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  Death Game 1977

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  This 1977 psychological thriller starts off so unassumingly, and while you know something bad is going to happen, it builds so furiously into a wild and twisted ride of tension and mayhem that it leaves the viewer more than a bit stunned when it's all said and done. Sondra Locke and Colleen Camp both put in really great and intense performances that just steal the whole show. There's a few scenes where I could question some decisions of pacing and…

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  Night of Fear 1973

  ★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Mixed feelings on this one. It's got a really great, well-crafted cold open, but loses momentum after that, kind of dragging for about 20 minutes before picking up again for a solid climax and ending. It's decision to effectively forgo any dialogue is an interesting one at times, giving it a chance to wordlessly build suspense and frights, but it feels as if it works against it sometimes as well. There's only so much I can take of nothing but…

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  House on Haunted Hill 1959

  ★★★★ Watched 12 May 2024 3

  Perhaps the best known work of William Castle, featuring an iconic role from Vincent Price, House on Haunted Hill is a mix of a haunted house story and murder mystery that features heavy helpings of both delightfully spooky camp and some genuinely creepy (for there era) scenes. It's a short and fun ride that features some additional good performances by Carol Ohmert as Price's catty and unsatisfied wife, Elisha Cook Jr. as a neurotic, haunted, theatrical lush, Leona Anderson as…

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  The Fly 1986

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 29 Oct 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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