When I was 10 years old, I fell asleep in front of the tv one night, I woke up to the final scene of this movie...no context, no idea what it was,just the sudden shock of that little girl...it scared the hell out of me. For 42 years, I’ve wondered what the movie was, even did google searches and now, after all these years, I finally have my answer. Thank you!!!
Now we know what happened to the archeologist Andrew Prine played in that Kolchak the Night Stalker episode he went on to face Hannah Queen of the vampires.
Same hear! Saw it 30 years ago on one of those Late, LATE Movie Shows... & all I really remember is the blind dude screaming instructions at the beach!
So I said, what about, Queen Of The Vampires And he said, I think, I remember that film And as I recall, I think, we both kinda can't remember anything about it And I said, well that's something we've got...
Do you mean the movie THE SINFUL DWARF from 1973? Though I've never seen it, the title alone makes me wanna watch it. Remember that song from the early Eighties--"Sex Dwarf" by Soft Cell? That's what this title evokes, for me anyway. But it also puts me in mind of---yikes!--Roman Polanski.
I love these, they've made a lockdown much more bearable. This guy has put in a lot of effort researching them, some of it must of been painful to watch. 😅 Now, I'd love a really good review of the original 2 part Salems Lot with David Soul. Not the movie they trainsmashed together of it, that was crap and lots was edited out That 2 part series was brilliant and massively influential.
The one where he grew the beard? I think that means that we're all in that mirror universe too, otherwise we'd be remarking on how much he looks the same.
Robin what's your next book going to be about? You've done The Invisible Man, Mummies, Werewolves, and Vampires. Leaves you only two Classic Universal Monsters left ; Frankenstein and Creature From The Black Lagoon.
Aparently, the "creators" didn't watch afternoon television for they would have known that when Willie Loomis unleashes Barnabas Collins on Collinsport, ME, a charming version of hell breaks out for a few years.
Seems we have another film to add to the list of "_______ Of The Living Dead" titles. I think that list is way ahead of "_______ Of The Walking Dead", but it will still need some catching up to match the "Don't _______ The _______" list of titles. Also, I always enjoy Andrew Prine showing up in these films with his Texan accent. A bit of Americana in the world of European horror. As for films that should be less (or more) serious than they are, I do think that Roger Corman's "Creature From The Haunted Sea" (1961) was too funny for its own good. The premise of a fake monster plot being foiled by a real monster is a good premise. The film didn't need to oversell its goofiness. Anthology horror films also seem to run into this problem when they have one of their stories being the "funny one", while the others are serious. Both "Dead Of Night" (1945) and "XX" (2017) have this problem.
@@RavenHouseMystery total classics! I would love to see a serious renaissance of those style of horror films, no tongue in cheek laughs, just well done period gothic horror with lavish style, but it wouldn't sell lol
The guy with the mustache was Andrew Prine, who did a great job as evil reptilian alien Steven in 1983's "V" and 1984's "V: The Final Battle." Unlike this crap though, the two "V" miniseries are actually good and worth watching.
Andrew Prine was very interesting in "Simon, King of the Witches". However, he appeared in some horrible horror flicks too, like "Barn of the Naked Dead".
"Beyond the door" (1974) was riding the Exorcist's coat tails. It tried to be serious but the fact that Britains darling Juliet Mills plays the possessed lead (very much out of character) and the fact that the kids voices were dubbed and dubbed badly. Made this one just plain silly IMO.
If you like Mr. Prine you should check him out in a 1974 exploiter titled TERROR CIRCUS. It was originally released under the title--now get this---BARN OF THE NAKED DEAD (!). And more than a few genre buffs will remember him in the title role of SIMON KING OF THE WITCHES. If you're really motivated you might try to track down a 1979 made for TV thriller titled MIND OVER MURDER, where he plays a serial killer. Yeah he's a really good actor---and a very versatile one as well.
The original Gamera is fun when it could have been serious and serious when it could have been fun. I don't know how exactly to describe it... it's like if Gojira and Godzilla's Revenge were the same movie. I know exactly how to describe it.
