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  Review by The Horror of Marna Larsen ★★★

  Well here I am looking for every punctuation variation of it like a moron just get out of my way stephen king! Roddy Mcdowall does a great evil laugh after being friendzoned by a coworker, 'well I command a golem' being the 60s nerd version of 'you know, I usually date models, but I'll make an exception for you.' The scrollkeeper guy kept reading the golem prophecies off the scroll like: 'in the nineteenth century, the golem will be super really indestructable, but by the time we reach the 22and century, it'll just hang out cause we'll all be destroyed.'

  Well, that's something to look forward to, at least. #154

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  Review by isabel 🦕⭐ ★★★ 2

  I'm a simple woman, I see Roddy in a movie, I watch it

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  Review by Jack Often ★★★

  Roddy McDowall has lots of fun playing a more-functional Norman Bates; a curator's assistant with a literal skeleton in the closet and a crush on the boss' daughter. The film seems promising in the lead up as he eases into taking control of the titular golem. But the wheels come off in the second half when poor writing and budgetary limits become painfully obvious. Seven Arts masquerading as Hammer and failing miserably. It's still a pleasure to watch McDowall ham it up.

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  Review by Michael Brooks ★★ 3

  There is the germ of a good idea in this film but as delightful as it is to watch Roddy McDowall do his impression of Norman Bates the story itself offers nothing more than a clunky creature-feature that doesn't so much as come to an end as it does peter to an abrupt stop.

  Looking back at the film, both McDowall and co-starJill Hayworth, had even less than kind words to say about this film which makes this oddity only for the very curious, and fans of McDowall, as the film barely constitutes a complete story and its cast of characters are anemic and thin to the point of basically being cardboard characters, with even less life than the Stone Golem.

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  Review by mrbalihai ★★★ 2

  Power bringeth destruction; beware, lest the hammery of Roddy be unleashed.

  A nonsensically lurid but entertaining bit of Saturday-matinee creature-feature fluff starring Roddy McDowell as a lowly museum assistant who keeps his mummy's mummy in a living-room rocking chair à la Norman Bates and lusts in a mostly chaste manner after his comely cow-orker, Jill Haworth. After he discovers the fabled Jewish Golem (who resembles a 1000-year old Zippy the Pinhead wearing Frankenstein's monster's boots), in a burned-down warehouse, he resurrects it in order to go on a somewhat-less-than roaring rampage of revenge to kill his anally-retentive boss and gain the love of the daughter of the former museum curator who was the Golem's first victim. Sounds like an airtight…

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  Review by solh ★★★ 2

  Power destroys.

  Not to be confused with the evil clown movies, the titular "it" here is a golem statue that a mentally unbalanced assistant museum creator stumbles upon and decides to use for his own advantage. Roddy McDowall does well as the creepy and very determined protagonist. Everyone keeps referring to him being very young and McDowall plays well into this with his quirks and mannerisms despite being nearly forty years old at the time (and looking it). The overall movie though feels very torn between whether it wants to be about McDowall acting creepy and the power of having a golem getting to his head. Early on it is revealed that he keeps in dead mother's corpse in the…

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  Review by Joel anVALISok ★★

  Roddy McDowall is a junior curator at museum. He also keeps his mother's corpse at home and likes to borrow jewels from work for her to wear. A genuine Golem comes to the museum and Roddy learns to control it. He goes a little power mad. He destroys the Hammersmith bridge with the Golem to impress a girl and eliminates annoying people at work. Ultimately the British army nukes our Golem. The Golem shrugs that off and walks into his new life in the sea. The Golem is pretty fun looking and has a ice lumbering gate. He would have made a great creature on Doctor Who.

  Watched on youtube and tweeted along with the #BMovieManiacs crew.

  88 of 100 for the #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days Challenge 2024

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  Review by Molly Williams ★★★½

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

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  Review by Quiller ★★

  Like writer-director Herbert Leder’s other horror film, The Frozen Dead (with which It! was released on a double bill in some markets), It! has an interesting idea but no discipline to make it work. Roddy McDowall plays the assistant curator at a London museum. He discovers the secret to making the museum’s resident Golem come alive. At first, he uses the Golem to protect himself from a cruel new boss, but he eventually embraces its power for selfish reasons. The resulting guilt drives him insane, especially when he finds he cannot rid himself of his monster. When the authorities catch up with him, he kidnaps shapely colleague Jill Haworth and hides out in a castle the museum also owns (?!).…

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  Review by Demdike ★★½

  Bang average attempt to bring the classic Golem up to date, or at least into the sixties anyway.

  Roddy McDowell channels his inner Norman Bates is a museum curator living with the corpse of his dead mother as he brings the Golem back to life in order to carry out random acts of murder.

  The fact the movie tries to do too much really doesn't help here especially as it basically achieves very little and what could be a creepy tale of horror plays out as a riff on Hammer's Mummy films with elements of Psycho thrown in.

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  Review by Nuno Costa ★★½ 1

  Viewed on TCM

  According to IMDB: Director Herbert J. Leder purposely wanted the film to have the style of the Hammer horror films that were popular during the 1960s. He directed the camera work and audio effects to deliberately have the characteristics of a Hammer horror film.

  In that aspect, It! (1967) looks like a Hammer Picture, but unfortunately has none of the quality that comes with a Hammer horror film.

  It! (1967) is about a statue that could be the legendary Golem of Jewish folklore. Roddy McDowall plays Arthur Primm, an assistant curator of a London museum, and a "Norman Bates" type, who uses the statue to his advantage.

  It! (1967) is a slow moving that begins to bore,…

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  Review by Goremaster ★★★★

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