https://www.blogtalkradio.com/baroncrazeradio/2023/12/21/baron-crazes-visions-of-horror-ep38
***** ***** *****
Ground Meat – Pathological Silence https://www.facebook.com/groundmeatmetalmusic https://groundmeatmetal.bandcamp.com/
***** ***** *****
Astrovamps – Boris Karloff https://alice-in.bandcamp.com/
Sunday, December 3, 2023
The Crimson Cult [1968]
AKA “Curse of the Crimson Altar”
Rated R – 1h 27m
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062833/
Anniversary: 55 Years
Genre: Horror
Director: Vernon Sewell
Writer: Mervyn Haisman, Henry Lincoln, Jerry Sohl
Stars: Barbara Steele, Mark Eden, Michael Gough, Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee
Co: Tigon Pictures
Summary: Robert visits the remote country house where his brother was last seen. While his host seems outwardly friendly, Robert senses a sense of menace in the air.
IMDb Rating: 5.5/10
Release Date: December 1968
Taglines:
- The high priestess of evil…A monstrous fiend with an overpowering lust for blood… (theatrical poster)
- Terror fills the night as she stalks her prey! (theatrical poster)
- The Master of Evil in his last and most shocking role!
- The World’s Masters of Terror in a New Blood-Curdler
- Come face to face with naked fear on the altar of evil!
- What obscene prayer or human sacrifice can satisfy the Devil-God?
Trivia: Christopher Lee admitted to only accepting his part in the film, after learning about Boris Karloff‘s decaying health and viewing this film as a final chance to work with him for a last time.
My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~
Found: Tubi
Hrabia – Boris Karloff https://hrabia.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/hrabianrock
***** ***** *****
Monday, December 4, 2023
Die Sister, Die! [1978]
Rated PG – 1h 22m
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068485/
Anniversary: 45 Years
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Director: Randall Hood
Writer: William Hersey, Tony Sawyer
Stars: Jack Ging, Edith Atwater, Antoinette Bower, Kent Smith
Co: Cinema Shares International Distribution
Summary: A man hires a nurse to care for his ailing but nasty and shrewish sister. What he really intends to do, however, is to convince the nurse to join him in a plot to kill her.
IMDb Rating: 4.8/10
Release Date: December 1978
Tagline: Go ahead and SCREAM AMANDA – it can’t help you now!
Loc: Piru Mansion – 829 & 837 Park Road, Piru, California, USA
https://www.newhallmansion.com/
Trivia: Director Randall Hood died of cancer during post production in 1976.
Remade as: Die Sister, Die! (2013)
My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~
Found: Tubi/ Plex
Also Saw: All the Creatures Were Stirring [2018], Slay Belles [2018]
Stallion Four – Sister Mean https://www.facebook.com/p/Stallion-four-100063152952648/
***** ***** *****
Anima Morte – Corridor Of Blood https://www.instagram.com/animamorteband/ https://animamorte.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/animamorte/
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
Corridors of Blood [1958]
Not Rated – 1h 26m
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051542/
Anniversary: 65 Years
Genre: Horror, Crime, Thriller
Director: Robert Day
Writer: Jean Scott Rogers
Stars: Boris Karloff, Betta St. John, Christopher Lee, Finlay Currie, Francis De Wolff
Co: Altura Films International
Summary: In an effort to relieve the suffering of surgery patients, Dr. Thomas Bolton painstakingly develops an opium-based anesthetic, to which he gradually becomes addicted. In order to provide a continual supply of chemicals to continue his experiments and support his addiction, he falls in with a den of murderers who use his signature to sell cadavers to the local hospital.
IMDb Rating: 6.4/10
Release Date: December 1958
Tagline: Tops in Terror!
Trivia:
- The censors successfully lobbied to have three scenes omitted: (1) The close-up of the leg amputation. (2) Sir Christopher Lee stabbing the night watchman in the back. (3) Boris Karloff’s throwing acid
My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~
Found: Tubi
Also Saw: Krampus: The Christmas Devil [2013], Krampus [2015]
MASKED – Enter Krampus https://maskedsynthwave.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/MaskedDarksynth/
***** ***** *****
The Tomb Of Nick Cage – Wickerman https://thetombofnickcage.bandcamp.com/ https://thetombofnickcage.com/home https://www.facebook.com/thetombofnickcage/ https://www.instagram.com/tombofnickcage/ https://twitter.com/tombofnickcage
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
The Wicker Man [1973]
Rated R – 1h 29m
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070917/
Anniversary: 50 Years
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Robin Hardy
Writer: Anthony Shaffer, David Pinner
Stars: Christopher Lee, Edward Woodward, Ingrid Pitt, Walter Carr, Diane Cilento, Geraldine Cowper
Co: British Lion Film Corporation
Summary: A puritan police sergeant arrives in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl, who the pagan locals claim never existed.
IMDb Rating: 7.5/10
Release Date: 12/6/1973
Taglines:
- From the writer of ‘Frenzy & Sleuth’ Anthony Shaffer’s incredible occult thriller
- The residents of Summerisle invited Sergeant Howie to their traditional May Day festival. He didn’t expect to meet…The Wicker Man
- An island lost to unspeakable terrors of PAGAN RITUALS!
- The 20th Century never touched Summerisle, where pagan fertility rites-and blood sacrifice-live on!
- “You’ll simply never understand the true nature of sacrifice.”
- An incredible Occult Thriller of Pagan Practices and fertility rights
- Flesh to touch…Flesh to burn! Don’t keep the Wicker Man waiting!
