Eyes Without a Face
A surgeon (Pierre Brasseur) kidnaps young women in order to perform a face transplant on his disfigured daughter Christiane (Édith Scob), in this 1960 French horror film they should have […]
Tag Archives: 1960s
Carry On Doctor
Doctors, nurses and patients run amok in the 15th Carry On film, the series’ equivalent of The Terror of Mechagodzilla. Being largely unfamiliar with the Carry On films, it was […]
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
Instead of subjecting ourselves to Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, we look back on the original clash of these titans, the dawning of a feud between ancient rivals that […]
The Birds
A farmhouse is besieged by birds in Alfred Hitchcock’s Flight of the Living Dead. Often parroted but never bettered, this 1963 chick flick does for birds as Jaws did for […]
Night of the Living Dead
The corpses of Pennsylvania rise from the dead and eat people in George A. Romero‘s cannibalistic classic. Let’s call it The Pittsburgh Body-Stealers. Probably the most important horror movie of […]
The Misfits
In her final film, Marilyn Monroe plays a divorcee in Arthur Miller’s existential Western that culminated in their real-life divorce. Like Hitchcock’s Rebecca, The Misfits starts as a comedy about […]
Cinderfella
Cinderella gets gender-swapped in this 1960 comedy about a put-upon housekeeper called Fella (Jerry Lewis), a name unnecessary for the title to work. You might as well call him Jupiter. Brimming […]
On iPlayer: Paint Your Wagon
Clint Eastwood heads westward in 1969 musical Paint Your Wagon AKA Purty Harry. In a possible attempt to rebottle the success of Oklahoma!, Lerner and Loewe’s (My Fair Lady) musical […]
Onibaba
Onibaba is another Asian film about staring into the abyss, literally in the case of two women living in a hut next to a pit. This Japanese classic hops across […]
The Innocents
A governess (Deborah Kerr) confronts voices, apparitions, noises and superstitions in 1961’s The Innocents – a much better name for a The Turn of the Screw adaptation than The Turning, […]
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