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The Mad Magician (1954) – Review

Posted on April 15, 2025April 11, 2025 by Mike Brooks

The Vincent Price classic House of Wax was responsible for kicking off the 3D boom of the 1950s, making Warner Brothers a whole lot of money, so it’s not surprising that Columbia Picture would try and get some of that Box Office cheddar for themselves. This brings us to 1954’s The Mad Magician a film…

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House of Wax (1953) – Review

Posted on April 11, 2025April 10, 2025 by Mike Brooks

Horror remakes are always a mixed bag but one of the early examples of this being done well is in the 1953 remake of The Mystery of the Wax Museum – which starred Lionel Atwill and Glenda Farrell back in 1933 – but this one not only stars the legendary Vincent Price it was also…

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Night Monster (1942) – Review

Posted on March 26, 2024April 8, 2024 by Mike Brooks

If you are invited by a bitter invalid to an old dark house, one that is located near a foggy swamp, don’t go as it’s not going to end well for anybody.  But without such examples of Darwinism in action we wouldn’t get such fun classic horror films like Universal’s Night Monster.

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The Black Cat (1941) – Review

Posted on March 19, 2024April 8, 2024 by Mike Brooks

The 1930s and 1940s were a Golden Age of “Old Dark House” stories with such offerings as The Cat and the Canary and Horror Island populating theatres, but when you blend that “Old Dark House” setting with one of the works by the greatest Gothic writers of all time, Edgar Allan Poe, you are pretty…

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The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) – Review

Posted on November 14, 2023April 5, 2024 by Mike Brooks

When thinking about a horror movie centring around murders committed by a disfigured mad sculptor the 1953 Vincent Price classic House of Wax would be the first thing to come to mind, I certainly hope no one immediately thinks of the 2005 version starring Paris Hilton, but Price wasn’t the first mad sculptor to stalk…

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