A trailer a day keeps the Boogeyman away! Blood and Roses (1960)

BLOOD AND ROSES 1960

Et mourir de plaisir (To Die of Pleasure)

European Director/ProvocateurÂ Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman 1956, Barbarella 1968, Spirits of The Dead 1968, Pretty Maids All In A Row 1971) adapts Sheridan Le Fanu’s tale of sensuality, jealous Obsession, and Vampirism.

The Gorgeous Annette Vadim is ‘Carmilla’ Karnstein who is jealous of her cousin Leopoldo de Karnstein’s (Mel Ferrer) upcoming engagement to the beautiful Georgia Monteverdi (Elsa Martinelli).

Carmilla’s fixation manifests itself in the form of a female ancestor who is a vampire, which possesses her thus beginning a siege of terror at the family estate, culminating in a surreal and stunning bloodbath.

Stumbling onto the ancestral tomb! Is it real or imagined?

This is a beautiful cinematic horror film… a surreal journey that is at times told in dream-like sequences that are utter visual feasts for the Gothic soul. Blood and Roses has some of the most memorable imagery, and tastefully lensed eroticism, especially for ‘Lesbian Vampire’ aficionados. One of my favorite classic Euro horror films of the 1960s.

“To Die of Pleasure”

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A trailer a day keeps the Boogeyman away! Blonde Pick Up or Racket Girls (1951)

BLONDE PICK UP or RACKET GIRLS 1951

“WOMEN GAMBLED HONOR – MEN PROMISED LOVE”

Directed by Robert C. Dertano (Gun Girls 1957, Girl Gang 1954) Also known as Pin Down Girls!

Timothy Farrell (The Devil’s Sleep 1949,Jail Bait 1954)plays Umberto ScalliÂ a gangster who manages women wrestlers as a front for his bookmaking, drug, and prostitution rackets.. Introducing…Â Peaches Page! ???

The strange love-life of a wrestling gal!

SHE WAS ONLY “18” AND EAGER FOR HER “NEW PROFESSION”

“He’s the kind of a guy who would change a girls evening stroll from recreation into an occupation!”

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The Film Score Freak recognizes The Outer Limits: The Forms of Things Unknown & Jo Gabriel’s Mistress of Time

The Outer Limits: The Forms of Things Unknown

Season One Episode 32 Air date May 4th, 1964

Directed by Gerd Oswald and written by Joseph Stefano

Two women decide the only way out of an abusive relationship with a sadistic blackmailer is to poison him. In the midst of fleeing, they come upon an isolated house with an odd old caretaker and a solitary young man who dabbles with clocks, time travel, and raising the dead.

The dreamy David McCallum plays Tone Hobart, the man who can tinker with time, space, and soul revival. Vera Miles plays the self-assured Kasha, Barbara Rush is the slightly neurotic Leonora, Cedric Hardwicke is Colus, the stoic manservant and Scott Marlowe is the fiendish Andre. From one of the truly timeless series, with the advent of a social consciousness, The Outer Limits, is one of my favorite television series of all time!

As I’ve been known to write about Boris Karloff’s Thriller, I do plan on covering a few of my most treasured episodes in-depth and certainly with my usual long-winded overview and images of the original The Outer Limits!

For now… I couldn’t resist adding my musical voice to a ‘moment in time’ of one of the most poetic and haunting stories in the series. Here are edited scenes from The Forms of Things Unknown mashed up with my song ‘The Mistress of Time’ off my album The Amber Sessions.

Eternally Yours – Jo Gabriel – MonsterGirl

A trailer a day keeps the Boogeyman away! She 1935 ‘She who must be obeyed!’

SHE 1935Â by H Rider Haggard

KINO VIDEO’s colorized version of H.Rider Haggard’s fantastical tale of immortality and passions literally on fire!~ Directed by Lansing C Holden and Irving Pichel

I am planning a more in depth overview of this beautiful film that plays like a surrealist opera, with extravagant choreography and fantastic art and visual design. Massive quasi Sumerian /Deco sets by Art Director Van Nest Polglase and set direction by Thomas Little. A stunning score by Max Steiner

Â Costume Design by Aline Bernstein and Harold Miles

Randolph Scott Â plays Leo VinceyÂ the descendant of his identical looking ancestor who claims to have visited an ancient lost land over 500 years ago, where exists the secret of immortality within the eternal flames of a mystic fire. Over seen by an immortal Queen called ‘She’ the entrancingly beautiful Helen Gahagan

Vincey sets out with family friend Horace Holly, the wonderful Nigel Bruce to discover this mysterious legend, taking along with him as well, the beautiful Tanya Dugmore (Helen Mack), a guide’s daughter.

They struggle through the frozen terrain of the Russian arctic, until they stumble upon Kor, the hidden civilization brutally reigned over by the vicious Queen She. Once She sets her sights on Leo, she believes that it is her beloved John Vincey, her long lost lover who left her behind 500 years ago!

“From H. Rider Haggard’s weird, wondrous story of the beautiful woman who bathed in flame and lived 500 years .. at last to find her first love at this very hour!”

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The Film Score Freak recognizes The Phantom of The Opera starring Lon Chaney and Jo Gabriel’s ‘Bulldozer’

The Phantom of The Opera 1925 starring Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin

A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer. Starring the man of a thousand faces Lon Chaney as Erik The Phantom and the lovely Mary Philbin as Christine Daae.

Here I’ve taken beautiful scenes from Phantom and edited them together with my song Bulldozer from my album Fools and Orphans.

For tragic love runs between both the song and the eternal story of undying and unrequited love!

the lovely Mary Philbin.

A tragic love…!

“A masterpiece of horror that shocked cinema for decades!”

