To Have and to Hold (1963), A British Edgar Wallace B-movie scripted by Jimmy Sangster. A cop gets involved with a woman who thinks he ex wants to kill her. Stretches credibility just a tad at times but overall enjoyable and nicely twisted.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/10/to-have-and-to-hold-1963.html
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Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963) is an object lesson in how to do subtle horror and it's one of the great haunted house movies. Superbly atmospheric and ambiguous. Much better than Shirley Jackson's overrated source novel.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-haunting-1963.html

Viy is a 1967 Soviet gothic horror film based on a Gogol story. A girl's corpse doesn't want to stay dead. Wildly imaginative, crazy, perfectly captures the feel of folk legends and fairy tales. Creepy, spooky, with inspired fantastic imagery.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/09/viy-1967.html

You might think The Third Eye (1966) will be gothic horror but it's more of a Hitchcockian thriller in the mould of Psycho. There are puzzling murders and the characters (all of them unstable) respond in unsettling ways. Creepy and fascinating.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-third-eye-1966.html

Death In A Red Jaguar (1968), a German Jerry Cotton crime thriller. Jerry has to deal with a Murder Inc type gang. Fast-moving, suspenseful, action-packed, shot with flair. The opening sequence is peak 60s German pop cinema. Superb pulp movie.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/09/death-in-red-jaguar-1968.html

Lady Morgan’s Vengeance is a 1965 Italian gothic horror movie. In a spooky castle a woman is going slowly mad. It doesn't slot neatly into any one genre, there are some interesting narrative techniques. While it's no masterpiece it's enjoyable.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/08/lady-morgans-vengeance-1965.html

Act of Murder (1964), a British Edgar Wallace B-movie, involves a romantic triangle and from the start the plot twists come thick and fast. A psychological thriller with lots of paranoia and a pleasingly hard-edged nasty streak. Great stuff.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/07/act-of-murder-1964.html

Monster of the Opera (1964) seems like a typical "young lady in semi-transparent nightie running in terror" gothic horror film but turns out to be much odder. It's a vampire in a haunted theatre film. Or maybe it isn't. Bizarre but fascinating.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/07/monster-of-opera-1964.html

The Deadly Affair (1967), based on a John le Carré novel. James Mason is excellent as George Smiley. Has a drab depressing totally appropriate visual style. Effectively bleak, not bad but has major flaws and was predictably a box office flop.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-deadly-affair-1967.html

The Seventh Grave (1965) is an Italian gothic horror film with the right ingredients - empty coffins, disappearing corpses, a hidden treasure, a séance - but it's definitely a lesser example of the breed. It's OK but lacks any real spark.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-seventh-grave-1965.html

Curse of the Voodoo is an obscure 1965 British horror film that includes voodoo but is more a psychological thriller than a horror film. A hunter is cursed for shooting a lion. A great little film that teases us with supernatural horror hints.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/07/curse-of-voodoo-1965.html

Riccardo Freda's The Horrible Dr Hichcock (1962) is overcooked overdone overblown outrageous. A mad scientist with a thing for dead girls. Madness and very unhealthy sexual obsessions. Barbara Steele is excellent. Shades of Hitchcock's Rebecca.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-horrible-dr-hichcock-1962.html

We Shall See, a 1964 British Edgar Wallace thriller with some nasty emotional betrayals and twisted relationships. At the centre is a woman who thinks everyone hates her. Turns out to be more interesting and quirky than you expect. Good film.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/06/we-shall-see-1964.html

Antonio Margheriti's The Golden Arrow is a 1962 Italian Arabian Nights adventure/romance. It's a rather bland kids' movie rather than a full-fledged peplum, and with awful comic relief. It does look lovely though and it's reasonably enjoyable.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-golden-arrow-1962.html

Sidney J. Furie's The Snake Woman, an ultracheap 1961 UK horror movie that is better than you might expect. A girl is believed to be an evil serpent-woman. A beautiful exotic snake-woman. Well-made atmospheric film.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-snake-woman-1961.html

Marlowe (1969), a surprisingly good adaptation of Raymond Chandler's The Little Sister scripted by Stirling Silliphant, with James Garner making an effective Philip Marlowe. Marlowe encounters hippies and lots of late 60s California decadence.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/05/marlowe-1969.html

Damiano Damiani's La strega in amore (The Witch, 1966), unconventional Italian gothic horror in a modern setting. A writer gets involved with a woman who may be a witch. Very decadent. It's also a noirish psychosexual melodrama. Great stuff.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-witch-la-strega-in-amore-1966.html

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Don't make the mistake of thinking of Claude Chabrol’s oddball The Champagne Murders (1967) as a Hitchcockian thriller. There’s no suspense. It's more a black comedy. You'll enjoy it more if you accept that he's teasing and toying with you.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-champagne-murders-1967.html

The X from Outer Space (1967), a wild crazy goofy Japanese scifi movie with a giant chicken dinosaur monster from the stars. Who feeds on atomic energy. Silly delightful innocent fun.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-x-from-outer-space-1967.html

Massimo Dallamano's A Black Veil for Lisa (1968) is not quite a giallo. There's some Hitchcock influence, and some krimi traces. A very good stylish emotionally complex crime thriller with characters driven by their erotic obsessions.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/04/a-black-veil-for-lisa-1968.html