The Spooky

[@jltrem]

I recall seeing “The Uninvited” on television in the early 60’s. Frightened the bejesus out of me.

[@terrytalksmovies]

It works really well even to a modern audience.

[@timeliebe]

I don't find THE UNINVITED "scary" as much as evocative and kind of beautiful-very like how THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR (the movie, not the television show!) affects me.

[@jltrem]

@@timeliebe I was probably 8 or 9 when I first saw it. It scared me.

[@filmwolf4078]

Hey Terry. That artwork/poster for Black Moon is incredible. A stunning example of the lost art of the movie poster. No modern presentation of a film ever has something so grand. And to think it would have been some producer clicking his fingers “Give me a poster and make it snappy” similar to the hand painted covers for the pulp magazines of which sadly a lot of them found their way into fires and seldom back into the hands of the artist. It’s a cruel world.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Yep it has a Black Mask, Weird Tales look to the poster art.

[@r0kus]

I may have seen two or three of these on television in the 1960s or 70s. Imprint deserves praise for their high quality releases of these and other movies.⬅ Speaking of high quality, your choice to scan the special features listings of the DVDs added a new element of professionalism to this presentation. While just videoing the backs of the DVDs has worked okay in the past, the actual scans this time round let us see that information very clearly. Thank you.

[@terrytalksmovies]

My pleasure. Seeing the extras as I narrate them seems like the right choice.

[@adambenton9673]

Love The Uninvited and Queen of Spades. The rest of those look amazing. Thanks for the recs, great discoveries

[@terrytalksmovies]

I watched Black Moon and Catacombs last night. Weird but really enjoyable movies.

[@adambenton9673]

@@terrytalksmovies Black Moon looks amazing. A Fay Wray horror movie I didn't know existed 🤯

[@HotDogRock]

13:19 "I think a more substantial mustache was called for in that part" 😂

[@terrytalksmovies]

It's true. Nothing worse than a ratty moustache. 😉

[@CinemaDaveMedia]

Hi Terry. I love old fashioned, spooky, older horror films (or cozy horror as I often call them). Imprint always has some stellar releases. Love that Uninvited/Unseen box. Thanks so much for your detailed thoughts on each of the releases. Hope you have a great rest of the week.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Thanks, Dave. I just saw the new French Three Musketeers-D'Artagnan in the cinema. That one's a recommendation. Hi to you and Jessi.

[@Laceykat66]

I came across "The Uninvited" I think on Turner Classic Movies and loved it. I have never been a Blood and Guts fan but I LOVE spooky films like these. I think the last one Hiollywod made was Mothman Prophecies. I thought "Woman Who Comes Back" was a nice but cheap attempt to keep Republic's name in theaters. Not unlike the Shadow movies of the 1940s. Glad I saw it but would not want to own it. Black Moon was a fun film I remember seeing on TCM during their August Under the Stars.. It is so hard to see Fay Wray in anything besides King Kong. She is so iconic in that. I am afraid I am not familiar with he others but may keep a lookout. I agree with you that so many great films get no love while other little films are on everyone's list. Thank you again for all you do.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Black Moon was Fay Wray's last horror film, too.

[@gregbarker3086]

The Queen of Spades and The Man Who Haunted Himself turn up as afternoon movies on commercial TV. If fact they were only on a couple of weeks ago. Spoiled by ad breaks. I will have to invest in copies.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Go for it. The extras are really sweet.

[@ActionPanda-g5n]

I just saw "Money Movers" a very Australian heist movie by Bruce Beresford. Very good for the Seventies. It is one of the gems on Brolly. Thanks

[@terrytalksmovies]

Money Movers is tough. So many good character actors, too.

[@borismusic4725]

May I suggest " The car " from 1977 starring James Brolin. It is Christine before Christine with a killer car just as evil as the truck in Duel. It is suprisingly good. Good plot, great cast and very well filmed.

[@terrytalksmovies]

I saw it in a cinema back in the day. Fun flick.

