THE STEPFORD WIVES 1975
BURNT OFFERINGS 1976
THE AMITYVILLE HORROR 1979
RACE WITH THE DEVIL 1975
SISTERS 1973
A very MonsterGirl Halloween trailer treat!
Category: Trailers
Put this in your Halloween goody-bag!
THE DEVIL’S BALL- WLADYSLAW STAREWICZ
DRACULA’S DAUGHTER 1936
DR. CYCLOPS 1940
Save a mini milky way bar for me! Your ever lovin’ MonsterGirl
A Trailer a day keeps the Boogeyman away! Invaders from Mars/Oz 1953
INVADERS FROM MARS 1953
“Mankind’s oldest fear comes to life!”
William Cameron Menzies’ nightmarish ground hogs day tale of alienation, colonization, loss of identity and good old fashioned sci-fi alien goodness. Bearing a storyline and set design that could be considered analogous to The Wizard of OZ… that for a later post. My brother used to tease me every time the picture came on tv that the aliens looked like they each were walking like they had taken dumps in their pants monster costumes.
Here’s a little Saturday morning pre-Halloween treat for you to enjoy!!!! Grab a quick cold cola before it goes disappearing down that sandy hill o’re yonder.…
Don’t worry it’s only a dream… or is it? MonsterGirl
A Trailer a day keeps the Boogeyman away! The Raven (1935)
Happy belated birthday to the wonderful Bela Lugosi
born Be’la Ferenc Dezso Blasko on October 20, 1882, Lugos, Hungary (now Lugoj, Romania-Died August 16th 1956 in Los Angeles.
One of the all time greats!
THE RAVEN (1935)
Ever rapping at your chamber door-MonsterGirl
A trailer a day keeps the Boogeyman away! The Ghost of Frankenstein
“The King of all Monsters strikes again! No chains can hold him! No tomb can seal him in!”
THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN 1942
When Bela Lugosi as Ygor brings the wounded Frankenstein’s monster to Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) to help restore his strength, the good doctor tries to replace the monster’s abnormal brain, with a normal one. The cast is fabulous with Lon Chaney Jr. as the Monster, Lionel Atwill, Evelyn Ankers as Ludwig’s daughter Elsa, Ralph Bellamy and Doris Lloyd!
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Coming to you from Trailer Land-The Ghost of MonsterGIrl!
A Trailer a day keeps the Boogeyman away! The Alligator People (1959)
We’re still in our pre-celebration mode for our upcoming Chaney Blogathon in November! And cause Halloween’s sneaking up on us, right around the dark corner, I thought I should offer you yet another Lon Chaney Jr. teaser… here’s a snappy little film by Roy Del Ruth
Lon Chaney Jr as Manon: “I’ll kill you Alligator Man! Just like I’d kill any four-legged gator!”
THE ALLIGATOR PEOPLE 1959
You get under my skin!-MonsterGirl
A Trailer a day keeps the Boogeyman away! – The Haunted Palace (1963)
In honor of the upcoming Chaney Blogathon …
I thought it appropriate to offer you this peek into Roger Corman’s slant on H.P. Lovecraft’s short story “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward”,using an Edgar Allan Poe title…Starring Vincent Price and… screenplay by Charles Beaumont!
Co-staring our very special man of the month Lon Chaney Jr. as Simon Orne.
“Carrying on a family tradition of masterful motion picture horror!”
THE HAUNTED PALACE 1963
Haunting you all month- MonsterGirl
A Trailer a Day Keeps the Boogeyman Away! The Nanny (1965)
“Would you trust the nanny . . . or the boy?”
THE NANNY (1965)
Director Seth Holt and screen writer Jimmy Sangster put Bette Davis in the role as Nanny based on the novel by Marryam Modell (Bunny Lake Is Missing).
Davis plays a kindly, attentive Nanny who is in charge of looking after precocious 10-year-old Joey Fane (William Dix-Tommy Stubbins in Doctor Dolittle), who has just been released from a hospital for emotionally disturbed children. It is believed that Joey was responsible for the bathtub drowning death of his little sister.
