“But the interest in the repertory never went away,” says Anastasio. “We’ve got six screens here. It used to be that once or twice a week we’d run an older film at 7 p.m. And we’ve now increased our repertory offerings so that we’re showing a...
The first of them, 1958's Macabre, insured patrons against "death by fright." Thereafter, such processes as Emergo (House on Haunted Hill, 1959), Percepto (The Tingler, 1959) and Illusion-O (13 Ghosts, 1960) promised patrons direct involvement in their movie's shocks. In 1961, Homicidal...
Here is an alphabetical listing of all the movies (so far) that have been certified as among the 366 weirdest ever made, along with links to films reviewed in capsule form only. (You may need to use your browser’s search function, often CTRL-F, to locate a specific movie). Our short...
it celebrates surprises – at least, small ones. Those little momentary shivers we sometimes feel are a result of those surprises. There’s even a term for that: ‘frisson’. Although this sensation can be connected to a startle of any kind (remember the horror movie The Tingler,…Read mor...
UnlikePsycho, moviegoers knew what to expect from Steven Spielberg’s aquatic thriller: hungry great white makes dinner out of human flesh. That didn’t make it any less terrifying. What really sets this ba-dum spine-tingler apart, though, is it marks the birth of the summer blockbuster. ...