"End of Days" is a movie where Arnold Schwarzenegger fights Satan. That premise damands it to be a silly ride in the vein of "Evil Dead 2" yet the film tries to be a serious horror film like the original "The Omen". Doesn't quite work. I read "The Immortal Dracula" and quite enjoyed it, as I've enjoyed all the entries in the Universal Library series. Will there be more?
It was 1973. A number of actors experimented with silly facial hair. On some, it worked and became part of their iconic looks, like Burt Reynolds, for example. For others, like Andrew Prine and Walter Koenig (whose 1973 mustache was very silly looking indeed) it didn't.
This was a movie I eventually watched and fast forward. I, Frankenstein was like a very sincere and solemn 15-year-old Vampire player. I wanted to pat the film on the head as I grinned.
Do you like any horror songs? Blue Oyster Cult has a few vampire songs: I love the Night and Nosferatu being great songs: th-cam.com/video/WwskAqJAxgo/w-d-xo.html
My answer to your question is a TV episode, but it fits your remit. I recently rewatched a 2006 episode of "Doctor Who" called "New Earth" which is set in a hospital (in the future and on another planet) which is extremely successful at treating people, but which turns out to be doing so by using clones that each have every disease imaginable inflicted upon them. Unsurprisingly those clones, kept in secret, go through a truly horrifying living hell before being disposed of. This would make for some deeply disturbing television and potentially an interesting ethical debate, if it wasn't for the fact that the main purpose of the episode is unrelated comedy. It's not presented as a tonal shift, or purposeful juxtaposition, it's a completely baffling stapling together of things that shouldn't form parts of the same story. Ugh!
I don’t understand how anybody managed to take Night of the Lepus,a movie about giant killer bunny rabbits,seriously.That’s an example of a movie being treated seriously when it should’ve been comedic.As for horror movies that were funny when they would have been better served,I believe,if they were serious,Fangoria Films third movie Children of the Night with Karen Black and Ami Dolenz seemed to me to have entirely too silly a tone.
looking at the thumbnail, I was wondering if we could get a special on 'Movies posters far more interesting than the movies themselves', but I'm guessing you guys don't want to do a 13,666,734 minute long youtube video.
When will you review "The Fear''(1995) (with a wooden articulate life size dummy that looks like Robin Williams in ''The Bicentennial Man'') and ''Night Killer''(1990) (with a rubber mask that would scare the nightmares out of Freddy Krueger himself !) ?
Hello there dark corners review There's another b movie you should review The killings at outpost zeta And laboratory them two films where made by the same people But to honest u really found them enjoyable 👹👹👹👹👹👹👺
In my mind Rifftrax is the best successor. All of the new MST, and even Cinematic Titanic, all feel kinda “flat” in a way 😕 I think it’s Joel’s overly-dry style. I’ve always been a Mike fan 😁
@@Gappasaurus I agree Rifftrax is the best. Mike, Bill, and Kevin are Hilarious. That's one of the things I've missed since the pandemic started... going to the live shows in theaters.
Another attempt to rip off Hammer Films that fell flat on its face, sank into the mud and let out a big nasty fart before sinking below the surface. Is there a large group of blind film editors that I've never been told about? There has to be for all the movies out there look like nobody watched them before sending them out to theaters. A serious film that turned out silly, the all time classic, PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE. Ed promised a Science Fiction Thriller, what we got was a comedy that keeps on giving. But in the end, it gave the best lesson in film making ; it easy to look stupid when you don't know what you're doing
If they ever do a "reboot" of this movie, I won't be surprised upon hearing Queen's Killer Queen playing in the background while they show the opening credits.
It drives me absolutely crazy when writers purposely write a scene/movie so that there is always some issue that could literally be solved by one word or action. There were so many instances in "Captain America: Civil War" where Bucky, Cap and Stark could have solved each problem just by talking to each other. I know it sounds cliche', but Cap could have told Stark "Bucky was controlled by Hydra" and I'm sure Stark would have understood... but no, can't do that, gotta pad out that two hours somehow. Not the best example, I know, but it's what I could think of off the top of my head.
