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Take a peek into the "real life" Black Museum at Scotland Yard with HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM (1959), from director Arthur Crabtree and starring Michael Gough!

Filmed in *hypnovista,* this unique British/American production showcases sadism and true crime instead of something supernatural.

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 25:28; Discussion 39:23; Ranking 54:02

[mariocki]

Trog (1970)

"You know what they'll say? They'll say that Trog has a very nasty temper. But what can you expect from a slimy beast? Go ahead, 'missing link' - if that's what you are, you should be missing. You bloody monster!"

[travsd]

Illuminating Aben Kandel

Romanian born Aben Kandel (1897-1993) was many things over his long career: a boxer, a fiction writer, playwright and screenwriter. The fact that the first of his half dozen novels was called Vaudeville (1927) leads me to suspect he had some experience there as well. And, he had studied at NYU Law School besides. Kandel first experienced success with the 1931 Broadway show The Wonder Bar, a…

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KONGA (1961) – Episode 169 – Decades Of Horror: The Classic Era

“Fantastic… there’s a huge monster gorilla that’s constantly growing to outlandish proportions loose in the streets!” Outlandish proportions, you say? Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Chad Hunt, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, Doc Rotten, and Jeff Mohr – as they measure just how outlandish those proportions are in Konga (1961)!

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 169 – Konga (1961)

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 Dr. Decker returns from Africa after being presumed dead for a year. During that time, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to test his theory and decides to use his growing chimp, Konga, to rid himself of his many enemies. Quickly, Konga grows to gigantic proportions and wreaks havoc on London!

  Director: John Lemont

Writer: Aben Kandel, Herman Cohen

Movie Poster Art: Reynold Brown (uncredited)

Selected Cast:

Michael Gough as Dr. Charles Decker

Margo Johns as Margaret

Jess Conrad as Bob Kenton

Claire Gordon as Sandra Banks

Austin Trevor as Dean Foster

Jack Watson as Superintendent Brown

George Pastell as Professor Tagore

Vanda Godsell as Bob’s Mother

Stanley Morgan as Inspector Lawson

Grace Arnold as Miss Barnesdell

Leonard Sachs as Bob’s Father

Nicholas Bennett as Daniel

Kim Tracy as Mary

Rupert Osborne as Eric

Waveney Lee as Janet

John Welsh as Commissioner Garland

Paul Stockman as Konga (uncredited)

Are you ready for the UK successor to King Kong? Are you ready for Michael Gough as a mad scientist pining over a young student while his jealous fiancé/assistant sabotages his life’s work? Are you ready for a young chimpanzee miraculously transforming into a giant building-sized gorilla? Are you ready for I Was A Teenage Gorilla … wait, no … Konga? Ah, bad movies. You gotta love ’em.

At the time of this writing, Konga is available for streaming from Amazon Prime and MGM+, and on physical media as a Blu-ray from Kino Lorber.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror: The Classic Era records a new episode every two weeks. Up next in their very flexible schedule, as chosen by Chad, is Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966)! Yippee-ki-yay! Pew! Pew! Pew-pew-pew! They can’t wait!

Please let them know how they’re doing! They want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: leave them a message or leave a comment on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel, the site, or email the Decades of Horror: The Classic Era podcast hosts at feedback@gruesomemagazine.com

Check out this episode!

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HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER An early meta horror movie - free online

‘It will scare the living yell out of you!’ How to Make a Monster is a 1958 horror film about a sacked make-up artist who uses his creations to exact revenge. Directed by Herbert L. Strock (The Crawling Hand; Blood of Dracula; I Was a Teenage Frankenstein) from a screenplay written by Aben Kandel (as Kenneth Langtry) and producer Herman Cohen. How to Make a Monster is a follow-up to I Was a…

[brokehorrorfan]

Scream Factory has revealed the specs for its Trog Blu-ray, which releases on December 21. The 1970 British science fiction horror film marks star Joan Crawford’s final film.

Freddie Francis (Tales from the Crypt, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave) directs from a script by Aben Kandel (Berserk, Konga). Michael Gough, Bernard Kay, Kim Braden, and David Griffin round out the cast.

Trog has been newly scanned in 2K from the interpositive. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by film historian David Del Valle (new)

Primitive Thrills - Film historian Kim Newman on Trog (new)

Trailers From Hell - Mick Garris on Trog

Theatrical trailer

Radio spot

Photo gallery

People call him Trog, short for a prehistoric cave dweller known as the troglodyte. To a determined anthropologist (Joan Crawford), he’s the scientific discovery of the age. To others, he’s walking death. A grocer is impaled on a meat hook, a car is tossed aside like a twig, a child is kidnapped – all after local resident Sam Murdock (Michael Gough) prods the brute into a blind rampage. In true horror tradition, the world’s Murdocks leave no doubt who the real savages are … but what will become of he who is part-man, part-monster, all Trog!

Pre-order Trog.

[classicfilmfan64]

Joan and Bette Davis both took any and all acting jobs, that paid, later in their careers. Winning an Oscar, or Oscars does not guarantee lots of acting jobs. They both took several not so great acting gigs, in their later years. After this film, Joan would only appear in 1 more theatrical film, 'TROG', and 5 TV series, 'The Lucy Show','The Secret Storm', 'Night Gallery', 'The Virginian', and 'The Sixth Sense', before she retired completely and died, at age 73, in 1977.

 This is not one of her best films. 'A Horror-tinted whodunnit with a carnival setting. Berserk! is a 1967 British horror-thriller film starring Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin, Diana Dors and Judy Geeson in a macabre mother-daughter tale about a circus plagued with murders. The screenplay was written by Herman Cohen and Aben Kandel, and the film directed by Jim O'Connolly. Berserk! marks Crawford's second-to-last big-screen appearance.'

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The Cinema Film Of The Week - Konga

Directed By John Lemont

Story By Herman Cohen and Aben Kandel

Starring Michael Gough, Margo Johns, and Jess Conrad

Music By Gerard Schurmann

Distributed By Anglo Amalgamated and American International Pictures

Release Date May 03, 1961 (United States)

Country United Kingdom and United States

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Trog

Trog Trog – Película británica de terror de ciencia ficción, dirigida por Freddie Francis y protagonizada por Joan Crawford en una historia sobre el descubrimiento de un troglodita en el Reino Unido del siglo XX. El guion fue escrito por Peter Bryan, John Gilling y Aben Kandel . Trog marca la última aparición cinematográfica de Crawford. SIPNOSIS La antropóloga Dra. Brockton desentierra a un…

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For just $3.99 Time Table Released on February 8, 1956: An insurance investigator pulls of the perfect robbery . . . almost. Directed by: Mark Stevens Written by: Robert Angus and Aben Kandel The Actors: Mark Stevens Charlie Norman, King Calder Joe Armstrong, Feliia Farr Linda Brucker, Marianne Stewart Ruth Norman, Wesley Addy Doctor Paul Brucker, aka Doctor Sloan, Alan Reed Al Wolfe, Rudolfo Hoyos Jr. Lieutenant Castro, Jack Klugman Frankie Page, John Marley Bobik, Robert Anderson Sheriff Jack, of Winston, Raymond Bailey Sam Hendricks, Roy Glenn train porter, John Maxwell train conductor Bill Runtime: 1h 20m *** This item will be supplied on a quality disc and will be sent in a sleeve that is designed for posting CD's DVDs *** This item will be sent by 1st class post for quick delivery. Should you not receive your item within 12 working days of making payment, please contact us as it is unusual for any item to take this long to be delivered. Note: All my products are either my own work, licensed to me directly or supplied to me under a GPL/GNU License. No Trademarks, copyrights or rules have been violated by this item. This product complies withs rules on compilations, international media and downloadable media. All items are supplied on CD or DVD.

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From the studio that brought teens into horror comes HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER (1958), our first meta horror movie!

Written by the team Herman Cohen and Aben Kandel, the film stars Robert Harris as a Jack Pierce/Paul Blaisdel stand-in, making this meta movie practically made for fans of old school horror!

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 23:19; Discussion 32:47; Ranking 47:04

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THE REPTILE (1966) – Episode 168 – Decades Of Horror: The Classic Era

“This has become an evil place. Corrupt and evil. Ignorant fools! Peasants! … Oh. Good evening sir. Ever so sorry ma’am. Beg your pardon.” So corrupt evil, ignorant, … and polite? Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Chad Hunt, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, Doc Rotten, and Jeff Mohr – as they dip again into the Hammer well with The Reptile (1966)!