The film works so well fielding paranoia as Joey persecutes Nanny, trying to get his family to believe that it was Nanny who was the one who killed his sister and now looking to do him in. Once his mother Virgie Fane (Wendy Craig) becomes poisoned, a very tautly wound game of cat and mouse ensues as he enlists the help of the girl Bobbie who lives upstairs played by the wonderful Pamela Franklin. The film also stars Jill Bennett as Aunt Pen, James Villiers as Joey’s father Bill, and Maurice Denham as Dr. Beamaster. Bette Davis is purely marvelous as a very emotionally destructive older woman who has a few secrets that haunt her…
No one straddles the Grande Dame Guignol trope quite like the inimitable, the superb Bette Davis.
I’ll be doing a more extensive post about this film, as well as Dead Ringer 1964, as I just can’t get enough of those eyes – that voice…
Yours truly, MonsterGirl
A Trailer a Day Keeps the Boogeyman Away! Terror Creatures From The Grave (1965)
“They rise from dank coffins in the dead of night, murdering their victims in an orgy of slaughter!”
TERROR CREATURES FROM THE GRAVE (1965)
Walter Brandi (The Playgirls and The Vampire 1960,Bloody Pit of Horror 1965) plays Albert Kovac an attorney who arrives at a strange desolate castle to settle the estate of the recently deceased Dr. Hauff. Starring the magnificent icon Barbara Steele who plays Cleo Hauff, the young widow who is having an affair. Riccardo Garrone plays Joseph Morgan and Mirella Maravidi plays Hauff’s daughter Corinne. Alfredo Rizzo  plays Dr Nemek, and Luciano Pigozzi is the trusted servant Kurt. The history of the castle has been haunted by a curse, furthermore Dr Hauff used to dabble in the black arts and claimed to be able to summon the spirits of the dead victims of the plague to wreak vengeance on those he felt betrayed him.“The water will save you.”
In this atmospheric Gothic Italian horror film from the 60s, there are several creepy and classical effective moments of morbidity and gruesome death scenes. And disembodied hands are always sort of yucky.
Truthfully, I could watch anything that Barbara Steele was in, she has such a splendid kind of sensuality that just oozes off the screen, and those darkly fervent eyes that mesmerize. (wow didn’t really mean to rhyme there)and while this isn’t really a stand out vehicle for her in any way as compared to her other work, the film is not a bad little romp through some vintage Euro chills for it’s 87 minutes, even without the Italian version’s brief gratuitous breast shot. Directed by Massimo Pupillo (Bloody Pit of Horror 1965 with Mickey Hargitay, La Vendetta di Lady Morgan 1965 with Erica Blanc and Barbara Nelli as Lady Susan Morgan and Django Kills Softly 1967) Cinematography by Carlo Di Palmi who worked on Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966’s masterpiece Blow Up.
See ya round the snack bar, no butter on mine thanks-MonsterGirl
A Trailer a Day Keeps the Boogeyman Away! Strait-Jacket (1964)
“HER HUSBAND…HER ROOM… AND ANOTHER WOMAN”
STRAIT-JACKET 1964
One of William Castle’s tautly macabre psycho thrillers written by the prolific Robert Bloch (Psycho). Robert Bloch went on to write the surreal story The Night Walker (1964) starring Barbara Stanwyck. This frenetic yet subtle Grande Dame Guignol style flick in the spirit of Robert Aldrich’s Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte (1964), stars the inimitable Joan Crawford as Lucy Harbin, who after 20 years in an asylum for the double axe-murder of her cheating husband and his lover, returns home to stay with her daughter Carol (Diane Baker) where the tension starts to boils over. As Lucy’s daughter Carol prepares to get married, the bodies start piling up, or I should say the heads start to roll once more. Has Lucy become an axe-wielding murderess again?
Also co-starring Lief Erickson, Howard St John, and George Kennedy.Â
Crawford replaced Joan Blondell in the role of Lucy Harbin after Blondell was injured and couldn’t finish the film. Also, Ann Helm had originally been picked to play the role of Carol, but Crawford insisted on them using Diane Baker. There was a lot of product placement of Pepsi-cola as Joan Crawford was on the Board of Directors of the soft drink empire.
Keep your heads… MonsteGirl