[@brianartillery]

Great selection there. I've never heard of 'Catacombs', either - it's a hole in my horror film viewing that I have to now fill. And I want that cover art from 'The Man Who Haunted Himself' on a t-shirt. I do recall seeing 'The Uninvited' on TV many years ago, and it being excellent, and in places, flesh crawlingly creepy - which is a good thing, and which a lot of modern film makers have never got the hang of - just think of 'So Long At The Fair' (1950) Full of sinister twists and turns, and utterly dark and creepy, it's beautiful, sad, and wonderful. No blood, or gore f/x anywhere, just atmosphere. Chilling atmosphere. Anyway, thanks again, Terry. Nice one. 👍👍👍

[@terrytalksmovies]

So Long At The Fair is great but it would be really difficult to review without spoilers.

[@brianartillery]

​@@terrytalksmovies - Yes, I thought that, too. You have to see it without knowing anything about it. I've seen it twice, and the second viewing was nowhere near as much fun as the first.

[@creech54]

I saw "Black Moon" just the other day. The print was amazing! Wish every '30s movie looked that good. Really good Voodoo movie. Not as good as "I Walked with a Zombie", but hey! I've had the Criterion "The Uninvited" for a while, so I won't be buying this one, but I would like to see "The Unseen" (if that's even possible). I need to get the "Woman Who Came Back", too! Thanks for all the cool reviews!

[@terrytalksmovies]

Always a pleasure. @creech54

[@williamblakehall5566]

These all sound intriguing. I wouldn't mind your reviewing the new Twilight Zone's "Shatterday" in its own right. Thanks, Ter.

[@terrytalksmovies]

It's possible.

[@damianmagee1581]

Great month this time. Only three I had not seen is Black Moon, Woman who came back and Unseen. Catacombs I saw very late in the 70's on tv. Looking forward seeing it again, I think there UK edition of the film. Australia Post is weird, it will go back and forth to same facility before gets to you, like have do it so ppl doing their job, I had parcel that went to wrong facility before they realised it, so took couple more days to get me. I think nice weekend soon get into all this month imprint, I behind with my imprint watching, so good stuff coming not only Australia, UK Warner Archive, it's hard keep up.

[@terrytalksmovies]

It is a great month, particularly for the forties and thirties stuff.

[@captlazer5509]

Terry as a horror host? Fantastic! Need a name...

[@terrytalksmovies]

Not going to happen. Those horror host sets cost a fortune!

[@creech54]

@@terrytalksmovies You could be "Sammy Terry", but somebody already took that one. 😁

[@alexander3699]

Great review! I bought several and can’t wait to get them!

[@terrytalksmovies]

Thanks. Hope you enjoy the movies!

[@alexander3699]

@@terrytalksmovies Thank you! I really liked your commentary and agreed with you quite a bit on the Imprint selection made for May 2024.

[@inanimatecarbongod]

The 40s wasn't exactly a golden age of horror cinema, but The Uninvited is an undeniable highlight of the period. Only seen it once (when the Criterion DVD came out) but it immediately became one of my 1940s favourites. I actually saw Queen of Spades on the big screen many years ago, when the BFI did a restoration of A Matter of Life and Death and sent the two films out again as a double feature that played the Cinematheque here in Sydney. I don't recall being blown away by it, but then again I *had* just been blown away by the other film so perhaps it just suffered by comparison? I think I'll invest in it anyway. Curious about the "nitrate negative" reference on the Catacombs packaging. It was made in 1965, by which time acetate safety film had displaced nitrate for about 15 years... And a 30s horror film I don't think I've even heard of before! That's another one I need to invest in.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Yeah, nitrate didn't sound right unless they used really old stock to film that movie. It was low budget...

[@baldwhiteguynz]

Thanks for that walk-through. I liked the look of the June releases even though I'd never seen any of them, so ordered the full set. Unfortunately the parcel is stuck with Australia Post ... but at least I know more what I'll be getting now. :-)

[@terrytalksmovies]

Australia Post is getting worse. I used to work for them back in a previous century but they're worse now.

