Day 14: Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
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Day 14: Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

It's Day 14 of this year's 31 Days of Horror, and we're talking about Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte from 1964!! If you're a listener of our podcast, then you'll recall we've done an episode over Bette Davis (who is the star of this movie) and an episode over Hag Horror (which is the genre of this movie). Both of those episodes were picked by Kelley, so she's clearly a fan. She also didn't pick this movie as her "good" choice for that Hag Horror episode; instead, she chose What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, which is quite surprising to me because…
Day 13: House of Usher (1960)
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Day 13: House of Usher (1960)

Day 13 begins our discussion on horror films of the 1960s, and we're kicking things off with Roger Corman's House of Usher. The movie is based on the grim, gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe, and said story is hella bleak. Fittingly, it stars camp horror legend Vincent Price (House of Wax, The House on Haunted Hill), with whom you are familiar even if you think you're not. Don't believe me? Listen to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" again. That creepy, gravelly voice doing the narration and maniacal laugh at the end belongs to none other than Mr. Price! Here's the thing about House of Usher, though: it somehow…
Day 12: Tarantula (1955)
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Day 12: Tarantula (1955)

It's Day 12 today, and we're closing out the 1950s! I admit that after reviewing the less-than-stellar It Came From Outer Space on Monday, I watched 1955's Tarantula with a slight trepidation. I had begun thinking that maybe Creature Features just weren't up my alley, but thankfully, I enjoyed today's film about 100 times more. There is still a certain B-movie feel to it (the premise is that a gigantic tarantula is terrorizing the town, after all), but for the most part it succeeds where many other monster movies of this era fail. It doesn't go over the top with kooky, animatronic creatures and silly…