A weird gunslinger, a bunch of Mexican banditos, betrayal, revenge, a fuzzy timeline, and everybody’s dirty. Yep, it’s another Italian Western! Hole in the Forehead follows Billy Blood, a quirky cowboy with a terrible name that never likes to use his right hand for anything except shooting and always shoots people in the forehead for […]
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The Sadist (1963)
The Sadist The Sadist is the story of three high school teachers, Ed, Doris, and Carl who are on their way to a baseball game. On the way to the event, they run into a little car trouble and pull over at a nearby gas station/junkyard. After a quick inspection, Ed determines that they will […]
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Horror Castle (1963)
Horror Castle AKA: Das Schloss Des Gralens AKA: La vergine di Norimberga AKA: The Virgin of Nuremberg I decided I wanted to watch something a little different, so I turned to TCM, because while the mention of that station may bring forth mental images of Casablanca, truth be told, they play all sorts of shit. […]
Read moreThey Came from Beyond Space (1967) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
In 1969, America went to the moon. To top us, the British made a movie about aliens on the moon coming to us in 1967. I’m still thinking we got the better end of the bargain here, but I don’t blame the UK for trying! Meteors fall in formation in a field in the English […]
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Wild Guitar (1962)
This movie is actually less exciting than that horrible poster makes it out to be. Motorcycle riding, poor Elvis impersonator and idol wannabe Bud Eagle arrives in California looking for his big break in the music industry. Of course he gets it (and his dream girl), but along the way has to deal with a […]
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Burn, Witch, Burn! (1962)
AKA: Night of the Eagle Norman Taylor is a man of science. Norman is a new member of the faculty at a nearby college and very popular with the students. As a psychology professor he often gives lectures regarding the supernatural (Something they never did in my psychology class. The cheap bastards.) Of course, Norman […]
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Five Minutes to Live (1961)
AKA Door-to-Door Maniac Five Minutes to Live is a short little crime drama featuring Johnny Cash as a rather repugnant criminal. Cash plays Johnny Cabot (adding yet one more name to the list of non-actors who have trouble responding to any name except the one they were given), a ruthless killer in hiding who teams […]
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Blood Bath (1966)
Back in the 1400s, a prominent local painter, Erno Sordi, is condemned to burn at the stake because the locals believe him to be a vampire who captures the souls of his subjects onto the portraits he paints. Over five hundred years later his descendant, Antonio Sordi, is part of the local art community where […]
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Spider Baby (1967)
Before his death, the patriarch of the Merrye family left the care of his three children, Elizabeth, Virginia and Ralph, in the hands of the family’s ever faithful chauffeur, Bruno. Bruno does the best he can to raise the three children, but his task is made all the harder by a rare and unique familial […]
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The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962)
AKA: The Terror of Dr. Hichcock AKA: Raptus: The Secret of Dr. Hichcock AKA: THe Terrible Secret of Dr. Hichcock In 1885 London, Bernard Hichcock is a respected and renowned doctor who is making strides in the world of medicine. But Dr. Hichcock is hiding a terrible (horrible, no good, very bad) secret: he’s a […]
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