A trailer a day keeps the Boogeyman away! The Sentinel (1977)

The Sentinel 1977

This chilling 1970s horror film is directed by Michael Winner and based on the book by Jeffrey Konvitz, which I read when I was just a little MonsterGirl. A Scary and compelling read!

Sunday Nite Surreal: The Sentinel (1977) Even in Hell, Friendships often Blossom into Bliss!

The Sentinel stars Christina Raines, Ava Gardner, Chris Sarandon, Martin Balsam, John Carradine, Jose Ferrer, Arthur Kennedy, Sylvia Miles, Deborah Raffin, Eli Wallach, Christopher Walken, Jerry Orbach, Beverly D’Angelo, and of course, Joy of all joys Burgess Meredith as Charles Chazen or more informally known as Old Scratch or The Devil!

Christina Raines plays Alison Parker, a top model, who rents a brownstone inhabited by very strange tenants. On the top floor lives a blind priest Father Halliran (John Carradine).

Has Alison been chosen to take over the dubious job of guarding the entrance to hell, which happens to be that lovely Brownstone in NYC? The location for the actual building was 10 Montague Terrace, Brooklyn Heights, I believe you can still see the ivy-covered Gothic building if you walk the promenade. The Sentinel is literally one of my top 10 favorite horror films of all time. I plan on including it in an upcoming Drive-In feature called Satan Slept Here: The Devil in Cinema: From The Devil and Daniel Webster to Rosemary’s Baby.

There are some authentically chilling scenes that will terrorize even the heartiest of filmgoers. The slow descent into Alison’s battle between life, sanity and the gates of hell opening are tautly drawn, and the presence of such terrific actors makes this such a memorable excursion into what makes for a good horror film. In particular, a perfect 70s horror film!

“There is danger everywhere…There is Evil…Evil…everywhere…Turn around Alison, look behind you, it’s HORROR…There is darkness…but watching, waiting, warding off Evil…There is hope…The Sentinel!”

Happy Trailers, MonsterGirl

A Trailer A day keeps the Boogeyman away! Basket Case 1982

Basket Case 1982

A young man carrying a big basket that contains his deformed Siamese-twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who separated them against their will.

One of my all time favorite 80s horror for sure…

Frank Henenlotter’s wonderfully unique and campy horror excursion into the realm of surgical nightmares, brotherly love,Â ‘separation anxiety’ and the self made man…Starring Kevin Van Hentenryck and Belial who brings a whole new level of shocks and shivers and a slight fear of play-doh! I really really wish that Henenlotter would commission Sideshow Toys, MacFarlane, Entertainment Earth or ThinkGeek to make a Belial plushy doll. I wouldn’t be able to resist!

“What’s in the basket?…What’s in the basket?…What’s in the basket?”

It’s in the Basket! Happy Trailers! MonsterGirl

A Trailer A Day Keeps the Boogeyman away! High School Hellcats 1958

High School Hellcats 1958

The Hellcats are a female gang with a bad attitude toward authority and like to terrorize everyone around them! Then Joyce moves into town. She wants to fit in so bad, she’ll do anything to belong. Suddenly it’s boys,drinking , dancing and a one way ticket to delinquency and depravity! Starring the dreamy Brett Halsey and Yvonne Fedderson.

“What must a good girl say to “belong”?

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Saturday afternoon Trailer Double Feature: Devil Girl From Mars & The Man From Planet x

Devil Girl From Mars 1954

A leather-clad female alien named Nyah (Patricia Laffan), armed with a raygun and accompanied by a menacing robot, comes to Earth to collect Earth’s men for breeding. Wow heady stuff from the UK! Starring Hazel Court, Adrienne Corri, and Hugh McDermott.

Michael Carter: Mrs. Jamieson, may I introduce your latest guest? Miss Nyah. She comes from Mars.
Mrs. Jamieson: Oh, well, that’ll mean another bed.

The Man From Planet XÂ (1951)

ðŸš€ “Keep watching the skies!” Science Fiction cinema of the 1950s- The year is 1951- Part 2

As a mysterious planet hurls itself toward Earth, an enigmatic extraterrestrial scout arrives on a remote Scottish island with unknown intentions.

“The WEIRDEST Visitor the Earth has ever seen!”

Hope you found these trailers Out of this World!!!!!! MonsterGirl

Friday’s Trailer to keep the Boogeyman away! Where Danger Lives (1950)

A consummate entry in the film noir canon Directed by John Farrow, starring two of my favorite actors the ruggedÂ Robert Mitchum, the sublime Claude Rains, and the very lovely Faith Domergue as the movie’s femme fatale.

A young doctor falls in love with a fatal attraction, a disturbed young woman, who becomes involved in the death of her husband and has to flee with her to the Mexican border.

“She’s tempting in a penthouse and dangerous in a border town dive!”

Jeff Cameron: Look, I want you, not the money.

Margo: Money can help. It’d be awfully tough for a young doctor, Jeff.

Jeff Cameron: I’ve aged considerably in the last five minutes.

Margo: Poverty’s sordid. If you were broke…

Jeff Cameron: I will be, I promise you.

Margo- “Nobody Pities me!”

Happy Trailers! MonsterGirl

A Trailer a day keeps the Boogeyman away! The Thing That Couldn’t Die 1958

A young woman with psychic abilities (Carolyn Kearney – Molly Bancroft in one of the most eerie and atmospheric of -Boris Karloff’s Thriller the episode The Incredible Doktor Markesan) discovers a centuries-old crate buried under a tree on her aunt’s ranch. In it thrives the living head of devil worshiper, Gideon Drew who was beheaded by Sir Francis Drake way back in the 16th century!

“Evil guided them to this cursed spot”

“Evil made them raise ‘The Thing’ from it’s grave!”

The Thing That Couldn’t Die (1958)

Happy Trailers! MonsterGirl

Coming soon to the Drive In: Screaming Mimi (1958) Ripper vs Stripper!

Screaming Mimi 1958 An obscure Psycho/Sexual Film NoirÂ directed by Gerd Oswald and starring the gorgeous European love goddess Anita Ekberg as stripper Yolanda Lange. Based on the 1949 mystery novel by Frederic Brown called The Screaming Mimi a story about The Strip Tease Murder Case.

A Trailer a day keeps the Boogeyman away! Don’t Be Afraid of The Dark 1973

This is one of my all time favorite Movie of the Week offerings from the 70s starring Kim Darby who inherits a family house with husband Jim Hutton and becomes taunted by little demons who live in the darkness and want her to stay with them forever! Directed by John Newland

“Something like this little ferocious animal grabbed at my dress”

“We want you…we want you…we want you…we want you…”

Happy Trailers! MonsterGirl

A Trailer a day keeps the Boogeyman away! Magic (1978)

Nothing is creepier than ventriloquists and their faithful dummies. Here is director Richard Attenborough’s taut thriller starring the ever brilliant Anthony Hopkins as Corky Withers and the voice of Fats his ruthless wooden pal, the sexy Ann -Margret and the always wonderfully droll Burgess Meredith. Based on the novel by William Goldman

A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.

“A Terrifying love story!”

Happy Trailers! MonsterGirl

A Trailer a day keeps the Boogeyman away! She Played With Fire aka Fortune is a Woman (1957)

She PLayed with fire

A bit of film noirÂ by director Sidney Gilliat. Also known as Fortune is A Woman (UK) Starring Arlene Dahl, Jack Hawkins and Dennis Price, Ian Hunter and Christopher Lee!

An insurance investigator runs into an ex-girlfriend, who is still as beautiful as he remembered her but is now married. He soon finds himself involved in arson, blackmail and murder.