When I was 10 years old, I fell asleep in front of the tv one night, I woke up to the final scene of this movie...no context, no idea what it was,just the sudden shock of that little girl...it scared the hell out of me. For 42 years, I’ve wondered what the movie was, even did google searches and now, after all these years, I finally have my answer. Thank you!!!
You will be pleased to know it is just as out-of place in the movie.
The townspeople don't kill her because there isn't a single other reason for a tourist to go there.
Same mayor as Jaws, eh?
@@thomashaberl2858 "Vampire Island is a summer town!"
Same logic as claiming that the British royal family is good for tourism. After all, nobody visits Versailles. 😁
That makes for a good premise for a vampire comedy.
Vampire island sounds like a pleasant place to holiday.
I wish Richard Boone was there to call that guy who removed the dogbane a “Ding Dong!”
"You ding dong!" LOL! #TheLastDinosaur
I think this film illustrates over and over that you're gonna want that dogbane.
@@MatthewBLamont
It's opening song is far more catchy than it has any right to be.
Chris thinks that's a 700 year-old corpse? Heck, I'm pretty sure they didn't have false eyelashes 700 years ago.
And even they had modern embalming techniques 700 years ago, I don't think she'd look anywhere near that good.
Most of your videos are perfect length for a poop break. I appreciate that. Keeps me off social media, making me a MUCH happier person!
John Holmes: Vampire Hunter
I think you really mean JOHNNY WAD, VAMPIRE HUNTER.
Would be a different way to ' impale ' the vampire
Been absent awhile. Nice selection to find awaiting me. Cheers.
The islanders expecting Mr Skeptical to do the dogsbane thing is a bit of an oversight as well.
I've not seen the film but they seem pretty lazy given how concerned they're supposed to be!
@@andrewgwilliam4831 Do this or we will all die! Or not, it's up to you really, whatever...
Oh Chris, you wally! You've only gone and moved the bloody dogsbane!
Robin, can you review every film ever please? That would be a sheer delight!
We're working on it.
@@DarkCornersReviews ooh. That means Yokai Monsters will get a review! How is that one not a cult classic?
Now we know what happened to the archeologist Andrew Prine played in that Kolchak the Night Stalker episode he went on to face Hannah Queen of the vampires.
There are more vampires brought back by people tossing away herbs (garlic, dogbane) than you might suppose
1:38 looks like Barbara Steele's streghe alter ego in ''Black Sunday''
If he's having a bad day don't let him near any spas.
I've just realised I've seen this, yet can't remember a single thing about it.
Same hear! Saw it 30 years ago on one of those Late, LATE Movie Shows... & all I really remember is the blind dude screaming instructions at the beach!
So I said, what about, Queen Of The Vampires
And he said, I think, I remember that film
And as I recall, I think, we both kinda can't remember anything about it
And I said, well that's something we've got...
@@ian_b Now that I think of it... I do remember the scene where she sang 'FULL Moon River'!
Sounds like a Pascal’s Wager - go on, stake her - what have you got to loose?
Waiting patiently for the sinful Dwarf review it would be awesome...
Do you mean the movie THE SINFUL DWARF from 1973? Though I've never seen it, the title alone makes me wanna watch it. Remember that song from the early Eighties--"Sex Dwarf" by Soft Cell? That's what this title evokes, for me anyway. But it also puts me in mind of---yikes!--Roman Polanski.
@@ashleys9397 lol its the 1973 movie. Do you recall a band named Elf with Ronnie James Dio. I hope he does a review on this.
Honestly, I was thinking this looked at least okay until you shared just how much they gave away at the beginning of the movie.
I love these, they've made a lockdown much more bearable. This guy has put in a lot of effort researching them, some of it must of been painful to watch. 😅
Now, I'd love a really good review of the original 2 part Salems Lot with David Soul. Not the movie they trainsmashed together of it, that was crap and lots was edited out
That 2 part series was brilliant and massively influential.
