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EYES WITHOUT A FACE Lighting Stand-Ins
Unidentified doubles stand-in for Pierre Brasseur, Juliette Mayniel and Alida Valli as the next scene is lighted on the set of Georges Franju's EYES WITHOUT A FACE (Les yeux sans visage, 1960).
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ONE NAKED NIGHT, or They're Tearing Down Al Viola's Bar
The other night, not being quite ready to go to bed and undecided about what to watch, I drew Albert T. Viola's ONE NAKED NIGHT (1965) at random to see what it was about. As the title sort of...
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Be Gentle, 2017: Some Recent Passings
Sir John Hurt, CBE, aged 77. Long familiar as one of Great Britain's finest stage and screen actors: A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, 10 RILLINGTON PLACE, a terrifying Caligula in I CLAUDIUS, MIDNIGHT EXPRESS,...
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Corman's TOWER OF LONDON Coming to Region B
TOWER OF LONDON1962, Arrow Video (UK only), 79m 49s, BD-A/DVD-2 (2 discs)At one of the busiest junctures of his career - right after making TALES OF TERROR (1962) for AIP, and just before embarking on...
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Those Who Deserve to Make Films
One of my greatest regrets about not being able to print the last issue of VIDEO WATCHDOG (184), which remains in-progress, is that it contained the concluding half of John-Paul Checkett's two-part...
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Latest Rondo Award Nominations Announced
This year's Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award nominations were announced today, and I'm very pleased to report that VIDEO WATCHDOG - in its last turn at the prize - was nominated in the following...
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Rigby's EURO GOTHIC Reviewed
I have long harbored a secret concern that those of us who are particularly drawn to the European strain of horror cinema probably have a screw loose somewhere. These are the sorts of movies, after...
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A Franco Eureka
I'm working on a review for SCREEM Magazine of Jess Franco's NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND DESIRES (Mondo Macabro) and, while watching it, I had a brainstorm that I've never seen noted elsewhere.The movie is a...
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Recent Facebook Postings
I'm afraid I didn't care much for KONG: SKULL ISLAND. I don't like the trend of weighing fantasy down with military hardware and weaponry, even less the trend of turning franchises into...
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The Week In Review
Rihanna as Marion Crane in BATES MOTEL.This week's BATES MOTEL episode "Marion" reminded me of what a profound and ultimately humane, sympathetic, inexhaustibly complex work of art PSYCHO is. In...
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Fun at the New Beverly
Elvis sings "Bossa Nova Baby" in FUN IN ACAPULCO.I have a new 3500-word essay about Elvis Presley's 1960s films that is now posted over at the New Beverly Cinema website, which you can find right here....
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New Books and Music
Chuck Connors as Lucas McCain in THE RIFLEMAN.Classic TV aficianados will be excited to learn that Laurel Records has just released MUSIC FROM THE ORIGINAL TELEVISION SERIES "THE RIFLEMAN," a generous...
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Remembering Ella, Now 100
They called her "The First Lady of Song." Ella Fitzgerald, born 100 years ago today. Since her death in 1996, she has ascended to a level she was said to occupy in life, that of a genuine musical...
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RIP Daliah Lavi (1942-2017)
Daliah in THE WHIP AND THE BODY.Israeli singer-actress Daliah Lavi passed away last Wednesday, May 3, at the much-too-young age of 74. She was a good friend to us at VIDEO WATCHDOG and we will miss her...
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All About THE GENE KRUPA STORY
I have a new essay premiering today on the New Beverly Cinema blog, promoting this weekend's screenings of THE GENE KRUPA STORY (1959) as part of their month-long tribute to actor Sal Mineo. Be there...
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Of WonderFest, Drive-Ins and Legacy
This past weekend, Donna and I made our annual trek down to Louisville, Kentucky to attend WonderFest. The fact of the matter is that neither of us really ended up attending WonderFest, per se - aside...
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RIP Adam West (What A Way to Go Go)
RIP Adam West, age 88, the only real Batman of all the Batmen, and one of the very few American actors I can think of who could give both a genuine performance and a surrealist wink at the same time....
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TOWER OF SCREAMING VIRGINS reviewed
Teri Tordai as Marguerite of Burgundy.A title like TOWER OF SCREAMING VIRGINS conjures up a certain set of preconceptions, most of which this 1968 German/French/Italian co-production (originally titled...
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Five Naschys on Blu-ray Velvet
I recently cracked open the shrink-wrap on Scream Factory's new release THE PAUL NASCHY COLLECTION. It offers five Naschy vehicles on Blu-ray for the first time: HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB, VENGEANCE...
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Surprise! One Last VIDEO WATCHDOG
Are you ready for another anniversary?It was twenty-seven (27) years ago today that Donna and I shipped out the first issue of VIDEO WATCHDOG to subscribers all over the globe. It's not every magazine...
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