Thursday, October 17, 2019

Horror-rama!

The multi-movie horror fest had a long tradition, especially during the heyday of the drive-in theater.
And Now the Screaming Starts (1973)--Terror in the Wax Museum (1973; with Ray Milland and Elsa Lanchester)--Ben (1972; sequel to Willard). Columbus Ohio triple bill at a couple of drive-ins in September 1973. 
Don't Go Near the Park (1979; with Aldo Ray and Barbara Bain)--Don't Go in the Basement (aka Don't Look in the Basement, 1973)--Don't Answer the Phone (1980). Playing at a Columbus drive-in in the summer of 1982. Never heard of any of these movies, but the "don't go" theme is clever. 
Nightmare in Wax (1969)--Blood of Dracula's Castle (1969)--Blood and Black Lace (1964). Triple horror bill at Columbus drive-ins in September 1970. Dracula's Castle is the only movie I've seen by the notorious Al Adamson, and it's cheap but not bad. Blood and Black Lace is beautifully photographed.
 

Another Al Adamson cheapie, Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971), and two classier horror pix from Hammer, Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and Horror of Dracula (1958), the movies that revived the horror fad into the 1960s. This bill was playing in Columbus during Halloween week, 1972.

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