Bring Her Back (2025) Good movie. I wish the brother and sister communicated better, but hey.

The Vampire Doll (1970) A young man visits his girlfriend's home after a six months away to find she has been killed in an auto accident. While visiting her grave, he sees her. He disappears, and soon his sister & her boyfriend follow the same trail to find him. 1st in Toho's "Bloodthirsty Trilogy"

OK, @therealjoebob123.bsky.social @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social @shudder.com this is 2 months in a row that you brought up my alltime favorite movie, Ms .45, which can only mean you are prepping us for this on the Halloween special, since of course the climax takes place at an epic Halloween party.

catching up on #TheLastDriveIn with @therealjoebob123.bsky.social @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social @shudder.com and Mute Witness, which I like better now than I did last year, and The Final Terror, which I'd also seen a while back.

Santo in the Treasure of Dracula (1969) Pro lucahdor and scientist El Santo invents a time machine in which a traveler can relive a past life, and somehow it's recorded onto a video monitor. His assistant was once a victim of Dracula and our masked hero uses this info to hunt for treasure (1/2)

Vertigo (1958) See Kim Novak jump into the San Francisco Bay and not loose her heels! See Jimmy Stewart read SWANK magazine! See Barbara Bel Geddes treated like a jerk because she wears glasses! See Alfred Hitchcock pull off a masterpiece despite a ludicrous plot twist! new to @shudder.com

Wishing a happy birthday to the wonderful Laura Gemser and reminiscing on several of the great movies I've seen this year.

Captain Kronus: Vampire Hunter (1974) He, a master swordsman, and his hunchbacked, vampire expert assistant travel the lands looking to rid the earth of the evil plague that is vampire. This particular one drains the youth of fair maidens. with Caroline Munro. One of the last from Hammer

Happy Birthday to the most beautiful woman in cinematic history, Laura Gemser! To honor Laura, I edited this tribute video, set to her song "Crazy Eyes (And We'll Love Again)". #LauraGemser

Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula (1979) Nai Bonet co-wrote & stars as the title character. Castle Dracula is now a nightclub. She falls in love with an American musician & follows him to New York, but doesn't let him in on her secret. Vamp-Disco-Sex-Com also stars John Carradine & Yvonne DeCarlo

Slaughter of the Vampires aka Curse of Blood Ghouls (1962) Borrowing the basic plot from Dracula, a suave, foreign vampire gains control over a young woman, and her husband turns to his doctor friend, also a vampire expert, for help. Lots of teeth and lots of cleavage in this Italian pic.

V/H/S Halloween (2025) The 8th installment features Halloween based segments from all different eras. None spectacular, but none too bad either. Keep em coming @shudder.com

Vampyres (1974) Two beauties lure unsuspecting men to their decaying mansion to feed. A vacationing couple in a camper nearby wonders what goes on. Marianne Morris and Anulkab star in this Brit horror from Spanish born José Ramón Larraz

Requiem for a Vampire (1972) Two teenage girls on the run from the law hide out in an old castle where they get bit by vampires. As initiation they are each required to seduce a man, and bring them back for dinner. One does, while the other falls in love. Hardly any dialog in this, from Jean Rollin

Night of the Skull (1974) Jess Franco's giallo/whodunit set around the suspicious reading of a will in a Louisiana mansion. A rubber-masked killer uses the elements to eliminate heirs. I suspect the widely available Spanish cut has the nudity removed. With Lina Romay. #FrancoFriday

Scars of Dracula (1970) The King of Vampires is resurrected by a loyal bat who regurgitates blood on his powdered remains. Meanwhile a young man from the village, on the run form the fathers of the daughters he defiled, seek refuge in Dracula's castle. Christopher Lee & Jenny Hanley star for Hammer

Vampire Circus (1972) It's in town and the villagers are in for a surprise because they're going to kill every one of them for destroying their master 15 years ago. With magic mirrors, a were-panther and twin acrobats with an emphasis on the bats. With Lynn Frederic, from Hammer.

