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The Horror Cinema .. .it's the only The intended provacation by the EC Diabolo" in Torture Garden. etc. genre that can turn the Cubasch medium could especially be in The "All Through the Night" episode paroxysms of Sheridan Lefanu into terpreted by an director with a offers a homicidal Santa Claus and a lethargy, the only genre that can turn precipitous ego and enjoys doing murder committed while Christmas H.P. Lovecraft's Chthulu Mythos into a hyperbolical imitations of himself, carols are warbled over the radio, come back vehicle for Sanda Dee, the sometimes with carnage, e.g. Stanley images of reciprocal ironies reminding only genre that can subdue the Angst Kubrick (anybody see his uncut print of us of Fellini's Toby Dammit where eroticism of Edgar Allan Poe's Spartacus?), Herschell G. Lewis, etc. Satan was personified in the form of a "Murders in the Rue Morgue" and One of the film's episodes, "Wish You little girl with a ball. •finally interpret it as a sort of pilot for Were Here", offers Richard Greene as' • The "Poetic Justice" episode offers "The Rondo Hatton Comedy a living corpse, whose limbs are Peter Cushing as a kindly old gar Hour" ... you would think after three re gruesomely separated from his body, bageman whose repressed hostilities makes, they would learn. though each entrail has life. of its own are finally motivated beyond the as Greene's severed hand crawls up his grave, sustaining credence in a sort of The Horror Cinema is full of sur mutilated body. The violence is Freudian Death Wish, and carrying out prises .. .it makes stars of Steve miminal, though this sophistication his retribution in the most effective McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Oliver and a badly-directed exchange of make-up Roy Ashton has designed Reed, Michael Landon, and Merv dialogue that contrives some sort of since his syphilitic werewolf in Curse of Griffin from their antics in The Blob, assertion for the proceedings the very the Werewolf. Revenge of the Creature, Curse of the antithesis of the EC identy. Cushing, incidentally, deviates from Werewolf, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, his "Baron Frankenstein" image, and and Murders in the Rue Morgue Nevertheless, director Freddie offers further conviction to his ver respectively. Francis offers us some of the charm satality, but the ambiguous ethics in that he utilized in Torture Garden, and his character do not stipulate to the The genre's most recent surprise is avoids some of the gimmickry in prior morality to which the film subscribes. Tales from the Crypt. Its a surprise· mistakes, e.g. Trog. because it works. But its Cushing's best since his "Robert The film's expository footage is Knox" in Mania. The Amicus production emulates substantial Gothic imagery as the The "Blind Alleys" episode offers prior imagery, but removes pragmatic camera pans through Highgate Patrick Magee, finally liberated from attitudes that were especially Cemetery while the soundtrack bursts the anachronisms of Bowery Boys and detrimental in Night of the Living with an organ recital of a Bach fugue, pratfalls of Clockwork Orange, as a Dead, subsequently transcending the homage to similar ideas form man who is blind to everything but conventional approbation of cliches. Mamoulian