Hell yeah, settling down for 66 minutes of Gloria Stuart and Lee Tracy as sassy mail investigators. WANTED! JANE TURNER (1936) seems promising. Nothing like a creepy boudoir doll to perk up a room, I always say.

DEADLINE AT DAWN, one of my favorite noirs, is on TCM right now. Sweet, hapless sailor Bill Williams depends on streetwise dancehall girl Susan Hayward to clear him of murder during a long, hot night in NYC. DEADLINE AT DAWN is, among other things, a really good looking movie, shot by the brilliant Nicholas Musuraca. This is all the same scene.

"Why Wait for October?" Classic Horror Recommendations 🧵

Daily dose commences now with Columbia chiller RETURN OF THE VAMPIRE (1943). Bela Lugosi battles aristocratic scientist Frieda Inescort for the soul of Nina Foch. 🦇🧛🩸 LAKE OF THE DEAD (1958): Cozily dark Norwegian cabin in the woods thriller. Haunting atmosphere: glistening black water dotted with lilies, tangled forests, creaking boards... Although the explanation at the end is a bit much, this creepy vacation is still worth it.

'Tis the season... for a daily thread of alternate Christmas flicks: mystery, horror, noir, dark melodrama, etc. with festive flair.
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Starting with the aggressively Christmassy Mickey Spillane adaptation I, THE JURY (1953). "What do you want, Christmas every day?"

CRIME WAVE (1953) captures L.A. locations dressed up in tinsel for the holiday. Beware the ghosts of criminal associates past!

Amazon Prime has been adding a lot of great and/or weird old movies to stream lately but their search facets are bad. So here's all pre-1960 films included with Prime. bit.ly/pre-1960 This still is for THE GOLDEN SALAMANDER, a wonderful British thriller starring my man Trevor Howard. It's one of the pre-1960 titles free on Prime.

Elspeth Dudgeon undergoes an astonishing transformation (with the aid of special makeup and camera filters) in SH! THE OCTOPUS (1937). Before and after logging in: