Dr. Gangrene keeps the 2023 Halloween Countdown going with a look at the 1993 creepy crawly flick, TICKS.
Dr. Gangrene's Cinetarium airs Saturday Nights at 9pm central on Nashville NECAT Arts CH9. It is also simulcast on the NECAT Roku channel (search for Necat). Or click to watch below.
Dr. Gangrene keeps the 2023 Halloween Countdown going with a look at the 1993 creepy crawly flick, TICKS.
Dr. Gangrene kicks off the 2023 Halloween countdown! This year's theme is Creepy Crawlies, movies featuring critters that creep, and crawl, and slither and slime. Nature attacks in the lab all October - tune in every day for the Halloween Countdown. Day 1 takes a look at the 1988 flick SLUGS.
This week we're getting witchy in the Cinetarium with Barbara Steele and The She Beast.
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You're just in time for your weekly horror checkup - and tonight's recommended horror therapy is Count Dracula and his Vampire Bride, aka The Satanic Rites of Dracula. Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing go at it again as adversaries, as Van Helsing again tries to stop the evil Count Dracula and his plot to destroy mankind.
This week some great news was announced - the return of Amicus Studios!
Independent producer/director Lawrie Brewster officially made this announcement this week. Best of all, it is being done in cooperation with the Milton Subotsky estate. Subotsky was one-half of the legendary Amicus studio, which he formed with his partner Max Rosenberg. They made a number of mostly horror films in the 60s and 70s, specializing in portmanteau (or anthology) films, each usually containing four or five separate stories tied together with a linking storyline running throughout the film.
I'm a HUGE Amicus fan, so this was music to my ears. In fact, anthology films are my favorite sub-genre, and several of Amicus' films are among my favorite of all-time. Here's some proof, a couple of photos of the posters in my house...
Those are all originals, and just a few of the ones I own. I even have a poster of a Subotsky film made after Amicus disbanded - The Monster Club. This is an extremely difficult poster to find, the only one I was able to locate was a Spanish poster...
So, again, I'm a fan of these films. So I was very excited to hear the good news. Lawrie had teased he wanted to make a studio that channeled Amicus, and that's why I started following him on Twitter originally. The fact they're making it official and resurrecting Amicus officially is even better!
Here's the press release below. Check it out, and give them a follow over on Twitter, and keep an eye out for more official news upcoming!
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Amicus Productions Rises from the Grave
This week's movie is a hairy one, as we take a look at the 1979 film WOLFMAN from director Earl Owensby...
We got a real killer... I mean, chiller for you tonight. The 1979 grindhouse slasher... Driller Killer!