I have only seen 1 or 2 movies that he has reviewed that I saw the review. Some of the important information was incorrect.
Does anyone think that lately Robin was replaced by his Mirror Universe counterpart?
The one where he grew the beard? I think that means that we're all in that mirror universe too, otherwise we'd be remarking on how much he looks the same.
It was bound to happen eventually 😄
Your channel is awesome! You are worthy of many more subs, lets get those numbers up.
Thanks Boris!
Loved you in The BodySnatcher!
Use the dogbane to keep this film permanently buried.
Robin what's your next book going to be about? You've done The Invisible Man, Mummies, Werewolves, and Vampires. Leaves you only two Classic Universal Monsters left ; Frankenstein and Creature From The Black Lagoon.
It will be the Golem, which is not Universal but feels like it belongs in the same world.
@@robinbailes5236 Have you seen a Universal film from 1943 called NIGHT MONSTER? That would be something to look into.
Aparently, the "creators" didn't watch afternoon television for they would have known that when Willie Loomis unleashes Barnabas Collins on Collinsport, ME, a charming version of hell breaks out for a few years.
Your channel is awesome, thanks for all these great videos and please keep doing what you’re doing
Seems we have another film to add to the list of "_______ Of The Living Dead" titles. I think that list is way ahead of "_______ Of The Walking Dead", but it will still need some catching up to match the "Don't _______ The _______" list of titles. Also, I always enjoy Andrew Prine showing up in these films with his Texan accent. A bit of Americana in the world of European horror.
As for films that should be less (or more) serious than they are, I do think that Roger Corman's "Creature From The Haunted Sea" (1961) was too funny for its own good. The premise of a fake monster plot being foiled by a real monster is a good premise. The film didn't need to oversell its goofiness. Anthology horror films also seem to run into this problem when they have one of their stories being the "funny one", while the others are serious. Both "Dead Of Night" (1945) and "XX" (2017) have this problem.
Right, the competitive golfers bit, in such a great movie. The last story in the House That Dripped Blood was a bit goofy but I love it.
Totally agree on your Corman pick btw, just awful, but I'll let it slide cuz he more than made up for it in the 60s!
@@alienmindwarp3455 I agree. Corman really hit his stride in the 1960's, giving us some of the best genre films of the decade.
@@RavenHouseMystery total classics! I would love to see a serious renaissance of those style of horror films, no tongue in cheek laughs, just well done period gothic horror with lavish style, but it wouldn't sell lol
@1:05 Ah, yes. Now I remember seeing it!
The guy with the mustache was Andrew Prine, who did a great job as evil reptilian alien Steven in 1983's "V" and 1984's "V: The Final Battle." Unlike this crap though, the two "V" miniseries are actually good and worth watching.
Also played Nick Stokes' father in the CSI season 5 finale, "Grave Danger."
OMG, “V”! I thought he looked familiar 😄
Yes!!! "V" that's where I know him from.
That's him👍
Yes ! Lizard Steve !! 🦎
Andrew Prine was very interesting in "Simon, King of the Witches". However, he appeared in some horrible horror flicks too, like "Barn of the Naked Dead".
"Beyond the door" (1974) was riding the Exorcist's coat tails. It tried to be serious but the fact that Britains darling Juliet Mills plays the possessed lead (very much out of character) and the fact that the kids voices were dubbed and dubbed badly. Made this one just plain silly IMO.
The dubbing on those kids had me in stitches! But the movie is incoherent crap!
@@ashleys9397 Oh thanks! I'll have to look that one up. You had me at Mario Bava.
My mom was friends with Patty Shepard(Mary) their fathers were in the Airforce stationed at Donaldson Air force base in Greenville, SC...
Feel like every time I turn around lately I'm seeking some movie with Andrew Prine in it. Last night it was Grizzly.
