Baron Craze’s Visions of Horror – Episode #27 – July 1 to 8

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/baroncrazeradio/2023/08/10/baron-crazes-visions-of-horror-ep27

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Ground Meat – Pathological Silence https://www.facebook.com/groundmeatmetalmusic https://groundmeatmetal.bandcamp.com/

July 1, 2023 – Saturday

How to Make a Monster (1958)

Unrated – 1h 13m

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051746/

Anniversary: 65-years

Genre: Horror/ Sci-Fi

Director: Herbert L. Strock

Writer: Aben Kandel, Herman Cohen

Stars: Robert H. Harris, Paul Brinegar, Gary Conway, Gary Clarke, Malcolm Atterbury, Morris Ankrum, Paul Maxwell, Walter Reed

Co: American International Pictures (AIP)

Summary: When a master monster make-up artist is sacked by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge

Out of: 5.5/10

Release Date: 7/1/58

Taglines:

See the ghastly ghouls… IN FLAMING COLOR!
HAIR RAISING! SEE – The Madman’s Gruesome Chamber of Horrors!
TERRIFYING! SEE – The Savage Attack of the Monster at Midnight!
HORRIFYING! SEE – “The Teenage Werewolf” Vs. “The Teenage Frankenstein”
BLOOD CURDLING! SEE – A Man Turned into a Monster Before Your Very Eyes!
It will SCARE the living yell out of you!

Features:

It Conquered the World (1956)
The She-Creature (1956)

Featured in:

Monsters on the March (Video 1980)
Son of Monsters on the March (Video 1980)
Iron Maiden: The Number of the Beast (Music Video 1982)

Reference:

Nightmare in Wax (1969)

References:

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)

Remade as: How to Make a Monster (TV Movie 2001)

My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~

Found: Plex/Tubi

Zombina & The Skeletons – How to Make a Monster https://www.facebook.com/Zombinaandtheskeletones/ https://www.instagram.com/zombinaandtheskeletones/ thx & lab: https://rumbleroadrecords.bandcamp.com/

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July 2, 2023 – Sunday

Prime Evil (1988)

R – 1h 27m

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095900/

Anniversary: 35-years

Genre: Horror

Director: Roberta Findlay

Writer: Ed Kelleher, Harriette Vidal

Stars: William Beckwith, Christine Moore, Mavis Harris, George Krause, Ruth Collins

Co: Crown International Pictures

Summary: A coven of devil-worshiping monks living in New York City search for victims for their sacrificial ceremonies.

Out of: 4.0/10

Release Date: August 1988

Taglines:

A terrifying force that cannot be resisted is here …
A Supernatural Thriller

Trivia:

Director Roberta Findlay didn’t tell the people who ran the church that she was going to film a black mass ritual there.

My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~

Found: DVD-R

Pure Obsessions & Red Nights – Evil 6 Evil https://pureobsessionsrednights.bandcamp.com/music thx & lab: https://www.facebook.com/EchozoneMusic/ https://echozone.bandcamp.com/ http://www.echozone.de/

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Pellek – Phantom of the Opera https://www.facebook.com/pellekofficial/ https://www.instagram.com/realpellek/

July 3, 2023 – Monday

Phantom of the Opera (1943)

Approved – 1h 32m

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036261/

Also saw: Cottage Country (2013)

Anniversary: 80-years

Genre: Drama/ Horror/ Music

Director: Arthur Lubin

Writer: Eric Taylor, Samuel Hoffenstein, Hans Jacoby, Gaston Leroux

Stars: Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains, Edgar Barrier, Leo Carrillo, Jane Farrar, Fritz Feld, Hume Cronyn

Co: Universal Pictures

Summary: An acid-scarred composer rises from the Paris sewers to boost his favorite opera understudy’s career.

Out of: 6.4/10

Release Date: 8/12/43

Taglines:

In flaming Technicolor!
IT WILL LIVE IN YOUR MEMORY forever! (original print ad – mostly caps)
The Picture That has Everything! ROMANCE!…in the shadow of sinister suspense! MUSIC! that mounts to thrilling rapture! SUSPENSE!…opera with death at every performance!
MAMMOTH SPECTACLE! SPECTRAL TERROR! (Print Ad- Greenfield Recorder-Gazette, ((Greenfield, Mass.)) 29 October 1943)
A story the world can never forget, becomes the most lavish, romantic spectacle of our time! (Print Ad- New York Sun, ((New York, NY)) 14 October 1943)
Thrill to…..The crashing of the gigantic chandelier!…Phantom’s crumbling catacombs of horror!…ravishing beauty at a madman’s mercy! …terror! -as The Phantom is unmasked!…stampede of panic-stricken thousands! (Print Ad- Washington Observer, ((Washington, Penna.)) 7 January 1944)
.. Romance… Suspense – The picture that has everything!
A cast of thousands!
The screen’s classic of terror!

Trivia:

In the scene where the three heroes escape the Phantom’s crumbling lair (which involve the three characters running from a cave-in) only Susanna Foster appeared in the scene, the two male stars were deemed too important to film such a risky scene and had stunt doubles.

