Airing at 10p on April 26, 2023 from NJ, USA
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/baroncrazeradio/2023/04/27/baron-crazes-visions-of-horror-ep14
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Ground Meat – Pathological Silence
https://www.facebook.com/groundmeatmetalmusic
https://groundmeatmetal.bandcamp.com/
April 2, 2023 – Sunday
The Ruins (2008)
R – 1h 30m
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0963794/
Anniversary: 15-years
Genre: Adventure/ Horror/ Thriller
Director: Carter Smith
Writer: Scott B. Smith
Stars: Jonathan Tucker, Jena Malone, Laura Ramsey, Shawn Ashmore, Joe Anderson
Co: Paramount Pictures
Summary: A leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when a group of friends and a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins.
Out of: 5.9/10
Release Date: 4/2/08
Tagline: Terror has evolved.
Loc: Queensland, Australia
Trivia:
- Though the film takes place in Mexico during the summer, it was shot primarily in Australia during the winter. Heavy coats were provided for the actors in between takes, and water and olive oil had to be sprayed onto their bodies to simulate sweat.
My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~
Found: DVD
Midnight Syndicate – Among the Ruins
https://www.midnightsyndicate.com/ https://twitter.com/MidSyndicate https://www.facebook.com/MidnightSyndicate/
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Porn – Nothing but the Blood (Pure Obsessions & Red Nights) https://www.facebook.com/pureobsessionsrednights THX & LAB: https://www.facebook.com/EchozoneMusic/ https://echozone.bandcamp.com/ http://www.echozone.de/
April 3, 2023 – Monday
Nothing But the Night [1973]
PG – 1h 30m
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069024/
Also saw: Mrs. Claus/Stirring [2018]
Anniversary: 50-years
Genre: Crime/ Horror/ Mystery
Director: Peter Sasdy
Writers: Brian Hayles, John Blackburn (novel)
Stars: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Georgia Brown, Gwyneth Strong, Keith Barron, Diana Dors
Co: Astral Films
Summary: Three rich trustees are murdered – appearing as suicides. When a bus filled with orphans and three other rich trustees has an “accident,” Colonel Bingham investigates.
Out of: 5.5/10
Release Date: 1/19/73
Taglines:
- WHO holds the key to this intrigue of murder!
- …and the terror!
- This nightmare has already killed five people – now it’s yours to live!
Trivia:
- This was the only movie produced by “Charlemagne Films,” which was created by Sir Christopher Lee and Anthony Nelson Keys.
- Despite the film’s failure, Christopher lee remained proud of the project in his memoir, believing the film failed mainly because it was “ahead of its time.” He would be proved correct when Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” was released to much success in 2017.
My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~
Found:
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Roadhog – Dead of the Night https://roadhog1.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/roadhogband https://www.instagram.com/roadhogofficial/ LAB: http://www.stormspell.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Stormspell.Records/ https://stormspell.bandcamp.com/
April 4, 2023 – Tuesday
Dead of the Nite (2013)
NR – 1h 26m
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1975146/
Anniversary: 10-years
Genre: Horror
Director: S.J. Evans
Writer: S.J. Evans
Stars: Tony Todd, Joseph Millson, Gary Mavers, Cicely Tennant, Paul Fox, Simon Bamford, Suzi Lorraine
Co: Blue Sky Media, Midnight Releasing
Summary: When a group of ghost hunters investigate the infamous Jericho Manor, they soon realize it’s not just ghosts that go bump in the night! As people get murdered, the survivors need to discover who or what’s killing them before it’s too late.
Out of: 2.9/10
Release Date: 4/4/13 UK Limited
Taglines:
- It’s not just ghosts that go bump in the night!
- If you think it’s another ‘Blair Witch’…think again!
- Death Follows Those Who Seek It
My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~
- It is not Grave Encounters [2011] that’s way better than this.
Found: Tubi
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063913303326
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Kilfeather – Plants https://www.facebook.com/KKilfeather/ https://kkilfeather.bandcamp.com/
April 5, 2023 – Wednesday
The Day of the Triffids [1963]
Approved – 1h 33m
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055894/
Anniversary: 60-years
Genre: Horror/Sci-fi
Directors: Steve Sekely, Freddie Francis
Writers: Bernard Gordon, Philip Yordan, John Wyndham – novel
Stars: Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott, Ewan Roberts, John Tate
Co: Allied Artists Pictures
Summary: After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.
Out of: 6.1/10
Release Date: 4/27/63
Taglines:
- Spine Chilling Terror
- A brain-chilling tale of tomorrow happens in our world today!
- In the footprints of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Thing comes a masterpiece of kitsch filmmaking from 1962
- The Triffids are coming to devour the human race! … suddenly the hideous crawling things are everywhere… and no one can escape!
- From the nightmare novel that made the world shudder
- Fantastic, frightening, but entirely plausible. John Wyndham’s famous story of a world dominated by monstrous, stinging plants catches the imagination like the best of HG Wells.
