Horror History: Wednesday, April 6, 1966: Rasputin: The Mad Monk was released in US theaters

The movie chronicles the events of history’s “man of mystery,” Rasputin. Although not quite historically accurate and little emphasis is put on the politics of the day, Rasputin’s rise to power and eventual assassination are depicted in an attempt to explain his extraordinary power and influence.

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Horror History: Wednesday, April 6, 1966: The Reptile was released in US theaters

When his brother Charles Spalding mysteriously dies, Harry Spalding and his wife Valerie decide to move to the inherited cottage in a small village in the country. They are coldly received by the locals, with the exception of the bartender and owner of a pub Tom Bailey, who welcome them. His weird neighbor Dr. Franklyn, who lives with his beautiful daughter Anna, tries to persuade them to sell the house and leave the place, but the couple decides to stay. Harry and Valerie find that the locals are being killed by some snake and they feel threatened. When Anna asks for help and they trespass Dr. Franklyn’s house, they find the horrible truth hidden in the place. …The Reptile

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Horror History: Wednesday, January 12, 1966: Dracula: Prince of Darkness was released in US theaters

An unfortunate group of travelers arrives at the castle of Count Dracula whose undead ashes are brought back to life by the blood of one of the party.

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Horror History: Wednesday, October 27, 1965: Die, Monster, Die! was released in theaters

An adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft story, “The Colour Out of Space,” about a wheelchair-bound scientist who has been trying to control experiments with a radioactive meteorite that can make plants grow to enormous proportions.

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Horror History: Wednesday, April 7, 1965: Blood and Black Lace was released in US theaters

Director Mario Bava’s Giallo Masterpiece! The black shadow of drug dealing falls upon a high-fashion salon when a beautiful model is murdered. Her boyfriend is suspected of the crime. He is an addict to whom the model was supplying dope, but is he guilty?

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Horror History: Thursday, December 31, 1964: The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb was released in US theaters

Handsomely photographed and deliciously eerie, The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb follows an expedition in Egypt as they open a cursed crypt. The leader of the excavation crew decides to give the ruins to a museum, but a fast-talking American grabs the tomb for a sideshow attraction.

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Horror History: Wednesday, June 24, 1964: The Masque of the Red Death was released in theaters

While the plague rages outside in the small Italian province, the Satan-worshipping prince stays confined to the sanctuary of his castle. The “Red Death” enters the dance and the guests succumb to the plague… one by one.

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Horror History: Friday, May 8, 1964: The Evil of Frankenstein was released in theaters

When Dr. Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) recovers his monster from ice, a demented hypnotist (Peter Woodthorpe) arrives with plans to use the creature as a tool for terror.

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Horror History: Wednesday, May 6, 1964: The Last Man on Earth was released in theaters

After a plague turned the population into vampires leaving Vincent Price as the last survivor, he spends his time cleaning the streets, driving stakes into the vampire’s hearts.

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Horror History: Wednesday, May 6, 1964: Black Sabbath was released in US theaters

Italian horror trilogy hosted by Boris Karloff. A) Nurse takes a diamond ring from a corpse who then seeks revenge. B) Prostitute receives calls from a dead man she betrayed. C) A Balkan hunter becomes a vampire

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Horror History: Wednesday, January 22, 1964: The Comedy of Terrors was released in theaters

A horror spoof in which a funeral director, who is in arrears on his rent, aggressively pursues customers to bolster his business–and the fact that they haven’t died yet doesn’t seem to dissuade him.

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Horror History: Wednesday, September 25, 1963: Dementia 13 was released in theaters

Following the abrupt death of her husband from a heart attack, scheming Louise Haloran travels to her in-laws estate in Ireland, only to find herself trapped in a creepy, decrepit castle with her ex-husband’s demented family.

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Horror History: Monday, June 17, 1963: The Terror was released in theaters

A young officer in Napoleon’s army pursues a mysterious woman to the castle of an elderly Baron where he discovers that she is the pawn of an old witch bent on driving the Baron to suicide.

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Horror History: Thursday, March 28, 1963: The Birds was released in theaters

A wealthy San Francisco playgirl pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town which slowly takes a turn when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people there, in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness.

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Horror History: Wednesday, March 6, 1963: Diary of a Madman was released in theaters

Vincent Price turns in a classic performance as a sculptor, possessed by an evil spirit, who hires a model (Nancy Kovack) to pose for him — then learns thereafter that she has been brutally murdered.

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Horror History: Wednesday, October 24, 1962: Tower of London was released in theaters

Horror movie king Vincent Price stars in this chilling tale based on the story of King Richard III, a disfigured and insane man who tortured his way to the British throne.

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Horror History: Wednesday, September 26, 1962: Carnival of Souls was released in theaters

A young woman in a small Kansas town survives a drag race accident, then agrees to take a job as a church organist in Salt Lake City. En route, she becomes haunted by a bizarre apparition that compels her toward an abandoned lakeside pavilion.

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Horror History: Wednesday, August 15, 1962: The Phantom of the Opera was released in US theaters

When the star of a London Opera house (Heather Sears) is kidnapped, a producer (Edward de Souza) tracks down the Phantom (Herbert Lom) who is intent on seeking his revenge.

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Horror History: Wednesday, July 4, 1962: Tales of Terror was released in theaters

From the haunting tales of Edgar Allan Poe, comes a chilling trilogy of terror. In Morella, Locke (Vincent Price) blames the death of his wife on their only child and sends her away. When she returns 26 years later, her mother’s spirit inhabits her body and haunts the tortured man. In The Black Cat, Fortunato (Price) takes a drunken montresor (Peter Lorre) home and falls in love with the montresor’s wife… so the jealous montresor takes revenge and buries them both alive. In The Case Of M. Valdemar, Valdemar (Price) seeks relief from M. Carmichael (Basil Rathbone), an evil mesmerist. Carmichael has designs on Valdemar’s wife and holds him in a tortured state between life and death…until death itself intervenes.

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Horror History: Wednesday, August 23, 1961: The Pit and the Pendulum was released in theaters

Vincent Price plays a 16th century Spanish nobleman who slowly goes crazy when he thinks that his wife has been buried alive. It’s all a joint plot between the supposed dead wife and her doctor/lover to get Price’s money. Price now totally insane, assumes his father’s identity (that of a grand inquisitor) and starts to murder!

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Horror History: Wednesday, June 7, 1961: The Curse of the Werewolf was released in theaters

This re-imagining of the classic horror story is set in 18th century Spain and follows an orphan child who terrifies those around him when he becomes a werewolf after a hunting expedition.

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Horror History: Wednesday, May 3, 1961: The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (aka Jekyll’s Inferno) was released in US theaters

While deeply absorbed in research designed to isolate the double nature in man, Dr. Jekyll (Paul Massie) succeeds in releasing his own savage alter ego, Mr. Hyde.

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Horror History: Wednesday, February 15, 1961: Black Sunday was released in US theaters

In an absolutely mesmerizing performance, Black Sunday stars Barbara Steele as Asa Vajda, a beautiful woman tortured and executed as a witch – but not before pronouncing a curse upon those who have condemned her, a curse that is fulfilled some 200 years later.

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Horror History: Friday, October 28, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “A Thing About Machines” premiered

Season 2 Episode 4

A writer (Richard Haydn) believes machines are conspiring against him.

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Horror History: Friday, October 14, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room” premiered

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Season 2 Episode 3

A nervous gangster (Joe Mantell) faces himself when his boss (William D. Gordon) gives him his latest assignment.

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