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Five Bloody Graves
FIVE BLOODY GRAVES is a grim and downright gruesome western chock full of bloody gun blasts and violence galore. It stars the legendary John Carradine and 'B' stalwarts Robert Dix, Scott Brady and Jim Davis and features the cinematography of Academy Award® winner Vilmos...Watch Movie
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Blood is the Color of Night
The monstrous vampire Marco is determined to raise his beloved Katrina from the dead. But in order to do so, he needs to transplant the heart of her living sister, Charito, the sweetest, loveliest girl in the village. Unleashing his murderous giant bat and his evil minions,...Watch Movie
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The Scavengers
Vince Edwards first screen appearance (uncredited) was in Delmer Daves' DARK PASSAGE, a gritty noir adapted from a novel by David Goodis. Edwards is arguably best known as the lead in MURDER BY CONTRACT. THE SCAVENGERS, directed the following year by the underrated John Cromwell, is a solid B...Watch Movie
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Mean Mother
Clifton Brown stars as "mean mother" Beauregard Jones, an AWOL Vietnam War soldier in Los Angeles trying to move some heroin smuggled out of Saigon. Double-crossed by the syndicate and forced to blast his way out of trouble, Beauregard heads back to his platoon where he meets his old army buddy,...Watch Movie
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Black Heat
Timothy Brown (NASHVILLE, STUD BROWN) stars as "Kicks" Carter, a tough-as-nails LA cop and one bad dude hot on the trail of a black mob boss named Guido. Guido and his sleazy henchman Ziggy (Russ Tamblyn, Twin Peaks) are planning a big-time, drugs-for-munitions trade, but Kicks and partner Tony...Watch Movie
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Ticket to a Crime
At a prestigious soiree at the swank Lido Country Club, wealthy Mr. Davidson is gunned down in a dispute over a string of valuable pearls. Private investigator Clay Holt and his plucky secretary, Peggy Cummings, enter the case and turn up plenty of suspects. Gumming up the...Watch Movie
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The Sin of Nora Moran
A weird and wonderful slab of homegrown surrealism, THE SIN OF NORA MORAN’s surprisingly complex narration and florid montage editing makes it well-deserving of the UCLA Festival of Preservation’s accolades as “haunting, hallucinatory, artistic, exploitative…maybe the best...Watch Movie
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Terror of Frankenstein
Two years after directing an unusual documentary investigation into the vampire legend, monster maven Calvin Floyd tried his hand at traditional adaptation with the Frankenstein story. While TERROR OF FRANKENSTEIN lacks IN SEARCH OF DRACULA’s secondary interpretations, Floyd's...Watch Movie
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Horror of the Blood Monsters
Cinematic recycling doesn't come any more gloriously cheesy than this 1970 Al Adamson drive-in wonder. The director (of DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN and SATAN'S SADISTS fame) and his producer Sam Sherman purchased rights to a caveman fantasy feature from the Philippines that had...Watch Movie
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Psycho a Go-Go
Go-Go for a psychopathic ride with PSYCHO A GO-GO. Al Adamson, director of such Troma Classics as DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN, SATAN'S SADISTS and I SPIT ON YOUR CORPSE! delivers another terrifyingly violent drive-in slasher classic. The 1965 PSYCHO A GO-GO was on the shelf in the early 70s and had...Watch Movie
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Condemned to Live
In what is here termed "the darkest depths of Africa," an explorer's pregnant widow is killed by a bloodsucking bat (though their unborn child is spared). Forty years later, a European hamlet is terrorized by violent deaths. Is it, as the local peasants fear, a vampire bat...Watch Movie
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In Search of Dracula
Moving easily between history, myth and fiction, IN SEARCH OF DRACULA turns up a trove of vampire lore. We get a taste for Transylvanian folkways, vampire bats, Vlad the Impaler’s bloody exploits, Greek Orthodox rites and, of course, Bram Stoker’s composition of the original...Watch Movie
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Money Madness
Rolling off the bus into a new town, Steve (Hugh Beaumont) gets work as a cabbie but has bigger things in mind. He meets waitress Julie (Frances Rafferty) and she jumps at his marriage proposal; anything to get away from the insufferable hypochondriac aunt (Cecil Weston) she's living with. Once...Watch Movie
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Creature with the Blue Hand
The inimitable Klaus Kinski plays twin brothers (one of whom is found guilty of murder and sent to an insane asylum in the prologue) and he is not even the creepiest part of this colorful murder mystery. Based on a novel by British author Edgar Wallace, this is from the...Watch Movie
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Strange Deception
A top-prize winner at the Cannes and Berlin festivals, this striking drama (originally known as THE FORBIDDEN CHRIST) is largely forgotten today. But it survives, fortunately, as a unique bridge between Italy's postwar neorealist cinema and the more stylized, philosophical and...Watch Movie
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The Iron Crown
A deadly tournament for a princess' hand, a mystic "golden deer," babies switched at birth, a raised-by-lions quasi-Tarzan; everything but the proverbial kitchen sink was thrown into this extravagant fantasy adventure. Loin-clothed foundling Arminio (Massimo Girotti) leaves the jungle he grew up...Watch Movie
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Syndicate Sadists
Umberto Lenzi was a notorious director of some of the most sadistic and brutal horror films to come out of Italy. But like so many of his fellow filmmakers, he was also fluent in the violent Italian cops and mobsters genre known as "poliziotteschi." SYNDICATE SADISTS is one of...Watch Movie
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The Flesh and the Fiends
The notorious Burke and Hare, a lowlife duo convicted of robbing graves and murdering sixteen people in 1828 Edinburgh, has inspired numerous film treatments. They've been portrayed by everyone from Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi (in Robert Wise's THE BODY SNATCHERS released in...Watch Movie
