Thursday, December 20, 2018

Ghosts Run Wild (1941)

Ghosts Run Wild (1941)


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A group of juvenile delinquents are sent away to summer camp. When they sneak away from the camp, they meet a dark, mysterious stranger named Nardo (Bela Lugosi). Did I mention there's a killer on the loose? The East Side kids become convinced Nardo is the killer and that he has turned their friend into a zombie!!! 



And if you enjoyed Ghosts Run Wild, here are a few more movies featuring Bela Lugosi that may be of interest!!!

Thursday, October 4, 2018

One Step Beyond: The Dead Part of the House (1959)

Who likes creepy doll stories??

A young girl, Anne, and her father move into an old house with her aunt. The relationship between Anne and her father has become strained due to the death of her mother. Anne takes an interest in an old room upstairs that was once a nursery. She talks incessantly about Jennifer, Rose, and Mary. Her father and aunt assume she is speaking of her dolls, but come to realize Jennifer, Rose, and Mary once occupied the nursery.

















Thursday, September 13, 2018

One Step Beyond: The Return (1960)



A young soldier, wounded during the Korean War, struggles to find his way back to his unit. As his company remembers him, he is guided by their memories, both good and bad.









Tuesday, September 11, 2018

One Step Beyond: Delusion (1959)



A man with a rare blood type is sought out to save the life of a young woman in dire need of a transfusion. The man reveals that he "sees things" about the people that have received his blood. Following the transfusion, the young woman finds him to thank him for his donation. He befriends the young woman and tries to help her when she seems down on her luck. He also becomes overly protective to prevent any potential harm that might come to her.

This episode features a very young Suzanne Pleshette



Friday, July 6, 2018

Werewolves on Wheels (1971)











A biker gang vs. a Satanic Cult! How does it get any better than THAT!?! A biker gang riding through the desert, destroying all in their path, comes across the church of a Satanic cult. The cult then gives the bikers bread and wine that's drugged. When the bikers have gone to sleep, the cult performs a ceremony that curses the main biker's girlfriend.











Tuesday, June 26, 2018

The Evil (1978)











A foundation for drug rehabilitation purchases an old, historic mansion in a picturesque valley. The history of the valley is that the Native Americans referred to it as "Valley of the Devils" and the house itself was built over an old sulfur pit. As the counselors move into the mansion, they begin to notice mysterious events in the house. When the program director opens a mysterious door in the basement, all hell breaks loose. Literally.





Sunday, June 24, 2018

Tales of Tomorrow: Frankenstein (1952) Lon Chaney, Jr.










This 1952 episode features Lon Chaney, Jr as the Frankenstein monster and John Newland as Dr. Frankenstein. Dr. Victor Frankenstein has been conducting unknown experiments in an isolated castle away from the mainland. He states that he believes medical science is ready to create an artificial human being. His fiance jokingly, and unknowingly, speculates that Victor has isolated himself while trying to create this perfect man.  What kind of experiments is Dr. Frankenstein conducting and why has he confined his experiments to a prison-like castle away from everyone else?



























Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Duel (1971)






















Dennis Weaver plays a businessman, David Mann, traveling through the desert who unknowingly makes an enemy of a driver in an old tanker truck. Struggling with the pressures of his job and family life, Mann is pushed to his limit when the tanker truck taunts and races him while en route to a business appointment. Every attempt to escape the truck seems futile...even deadly. 

This is an early Steven Spielberg made for television movie.

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Tuesday, June 19, 2018

One Step Beyond: The Secret (1959)






A lonely wife celebrates her 40th birthday, as well as another Friday night, alone. Her husband has no time for anything other than business and she entertains herself with memories of the past. When she finds an old board game, an old friendship is rekindled.




Tales of Tomorrow: The Duplicates (1952)















An unemployed engineer answers an unusual employment ad. At the interview it is revealed that there is a planet exactly like ours. For every person on our planet, there is someone exactly like that person on the other planet. He is to travel to that planet and complete an unusual task that will affect the lives of everyone.

This episode features Darren McGavin.





Monday, June 18, 2018

Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972)




An old New England mansion with a sordid past is going on the market after being vacant for 20 years. On Christmas Eve, 1950, the original owner, Wilfred Butler, burned alive. The house was left to his grandson Jeffrey Butler. Jeffrey is selling the house to the town for fifty thousand dollars in cash. His lawyer, Mr Carter, speculates that Jeffrey could get much more money for the house but Jeffrey wants a quick sell. While the mayor goes to the bank to get the cash, Jeffrey Butler has arrived in town and a mysterious caller had begun taunting the town's leading citizens...Did I mention an escaped mental patient from the state hospital for the criminally insane???

This film features David Carradine as one of the town's leading citizens.


































Wednesday, June 13, 2018

The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)






When the army conducts an experiment that doesn't go as planned,  Lt Col. Glenn Manning is exposed to the blast from a plutonium bomb. With over 90 percent of his body burned, he isn't expected to make it through the night. But despite that prognosis, Manning survives the night and miraculously heals. He not only heals, he begins to grow larger and larger. As his body changes, though, it becomes more and more apparent that his personality is changing, as well.






Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Earth vs The Spider (1958)








Young Carol's father didn't come home last night and today is her birthday. No matter what anyone says about his past, Carol knows something isn't right. Carol and her boyfriend, Mike, go in search of her father. They find his truck at the bottom of an embankment, but no sign of Carol's father. Could he have went into the cave nearby while he was waiting for help? Carol and Mike go into the cavern to search for her father, but WHAT will they find?







 

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