Rate This MovieCarl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) was the best investigative reporter you’ve never heard of. The reason for his anonymity? His exclusive accounts of mass murders and serial killings always wound up being suppressed by the authorities or shelved by his disbelieving editor, Tony Vincenzo (Simon Oakland). He had the scoops, they just never made it to print. Kolchak was …
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Film Review: A Taste of Evil (1971)
SYNOPSIS: On her way home from a stay at a mental institution after a traumatic rape, a woman realizes that someone is deliberately trying to drive her insane. REVIEW: Adequate. There’s a word you just don’t hear very often. I used to know a gentleman who used that word to occasionally describe movies that he’d seen. It was the most …
Read More »Film Review: The City of the Dead (1960)
SYNOPSIS: A young female student interested in witches decides to immerse herself in the very town wherein the Salem Witch Trials took place and gets a first-hand account of what witchcraft truly entails… REVIEW: In 1990 I visited a favorite independent bookstore in a town adjacent to mine that was on its last legs. In a small section they had …
Read More »Film Review: Horror Hotel (1960)
SYNOPSIS: “On 3 March 1692, in Whitewood, Massachusetts, the witch Elizabeth Selwyn is sentenced to be burned at the stake, and her partner Jethrow Keane asks Lúcifer to save her. About three hundred years later, the college student Nan Barlow decides to spend her vacation in the town to research witchcraft. Her professor Alan Driscoll suggests Nan to lodge in …
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