The City of the Dead (1960)

Red sun rising, in the sky Sleeping village, cockerels cry Soft breeze blowing, in the trees Peace of mind, feel at ease A New England death harvest. Burned witches, sleepy village curses, churches void of patrons, and a sacrificial hotel for the soon to be deceased. The…

Ian West

95 On a foggy, moonlit night, a witch is burned, and a town is forever cursed for their prejudice. By turns 60s paranoia, romantic gothic, and magick within desolate, small-town Massachusetts spaces; The City of the Dead, also known as Horror Hotel, is nearly perfect in…

SilentDawn

From beneath the fog, evil is revealed, and the ritual begins again. I’m in love with how this film looks. Drenched in a moody haze that pulls you into its shadowed mystery. Every glance, every word carries the weight of something sacred and secret, building a tension that…

wersku

They just don’t make films absolutely drenched in fog like they used to.  Perfect gloomy atmospheric horror flick to watch while a storm rages outside, needed more Christopher Lee though.

Anna🍓

Wonderful, that constantly wafting ground fog, the hostile people and the meaningful, dark music. Halfway through, the black and white movie takes a surprising turn, reminiscent of a great classic of suspense cinema. A fantastic movie with a nightmarish atmosphere.

kat🕷

This is a truly delightful little forgotten gem that I’ve been meaning to watch for a couple of years now due to it being dug up and released around the time I first heard of it. It’s a gorgeous black and white film with not an ounce of pretension and chock full of foggy…

Tony the Terror

Witchcraft, black magic, sorcery. To me it’s nothing but fairy tale mumbo-jumbo. Holy wow! Yet another fabulous movie from 1960. It’s a ghost story that’s so unbelievably sincere it’s simply adorable. Sure it incorporates every single horror trope you can think of,…

📀 Cammmalot 📀

A movie that somehow manages not to pull many punches in spite of every code and law and unspoken rule and many very much spoken rules. Sure, Puritan values win in the end, but the opening has characters/actors outright declaring loyalty to Lucifer, and though we get…

Sally Jane Black

Nice pairing with Ep. 104 of Widow’s Bay for Folk Horror Friday.  Dig the inky blacks and extreme fog.  Dig super-fine Venetian Stevenson’s unexpected lingerie reveal. Part of Severin’s superb box set, All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror — Volume 2.

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