Well, it is Friday Night, so I suppose you little monsters are hear for more public domain thrills and chills.. We’ll, I just happen to have dragged this little gem up from the vaults below a few minutes in ago in anticipation of your arrive. Tonight I present classic Eurohorror icon Barbara Steele doing watch she does best, staring in a Gothic tale of revenge from beyond the grave.
The film opens with an accused witch being burned at the stake. It seems, however, that her older daughter knows that the real reason her mother is dying is that she has refused the advances of the head of her feudal village’s most prominent family. The daughter confronts the family’s patriarch and is promptly executed herself.
Perhaps feeling a little guilty over murdering her mother and older sister, the head of the ruling family decides to take in and raise the little who has nobody else to care for her now. Several years pass and the little girl has grown up and is about to marry the cruel son of the man who raised her. Then, on an appropriately stormy night, the girl’s older sister returns for the dead and starts extracting her revenge.
This movie was undoubtedly made to cash in on the success of Bava’s “Black Sunday” and has a few similar elements. While The Long Hair of Death isn’t as good as that movie, it is still pretty good and a lot of fun on dark and rainy night.
Hi kids. I don’t really have a lot to say about this one. An alien craft crashes near a rural town and some of the creatures start killing and mutilating the townsfolk and must be hunted down. This movie is, however, a lot of fun. If you love rubber suites and b-level special effects you’ll really dig this.
It is that time of year when the thoughts of blissful lovers and pining loners alike turn to matters of the heart. Such is true here the dank vaults of public domain gold as well. Of course we are a much more literal lot down here. If you promise your lover that you will give them your heart, you’d better be ready to deliver.
In than vein, I offer you tonight’s movie. It is a neat, but very loose adaptation of Poe’s famous story. The Tell-Tale Heart has been adapted more times than the most written works, coming in just behind The Bible and Dracula. The movie in question is from 1960 and has our murderer a little more motivated than in the original story. In this movie he kills a rival for the woman he loves. The outcome is basically the same,but the movie has lots of suspense and even a little gore to make things interesting. The film is well shot and well acted and, coming on heels of the stinkfest that was Night Fright, you really can’t ask for more? Enjoy and don’t forget to be a lady or gentleman with your date for the evening. Hold them close during the scary parts and don’t forget to give them a little peck on the cheek before you put them back into the ground.
Any FNF viewers that follow me in MISO know that I’ve been on a Mario Bava kick for a few days. I’ve been watching Kill, Baby Kill, Black Sunday, Baron Blood and Bay of Blood and really enjoying them. So, I wanted to put up some Bava for you guys to enjoy. The only two of his pics I know of that are public domain are Hatchet for the Honeymoon and Kill, Baby Kill. I’ve had both of these on the site already, but the first time I put up Hatchet, I tried to do a little FNF intro at the start and it messed up the video so that the sound and picture where out of sync. As this is one of my absolute favorite movies from Chiller back when I was a kid, I had to put up a better, non-messed up copy.
The movie itself is a weird little number. It is sort of like a giallo, but you know who the killer is all of the time and it is very much a character study. Also, at about the half-way point it turns into either a ghost story or an account of a crazy man going even crazier. Either way, the whole thing has that great Bava feel. I’m sure you’ll like it.
