“We’ve been to Haunted Hills, and through Tinglers, and even Ghosts… but now we’re going to meet a group of people who just happen to be… Homicidal.”

Directed By: William Castle

I don’t know where to begin with this one. First of all though lets just jump back a year. So, we moved from the age of Sci-Fi that made up most of the 50s and perhaps in an all too obvious button on that, 1960 saw the release of Psycho. That movie’s influence would be felt a few years later, but in the immediate aftermath shock master William Castle (So lovingly portrayed in Joe Dante’s Matinee) came right out of the gate with Homicidal. By his own admission he would’ve got there sooner but he had to finish editing up his previous movie, Thirteen Ghosts.

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“There’s no room for personal feelings in science, Judith!”

Directed By: Val Guest

The 50’s saw a rise in the age of Sci-fi. Partially this was because of technology and the space race, setting off international interest in exploration that went beyond the four corners of the globe. But hand in hand with that came the creeping paranoia of communism and the Red Scare of the post-WWII years. This stopped being subtext and more or less became literal text with 1956’s Invasion Of The Body Snatchers but it had been bubbling under the surface of a lot of other movies from that decade.

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“Oh, alright, something about myself. Um, I wanna work with handicapped children, and my parents are my best friends. Oh, and I start convent school next semester… and I FUCK on the first date. April Fool’s!”

Directed By: Fred Walton

1986 was rather late for slasher movies. They peaked early and burned out quick. Some movies were big enough names to still hold out (Your usual suspects), but by and large they went straight to video where they would largely remain until a brief resurgence in the 90s.

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“What is death that it should be feared so much?”

Directed By: Terence Fisher

So I was probably a bit misled with this one. However you see a movie made by Hammer studios, directed by Terence Fisher (Dracula, The Mummy, The Devil Rides Out) and starring Christopher Lee and you expect some shenanigans.

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“It looks like it’s been raining cats and cats around here.”

Directed By: Albert S. Rogell

This happens sometimes. As we saw with The Mummy, I’ll end up finding another movie with the same name, possibly a remake, and then just go with it. Thankfully this time around a cat features a little more prominently, though it doesn’t reach the delirious heights (casual cat murder) of the previous nights viewing.

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