Baron Craze’s Visions of Horror – Season 1: Episode #35 November 12 to 18 November 27, 2023
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Ground Meat – Pathological Silence https://www.facebook.com/groundmeatmetalmusic https://groundmeatmetal.bandcamp.com/

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Sunday, November 12, 2023

 The Mad Ghoul [1943]

Passed – 1h 5m

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036125/

Anniversary: 80 Years

Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Director: James P. Hogan

Writer: Brenda Weisberg, Paul Gangelin, Hanns Kräly

Stars: Turhan Bey, Evelyn Ankers, David Bruce, George Zucco, Robert Armstrong (King Kong [1933] fame)

Co: Universal Pictures

Summary: When Dr. Morris experiments with a poisonous gas first used by the ancient Mayans in their sacrificial rites, he discovers that it produces a “death in life” state in the subject. It also has severe, irreversible side effects of advanced decomposition that can only be temporarily halted by a potent mixture of herbs and fresh human hearts. Guess who can’t wait to test it on his unsuspecting lab assistant Ted? Grave-robbing, corpse desecration, murder and total madness follow.

IMDb Rating: 5.8/10

Release Date: 11/12/1943

Tagline: A NEW SENSATION IN HORROR! (print ad – Casper Star Tribune – Rialot Theatre – Casper, Wyoming – May 1, 1944 – all caps)

Trivia: This was the only Universal horror film that touched upon the subject of Zombies

My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~

Found: YouTube

Ghoulhouse – Rigor Mortis Intermezzo [NO INFO ON THE BAND] THX & LAB: https://hpgd.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath https://twitter.com/HPGD666 https://www.instagram.com/horrorpaingoredeath/

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Cadaver Club – Transylvania Twist https://www.instagram.com/cadaverclubofficial/ https://cadaverclub.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/cadaverclub/

Monday, November 13, 2023

Transylvania 6-5000 [1985]

Rated PG – 1h 33m

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090196/

Anniversary: No

Genre: Horror, Comedy, Fantasy

Director: Rudy De Luca

Writer: Rudy De Luca

Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Joseph Bologna, Geena Davis, Ed Begley, Jr.

Co: New World Pictures

Summary: Two tabloid reporters are sent to Transylvania to find the Frankenstein monster – or get fired. They are laughed at there, but something suspicious is going on.

IMDb Rating: 4.9/10

Release Date: 11/8/1985

Taglines:

  • For A Good Time, Call Transylvania 6-5000
  • WANTED: Two thrill-seeking reporters, brains optional, looking to dig up the story of the century. For information call…

Loc: Mokrice Castle, Slovenia https://mokrice-castle.com/

Trivia:

The movie was financed by the Dow chemical company in order to spend frozen finances (money that could not be spent outside the country of origin) that the company had in Yugoslavia.

Reference In:  Black Roses (1988)

References:

My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~

Found: Tubi

Also Saw: The Long Island Serial Killer [2013]; Hitchcock/Truffaut [2015]

Cryonic Temple – The King Of Transylvania https://cryonictemple.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/CryonicTemple https://www.instagram.com/cryonictemple/ THX & LAB: https://www.facebook.com/undergroundsymphonyrecords https://www.instagram.com/undergroundsymphony.records/

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Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Varan the Unbelievable [1962]

Unrated – 1h 10m

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056648/

Anniversary: no

Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Jerry A. Baerwitz, Ishirô Honda, Motoyoshi Oda

Writer: Sid Harris, Ken Kuronuma, Shin’ichi Sekizawa

Stars: Myron Healey, Derick Shimatsu, Tsuruko Kobayashi, Hideo Inamura, Clifford Kawada

Co: Crown International Pictures

Summary: Heavily alerted American version of Japan’s Varan. A prehistoric behemoth is unwittingly awoken from hibernation due to a U.S-Japanese military experiment for economic means on its watery lair.

IMDb Rating: 4.5/10

Release Date: 12/7/62

Tagline: From a World Below, It Came to Terrorize – To Destroy – To Revenge!

Trivia: In the Americanized version from 1962, even though the film is called “Varan the Unbelievable”, the monster is called “Obake” throughout the film for some reason.

Spoof off: Godzilla (1954)

Edited from: Varan (1958)

My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~

Found: DVD-R

In The Kingdom Of Nightmares – Unbeliever https://inthekingdomofnightmares.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/itkon https://www.instagram.com/inthekingdomofnightmares/ https://twitter.com/officialITKON

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TerrorTron – Opening Credits https://terrortron.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/terrortronofficial/ https://www.instagram.com/terrortron/

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

A Virgin Among the Living Dead [1973]

Not Rated – 1h 45m

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066914/

Anniversary: 50 Years

Genre: Horror

Director: Jesús (Jess) Franco

Writer: Jesús (Jess) Franco, Paul D’Ales (French Dialogue)

Stars: Cristine von Blanc, Britt Nickols, Rosa Palomar, Carmen Yazalde, Anne Libert

Co: Andrés Salvador Molina

Summary: After losing her mother at an early age and being raised at a boarding school, Cristina Reiner is notified of her father’s death and summoned to Monserrat Mansion for the reading of his will. Other members of her strange, accursed family are found there awaiting the imminent demise of Cristina’s ailing stepmother, whom she has never met. When Death finally visits the castle in the person of an elegantly attired Queen of Darkness, Cristina is approached by the ghost of her father, who advises her to flee the castle and her cold-skinned, bloodthirsty relatives. But is it already too late?

IMDb Rating: 4.9/10

Release Date: 11/15/1973

Taglines:

  • She’s Going Down.
  • A ghoulish journey through the very center of hell!