The Nude Vampire (1970) An affluent young man is surprised to find that his father is part of an underground, masked society that kills and does blood tests on the same, apparently immortal woman night after night, and infiltrates to help her. Colorful, surreal vampire fantasy from Jean Rollin

Alice Cooper's 1980 effort, Flush the Fashion actually makes it off my shelf pretty often, as "Clones (We're All)" is probably my fave AC song. Not kidding. Dick Wagner is missing on guitar for the first time in 5 solo albums, as AC goes new wave!

Grave of the Vampire (1972) After the death of his mother, who fed him her own blood his whole life, a 22 year old daypire (played by 39 year old William Smith) tracks his father, the evil vampire Caleb Croft who raped his mother, to a New England town where he teaches an occult class in nightschool

The Deathmaster (1972) AIP's resident vampire, Robert Quarry, waltzes into a hippie commune and turns them all with no residence. Except for Pico, a Mowgli-wigged kung fu kickin nice boy who wants to save his girlfriend. This "friggin mother-lovin" PG gimmick was tame to a fault. Awful.

I'm going to watch 30 - 40 vampire movies in October, maybe a little gothic sprinkled in, and definitely some vampire/goth and I'm starting a day early. #vamptober #gothtober #octopire (there's the Octopire)

Deathdream aka Dead of Night (1974) On the night they were informed their son was killed in Vietnam, a couple wishes their son back to life, and knock knock, there he is. Except he likes to strangle dogs and give himself blood transfusions from unwilling donors. From Bob Clark, Tom Savini FX (1/2)

Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot (1979) Chemical corporation trying to poison the public, Doc's conscience gets in the way so he takes his grandfather's evil serum, but accidentally gets the good batch. His beautiful, evil secretary falls in love with the good Hyde as opposites attract. w. Edwige Fenech.

Nemesis 3: Time Lapse (1996) I didn't even like the first two Nemesi, why am I watching the third? And the first half hour is all recap, unless your name is Silent Night Deadly Night 2 then shut the fuck up with that. Well, I made it to the credits and it's open ended for part 4. Great!

Arizona Colt aka Man From Nowhere (1966) Wanted outlaw Gordo liberates a prison to recruit for his gang of banditos, but Giuliano Gemma (Tenebre), with the whitest teeth in the west, prefers to ride alone. w Corrine Marchand & Rosalba Neri. At 1:56, it's about 20 minutes too long. #SpaghettiSunday

I Don't Want to be Born aka The Devil Within Her aka Sharon's Baby (1975) A horny stripclub dwarf named Hercules puts a devil curse on Joan Collins yet-to-be-conceived child and she gives birth to a bitey little fucker. w Ralph Bates, Caroline Munro, Donald Pleasence. There's no Sharon in this movie

Amityville II: The Possession (1982) An evil house possesses a teenage boy's walkman and tries to convince him to fuck his sister and kill his father. Then the third act turns into an Exorcist ripoff. This movie's fantastic, I can't see it enough. Directed by Damiano Damini. With Diane Franklin.

Zipper Catches Skin was Alice Cooper's 1982 release with print so small I couldn't read it in my teens, let alone in my 50s! It has "I Am the Future" which was the the theme song from Class of 1984. Side 2 is loaded with a buncha fast paced sings under 3 minutes. A lotta fun.

Emanuelle and the Erotic Nights aka Emanuelle and the Porno Nights of the World (1978) Laura Gemser introduces about a dozen and a half erotic clips, including a black magic mass, a donkey show, bubble wrestling and more. Bruno Mattei directs and co-wrote w. Joe D'Amato. J&B - yes (1/2)

Weapons of Death aka Napoli Spara! (1976) A police commissioner and his 12 year old car stealing sidekick chase down the notorious crime boss, Henry Silva, by any means necessary. Some really good stunts in this poliziotteschi from the director of Eye in the Labyrinth.

Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters (1970) Reiko Ôshida returns as Rika the Punk, back from a 2nd stint in juvy and ready to get the gang back together under the tutelage of a madam, but their street vending business is threatened by the male yakuza. A tame #pinky, but gets serious in the last 20.

