil.” This is a “music video” (or as close as you could get at the time), obviously...
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32 Days of Halloween XII, Day 17: The Climax!
Tonight we begin our 32 Days of Halloween mayhem with a band that I got to see live aeons ago, and have enjoyed ever since. It’s the Lovecraftian group known as The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets....
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32 Days of Halloween XII, Day 20: The Raven!
So today we kick off with a #TrackoftheDay that’s mainly Halloweenish by association. Yes, you may recognize this song–it was covered by INXS for The Lost Boys. But “Good Times” originated back in...
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32 Days of Halloween XII, Day 22: The Black Castle!
Yes, if I was being menaced by Lon Chaney Jr’s disembodied, floating head, I’d probably pull a sword on it too. But more on that in a moment. Tonight, we begin with a lovely ballad about the end of...
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32 Days of Halloween XII, Day 28: The Lost Moment!
We’re closing in on the end of this year’s 32 Days of Halloween, believe it or not. And for today, we begin with our #TrackoftheDay, “Inner Sanctum” by Charlie Spivak & His Orchestra with vocals...
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32 Days of Halloween XII, Day 30: Voodoo Island!
Tonight, let’s kick things off with a fantastic novelty track from 1932. It’s “It Must Be Swell” by Alex Bartha & His Orchestra. I tried to find a decent picture of Bartha and could not. And I’m...
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15 May 2020 Playlist: Can’t Think of Anything But Webbing
As we go careening into the weekend, it’s time for another playlist of delights. It’s always a mixed bag of mayhem. Enjoy. From a special one-off Coronavirus episode of Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe,...
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The Old Dark House! (1932)
32 Days of Halloween XIIIMovie Night #25 Image: Ticklish Business. From the people who brought you Frankenstein, comes this comedic, dark classic. Yes, that’s KARLOFF (don’t shout it, that’s just how...
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Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi,Inner Sanctum: “Corridor of Doom” Stumbled across this very short bit today…had to consult Google for the translation and what little it could tell me: Universal...
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Radio adapalooza, The Veil, &The Curse of the Black Widow! I have no idea where I found the first old school radio ad for a horror movie, but they’re kind of amazing. Deborah Rolski put together a...
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The Old Dark House (1932) – Stayhomer Review #11
Written by Benn W. Levy, with additional dialogue by R.C. Sherriff, based on the novel by J.B. PriestlyDirected by James WhaleStarring Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Gloria Stuart, Lilian Bond,...
View Article32 Days of Halloween XV, Day 5: The Hitch Hiker & The Final Reckoning!
One of the pilgrimages that I have not yet made is to Monroeville Mall in Monroeville, Pennsylvania. Many of you already know why it’s important: it’s where Dawn of the Dead (the original 1978) was...
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Nothing. And I mean Nothing. Will prepare you for what I am about to show you. It is the sort of thing if it didn’t exist, we’d be screwed. Because I don’t think anyone could have imagined it...
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To kick off today’s festivities, we have a track by Clutch (your friends and mine) that we’ve featured before. However, I must’ve missed the music video, because it is completely and utterly in our...
View Article32 Days of Halloween XV, Day 31: Demons!
The fact that Post-Modern Jukebox is popular is helpful to my own sanity. And the fact it’s yet another place to hear Wayne Brady vocally go off is even better. We got glimpses of it on Whose Line Is...
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32 Days of Halloween XVI, Day 6
The Wickedest WitchThe VeilCurtains For today, we’re kicking things off with 1989’s The Wickedest Witch which was broadcast once and basically never saw the light of day again. It stars Rue McClanahan...
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32 Days of Halloween XVI, Day 17
Boris Karloff for Civil DefenseTales of Tomorrow: Verdict From SpaceEyes of Laura Mars First up, friend of Need Coffee and first class surf horror director Jay Wade Edwards sent me this link to his...
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