Trivia: Listed among “The worst Movies of all Times”

Featured in: Zombiethon (1986)

My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~

Found: Blu-ray

Harley Poe – I Am The Living Dead https://www.instagram.com/joe_whiteford/ https://www.facebook.com/harleypoe/ https://harleypoe.bandcamp.com/

The Wizar’d – Living Dead https://www.facebook.com/arcanemetalmagick https://hcrthewizard.bandcamp.com/ THX & LAB: https://www.facebook.com/BarbarianWrath666 https://barbarianwrath.bandcamp.com/

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Thursday, November 16, 2023

Papaya: Love Goddess of the Cannibals [1978]

Not Rated – 1h 28m

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078055/

Anniversary: 45 Years

Genre: Horror, Crime, Romance

Director: Joe D’Amato

Writer: Roberto Gandus, Renzo Maietto

Stars: Maurice Poli, Melissa Chimenti, Sirpa Lane

Co: Group 3 Distribution

Summary: A team of geologists attempt to remove a native cannibal population from an island to perform atomic research, but the cannibals’ female leader disposes of them one by one by seduction.

IMDb Rating: 4.4/10

Release Date: 11/16/1978

Tagline: You’ll die of pleasure!

My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~

Found: Tubi

No Trailer is Available all too risqué for the publication on this site.

Videogram – Papaya https://videogram.bandcamp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/VideogramSWE/ https://www.facebook.com/videogramSWE

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Friday, November 17, 2023

The Final Countdown [1980]

Rated PG – 1h 43m

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080736/

Anniversary: No

Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-fi

Director: Don Taylor

Writer: Thomas Hunter, Peter Powell, David Ambrose

Stars: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, James Farentino, Charles Durning, Katharine Ross

Co: United Artists

Summary: A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

IMDb Rating: 6.6/10

Release Date: 5/21/1980

Taglines:

  • Trapped outside the boundaries of time and space… 102 aircraft… 6,000 men… all missing.
  • On December 7, 1980 — The nuclear carrier USS Nimitz disappeared in the Pacific…and reappeared December 7, 1941…the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
  • “…this is the U.S.S. Nimitz…Where the Hell Are We?…”
  • Nothing in the world can prepare you for …

Trivia: The picture was made with the full co-operation of the US Navy.

My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~

Found: Blu-ray

Also Saw: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein [1948]; Vertigo [1958]

Silent Knight – The Final Countdown https://silentknightband.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/silentknightband/ https://www.instagram.com/silentknightband

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Psycho Zombies – Ghost https://www.facebook.com/realpsychozombies/ https://psychozombies.bandcamp.com/

Saturday, November 18, 2023

Hold That Ghost [1941]

Passed – 1h 26m

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033723/

Anniversary: No

Genre: Horror, Comedy, Crime

Director: Arthur Lubin

Writer: Robert Lees, Frederic I. Rinaldo, John Grant

Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Richard Carlson, Joan Davis, Mischa Auer

Co: Universal Pictures

Summary: After inheriting a fortune from a gangster, two dim-witted service station attendants find themselves stranded in a haunted house.

IMDb Rating: 7.3/10

Release Date: 8/7/1941

Taglines:

  • 9 ALL-TIME SONG HITS (re-release print ad – all caps)
  • THOSE SLAP-HAPPY SCREAMSTERS GO A’HAUNTING! (original print ad – all caps)
  • Here’s That ALL-AMERICAN LAUGH TEAM! (original ad)
  • YOUR FAVORITE FUNSTERS give you more merriment than in ‘BUCK PRIVATES” or ‘IN THE NAVY”…with their merriest cast! (original ad)
  • A-HAUNTING WE WILL GO! Your blues won’t stand a ghost of a chance…as they top “Buck Privates” and “In the Navy.”! (original poster)
  • THOSE FUNATICS ARE HERE AGAIN! Forget the News! Shake the Blues! (original poster)
  • THOSE FUNATICS ARE HERE AGAIN! Your blues won’t stand a ghost of a chance! (original ad)
  • THOSE FUNATICS ARE HERE AGAIN! (print ad – Lubbock Morning Avalanche – Tech Theatre – Lubbock, Texas – Feb. 28, 1942 – all caps)
  • IF YOU NEED A GOOD LAUGH…DON’T MIISS THIS PICTUE! (print ad – Lubbock Morning Avalanche – Tech Theatre – Lubbock, Texas – Feb. 28, 1942 – all caps)
  • Your “blues” won’t stand the ghost of a chance…as your favorite funsters top “Buck Privates” and “In The Navy”! (Print Ad-Warsaw Daily Union, ((Warsaw, Ind.)) 22 November 1941)
  • Hey Abbott! Hey Costello! “Hold That Ghost”…Those fun-antics are at it again! enjoying a haunt with a haunt…in a super-spooker with the greatest cast (Print Ad-Walker County Messenger,((LaFayette, Ga.)) 19 March 1942)
  • THOSE FUNATICS ARE HERE AGAIN! (print ad – Bangor Daily News – Park Theatre – Bangor, Maine – January 16, 1942 – all caps)
  • THEY’VE EVEN GOT THE GHOSTS SHAKING WITH LAUGHTER (Print Ad- Wright County Monitor, ((Clarion, Iowa)) 4 September 1941)

Trivia: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello’s “Moving Candle” routine was the inspiration for this film.

Reference in:

Featured in:

Spoofed in:

My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~

Found: DVD

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Envenomed – Horror Movie (Skyhook Cover) https://envenomed.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/EnvenomedOfficial https://www.instagram.com/envenomed_official/

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