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  • The Abominable Dr. Phibes
  • Phantasm
  • Son of Dracula
  • Anthropophagous

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  • The Possessed

    ★★★★

  • Doctor of Doom

    ★★★½

  • The Old Dark House

    ★★★★

  • Night of the Big Heat

    ★★★

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  • The Possessed

    The Possessed

    ★★★★

    Amando de Ossorio's take on satanic possession goes in some gnarly and gruesome directions. Plus it makes the girl who is possessed more provocative and alluring . Both kind of twist this film around pretty well. Evil smiles and snide remarks plus an insane scene with her and a knife and a small size little box. The movie is kind of punctuated with scenes that jump out at you but drive home the theme of possession.

  • Doctor of Doom

    Doctor of Doom

    ★★★½

    Incredibly off the wall story of two women tag-team wrestlers in Mexico who work with the police to find the mad doctor whose failed brain transplants of beasts and women have left several dead bodies. The alternations between the mad doctor's operations, the search for suitable women, and the wrestling action in the ring are done pretty well by the director Rene Cardona in a masterpiece in low budget film making. Gomar is the man into whose head the doctor…

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  • The Thing

    The Thing

    ★★★★★

    A crew of scientists and assorted oddballs at a US research station in Antarctica confront an alien monster from space introduced into their midst by a cute Husky being chased from above by a couple of crazed Norwegians in a helicopter trying to shoot and kill it. It's such a deceiving setup. That opening segment is what introduces both the monster and the paranoia the monster's going to provoke as the Americans eventually get a handle on why the Hell…

  • High Noon

    High Noon

    ★★★★★

    For John Wayne to hate it, High Noon must have been a pretty groundbreaking film. It's not only that the "hero" Gary Cooper pleads with the citizens of Hadleyville for "brave" deputies to ostensibly eliminate a potential threat, an ex-convict who the film implies was released from a date with the gallows by "northern" politicians along with three gunmen which include the likes of Lee Van Cleef himself but also Robert J Wilke, but the citizens, in church on Sunday…