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A trailer a day keeps the Boogeyman away! Play Misty For Me (1971)

Play Misty For Me 1971

Dave has a brief fling with a sexy fan who calls his radio program and asks him to “Play Misty For Me.” Unfortunately, this one-night stand between a savvy playboy disc jockey and an obsessed female fan turns into a nightmarish game of cat and mouse.

Spirally toward a deadly climax once a woman enters the picture.

The story is by Jo Heims (You’ll Like My Mother, 1972, Nightmare in Badham County, 1976, and uncredited for Dirty Harry, 1971).

Directed and starring that guy with the satin-toned whispering voice, Clint Eastwood, as Dave, Jessica Walter as the psychotically iconic Evelyn Draper, and Donna Mills as Dave’s love interest, Tobie.

Also starring John Larch as Sgt. McCallum.

Original soundtrack by Dee Barton and great use of Roberta Flack’s timeless song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. Predating Adrian Lyne’s Fatal Attraction, Walter’s portrayal of an obsessive psychopath is absolutely stunning. Truly one of the most memorable thrillers in film history!

“The scream you hear may be your own!”

“… an invitation to terror…”

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MonsterGirl’s Quote of the Day! The Glass Key (1942)

The Glass Key 1942

CLYDE MATTHEWS: “Isn’t all this beating likely to be fatal?

NICK VARNA: “Not unless we want it to be“

Directed by Stuart Heisler (Tulsa 1949, The Star 1952), penned for the screen by Jonathan Latimer based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett.

Alan Ladd is Ed Beaumont who sets out to find the truth behind his friend’s murder, and the divine sylph Veronica Lake is Janet Henry in this classic Noir Crime Drama!

Brain Donlevy (Kiss of Death 1947, Dangerous Assignment 1952)plays Paul Madvig who decides to clean up his past while running for re-election. He refuses to take any muscle from gangster Nick Varna (Joseph Calleia Gilda 1946, Touch of Evil 1958) Instead he throws his support behind politician Ralph Henry (Moroni Olsen)

Things heat up when Ralph’s gambling son, Taylor Henry played by Richard Denning,Â who loves Paul’s sister Opal Madvig, (Bonita Granville)is murdered.

Nick Varna takes advantage of the dire financial situation of The Observer to strong-arm publisher Clyde Matthews (Arthur Loft) to use his newspaper to crucify and create suspicion around Paul Madvig’s involvement in the murder. Also starring William Bendix.

The Film Score Freak recognizes Carnival of Souls 1962 and Jo Gabriel’s ‘Vacant Little Stare’

CARNIVAL OF SOULS 1962

Carnival of Souls (1962): Criterion 60s Eerie Cinema: That Haunting Feeling

Herk Harvey’s one film masterpiece of the macabre, starring Candace Hilligoss.

I’ve taken scenes from the film and edited them together with my song called Vacant Little Stare off the album Fools and Orphans.

This cult classic is so incredibly atmospheric and the imagery so unique for its day, that I couldn’t resist melding it together with my song, of alienation, loneliness, and madness, which compliment Mary Henry’s persona very well I think! Enjoy!-Joey

‘A story so unusual it will burn itself into your mind’

‘A weird tale of the unnatural’

‘She Was A Stranger Among The Living.’

‘She Escaped Death. Now It Wants Her Back!’

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The Film Score Freak recognizes Mario Bava’s ‘Black Sunday’ and Jo Gabriel’s ‘Waking The Dark’

Black Sunday 1960 ‘La maschera del demonio’ & Jo Gabriel’s ‘Waking the Dark’

Here is a music/film mash-up tribute to Bava and Steele, using edited clips from the classic film and a song off my neo-classical lo-fi album The Last Drive In!

Mario Bava’s masterpiece of Gothic horror starring the legendary Barbara Steele is the vengeful witch Katia Vajda / Princess Asa Vajda who rises from the tomb to possess the body of her descendant!

“STARE INTO THESE EYES… discover deep within them the unspeakable terrifying secret of BLACK SUNDAY… it will paralyze you with fright!”

BRIDES OF HORROR – Scream Queens of the 1960s! – Part 4: The Dark Goddess-This Dark Mirror

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A trailer a day keeps the Boogeyman away! The Devil’s Rain (1975)

The Devil’s Rain 1975

Director Robert Fuest creates an atmosphere of nihilism and dread in this classic 70s horror film starring the brawny brow Ernest Borgnine as Jonathon Corbis/Satan, Eddie Albert as Dr. Sam Richards, Ida Lupino as Mrs. Preston, William Shatner as Mark Preston, Keenan Wynn as Sheriff Owens, Tom Skerritt as Tom Preston, Joan Prather as Julie Preston, Woody Chambliss as John and a young John Travolta as Danny.

Set in the American rural landscape a group of Satanists create a legion of eyeless followers who worship a goat-headed devil, and threaten to banish all who disobey to dwell inside a large blown glass bottle, amidst perpetual rain of the woes and tortures of hell upon them. This ‘rain’ has the ability to melt its victims as if they were made out of Play-Doh!

The Preston family has been broken apart by the cult, some of the remaining family members go on a mission to destroy the cult and force their way directly into the pits of this hellish nightmare to wreak revenge upon Mr Goat Head and his legion of empty eye socket devotees.

Perhaps considered laughable at the time, I saw the theatrical release at my local drive-in on Long Island, and am not afraid to admit thatÂ I was scared shitless by the images of the no-eyed victims. Even John Revolta who had just come off the Welcome Back Kotter craze appeared truly terrifying to me at the time. Still does for different reasons not mentioned here…

I just love this film, for its unique, and utterly creepy manifest, with its great cast and an unforgiving campiness that makes it memorable and fun to watch. Borgnine has a streak of sardonic charm in many of his acting roles, so seeing him don the goat horns and the fiendish snout is precious!