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 168 – The Reptile (1966)

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ANNOUNCEMENT Decades of Horror The Classic Era is partnering with THE CLASSIC SCI-FI MOVIE CHANNEL, THE CLASSIC HORROR MOVIE CHANNEL, and WICKED HORROR TV CHANNEL Which all now include video episodes of The Classic Era! Available on Roku, AppleTV, Amazon FireTV, AndroidTV, Online Website. Across All OTT platforms, as well as mobile, tablet, and desktop. https://classicscifichannel.com/; https://classichorrorchannel.com/; https://wickedhorrortv.com/

Harry Spalding and his wife Valerie inherit a cottage in a small country village after his brother mysteriously dies. The locals are unfriendly and his neighbor Dr. Franklyn (a doctor of theology) suggests they leave. They decide to stay only to find that a mysterious evil plagues the community.

  Director: John Gilling

Writer: Anthony Hinds (screenplay) (as John Elder)

Music by: Don Banks

Cinematography by: Arthur Grant (director of photography)

Editing by: Roy Hyde

Production Design by: Bernard Robinson

Art Direction by: Don Mingaye

Makeup Department: Roy Ashton (makeup artist); Frieda Steiger (hair stylist)

Selected Cast:

Noel Willman as Dr. Franklyn

Jennifer Daniel as Valerie Spalding

Ray Barrett as Harry George Spalding

Jacqueline Pearce as Anna Franklyn

Michael Ripper as Tom Bailey

John Laurie as Mad Peter

Marne Maitland as The Malay

David Baron as Charles Edward Spalding

Charles Lloyd Pack as The Vicar

Harold Goldblatt as The Solicitor

George Woodbridge as Old Garnsey

The Classic Era podcast returns to Hammer for another monster movie gem. This is one of their far too infrequent original creations, The Reptile (1966), directed by John Gilling from an Anthony Hinds (writing as John Elder) script. The film features a stellar cast that includes Noel Willman, Jennifer Daniel, Ray Barrett, Michael Ripper, John Laurie, Marne Maitlan, and Jacqueline Pearce as the titular character. Shot at the same time as Dracula: Prince of Darkness, The Plague of the Zombies, and Rasputin the Mad Monk – all four released in 1966 – The Reptile was featured on a double bill stateside with Rasputin: The Mad Monk. Are you a fan of The Reptile and if so, do the Grue Crew agree with you?

At the time of this writing, The Reptile is available on physical media as a Blu-ray from Scream Factory.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror: The Classic Era records a new episode every two weeks. Up next in their very flexible schedule, as chosen by Doc, is Konga (1961)! You knew when they covered Gorgo (1961) in episode 157, Konga wouldn’t be far behind. Written by Aben Kandel and Herman Cohen and starring the inimitable Michael Gough, this one should be fun!

Please let them know how they’re doing! They want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: leave them a message or leave a comment on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel, the site, or email the Decades of Horror: The Classic Era podcast hosts at feedback@gruesomemagazine.com

To each of you from each of them, “Thank you so much for watching and listening!”

Check out this episode!

[moviesandmania]

CRAZE (1974) Reviews of trashy Brit horror with Jack Palance

‘Where black magic explodes into murder!’ Craze is a 1974 British horror film about a psychotic antique dealer who sacrifices women to the statue of an African god. Directed by Freddie Francis (The Skull; The Vampire Happening; The Ghoul) from a screenplay co-written by producer Herman Cohen (Berserk; Trog; The Headless Ghost) and Aben Kandel, based on the 1967 novel The Infernal Idol by Henry…

[brokehorrorfan]

Trog will be released on Blu-ray on December 21 via Scream Factory. The 1970 British science fiction horror film marks star Joan Crawford's final film.

Freddie Francis (Tales from the Crypt, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave) directs from a script by Aben Kandel (Berserk, Konga). Michael Gough, Bernard Kay, Kim Braden, and David Griffin round out the cast.

Special features will be announced at a later date.

People call him Trog, short for a prehistoric cave dweller known as the troglodyte. To a determined anthropologist (Joan Crawford), he's the scientific discovery of the age. To others, he's walking death. A grocer is impaled on a meat hook, a car is tossed aside like a twig, a child is kidnapped – all after local resident Sam Murdock (Michael Gough) prods the brute into a blind rampage. In true horror tradition, the world's Murdocks leave no doubt who the real savages are ... but what will become of he who is part-man, part-monster, all Trog!