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Doctor Blood’s Coffin (1961)

I guess you never quite know what to expect from a British film. If I gave you a simple plot description of this one, you might get the impression that it was some sort of Frankenstein story. Well…technically it is.  Mostly. But it sure doesn’t look like one. Doctor Peter Blood is an incredibly brilliant […]

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Dark Was the Night (2014)

A lot of you aren’t going to like this one. The same ones who complain that nothing happens in some of my favorite horror films, I suspect. The truth is that there is a profound division within the horror fandom: There are some who want their horror films to be in their face, with plenty […]

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