Version of:

Das Phantom der Oper (1916)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
The Phantom of the Opera (TV Mini Series 1960)
The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
The Phantom of the Opera (TV Movie 1983)
Opera (1987)
The Phantom of the Opera (TV Movie 1988)
The Phantom of the Opera (1989)
The Phantom of the Opera (TV Mini Series 1990)
The Phantom of the Opera (TV Movie 1991)
The Phantom of the Opera (TV Mini Series 1991)
The Phantom of the Opera (1998)
The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
Erik: Portrait of a Living Corpse (2010)
The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (2011)

Remade as: The Phantom of the Opera (1962)

Referenced in:

Opera (1987)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Behind the Mask: The Making of The Phantom of the Opera (Video 2015)

My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~

Found: DVD

Viking Guitar Prod – 1881 Phantom of the Opera https://www.facebook.com/VikingGuitarProductions/

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Dead Evil – The Return of the Living Dead https://deadevilofficial.bandcamp.com/

July 4, 2023 – Tuesday

The Return of the Living Dead [1985]

R – 1h 31m

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089907/

Also saw: Jaws [1975]

Anniversary: Nope

Genre: Comedy/ Horror/ Sci-fi

Director: Dan O’Bannon

Writer: Rudy Ricci, John A. Russo, Russell Streiner, Dan O’Bannon

Stars: Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa, Thom Mathews, Beverly Randolph, John Philbin, Jewel Shepard, Miguel A. Núñez Jr., Brian Peck, Linnea Quigley, Mark Venturini, Allan Trautman

Co: Orion Pictures

Summary: When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.

Out of: 7.3/10

Release Date: 8/16/85

Tagline: They’re Back From The Grave and Ready To Party!

Reference:

Eyes Without a Face (1960)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The Crazies (1973)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Zombie (1979)
The Shining (1980)
Nightmare City (1980)

Reference In:

Evil Laugh (1986)
Ghoulies II (1987)
The Monster Squad (1987)
Night of the Demons (1988)
Zombie 3 (1988)
976-EVIL (1988)
Dead Alive (1992)
The Dead Hate the Living! (Video 2000)
Children of the Living Dead (Video 2001)
Resident Evil (2002)
Something to Scream About (Video 2003)
Corpses Are Forever (Video 2004)
The Slaughter (2006)
Skeleton Key (Video 2006)
Deadlands: The Rising (2006)
When Darkness Falls (2006)
Aaah! Zombies!! (2007)
Brain Dead (2007)
Dance of the Dead (2008)
Deadlands 2: Trapped (2008)
Dark House (2009)
A Little Bit Zombie (2012)
Detention of the Dead (2012)
Slaughter Tales (2012)
Gangsters, Guns & Zombies (2012)
Dead Before Dawn 3D (2012)
Stalled (2013)
Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th (Video 2013)
Birth of the Living Dead (2013)
The Houses October Built (2014)

Featured in:

Linnea Quigley’s Horror Workout (Video 1990)
Nightmares in Red, White, and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film (2009)
Screaming in High Heels: The Rise & Fall of the Scream Queen Era (2011)

Followed by:

Return of the Living Dead II (1988)
Return of the Living Dead III (1993)
Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis (2005)
Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave (2005)

My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~

Found: Blu-ray

45 Grave – Party Time https://www.facebook.com/TheReal45Grave/

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July 5, 2023 – Wednesday

The Brain Eaters (1958)

Approved – 1h 1m

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051432/

Anniversary: 65-years

Genre: Sci-Fi/ Horror

Director: Bruno VeSota

Writer: Gordon Urquhart, Robert A. Heinlein novel

Stars: Ed Nelson, Cornelius Keefe, Jody Fair, Robert Ball, Leonard Nimoy, Alan Jay Factor

Co: American International Pictures (AIP)

Summary: The inhabitants of a small Illinois town begin disappearing after a strange cone is found sticking out of the ground nearby.

Out of: 4.3/10

Release Date: July – 1958

Tagline: Crawling, slimy things terror-bent on destroying the world!

Version of: The Puppet Masters (1994) Based on same novel

Reference in: Brain Damage (1988)

Featured in: The Day the World Ended (TV Movie 2001)

Spoofed in: Matinee (1993)

My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~

Found: Plex/ Pluto/ Tubi

Cryptic Brood – Brain Eater (intro) 1m https://www.facebook.com/CrypticBrood/ https://crypticbrood.bandcamp.com/album/brain-eater

Zombie Brain Eater THX: https://soundbible.com/ COMPSER: Mike Koenig

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July 6, 2023 – Thursday

Play Dead (1983)

R – 1h 26m

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082914/

Anniversary: 40-years

Genre: Drama/ Horror

Director: Peter Wittman

Writer: Lothrop W. Jordan

Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Stephanie Dunnam, Ron Jackson, Jo Livingston

Co: Troma Entertainment

Summary: A rich, elderly woman casts black magic spells on her vicious Rottweiler dog to murder her relatives.

Out of: 4.0/10

Release Date: July – 1983

Taglines:

A Raging Madness Unleashed To Kill
Play Dead… It may be the last thing you ever do.
Scream bloody murder!!

Trivia:

Play Dead is also known as Satans Dog.

My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~

Found: DVD-R

Al B Damned – Play Dead for Me [NO INFO ON BAND]

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July 7, 2023 – Friday

It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)

Approved – 1h 9m

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051786/

Also saw: Pontypool (2008)

Anniversary: 65-years

Genre: Horror/ Sci-fi/ Thriller

Director: Edward L. Cahn

Writer: Jerome Bixby

Stars: Marshall Thompson, Shirley Patterson, Ann Doran, Dabbs Greer, Paul Langton, Robert Bice

Co: United Artists

Summary: The first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown life form, which stows away on the rescue ship.

Out of: 6.0/10

Release Date: 8/14/58

Taglines:

It Breathes. It Hunts. It Kills!
IT! … Reaches through space! … Scoops up men and women! … Gorges on blood!
The revelation shocker of things to come!
$50,000 by a world renowned insurance company to the first person who can prove that “It” is not on Mars now!

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