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Mercer Boley ( Cornel Wilde: THE NAKED PREY, THE NORSEMAN) at a small airport. Like most narration it really isn't necessary to the story ( or remotely accurate even as a myth - Feo). It opens with some narration about legends of hell and the devil and how the devil supposedly said, when he was banished to hell, that his offspring, the gargoyles, will rule the world. Norton ( TWILIGHT ZONE, PROFILER, ANGEL, ROSWELL, JOHN DOE, MEDIUM ).

GARGOYLES ( a made-for-TV movie) was written by Elinor and Steven Karpf ( TERROR IN THE SKY, DEVILĭOG: THE HOUND OF HELL ) and directed by Bill L. "This Ray Bradbury-esque is one of the most memorable and one of the more original stories I've read in a long time."Įver see a movie that scared the crap out of you when you were a kid and that seems really corny today ( for more detail about that, see my review of THE GREEN SLIME)? "'Willow Blue' will burrow under your skin and stay there long after you've put the book down." Even today, the cold, dead eyes of the sinister dummy serve as nightmare fuel."'Some People'. In the film’s climactic ending, we’re introduced to a story involving a ventriloquist dummy that set the stage for just about every inanimate-object-that’s-actually-alive film moving forward. Connecting five different stories from British filmmakers and a wrap-around, the film is a psychological creepfest and delivers what is arguably the best work of director Charles Crichton. Dead of Night (1945)īefore horror anthologies became a subgenre of its own, there was Ealing Studios’ Dead of Night. It’s moody, it’s creepy, and while it may not deliver the scares today like it did then, a rewatch showcases an influence that can still be felt. The Uninvited boasts high-caliber acting performances and, crucially, practical in-camera ghost effects that rely on lighting, sound, and wind machines. That’s a crime: It’s one of the titles that Guillermo del Toro cites as having a major impact on his own filmography.

What is perhaps one of the first haunted-house films to treat ghosts as legitimate threats and sources of horror, the British-made flick has largely gone unnoticed by American audiences.