A Double-Jolt of Excitement! (November, 1963)

 

 

 

 

 
Shock Corridor (1963) F & F Productions :: Allied Artists / EP: Sam Firks, Leon Fromkess / P: Samuel Fuller / D: Samuel Fuller / W: Samuel Fuller / C: Stanley Cortez / E: Jerome Thoms / M: Paul Dunlap / S: Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans, James Best, Hari Rhodes

Day of the Triffids (1962) Security Pictures Ltd. Production :: Allied Artists / EP: Philip Yordan / P: George Pitcher / D: Steve Sekely / W: Bernard Gordon, John Wyndham (novel) / C: Ted Moore / E: Bill Lewthwaite / M: Ron Goodwin / S: Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Janina Faye, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore

Ghastly Tales Drenched with Gouts of Blood! Carnage and Violence Mark this Double-Barralled NIGHT OF HORROR! (May, 1969)

 

 

 

 

 

 
I haven’t had the pleasure of watching Herschell Gordon Lewis’ A Taste of Blood yet, but from what I’ve read I think I need to take a look — and fast. Seems somebody has accidentally ingested some blood of Dracula, who is now seeking revenge on the descendents of those who done the Transylvanian Count in. That’s right: an unofficial sequel to Bram Stoker’s novel that clocks in at an astonishing 2 hours! No wonder it’s referred to as Lewis’ Gone with the Wind. As for our second feature, I’ve only seen the MST3k’d version of Teen-Age Strangler a/k/a Terror in the Night but I always kinda dug the hometown auteur flavor of the proceedings. It’s clumsy and a bit kooky, but it also has a bit of a nasty streak, making it worth a look unmolested — if you can find it.

A Taste of Blood (1967) Creative Film Enterprises Inc. :: Ajay Film Company / EP: Sidney J. Reich / P: Herschell Gordon Lewis / D: Herschell Gordon Lewis / W: Donald Standford / C: Andy Romanoff / E: Richard Brinkman / M: Larry Wellington / S: Bill Rogers, Elizabeth Wilkinson, William Kerwin, Lawrence Tobin, Otto Schlessinger

Teen-Age Strangler (1964) Ajay Film Company :: American Diversified Services :: Original Six / EP: Elvin Feltner / P: Clark Davis / D: Bill Posner / W: Clark Davis / C: Fred Singer / E: John Detra / M: Danny Dean / S: Bill Bloom, Stacy Smith, John Humphries, Rick Harris, Jo Canterbury

Drive-In Mash-Up :: Calling All Gravediggers: Dig Up a Ghoulfriend and Shovel Off for a Horrific Heart-Stopping Show! (July, 1965)

 

 

 

 

 

For the Love of Film Noir :: Madness — or Murder? (November, 1946)

 

 

 

 

Other Points of Interest:

Film review of Shock at the Brewery.

 

This post is part of my rehash and continuation of the For the Love of Film Noir Blogathon originally held back in February of 2011. Thus and so, we will be heading down the rain-soaked streets and neon-drenched back alleys of Noirville again for the entire month of March. And along with all the old material migrating over from the old site, we’ll also be scattering around a lot of new stuff as well. Also of note, we’ll be posting them in chronological order to show how the genre evolved and progressed from the 1940′s through the late ’50s. And as an added bonus, I’ll be posting some vintage adverts to stuff I’ve always associated with the genre — cigarettes, booze and fashionable ladies.

Shock (1946) Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation / P: Aubrey Schenck / D: Alfred Werker / W: Eugene Ling, Albert DeMond, Martin Berkeley / C: Joseph MacDonald, Glen MacWilliams / E: Harmon Jones / M: Harmon Jones / S: Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Frank Latimore, Anabel Shaw, Stephen Dunne

Madness … or Murder? (November, 1946)

 

 

 

 

Other Points of Interest:

Film review of Shock at the Brewery.

Shock (1946) Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation / P: Aubrey Schenck / D: Alfred Werker / W: Eugene Ling, Albert DeMond, Martin Berkeley / C: Joseph MacDonald, Glen MacWilliams / E: Harmon Jones / M: Harmon Jones / S: Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Frank Latimore, Anabel Shaw, Stephen Dunne

Rendezvous with Annie (1946) Republic Pictures / P: Allan Dwan / D: Allan Dwan / W: Mary Loos, Richard Sale / C: Reggie Lanning / E: Arthur Roberts / M: Joseph Dubin / S: Eddie Albert, Faye Marlowe, Gail Patrick, C. Aubrey Smith, William Frawley

For the Love of Hitchcock :: As the Old Saying Goes, Give a Man Enough Rope… (December, 1948)

 

“Nobody commits a murder just for
the experiment of committing it.”

“Nobody except us.”

 

 

 

 

 

This post is part of the For the Love of Film Blogathon, a new age telethon to raise funds for The National Film Preservation Foundation to help bring The White Shadow (a/k/a White Shadows), an early silent film that a certain master of suspense did just about everything for except direct — assistant director, screenwriter, film editor, production designer, art director, and set decorator, to the streaming masses and help defray the costs of adding a new musical soundtrack.
 

 
There’s no donation too small, folks. So please, click on the link above, wherever you see it this week and give what you can. Thanks. For more information, check out the group’s Facebook page. Big thanks, as always, to Ferdy on Film, The Self-Styled Siren and This Island Rod for throwing such a wide net for contributors. Until tomorrow, then, I bid you all a good ev-ah-ning.

 

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Rope (1948) Transatlantic Pictures :: Warner Bros. / P: Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Bernstein / D: Alfred Hitchcock / W: Arthur Laurents, Hume Cronyn, Patrick Hamilton (play) / C: William V. Skall, Joseph A. Valentine / E: William H. Ziegler / M: David Buttolph / S: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Joan Chandler, Douglas Dick, Cedric Hardwicke, Edith Evanson