I saw that in the theater when I was 11, Scared the crap outta me! Sharks in the water and killer bears on land! I just wasn't safe lol
If you like Mr. Prine you should check him out in a 1974 exploiter titled TERROR CIRCUS. It was originally released under the title--now get this---BARN OF THE NAKED DEAD (!). And more than a few genre buffs will remember him in the title role of SIMON KING OF THE WITCHES. If you're really motivated you might try to track down a 1979 made for TV thriller titled MIND OVER MURDER, where he plays a serial killer. Yeah he's a really good actor---and a very versatile one as well.
John Holmes starred in a horror movie?
That's what i thought 😄👍
A possibly good comeback line flashed in my head---but, nawwww, I best keep this one to myself. People's sensitivities and all that.
I'm just impressed by John Holmes' acting chops.
What I still don't understand is who took a look at Andrew Prine and thought he'd be perfect for a PLAYGIRL photo spread?
Think it was difficult to find (famous) guys willing to pose
This is purely speculation on my part---but perhaps Prine's close friend (& he was) John Wayne heartily recommended his pal Andrew for the shoot.
The original Gamera is fun when it could have been serious and serious when it could have been fun.
I don't know how exactly to describe it... it's like if Gojira and Godzilla's Revenge were the same movie.
I know exactly how to describe it.
The man talking about Dog bane sounds like Mike from Mst3k.
"End of Days" is a movie where Arnold Schwarzenegger fights Satan. That premise damands it to be a silly ride in the vein of "Evil Dead 2" yet the film tries to be a serious horror film like the original "The Omen". Doesn't quite work.
I read "The Immortal Dracula" and quite enjoyed it, as I've enjoyed all the entries in the Universal Library series. Will there be more?
Can’t go wrong on a sweet cold war-era movie that relies on a hot esoteric evil woman
This looked quite interesting to begin with, with the Wickerman-ish set up. But....
Tell me John Krasinski isn't the reincarnated Andrew Prine.
Why does Andrew Prine have such a silly moustache?
It was 1973. A number of actors experimented with silly facial hair. On some, it worked and became part of their iconic looks, like Burt Reynolds, for example. For others, like Andrew Prine and Walter Koenig (whose 1973 mustache was very silly looking indeed) it didn't.
He's trying to look like john Holmes 😳
Wow I never knew this movie existed
Don't know which I like more... the movies you cover that I'm familiar with, OR the ones I'm not! Are you planning anymore Live Shows???
Next time we meet up will go live yes.
This was a movie I eventually watched and fast forward.
I, Frankenstein was like a very sincere and solemn 15-year-old Vampire player. I wanted to pat the film on the head as I grinned.
I like the extra crispy Hannah too 😆
Missing only some Sweet Baby Ray's...
" Archaeologist having a bad day "
Indiana Jones in every film's
What kind of jerk would remove the dogbane?
Is that john f***ing Holmes?
this is most interesting because my copy is in black and white
curious...
The Mill Creek dvd is b&w. There's color versions stream-able.
@@pewsterbaby thnx \m/
Do you like any horror songs? Blue Oyster Cult has a few vampire songs: I love the Night and Nosferatu being great songs: th-cam.com/video/WwskAqJAxgo/w-d-xo.html
How about horror host John Zacherley's Fifties novelty hit "Dinner with Drac"?
My answer to your question is a TV episode, but it fits your remit. I recently rewatched a 2006 episode of "Doctor Who" called "New Earth" which is set in a hospital (in the future and on another planet) which is extremely successful at treating people, but which turns out to be doing so by using clones that each have every disease imaginable inflicted upon them. Unsurprisingly those clones, kept in secret, go through a truly horrifying living hell before being disposed of. This would make for some deeply disturbing television and potentially an interesting ethical debate, if it wasn't for the fact that the main purpose of the episode is unrelated comedy. It's not presented as a tonal shift, or purposeful juxtaposition, it's a completely baffling stapling together of things that shouldn't form parts of the same story. Ugh!
Was Edward Woodward référence to Ed Wood?
No, to The Wicker Man which opens similarly with the outsider arriving by boat on the remote island.
You're gonna want that dogbane....
Is it weird that it REALLY annoys me that that's not even remotely what dogsbane looks like?
