Horror-rama 2

I didn't get around to posting as many horror ads for October as I would have liked--work and vacation got in the way. But here are a couple more.

A Sioux City, Iowa "dusk to dawn" horror bill from 1969 anchored by The Devil's Bride (aka The Devil Rides Out), one of my favorite Hammer horror films. The story of a small band of intrepid do-gooders out to save two people from being baptized into a Satanic cult is interesting, and based on a pretty good pulp horror novel by Dennis Wheatley; the budget is too low for most of the shocks to really be effective, but it's still fun, and Christopher Lee gets to play a hero. Also playing: The Vengeance of She, The Power (sci-fi thriller), and the Roman Polanski comedy The Fearles Vampire Killers.

Also from 1969, The Witchmaker, a B-horror film that is surprisingly good, set in a swamp and involving graduate students who run, as in The Devil Rides Out, into some murderous devil worshipers. Playing in Akron, Ohio in November of 1969.

Finally. The Crawling Eye (1959), one of the first horror movies I saw, as a child of 7. Seen as an adult, the effects are not terribly impressive, but as a kid, it gave me frights.