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Inferno (1980): or, Death is a Mutha
October Horror Movie Challenge, Day 24!Poet and antique book aficionado Rose Elliot (Irene Miracle) finds an enigmatic tome entitled The Three Mothers in her local junk shop in New York. The book is...
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Dreamaniac (1986): or, Pour Some Caro On Me
October Horror Movie Challenge, Day 25!Heavy metal musician and songwriter Adam (Thomas Bern) is housesitting for a friend, spending his days smoking cigarettes, ironing his Def Leppard t-shirts, and...
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The Cabinet of Caligari (1962): or, Crazy, Baby
October Horror Movie Challenge, Day 27!Jane Lindstrom (Glynis Johns), a free-spirited and adventure-seeking young woman, is driving her little sports car through a mountainous stretch of countryside...
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Spider Forest (2004): or, What Tangled Webs We Weave
October Horror Movie Challenge, Day 27! TV journalist Kang Min (Woo-seong Kam) finds himself inexplicably wandering through a beautiful, creepy forest, and soon happens upon what appears to be an...
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Madhouse (1974): or, Making a Killing in Show Business
October Horror Movie Challenge, Day 28!On New Year's eve, movie star Paul Toombes (Vincent Price) throws a party with three goals: to celebrate the annual changing of the calendar, to premiere the...
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The Bat People (1974): or, Echolocation Nation
October Horror Movie Challenge, Day 29! Scientist Dr. John Beck (Stewart Moss) really loves bats--so much that he's devoted his life and his ski vacation in northern New Mexico to his avid...
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Skew (2011): or, Tale of the Tape
October Horror Movie Challenge, Day 30!Amateur videographer Simon (Rob Scattergood) embarks on a week-long road trip with his beer-swilling best friend Rich (Richard Olak) and Rich's girlfriend Eva...
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Night of the Living Dead (1968): or, Slow and Steady Wins the Race
October Horror Movie Challenge, Day 31!I probably don't have to summarize this one for any of my parishioners, but in the interest of keeping good form, here goes: after laying a wreath on their...
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Happy Birthday to The Duke of DVD!
"Getting old ain't for pussies, verily." Two thousand years ago, in the Australian bush near what is now Bumbang, Victoria, an Aborigine shaman fell into a Dreaming in which he saw a huge,...
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NASCHY FOREVER
The ManIt hardly seems like two years have passed since Jacinto Molina, known to his still-growing legions of fans as the Lon Chaney of Spain, Paul Naschy, shuffled off this mortal coil and took his...
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Shadows of Blood (1988): or, Amsterdamaged
That's right--there is no poster for this movie.In the late 80s, the port of Amsterdam is rocked by a series of brazen and motiveless murders. Local police are stymied, until they learn through...
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The House of the Seven Graves (1982): or Disco in the Dovecote
I admit I wasn't expecting much from The House of the Seven Graves (La Casa de las Siete Tumbas, dir. Pedro Stocki). And at first, I seemed to be getting what I was expecting. However, as the movie...
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Harlequin (1980): or, Rootin' Tootin' Rasputin
We need more movies about ambiguously evil wizards with disco-fros and lacquered black fingernails in this world. We just do.I came to this realization recently while watching Harlequin (aka Dark...
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Blu-Ray Review: THE DEADLY SPAWN (1983)
Somewhere in a rural section of New Jersey, a couple of camping enthusiasts/possible life partners are shaken from their sleep by the sudden impact of an asteroid just a few hundred yards from their...
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CTHULHU RISES! (Or, The Duke Gets Inked)
My dearest friends, it is I, The Duke of DVD, once more inserting myself into your lives like a trans-vaginal ultrasound! Fear not the slimy touch and intense pressure, for it is none other than...
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The Angry Red Planet (1959)
A crippled rocket, damaged on an ill-fated mission to Mars, is brought back to earth via radio control and some breathtakingly skillfull toggle-switch toggling. Inside are Dr. Iris Ryan (Naura Hayden)...
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Fear the Voice of the Vicar!
Friends and parishioners, I know that many of you have never had the pleasure of traveling over fog-laden moors and craggy steeps to the Vicarage Proper, there to settle into the hard mahogany pews of...
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Even a Man who is Pure at Heart, and Says His Prayers by Night...
May become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms, and the Autumn moon is bright.Or, failing that, can be the Vicar of VHS: Naschy rises from the breath of Chaney: or, Night of the Wolf MansGreyscale...
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Slim Pickin's
Greetings, parishioners! As you have no doubt noticed, there hasn't been much going on around these parts lately. I could give a lot of reasons for it with varying degrees of truthiness attached to...
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EMPUSA (2010): or, Naschy's Final Bow
A little more than five years ago, the Duke of DVD and I started this blog with a review of Vengeance of the Zombies (1973). That film was and is a perfect example of everything Mad Mad Mad Mad Movies...
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