I bought Alice Coopers 1977 LP "Lace and Whiskey" in '89 for a buck 99 and doubt I spun it more than once, until yesterday. I'm familiar with the ballad "You & Me" which was a top 10 single. As a whole it's not bad at all, but nothing that stands out either. Great pulp-noir cover!

X312-Flight to Hell (1971) Fleeing Chile for political reasons, a chartered plane with assorted shady passengers crash land in the Amazon where they're at the mercy of the elements, as well as bandits who heard that one of the passengers is a diamond smuggler. From Jess Franco. #FrancoFriday

Split Second (1953) A prison escapee and vicious killer hides out in a Nevada shack with his kidnap victims with plans to leave just before the scheduled nuclear test, but unforeseen circumstances turn it into a race against time! With Alexis Smith and Jan Sterling. #noir

The Church (1989) The gates of hell open when a decaying church's floor cracks to reveal it was built over a mass grave of 1000 year old possessed bodies. Michele Soavi directs, Dario Argento produces, and teenage Asia is one of the stars. The was supposta be Demoni 3. (1/2)

Claudia Cardinale (1938-2025)

Death Promise (1977) A New Yorker travels to China to become a martial arts master and returns to kill the millionaire honkie slumlords who murdered his father, who was protecting their shitty apartment. Apparently this single crappy tenement building was going to turn millionaires into billionaires

Tales to Keep You Awake (1974-TV) Returning after an 8 year hiatus for a one-off movie (or more?) & in color, The TV follows a family man who splurges for the finest television on the market, and before you know it he stops going to work so he can watch it every second of the day. I can relate.

drop some SNAKES

Eye in the Labyrinth (1972) Rosemary Dexter visits a villa with artistic-types in search of her missing and presumed dead boyfriend. Sybil Danning has a foot fetish. Also with Adolfo Celi and Alita "Suspiria" Valli.

Candy Land (2022) A young woman is stranded at a truck stop by her churchy cult where the lot lizards take her under their wing and teach her to become a prostitute. Also, there's an extraordinary number of murders in the bathroom. A Baldwin bro plays a sheriff who hates investigating murders (1/2)

The Woman in White (1948) An asylum escapee is seen a near a mansion to warn her doppelganger, heiress Eleanor Parker, that she's in danger. Top cast with Sydney Greenstreet, Alexis Smith, Gig Young, Agnes Moorhead and more. Eleanor & Agnes would reunite in Caged two years later.

My airplane book last week was A Séance for Wicked King Death by @coyhall.bsky.social a great premise and characters, especially the non-traditional protagonist. Jeez, how many cigarettes did this guy smoke in about a week, a thousand? Loved it, Coy is 2 for 2

Karate Warrior (1987) An American teen in the Philippines gets his ass handed to him trying to impress a girl, and then learns martial arts from a monk in exchange for shutting up. On the way to the tournament he stops to save a kid from a burning building like Mighty Joe Young. w. Janet Argen (1/2)

Sadomania aka Hellhole Women (1981) Driving past a women's detention center is apparently a harsh enough offense to be abducted and thrown in, where Ajita Wilson rules with an iron fist and it's chain gang in the day, prostitution at night. And also sometimes in the day too. #WIP #FrancoFriday

Hollywood Cop (1987) A rancher's son is kidnapped because her deadbeat husband double-crossed the mob and LAPD doesn't care, so the only two good cops on the force, Turkey & Jaguar, look for clues in their spare time, but not before taking her to, and participating in, oil wrestling at the Tropicana

Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams (1970) "Bad Girl Rika"is fresh out of juvy and trying to make an honest living in a bar, but not if rival yakuza has it their way. My 2nd go around with the DGB series, tough but sweet Reiko Ôshida might have the best personality of all the #pinky girls

Seattle leftovers, toilet graffiti, monkfish, and Face/Off shorts

Private Hell 36 (1954) Two LA detectives trace stolen bills to the race track, and must make a moral decision when they find them. Ida Lupino co-wrote and stars. Don Siegel would soon direct Invasion of the Body Snatchers and multiple Clint Eastwood movies in the 70s. #noir