Welcome to BlogHub: the Best in Veteran and Emerging Classic Movie Blogs
You can rate and share your favorite classic movie posts here.
You can rate and share your favorite classic movie posts here.
OTR Tuesday – The Price of Fear (1970s)
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Apr 10, 2018
The short intro: For those who are unfamiliar with the concept, Old Time Radio is the phrase generally used to refer to the time when radio was (mostly) live, and was full of a variety of different shows, as opposed to simply being a means for record labels to use robots to promote the top records o read more
Film Noir Review: Journey into Fear (1943)
Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Danilo Castro on Jan 28, 2018
“Oh, by the way, have you a gun in your luggage?” The public’s fascination with Orson Welles continues to grow in stature over the years, much like the man’s waistline in his older age. This is partly by design. From groundbreaking visionary and celebrity washout to bohemian poet read more
Cape Fear (1962)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Sep 12, 2017
Cape Fear
Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Written by James R. Webb from a novel by John D. MacDonald
1962/USA
Melville Productions/Talbot Productions
Repeat viewing/Netflix rental Mitchum’s Max Cady is scarier than any monster. Max Cady has just been released from eight years in person for assault read more
Scream of Fear (1961)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Jun 21, 2017
Scream of Fear Directed by Seth Holt Written by Jimmy Sangster 1961/UK Hammer Films First viewing/Netflix rental Hammer Picture goes into Hitchcock and Clouzot territory with this psychological thriller. The film does not near the level of the masters but is interesting and worth seeing. Paraple read more
Journey into Fear (1965)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jan 25, 2017
vt Burn Out
Canada / 95 minutes / color / New World, IFD Dir: Daniel Mann Pr & Scr: Trevor Wallace Story: Journey into Fear (1940) by Eric Ambler Cine: Harry Waxman Cast: Sam Waterston, Zero Mostel, Yvette Mimieux, Scott Marlowe, Ian McShane, Joseph Wiseman, Shelley Winters, Stanley Holloway, Do read more
Journey Into Fear (1943, Norman Foster)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Dec 5, 2016
Journey Into Fear has a number of insignificant problems, a couple significant ones, and one major one. The major one is Foster’s direction. It’s not bad, it makes good use of the sets, it even uses some of the supporting cast well, but it’s not frightening, it’s not exciting. Journey Into Fear, read more
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on May 12, 2016
Werner Rainer Fassbinder is one of those artists known for his tumultuous personal and political life, and yet with all the dialogue swirling around his backstory and untimely death, there is no doubt that he sent a charge through the film community that is still being acknowledged today. The New Ge read more
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on May 12, 2016
Werner Rainer Fassbinder is one of those artists known for his tumultuous personal and political life, and yet with all the dialogue swirling around his backstory and untimely death, there is no doubt that he sent a charge through the film community that is still being acknowledged today. The New Ge read more
Reblog: RIDLEY SCOTT’S ‘BLADE RUNNER’ “It’s painful living in fear, isn’t it?”
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Mar 31, 2016
++Over at Wonders in the Dark, James Clark has posted an admirable piece on what’s likely my (and everyone else’s?) piece of science-fiction noir. With Jim’s kind permission, I’m reblogging it here. Wonders in the Dark © 2016 by James Clark Blade Runner (1982) read more
I Live in Fear (1955)
Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on Feb 21, 2016
I Live in Fear (Ikimono no kiroku) (AKA “Record of a Living Being”)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Written by Shinobu Hashimori and Hideo Iguni; story by Akira Kurosawa and Fumio Hayasaka
1955/Japan
Tojo Company
First viewing/Netflix rental This has an intriguing premise and Toshir read more
Sands of the Kalahari: Fear Not the Baboons
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Jan 14, 2016
These aren't Bette Davis eyes.
1965 was a banner year for well-made survivalist adventures. Two of the best-known examples of that subgenre--The Flight of the Phoenix and The Naked Prey--were released that year. A third representative, the lesser-know Sands of the Kalahari, hit theaters a read more
Val Lewton: His Brand of Fear
Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by minooallen on Oct 29, 2015
Val Lewton His Brand of Fear In the magical world of movie making, it’s the director that usually gets all the creative glory. Heck, there’s even a popular notion in film criticism called the auteur theory that rests on that very idea. And while, yes, the director is often the most important creati read more
Scream of Fear (1961) with Susan Strasberg and Ronald Lewis
Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on Sep 24, 2015
Share This! “I can watch people’s eyes, and they can’t see mine.” — Penny Appleby’s (Susan Strasberg) explanation as to why she wears sunglasses Although founded in 1934, the most representative of the Hammer horror films are those made between the mid-1950s and the 1970s—excesses of blood, read more
Katharine Hepburn Faces Fear and Fame in MORNING GLORY (1933) Recently updated !
Margaret Perry Posted by Margaret Perry on Apr 29, 2015
“Youth has its hour of glory, but too often it is only a morning glory, the flower that fades before the sun if very high.” (from MORNING GLORY (1933)) “No other star has emerged with greater rapidity or with more ecstatic acclaim. No other star, either, has become so unpopular so quickly for read more
“The Peak of Fear” – Here’s The New Trailer For Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Feb 24, 2015
Ever since it was announced, I’ve said that Guillermo del Toro would be my fantasy director for the upcoming Dr. Strange movie because I think he is the person most likely to be able to bring the other-worldliness necessary to really depict the Sorcerer Supreme’s adventures. Obviously, t read more
Day 28 of Noirvember: Dames Off the Beaten Path — Irene Neves in Sudden Fear (1952)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 28, 2014
Everybody knows about those larger-than-life femme fatales in those famous, blockbuster noirs: dames like Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity. Kathie Moffat in Out of the Past. Kitty Collins in The Killers. Cora Smith in The Postman Always Rings Twice. Sure, we’re all familiar with these twisted read more
Ministry of Fear (1944)
Random Pictures Posted by Amy on Oct 22, 2014
After the first couple of paragraphs, this post is pretty much nothing but spoilers. Ye’ve been warned. During the 30s and early 40s, Austrian-exile Fritz Lang wanted to make not just anti-fascist pictures, but anti-Nazi pictures. In the American studios where Lang began making movies in 1936, this read more
Ministry of Fear (1944)
Random Pictures Posted by Amy on Oct 22, 2014
After the first couple of paragraphs, this post is pretty much nothing but spoilers. Ye’ve been warned. During the 30s and early 40s, Austrian-exile Fritz Lang wanted to make not just anti-fascist pictures, but anti-Nazi pictures. In the American studios where Lang began making movies in 1936, this read more
The House of Fear (1945) with Basil Rathbone
Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on Oct 16, 2014
Share This!DEATH STALKS ITS HALLS! Horror seeps from its walls! The House of Fear(1945) is the tenth in the series of fourteen Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. The first two (1939) are from 20th Century-Fox, a first-class studio which, while most movies and plays had read more
