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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

In the very hit and miss world that I call Hammer Films , this is an absolute gem. This would seem very obvious to Hammer film fans as Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing le ...

Movie - Jenn Dlugos - 2002-09-23 00:00 - 0 comments

The Man and the Monster (1959)

This 1950s Mexican import is different from many of its contemporaries because it doesn't play to the lowest common denominator. It isn't sleazy, exploitative, or silly. It's actually quite an intelligent ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2000-09-30 01:00 - 0 comments

The Mummy (1959)

When you get right down to it, most mummy movies are more or less the same. Guy becomes mummy, mummy is awakened, mummy discovers reincarnated princess that he loved back in good 'ol Egypt and mummy deals with unrequited love and undead emo. ...

Movie - Julia Merriam - 2008-07-02 01:01 - 0 comments

A Bucket of Blood (1959)

Watching the first moments of A Bucket of Blood , viewers might be confused as to whether they should laugh at it or with it. The film starts at a beat club where a pompous hipster named Maxwell is reciting awful poetry that i ...

Movie - Robert Ring - 2007-10-01 01:01 - 0 comments

The Tingler (1959)

Director William Castle sure knows how to make the gimmick film. Nobody else quite gets the art of audience participation like him. The Tingler is yet another in a long line of films (inclu ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2000-12-16 01:00 - 0 comments

Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)

Plan 9 from Outer Space flies in the face of all conventional wisdom. How can a film this incompetently produced feel so good? Edward D. Wood, Jr. gives the world another truly great bad cinematic ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2005-04-26 22:35 - 0 comments

The House on Haunted Hill (1959)

You turn off your lights, pop in the DVD, and instead of being treated to creepy music and opening credits, you are forced to endure... a scream. Not a normal scream, mind you, but a primordial scream, ...

Movie - Jenn Dlugos - 2005-10-10 00:00 - 0 comments

Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)

The word “leech” carries a pejorative meaning that describes anyone or anything with parasitical qualities. People or objects that “hang on” unwittingly may be known as “leeches”. Through this lens, one sho ...

Movie - Chris Justice - 2007-10-06 00:00 - 0 comments

Night of the Ghouls (1959)

What if I told you that everyone's favorite director of bad films, Edward D. Wood, Jr. directed a semi-decent film? Blasphemy, you say? Well, my brothers and sister in the Cult of Wood...read o ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2000-12-29 01:00 - 0 comments