I don’t understand how anybody managed to take Night of the Lepus,a movie about giant killer bunny rabbits,seriously.That’s an example of a movie being treated seriously when it should’ve been comedic.As for horror movies that were funny when they would have been better served,I believe,if they were serious,Fangoria Films third movie Children of the Night with Karen Black and Ami Dolenz seemed to me to have entirely too silly a tone.
Year of the Angry Rabbit (The book Lepus was based on) was actually a satire.
@@markditoro8836 with a title like that,I hope it was a satire!Thanks for that information.
looking at the thumbnail, I was wondering if we could get a special on 'Movies posters far more interesting than the movies themselves', but I'm guessing you guys don't want to do a 13,666,734 minute long youtube video.
Right? What’s with the werewolves? Did the producers wish they had included a few in the movie? 😄
Hannah turns into a wolf instead of a bat in this one.
5:40 In Salem's Lot too.
When will you review "The Fear''(1995)
(with a wooden articulate life size dummy that looks like Robin Williams in ''The Bicentennial Man'')
and ''Night Killer''(1990)
(with a rubber mask that would scare the nightmares out of Freddy Krueger himself !) ?
1:58 I thought it should be wolfsbane
Please rewiew "The new barbarians" and "sakura killers".
DO CALVAIRE!!!
Is that John Holmes?
Love this channel! :)
Andrew Prine is a great actor here and every project. Patty Shepard and Mark Damon are also legendary actors in this turd.
Well, it looks like they got the kids right, at least.
Hopes your feeling alright Robin, your accent is going between British and some odd accent which I'm unsure of. Anyone picked that up also
Don't think I've seen this one. The Giant claw would be a good review movie. Plus the incredible shrinking man!
Robin did review The Giant Claw many moons ago. I tried posting a link, but YT keeps deleting my comment ☹️
@@Gappasaurus ok' thank you.
Here you go th-cam.com/video/eHh_gn4xVsU/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for that! And a great review as well!
Is that John Holmes
Andrew Prine?
That was a film all right.
Hello there dark corners review
There's another b movie you should review
The killings at outpost zeta
And laboratory them two films where made by the same people
But to honest u really found them enjoyable 👹👹👹👹👹👹👺
Great movie.
Well emos answers in vampire movies I've ever seen
I said it before and I'll say it again; DC Reviews is a far better heir to MST3K than the MST3K reboot is.
Maybe if they replaced Jonah with Robin...
In my mind Rifftrax is the best successor. All of the new MST, and even Cinematic Titanic, all feel kinda “flat” in a way 😕 I think it’s Joel’s overly-dry style. I’ve always been a Mike fan 😁
@@Gappasaurus I agree Rifftrax is the best. Mike, Bill, and Kevin are Hilarious. That's one of the things I've missed since the pandemic started... going to the live shows in theaters.
Another attempt to rip off Hammer Films that fell flat on its face, sank into the mud and let out a big nasty fart before sinking below the surface. Is there a large group of blind film editors that I've never been told about? There has to be for all the movies out there look like nobody watched them before sending them out to theaters.
A serious film that turned out silly, the all time classic, PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE. Ed promised a Science Fiction Thriller, what we got was a comedy that keeps on giving.
But in the end, it gave the best lesson in film making ; it easy to look stupid when you don't know what you're doing
If they ever do a "reboot" of this movie, I won't be surprised upon hearing Queen's Killer Queen playing in the background while they show the opening credits.
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It drives me absolutely crazy when writers purposely write a scene/movie so that there is always some issue that could literally be solved by one word or action.
There were so many instances in "Captain America: Civil War" where Bucky, Cap and Stark could have solved each problem just by talking to each other. I know it sounds cliche', but Cap could have told Stark "Bucky was controlled by Hydra" and I'm sure Stark would have understood... but no, can't do that, gotta pad out that two hours somehow.
Not the best example, I know, but it's what I could think of off the top of my head.
Is that John Holmes???????😂
Yes and he has no need for a stake if you know what I mean.
🧛
2:20 someone trying to be funny here !