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Trailer: Attack of the Giant Leeches

1959

Trailer: Attack of the Giant Leeches

Trailer: Attack of the Giant Leeches - 1959

From murky underwater caverns ooze monstrous aqua-beasts! Hungering for human victims! “Attack of the Giant Leeches.” Then, out of the swamp’s depths, again appears horrifying, mysterious creatures thirsting for lovers’ blood. What are these giant mutations whose attack on people sends the whole countryside on an endless search? And then, brings them back to life […]

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Trailer: Bug-o-rama

1950's

Trailer: Bug-o-rama

Trailer: Bug-o-rama - 1950's

This is a humorous gag trailer for a horror movie night that a local US theater ran in the 1950’s, Bug-O-Rama … “Your skin will crawl, your flesh will creep, after you’ve seen our Bug-O-Rama. It’s the show to recommend to your enemies. The unbearable terror may drive them MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD. A licensed […]

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Trailer: Diabolique

1955

Trailer: Diabolique

Trailer: Diabolique (1955)

Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1955 masterpiece Les Diaboliques stars the seductive Simone Signoret and his beautiful wife Vera Clouzot entangled in an intimate, criminal affair. Still gripping even by today’s standards, one wonders who is more diabolical, the characters in the film, or Henri-Georges Clouzot in his artfulness and precision crafting the first and perhaps ultimate psycho-drama. […]

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Trailer: Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla

1952

Trailer: Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla

Trailer: Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla - 1952

“These films are going to be made regardless of who directs them. There’s a market for them and the studios are going to continue to make them. I’ve been doing this long enough, I think I can make them as good or better than anyone else.” – Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla Director William […]

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Betty Boop: Minnie the Moocher

1930's

Betty Boop: Minnie the Moocher

Minnie the Moocher with Cab Calloway

Minnie the Moocher with Cab Calloway & Betty Boop – 1930’s Starting with a phenomenal live moment where Cab Calloway free-form dances to his orchestra swinging slow & sweet to St. James Infirmary. Then things get rolling. Home life is tough for Betty, so she hits the road with her friend Bimbo. They venture into […]

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The Tell-Tale Heart

1940's

The Tell-Tale Heart

Edgar Allan Poe The Tell-Tale Heart - 1941

Edgar Allan Poe’s classic The Tell-Tale Heart, written in 1843, was produced in 1941 and directed by Jules Dassin, a one-time assistant to Alfred Hitchcock. The film explores the visceral guilt a treacherous worker feels after he murders his boss in cold blood. He cannot escape his conscience as the mundane world around him suddenly […]

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I’ll Be Glad when You’re Dead You Rascal, You

1930's

I’ll Be Glad when You’re Dead You Rascal, You

I'll Be Glad when You're Dead You Rascal, You - 1930's

Max Fleischer paired Betty Boop with viper man Louis Armstrong in the mid 1930’s. In it Fleischer mixes jazz, live action, and animation to create an innovative, dreamlike world. Pops or Satchmo, as he was often called, was a lifelong tea head who enjoyed cannabis not just to unwind, but also smoked gage, as he called it, […]

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Experiments in the Revival of Organisms

1940

Experiments in the Revival of Organisms

Experiments in the Revival of Organisms - 1940

Reminiscent of a David Cronenberg film, Experiments in the Revival of Organisms, distributed by the Soviet Film Agency, is a documentary capturing revolutionary scientific research into the reanimation of organs. Not for the squeamish, we watch as the heart of a dog is brought back to life through artificial methods, pumping blood and operating as it […]

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Trailer: Doomsday is Coming

1950's

Trailer: Doomsday is Coming

Trailer: Doomsday is Coming - 1950s

The Day of Doom is coming. Your blood will turn white. Your face will turn green. Your eyeballs will POP with pressure. Because our Doomsday Show is the living end! Hoard your strength, take a shot. You’re going to need an awful lot when you see our shocker pictures. So terrifying that it is easier […]

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