In addition to the usual reviews and comments you would find on a horror movie blog, this is also a document of the wonderfully vast horror movie section of the video store I worked at in my youth.
Showing posts with label 60's horror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 60's horror. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

June 18th Horror Trivia Watchlist.


To all those who came here from the event or the Trivia FB page, welcome! I am Jay, one half of the horror trivia quizmasters and this is my humble blog. Here's a selected list of titles mentioned at the last event. Click on the titles to be redirected to their Imdb listing. Horror Trivia Night happens at Storm Crow Manor in Toronto. If you're in the area, come on down! Register here.

Shivers (1975)
Manborg (2011) 
The Stuff (1985)

Madman (1980)

The Witch (2015)
The Menu (2022)

Shark! (1969)
Bait (2012)
Devilfish (1984)
Buried (2010)

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

May 28th Horror Trivia Watchlist


To all those who came here from the event or the Trivia FB page, welcome! I am Jay, one half of the horror trivia quizmasters and this is my humble blog. Here's a selected list of titles mentioned at the last event. Click on the titles to be redirected to their Imdb listing. Horror Trivia Night happens at Storm Crow Manor in Toronto. If you're in the area, come on down! Register here.

Deranged (1974)
Road Games (1981)
Tremors (1990)


Inside (2007)
Pearl (2022)
Rabid (1977)

Subspecies (1991)
The Gate (1987)
The Brood (1979)
Troll 2 (1990)

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Mar 26th Horror Trivia Watchlist


To all those who came here from the event or Storm Crow's FB page, welcome! I am Jay, one half of the horror trivia quizmasters and this is my humble blog. Here's a selected list of titles mentioned at the last event. Click on the titles to be redirected to their Imdb listing. Horror Trivia Night happens at Storm Crow Manor in Toronto. If you're in the area, come on down! Register here.

Starman (1984)
Dark Star (1974)
The Ward (2010)

Alligator (1980)

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Feb 26th Horror Screening Guide


To all those who came here from the event or Storm Crow's FB page, welcome! I am Jay, one half of the horror trivia quizmasters and this is my humble blog. Here's a selected list of titles mentioned at the last event. Click on the titles to be redirected to their Imdb listing. Horror Trivia Night happens at Storm Crow Manor in Toronto. If you're in the area, come on down! Register here.

Byzantium (2012)
Hard Candy (2006)
The Gift (2001)

Horror Noire (2019) 
His House (2020)
Ma (2019)
Bones (2001)

XX (2017) 

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Jan 29th Horror Trivia Screening Guide


To all those who came here from the event or Storm Crow's FB page, welcome! I am Jay, one half of the horror trivia quizmasters and this is my humble blog. Here's a selected list of titles mentioned at the last event. Click on the titles to be redirected to their Imdb listing. Horror Trivia Night happens at Storm Crow Manor in Toronto. If you're in the area, come on down! Register here.

Scanners (1981)
Eraserhead (1977)


Inside (2007)

Cat's Eye (1985)
Body Bags (1993)
Nightmares (1983)
Holidays (2016)

Monday, December 30, 2024

Dec 30th Horror Trivia Screening Guide.


To all those who came here from the event or Storm Crow's FB page, welcome! I am Jay, one half of the horror trivia quizmasters and this is my humble blog. Here's a selected list of titles mentioned at the last event. Click on the titles to be redirected to their Imdb listing. Horror Trivia Night happens at Storm Crow Manor in Toronto. If you're in the area, come on down! Register here.

Infested (2023)
Creep (2014)


Cuckoo (2024)

Howl (2015)
Wolfcop (2014)

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Oct 23rd Horror Trivia Screening Guide.


To all those who came here from the event or Storm Crow's FB page, welcome! I am Jay, one half of the horror trivia quizmasters and this is my humble blog. Here's a selected list of titles mentioned at the last event, which was a special appearance at Offworld's October pop-up Hellbar. Click on the titles to be redirected to their Imdb listing.

The Witch (2015)
Immaculate (2024)
Deathdream (1974)
Deranged (1974)

Studio 666 (2022)
Demons (1985)
Ghoulies (1984)
Hot Fuzz (2007)

Phantasm (1979)
Witchboard (1986)

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Sep 25th Horror Trivia Screening Guide


To all those who came here from the event or Storm Crow's FB page, welcome! I am Jay, one half of the horror trivia quizmasters and this is my humble blog. Here's a selected list of titles mentioned at the last event. Click on the titles to be redirected to their Imdb listing. Horror Trivia Night happens at Storm Crow Manor in Toronto. If you're in the area, come on down! Register here.

Rituals (1977)
The Forest (1982)


Pieces (1982)
Orphan (2009)

Parasite (1982)
Piranha 3D (2010)
The Mask (1961)

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

July 31st Horror Trivia Screening Guide


To all those who came here from the event or Storm Crow's FB page, welcome! I am Jay, one half of the horror trivia quizmasters and this is my humble blog. Here's the selected list of titles mentioned at the last event. Click on the titles to be redirected to their Imdb listing. Horror Trivia Night happens at Storm Crow Manor in Toronto. If you're in the area, come on down! Register here.

