Above: A Scene from Night of the Comet
What did I just watch? Movies beyond the Netflix queue
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
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An old man falls for a woman young enough to be his great-great-great-great grandaughter. They drink each other’s blood.
Dan Curtis’ Dracula (1974)
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The Bram Stoker adaptation that dares to include all the aimless travel sequences.
Horror of Dracula (1958)
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When an undercover librarian aggravates the neighboring aristocrat, he enfenestrates to exsanguinate.
Night of the Comet (1984)
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Valley girls survive the zombie apocalypse, but will they survive rescue?
The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (1972)
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A family curse guarantees two sisters will be at each other’s throats.
The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (1971)
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A serial-killer’s new wife is haunted by the ghost of his old one.
Blood Beat (1983)
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A midwestern family does psychic battle with a ghostly samurai while unintentionally(?) exploring toxic gender relationships.
Dark Was the Night (2014)
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Monster terrorizes a small town, but not as much as everyone's inner demons do.
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
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A better-than-the-original take on an Edgar Allan Poe classic.
The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
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This pre-code adventure movie is so shockingly racist you might find yourself pulling for the evil genius instead.
Fiend Without a Face (1958)
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Bodies are showing up with their brains and spinal columns removed; is the local military base at fault?
Cat People (1942)
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This low-budget, high-quality suspense film from 1942 blends jump scares with sexual anxiety and gender politics to create a deceptively simple movie people are still arguing about today.
The 10th Victim (1965)
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Ursula Andress and Marcello Mastroianni play a deadly game of cat and mouse except the mouse is borderline suicidal and the cat likes to make things overly complicated.
One Cut of the Dead (2017)
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The production of a zombie movie descends into chaos when real zombies show up and the director won’t stop the shoot.
Tammy and the T-Rex (1994)
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A mad scientist shoves Tammy’s boyfriend’s brain into a robot dinosaur. Can this relationship be saved?
Revenge (2017)
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After Jen is assaulted and left for dead she pulls herself together, then takes her attackers apart.
Island of Death (1976)
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This movie would be a great travel promotion for a sleepy Greek island if it wasn’t for all the blood.
Murder By Death (1976)
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A star-studded cast brings to life many classic detectives to solve the murder of Truman Capote.
Carry On Jack (1964)
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Returning to lighter topics, but with fewer of the series regulars, this Carry On relies too much on slapstick and a cross-dressing plot.
Carry On Cabby (1963)
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This unwelcome return to black-and-white features a lot of K-turns and retrograde politics.
Carry On Cruising (1962)
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Captain Crowther is looking to move on, but will his new crew sabotage his chance at glory?
Carry On Regardless (1961)
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When times are hard, you take what work you can get. And sometimes the result is a collection of loosely related comic sketches.
Carry On Nurse (1959)
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An English hospital is the setting for a loosely connected series of comic sketches.
Carry On Teacher (1959)
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The kids are rowdy and the Headmaster is looking for a way out.
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