[@baldwhiteguynz]

@@terrytalksmovies Yup ... I used to work for the kiwi equivalent, and got tales about the "good ole days" where you could drink yourself silly in the HQ office on a Friday night, then phone up the Government Limousine Service to drive you back home free of change in one of those big old Ford LTDs. Yay for old timey government services!

[@keithf_]

Well Terry, decided I'm gonna make my very first purchase from Imprint. I first came across 'The Queen of Spades' about 5 years ago. I've been watching movies for about 60 years, yet I still can't believe how this terrific movie completely eluded me for all that time. Of course I'm going to order it from Imprint. (Really want to see the extra featuring director Thorold Dickinsen, about whom I know absolutely nothing, save for the fact he directed a fine movie expertly). Gonna get me 'The Invited', which I've never seen, plus 'The Unseen' which I've not seen either lol. The cost of these plus shipping to the UK almost caused me to call the 'heart police'. But before I did I checked the AUS dollar to pound exchange rate ... phew ! Thanks for pointing me to these, Terry. PS You mentioned Freddie Jones. He was superb in 'The Elephant Man'. IMO He deserved a best supporting actor nod for that role.

[@terrytalksmovies]

I hope you enjoy it, @keithf_ The extras are great and the movie itself is superb. Anton Walbrook was always good value.

[@brianelliott577]

Heya Terry! This is not related to your latest review of what sound like excellent films, but could you possibly do a Madeline Khan retrospective? The woman was SO brilliant!

[@terrytalksmovies]

Madeline Kahn was great but there wouldn't be much patronage of a video about her career. I can recommend her in The Cheap Detective with Peter Falk where her character changes character in every scene.

[@taker68]

Haven't you talked about Queen of Spades and Man Who Haunted Himself before? Sound familiar. Haven't seen any of these but will put them on my long list. I thought Black Moon might be the odd Louis Malle film from the 70s.

[@terrytalksmovies]

I did have other copies of the two movies. The Kino Lorber Spades and a UK Network cop of The Man Who Haunted Himself. The Louis Malle Black Moon is weird AF.

[@phyllisbronock2745]

From the look on offer, imagine a young Roger Moore playing Dr. Strange. I think he would put it over. Don't worry too much about the Post Office Terry. Our United States Postal Service is now firmly in the middle of an outside "interests" inspired "Death Spiral." Talking to several Postal workers I chat with from time to time, I'm hearing believable stories of incompetent managers being hired, schedules bungled supremely, packages going astray as a regular occurrence, and more. We have had Internet purchases routed from as far away as Washington State, through Georgia and then back to Los Angeles, before coming back to the North American Deep South. One imagines that 'things' couldn't become this confused if one was to engineer it so. The default position for this Ageing Troglodyte and others in the Trog Circle is that this process is engineered. The ultimate aim is profits from the privatization of the system. In other words, Peak Neo-liberalism. In America however, the Post Office is mentioned in the Constitution, (thanks to that arch socialist Ben Franklin.) So, privatizing the Post Office would be classifiable as one of the signs of "The End of Days." Stay safe!

[@terrytalksmovies]

Our Post Office is getting worse, mostly because it hasn't levelled up as people shifted to getting more parcels via the mail. Hopefully it will but its in a weird place at the moment. I have a delivery from Umbrella Entertainment on the way. I hope it arrives for next week.

[@timeliebe]

Huh, out of all of these I've only really seen THE UNINVITED and THE UNSEEN-I never even heard of BLACK MOON, CATACOMBS, or WOMAN WHO CAME BACK! That last one sounds interesting, as sometimes Poverty Row studios could do a better job with the supernatural than Hollywood's majors could.... While I never avoided THE MAN WHO HAUNTED HIMSELF I never sought it out either, figuring it was another crappy early Seventies horror movie with all the style of an episode of network television at the time. Interesting to hear it's a movie Roger Moore brought his A game to.... QUEEN OF SPADES is one of those movies I keep hearing about and never find to watch-looks like now I won't have that excuse any more.

[@terrytalksmovies]

It's a great month for Imprint. So many deep cuts. I watched Black Moon and Catacombs this week. Both are interesting flicks.