Prom Night (1980)
Road Games (1981)
Abigail (2024)

Frozen (2010)
Dead Snow (2009)
Demons 5 (1989)
976-Evil (1988)

Wednesday, May 29, 2024

May 29th Horror Trivia Screening Guide


To all those who came here from the event or Storm Crow's FB page, welcome! I am Jay, one half of the horror trivia quizmasters and this is my humble blog. Here's the selected list of titles mentioned at the last event. Click on the titles to be redirected to their Imdb listing.

Horror Trivia Night happens at Storm Crow Manor in Toronto. If you're in the area, come on down! Register here. If you're not local, we do occasionally stream the event on @ruemorguemag Instagram.

The Witch (2015)

Body Count (1986)
Pyewacket (2017)
The Ritual (2017)

Shakma (1990)
Stopmotion (2023)
Dead Snow (2009)
Nocturne (2020)

The Terror (1963)
Piranha (1978)

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Horror Movie Guide: The Brain That Wouldn't Die

The next film in the Guide is perhaps one of the most recognized B-movies in existence, and yet one I had never seen - Joseph Green's 1962 movie The Brain That Wouldn't Die. I, and I am sure you, at least know the iconic image of actress Virginia Leith's head in a tray hooked up to various amounts of rigging and equipment. I feel I must have seen the MST3K episode at some point, but it was so long ago now, who knows?

After his girlfriend Jan (Leith) is decapitated in a road accident, a maverick surgeon Dr. Cortner (Jason Evers) keeps her head alive using his new experimental transplant procedure.

So yes this is primarily what I expected. I find the majority of these weird curiosities of the atomic age are "come up with a good hook or title" and then just pad the rest to make it feature length. What am I saying, that is the nature of most B-movies in general, isn't it? Nevertheless, The Brain That Wouldn't Die does go back and forth between lab scenes to mostly superfluous burlesque shows and beauty pageants that the good Doctor is cruising for new subjects.

Virginia Leith as Jan in The Brain That Wouldn't Die.














As good a surgeon as Cortner must have been, he was a shit driver, as that inciting accident was totally avoidable and not even serious from what I could tell. Then I had to chuckle that Cortner's first reaction to seeing his dead girlfriend was to pick up her head and run with it. Then again, that is the inherent nature of TBTWD really. Run with it. I mean, that cat fight scene? You might as well had Jerry Lewis come in and mug to the camera.


It makes me sad that Leith - whom was actually "the Girl" in Stanley Kubrick's debut film Fear & Desire that I saw for the first time recently - had such a terrible time on this picture that she wouldn't even come back for post. That may explain the ghoulish fake head that appears in the long shots of the lab.

I have to admit that I was shocked to see boobies in a film from the early sixties, but I guess that is what Tubi meant by "uncensored". With my expectations tempered, I guess my only disappointment was that after all that talk of the abomination locked behind the door, it turned out to just be a dude in a mask -  think Richard Kiel crossed with Michael Berryman. And that ending - quite abrupt!


The Guide didn't seem to think much of it, but that is to be expected. 


Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Jan 10th Horror Trivia Screening List


To all those who came here from the event or Storm Crow's FB page, welcome! I am Jay, one half of the horror trivia quizmasters and this is my humble blog. Kicking off 2024, here's the selected list of titles mentioned at the last event. Click on the titles to be redirected to their Imdb listing.

Horror Trivia Night happens at Storm Crow Manor in Toronto. If you're in the area, come on down! Register here. If you're not local, we do occasionally stream the event on @ruemorguemag Instagram.

Duel (1971)


Unfriended (2014)

Christine (1983)

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Nov 22 Horror Trivia Screening List

To all those who came here from the event or Storm Crow's FB page, welcome! I am Jay, one half of the horror trivia quizmasters and this is my humble blog.

If you heard a title while at the last event and thought “oh that movie sounds cool, I should check that out”, here's a selection of films that were mentioned. Click on the titles to be redirected to their Imdb listing.

For everyone else, maybe there's one or two here you have yet to catch. Horror Trivia Night happens at Storm Crow Manor in Toronto. If you're in the area, come on down! Register here. If you're not local, we do often stream the event on @ruemorguemag Instagram.


Dagon (2001)
The Void (2016)

The Eye (2002)
His House (2020)

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Sep 13 Horror Trivia Screening List


To all those who came here from the event or Storm Crow's FB page, welcome! I am Jay, one half of the horror trivia quizmasters and this is my humble blog.

If you heard a title while at the last event and thought “oh that movie sounds cool, I should check that out”, here's a comprehensive list of all the films that were mentioned. Click on the titles to be redirected to their Imdb listing.

For everyone else, maybe there's one or two here you have yet to catch. Horror Trivia Night happen at Storm Crow Manor & Offworld Bar in Toronto. If you're in the area, come on down! Click those links to register your team. If you're not local, we do often stream the event on @ruemorguemag Instagram.

Cub (2014)
Insidious (2010)
Opera (2009)
Trauma (1993)
Undead (2003)
Raw (2016)

Troll 2 (1990)
Spookies (1986)
Pieces (1982)
Verotika (2019)


Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Aug 16th Horror Trivia Screening List


To all those who came here from the event or the FB page, welcome! I am Jay, one half of the horror trivia quizmasters and this is my humble blog.

