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Jo Gabriel
This little monster girl plans on writing a more in depth essay on this elegant and voyeuristic spanish thriller. It happens to be one of my all time favorite and timeless horror films. To me it’s a work of art.
The film begins with Therese being dropped off at a remote, finishing school for “problem” girls [...]
We all go a little mad sometimes~ Anthony Perkins in Psycho
No one comes any further than town, in the dark, in the night. No one will come any further than that; In the dark, in the night. – Mrs Dudley, Robert Wise’s 1963 masterpiece, The Haunting
We accept you; One of us. Gooba Gabba, Gooba Gabba- Freaks, 1932 Tod Browning
Like one that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turnd round, walks on
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows of frightful fiend
Doth close bdhind him tread.
Pain be gone, I shall have no more of thee! -Rosemary Woodhouse, Rosemary’s Baby
” But you are Blanche ; You are in that chair”-Bette Davis, What Ever Happened To Baby Jane
“Have a potato” – Ernest Thesiger (1932) The Old Dark House
A sign reads “NO TRESPASSING ~VIOLATORS WILL BE SHOT ON SIGHT~DokTor Konrad Markesan”
The Incredible DokTor Markesan aired Feb 26 1962 perhaps the most creepy of all the Thriller stories, originally appeared in Weird Tales Magazine and was taken from a story written by August Derleth and Mark Schorer, and adapted by Donald S Sanford and [...]
The Cheaters~aired December 26, 1960
Directed by John Brahm, and adapted by Donald S Sanford from the short story by Robert Bloch which appeared in Weird Tales Magazine, The Cheaters concerns an odd pair of spectacles which allow the wearer to read people’s thoughts. Inscribed on the inside is Veritas The Latin word for The Truth.
In [...]
The Hollow Watcher aired Feb 12 1962.
“For the sightless eyes of the Hollow Watcher see more than you might imagine” Boris Karloff
The Hollow Watcher was written by Jay Simms, the man responsible for bringing us the screenplay of The Killer Shrews 1959. This is American Gothic.
A Backwoods hollow, rife with superstition, folklore and omens. Child [...]
The Grim Reaper
aired June 13 1961. Directed by Herschel Daugherty and written by Robert Bloch, concerns a 19th century painting and it’s fatalistic legend “The Grim Reaper” created by a morbidly obsessed painter Henri Radin. Radin who hangs out in graveyards and paints “still lifes” at the morgue, creates this cursed painting and then proceeds [...]
“A beautiful face in the mirror, a pitiful old face at the door, could they have been one in the same” ” And sometimes its better not to see too deeply into the darkness behind our mirror; For there live things beyond our imagination as sure as my name is Boris Karloff “-The Hungry Glass
The [...]
Pigeons From Hell~aired June 6 1961 Adapted for the screen by John Kneubuhl and directed by John Newland. Pigeons was another story taken out of Weird Tales Magazine from a story by Robert E. Howard (Author of Conan the Barbarian), in 1938, which he based on old legends that his grandmother had told him [...]
1)The Purple Room-airdate October 25,1960-Rip Torn inherits Black Oak Mansion from his recently deceased uncle, but with one condition;he must live in the house for one full year. Patricia Barry and Richard Anderson (The Night Strangler , The Six Million Dollar Man) play his cousins who lure him into spending one night in the haunted [...]
