Buckle on Your Six-Guns and Join Us (October, 1960)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
The Unforgiven (1960) Hill-Hecht-Lancaster Productions :: United Artists / EP: Harold Hecht / P: James Hill, Burt Lancaster / D: John Huston / W: Ben Maddow, Alan Le May (novel) / C: Franz Planer / E: Russell Lloyd / M: Dimitri Tiomkin / S: Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy, Lillian Gish, Doug McClure, Charles Bickford, John Saxon, Kipp Hamilton, Carlos Rivas

Ringing in the New Year :: To the Wee Hours in the Morning… (December, 1964)

 

 

May 2016 be kindly to one and all.

For the Love of Science-Fiction :: Every Living Thing Flees Before the Terror of Its Giant Poison Fangs and Crushing Claws of Death! (December, 1955)

 

 

 

 

This post is part of the For the Love of Film: The Film Preservation Blogathon hosted by Ferdy on Films, This Island Rod, and Wonders in the Dark. This year’s theme is science-fiction, and we’ll be leaning hard toward the “mad science” portion of the genre. Hope you enjoy, and please click on the link above and donate to help restore the silent film, Cupid in Quarantine. The goal is to raise $10,000. Give what you can, won’t you? Thank you!

Tarantula (1955) Universal International / P: William Alland / D: Jack Arnold / W: Robert M. Fresco, Martin Berkeley, Jack Arnold / C: George Robinson / E: William Morgan / M: Herman Stein / S: John Agar, Mara Corday, Nestor Paiva, Leo G. Carroll, Ross Elliot

Running Wild (1955) Universal International / P: Howard Pine / D: Abner Biberman / W: Leo Townsend, Ben Benson (novel) / C: Ellis W. Carter / E: Edward Curtiss, Ray Snyder / M: Joseph Gershenson / S: William Campbell, Mamie Van Doren, John Saxon, Keenan Wynn, Kathleen Case

Stalk ‘n’ SlashCinema :: If You Don’t Wake Up Screaming You Won’t Wake Up at All! (March, 1985)

 

 

 

 

 
“It was a series of articles in the LA Times; three small articles about men from South East Asia, who were from immigrant families and had died in the middle of nightmares — and the paper never correlated them, never said, ‘Hey, we’ve had another story like this.'”

                                                                  — Wes Craven

 
Those newspaper articles in question were about Cambodian refugees, who had fled from Pol Pot’s bloody and devastating Khmer Rouge, which makes for an oddly fitting double-feature in these ads with A Nightmare on Elm Street being paired with Roland Joffé’s The Killing Fields. According to the stories, several men refused to sleep, citing overwhelming nightmares — and when they finally did, they apparently died in their sleep; the victims of acute heart failure. That’s right: they were literally scared to death by their dreams. Dubbed Asian Death Syndrome, this sudden, unexplained, and lethal phenomena were also attributed to a combination of Post-Traumatic Stress and a genetic disorder known as Brugada Syndrome, the leading cause of SUDS, kinda the adult version of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Combine that notion with a haunting pop song by Gary Wright and an old high school bully named Fred Krueger, and, well, here ya go.
 

 
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Smart Egg Pictures :: Media Home Entertainment :: New Line Cinema / EP: Stanley Dudelson, Joseph Wolf / P: Robert Shaye, Sara Risher / AP: John H. Burrows / D: Wes Craven / W: Wes Craven / C: Jacques Haitkin / E: Pat McMahon, Rick Shaine / M: Charles Bernstein / S: Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Amanda Wyss, Robert Englund

Drive-In Mash-Up :: The Blood and Dinosaurs Edition (May, 1972)

 

 

Stark and Brutal! All New Giant Thrill Show! (October, 1955)

 

 

 

 

 
Tarantula (1955) Universal International / P: William Alland / D: Jack Arnold / W: Robert M. Fresco, Martin Berkeley, Jack Arnold / C: George Robinson / E: William Morgan / M: Herman Stein / S: John Agar, Mara Corday, Nestor Paiva, Leo G. Carroll, Ross Elliot

Running Wild (1955) Universal International / P: Howard Pine / D: Abner Biberman / W: Leo Townsend, Ben Benson (novel) / C: Ellis W. Carter / E: Edward Curtiss, Ray Snyder / M: Joseph Gershenson / S: William Campbell, Mamie Van Doren, John Saxon, Keenan Wynn, Kathleen Case