If you heard a title while at the last event and thought “oh that movie sounds cool, I should check that out”, here's a comprehensive list of all the films that were mentioned. Click on the titles to be redirected to their Imdb listing.

For everyone else, maybe there's one or two here you have yet to catch. Though we were at Offworld Bar last night, Horror Trivia Night happens at Storm Crow Manor in Toronto. If you're in the area, come on down! Register here. If you're not local, we do often stream the event on @ruemorguemag Instagram.

The Thing (1982)
Talk To Me (2022)
M3GAN (2022)

Alien (1979)
Alien 3 (1992)
Splice (2009)
Lifeforce (1985)
Videodrome (1983)

Jason X (2001)
Life (2017)
Altered (2006)

Mimic (1995)
The Mist (2007)
The Fly II (1989)
Them! (1954)
Creepshow (1982)

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

July 12th Horror Trivia Screening List


To all those who came here from the event or Storm Crow's FB page, welcome! I am Jay, one half of the horror trivia quizmasters and this is my humble blog.

If you heard a title while at the last event and thought “oh that movie sounds cool, I should check that out”, here's a comprehensive list of all the films that were mentioned. Click on the titles to be redirected to their Imdb listing.

For everyone else, maybe there's one or two here you have yet to catch. Horror Trivia Night happens at Storm Crow Manor in Toronto. If you're in the area, come on down! Register here. If you're not local, we do often stream the event on @ruemorguemag Instagram.

Scream VI (2023)
Crawl (2019)
Rogue (2007)

Videodrome (1983)
Jason X (2001)
Mimic (1997)
Wrong Turn (2003)

Black Swan (2010)

Nosferatu (1922)
Martin (1977)
Cronos (1992)
The Hunger (1983)

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

June 28th Horror Trivia Screening List


To all those who came here from the event or Storm Crow's FB page, welcome! I am Jay, one half of the horror trivia quizmasters and this is my humble blog.

If you heard a title while at the last event and thought “oh that movie sounds cool, I should check that out”, here's a comprehensive list of all the films that were mentioned. Click on the titles to be redirected to their Imdb listing.

For everyone else, maybe there's one or two here you have yet to catch. Horror Trivia Night happens at Storm Crow Manor in Toronto. If you're in the area, come on down! Register here. If you're not local, we do often stream the event on @ruemorguemag Instagram.

The Thing (1982)
Zombie (1979)


Dead Alive (1992)
Nightmares (1983)
Madman (1981)

The Mask (1961)
Prom Night (1980)
Deathdream (1974)
The Editor (2014)
Cube (1997)

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

June 14th Horror Trivia Screening List.


To all those who came here from the Storm Crow FB page, welcome! I am Jay, one half of the horror trivia quizmasters and this is my humble blog.

If you heard a title while at the last event and thought “oh that movie sounds cool, I should check that out”, here's a comprehensive list of all the films that were mentioned. Click on the titles to be redirected to their Imdb listing.

For everyone else, maybe there's one or two here you have yet to catch. Horror Trivia Night happens at Storm Crow Manor in Toronto. If you're in the area, come on down! Register here. If you're not local, we do often stream the event on @ruemorguemag Instagram.

Cujo (1983)
Martyrs (2008)
Frontiers (2007)
Inside (2007)
High Tension (2003).
Intruder (1989)
Body Bags (1993)

Grizzly (1976)
Prophecy (1979)
Berserker (1987)
The Edge (1997)

Lake Mungo (2008)
X (2022)
The Witch (2015)

Thursday, February 23, 2023

Feb 2023 Horror Trivia Screening List


To all those who came here from the Storm Crow FB page, welcome! I am Jay, one half of the horror trivia quizmasters and this is my humble blog.

If you heard a title while at the February event and thought “oh that movie sounds cool, I should check that out”, here's a comprehensive list of all the films that were mentioned.

For everyone else, maybe there's one or two here you have yet to catch. Horror Trivia Night happens the last Wednesday of every month at Storm Crow Manor in Toronto. If you're in the area, come on down! Register here. If you're not local, we do often stream the event on the @ruemorguemag Insta.

The Invisible Man(2020) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1051906/
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre(1974) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072271/ 
The Hills Have Eyes(1977) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077681/ 
The Blair Witch Project(1999) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185937/
Let the Right One In(2008) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139797/ 

My Bloody Valentine(1981) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082782/ 
My Bloody Valentine 3D(2009) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179891/ 
Tales from the Crypt(1972) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069341/ 



Thursday, January 30, 2020

Stanley Visits the Severin Cellar.

Here's a fantastic video I just want to make sure you've all seen. Batshit director Richard Stanley visited the Severin cellar and picked out some of his favourite films.



I love this guy, man. Having shared the same air with him on a few occasions at festivals over the years, I really can say that he is one of a kind. It's such a coincidence that I just saw Viy at a Cinemacabre screening earlier this month. You should check out his choices if you haven't seen them because they truly are a wonderful cross section of world cinema.