Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters (1968)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #34

Watched on Shudder 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

Häxan (1922)

🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #38

Original 1922 silent film, restored.

This was really interesting, and horrifying in its own unique way. A bizarre mix of historical instruction and dramatic presentation... but why devils always churning butter?! Churning butter all the time!

Watched on DVD (owned) 👁️ Watch FREE on YouTube  

Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1968)

🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #39

Aging beatniks interpret the original.

WOW this is pretty awesome. You have to have watched the original to appreciate what they've done with it. They sped up the footage a little bit, making it even more surreal. William S. Burroughs' narrations and the translations of the dialogue cards are modernized quite nicely. But by far the BEST aspect is the Jazz score replacing the original score, which really orchestrates the action on the screen in a much more appealing way.

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The Devil Rides Out (1968)

🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #5

One of my favorite vintage horror flicks!

Full of campy goodness: the cultists! the punching! the religious symbolism all mixed together with mythology and astrology into a nonsensical soup...

Hammer Films, Christopher Lee ❤, and I just happened to catch in the opening credits on this viewing that it was written by Richard Matheson, and I thought, "...wait, THE Richard Matheson??", so I looked it up and by-golly it IS, indeed, the sci-fi author of "I Am Legend" fame! So I fangirled about that for a few minutes.

Watched on DVD (owned) 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

🎃 Horrorthon 2018 #35 🔥 50th Anniversary

50th Anniversary 4k restoration in-theater!

Watched in theater 👁️ Trailer on YouTube