- A Great Radio Serial – A Tremendous Best-selling Novel N-O-W Magnificently Alive on the Giant CinemaScope Screen
- A Nightmare Come to Life! From the Novel That Frightened the World!
- Beware the triffids… they grow… know… walk… talk… stalk… and kill!
- Triffids take over the world! From the greatest science-fiction novel of all time!
- Man eating plants! Spine chilling terror!
- The triffids are coming! The triffids are growing! The triffids are killing!
- From the greatest science fiction novel of all time!
Trivia:
- The triffids inspired the E.T. plants of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
- The book was an influence on 28 Days Later (2002)
Reference in:
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
- Dead End (1985)
- The Guardian (1990)
- Matinee (1993)
Featured in: Creepy Classics (Video 1987)
My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~
Found: DVD
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April 6, 2023 – Thursday – Medical
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R3VO – Dorian Gray
https://www.instagram.com/r3vo.official/
https://r3voofficial.bandcamp.com/ THX: ZACH
April 7, 2023 – Friday
The Picture of Dorian Gray [1973] – TV Movie
TV-14 – 1h 51m
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070533/
Also saw Battledogs [2013] (TV Movie)
Anniversary: 50-years
Genre: Drama/ Horror
Director: Glenn Jordan
Writer: John Tomerlin, Oscar Wilde
Stars: Charles Aidman, William Beckley, Nigel Davenport, Brendan Dillon, Vanessa Howard, Linda Kelsey
Co: ABC
Summary: In Victorian London, a beautiful young man is given a portrait of himself by an admiring artist. Soon after this, he treats a young woman cruelly and then notices that his portrait seems to look meaner than it used to. Eventually, he cannot endure the portrait and hides it in the attic. As the years pass, he becomes ever more unscrupulous and dissolute. His friends remark how he is as handsome as ever and never seems to age. But up in the attic, his picture becomes uglier with his sinful ways.
Out of: 6.3/10
Release Date: 4/23/73
Trivia:
- Throughout this film in various arrangements, composer Bob Cobert recycled his 1969 Top 40 and Grammy-nominated hit “Quentin’s Theme” from his music for TV’s “Dark Shadows”.
Reference: Featured in:
- “Deadly Earnest’s Nightmare Theatre” The Picture of Dorian Gray (TV Episode 1978)
Version of:
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (Short 1913)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (1916)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (1918)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
- Dorian Gray (1970)
- The Portrait of Dorian Gay (1974)
- The Sins of Dorian Gray (TV Movie 1983)
- Pact with the Devil (2003)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (2004)
My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~
Found: Tubi/ Pluto
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Hot Mama – Voodoo
https://fastball-music.bandcamp.com/track/voodoo
April 8, 2023 – Saturday
I Walked with a Zombie [1943]
NR – 1h 9m
Black & White
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036027/
Anniversary: 80-years
Genre: Drama/ Fantasy/ Horror
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Writer: Curt Siodmak, Ardel Wray, Inez Wallace, Charlotte Brontë (novel)
Stars: James Ellison, Tom Conway, Frances Dee, Christine Gordon, James Bell, Theresa Harris, Sir Lancelot
Co: RKO Radio Pictures
Summary: A nurse is hired to care for the wife of a sugar plantation owner, who has been acting strangely, on a Caribbean island.
Out of: 7.0/10
Release Date: 4/30/43
Taglines:
- See this strange, strange story of a woman whose lure set brother against brother; whose love caused hate – and whose beauty bowed to the will of an evil spell in whose power we must refuse to believe – EVEN IF IT’S TRUE!
- the blackest magic of voodoo keeps this beautiful woman alive…yet DEAD!
- Blonde Beauty – Doomed to be one of the walking dead!
- SEE This strange and startling story of a woman to whom it all happened!
- ..BLACK MAGIC…WITCHCRAFT! (print ad – Lubbock Avalanche Journal – Palace Theatre – Lubbock, Texas – July 25, 1943 – all caps)
- FROM THE LAND OF THE LIVING DEAD! (print ad – Lubbock Avalanche Journal – Palace Theatre – Lubbock, Texas – July 25, 1943 – all caps)
- She’s alive… yet dead! She’s dead… yet alive!
- Who said the dead don’t walk?
- See it happen–right before your startled eyes…in the screen sensation that rips the mask from the darkest secrets of forbidden voodoo!
Reference In:
- I Eat Your Skin (1971)
- Dawn of the Dead (1978)
- Zombie (1979)
- The Horror of It All (TV Movie 1983)
- Reflections on the Living Dead (Video 1993)
- Zombies: The Truth (2010)
- A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King (TV Movie 2011)
- Attack of the Brainsucker (Short 2012)
- From Romero to Rome: The Rise and Fall of the Italian Zombie Movie (2012)
- Birth of the Living Dead (2013)
- Burying the Ex (2014)
- Escape Room (2017)
- Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster (2021)
Remade as:
- Ritual (2002)
Spoofed in:
- Zombies on Broadway (1945)
My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~
Found: DVD
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