- …A totally corrupt shocker from the author of “Sleuth” and “Frenzy”!
Trivia:
- Sir Christopher Lee said that he considers this to be one of his greatest ever roles.
- Willow’s dance scene took thirteen hours to shoot.
References: Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Referenced in:
- Candyman (1992)
- Saw (2004)
- Pet Sematary (2019)
- Midsommar (2019) – A pagan cult making a feast involving human sacrifices
Followed by: The Wicker Tree (2011)
My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~
Found: DVD
Also Saw: Witchery [1988]
Wasteland Rocks – The Wicker Man https://www.facebook.com/wastelandrocks/ https://www.instagram.com/wastelandrocks/
***** ***** *****
Thursday, December 7, 2023
A Christmas Horror Story [2015]
Not Rated – 1h 39m
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3688406/
Anniversary: No
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Fantasy
Director: Grant Harvey, Steven Hoban, Brett Sullivan
Writer: James Kee, Sarah Larsen, Doug Taylor
Stars: George Buza, William Shatner, Rob Archer
Co: RLJE Films
Summary: interwoven stories that take place on Christmas Eve, as told by one festive radio host: A family brings home more than a Christmas tree, a student documentary becomes a living nightmare, a Christmas spirit terrorizes, Santa slays evil.
IMDb Rating: 5.8/10
Release Date: 7/20/2015
Tagline: You Better Watch Out
Trivia:
- During the closing credit it is stated that “No elves were harmed in the making of this film.”
Reference: The Shining (1980)
My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~
Found: DVD
Midnight Syndicate – Night of the Krampus_02.mp3 https://www.midnightsyndicate.com/ https://www.facebook.com/MidnightSyndicate/
***** ***** *****
Dance With the Dead – Gremlins Theme (Dance With The Dead Remix) https://www.instagram.com/dwtd/ https://twitter.com/DWTDmusic https://dancewiththedead.bandcamp.com/
Friday, December 8, 2023
Gremlins [1984]
Rated PG – 1h 46m
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087363/
Anniversary: No
Genre: Horror, Comedy, Fantasy
Director: Joe Dante
Writer: Chris Columbus
Stars: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton
Co: Warner Bros.
Summary: A young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.
IMDb Rating: 7.3/10
Release Date: 6/8/1984
Taglines:
- Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous.
- You can’t get burned seeing ‘Gremlins’!
- Steven Spielberg presents
- Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous. [Crossed Out] We’re Here!
- What you see… isn’t always what you get.
- The Gremlins Are Coming!
- Don’t get him wet, keep him out of bright light, and never feed him after midnight.
- They didn’t obey the rules
- We’re Back! (1985 re-release)
Trivia:
- In Cantonese, “mogwai” means “devil,” “demon,” or “gremlin.”
- At least one of Phoebe Cates’ screams in the scene at Dorry’s Tavern is genuine. An enormous cockroach crawled out in front of her during one take.
References:
- Them!(1954)
- Forbidden Planet (1956)
- The Blob (1958)
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
- The Howling(1981)
- Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
Spoofs: The Evil Dead (1981)
Reference in:
- Dead End (1985)
- Troll (1986)
- Neon Maniacs (1986)
- Critters (1986)
- Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
- The Guyver (1991)
- Dead Alive (1992)
- Critters 4 (1992)
Followed by: Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~
Found: DVD
Also Saw: Good Tidings [2016]
***** ***** *****
Saturday, December 9, 2023
Christine [1983]
Rated R – 1h 50m
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085333/
Anniversary: 40 Years
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Director: John Carpenter
Writer: Stephen King, Bill Phillips
Stars: Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Harry Dean Stanton, Christine Belford, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky
Co: Columbia Pictures
Summary: A nerdish boy buys a strange car with an evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it.
IMDb Rating: 6.8/10
Release Date: 12/9/1983
Taglines:
- She’ll possess you. Then destroy you. She’s death on wheels. She’s…
- Once she lures you behind her wheel…You’re all hers.
- Body by Plymouth. Soul by Satan.
- Passionate. Possessive. Say hello to Christine…Your Girlfriend The Car.
- The Devil’s Car
- She’s the Devil Incarnate. She’s Christine. Body by Plymouth. Soul by Satan.
- Watch Out for Her. This Christmas. At a theater near you.
- Watch out for me. I am Pure Evil. I am…CHRISTINE.
- Hell hath no Fury…like a 1958 Plymouth.
- How do you kill something that can’t possibly be alive?
- She was born bad. Plain and simple. Somewhere deep on a darkened assembly line. Christine. A ’58 Plymouth Fury possessed by Hell. She’s taken control of her teenage owner, Arnie. Her previous owner is not alive to warn him. And now she’s steering straight for the one person in her way. Arnie’s girlfriend, Leigh. The other woman.
Trivia:
- 15% of the budget was just on the cars. By the end of filming, all but 2 were destroyed.
- Stephen King’s popularity was very high at the time that the film went into production before the book was even published.
- One of the Plymouth Furys from the movie was sold for $167,000 in 2004.
My Opinion: ~ Listen to Podcast ~
Found: DVD
Also Saw: 976-EVIL [1988]
He Who Walks Behind the Rows – Christine https://www.facebook.com/PraiseHeWhoWalksBehindTheRows/
***** ***** *****
Envenomed – Horror Movie (Skyhook Cover) https://envenomed.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/EnvenomedOfficial https://www.instagram.com/envenomed_official/