25 REASONS TO WATCH OLD MOVIES Part 07

Well, now that the Halloween party is over, we can get back to the business at hand, and where I left off over a month ago was at Part 6 1/2, of  '24 Reasons To Watch Olde Movies' and this is the second installment, which makes it officially Part 7 I guess! Anyway, here they are, the gals that make up the second half of Part 7, and a mighty fine assortment they are!

#164 - Anne Neyland "Jailhouse Rock" "Man With A Camera" "Men Into Space"

(She even looks like Elvis in the bottom pic)

#165 - Gaby Fainon -  "Assignment: Outer Space" "Blood And Roses"

#166 - Julie London - "Nabonga" Man From U.N.C.L.E."

(Probably better known as a singer, songs sung by Julie have been in 42 movies)

#167 - Kitty de Hoyos - "Trip To The Moon" La Loba" "Adventure At The Center Of The Earth"

MeOW!!!!

#168 - Laraine Day - "The Woman On Pier 13" "Burke's Law"

#169 - Laura Betti - "Blood Brides" "A Bay Of Blood" "At Night All Cats Are Crazy"

#170 - Linda Christian - "The Devil's Hand" "Tarzan And The Mermaids"

#171 - Margaret Hayes - "Saboteur" "The Beat Generation" "13 West Street"

#172 - Merry Anders - "The Hypnotic Eye" "The House Of The Damned"
"The Time Travelers" "Women Of The Prehistoric Planet"

#173 - Nora Hayden - "High School Confidential" "The Angry Red Planet"

#174 - Viviane Ventura - "Battle Beneath The Earth" "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."

#175 - Yvonne Romain - Hammer Scream Queen - "Corridors Of Blood" "Circus Of Horrors" "Danger Man" "The Curse Of The Werewolf" "Night Creatures"

So that's it for now! I'm working on Part 8 which will bring us up to 200 total, and I'd like to make it to Part 13, but the further I go, the more mainstream AND the more obscure it gets! What kills me is that if I had been more astute when I started this blog, we could have tried to get an interview or something with a great majority of these women, but now, a mere 9 years later, most of them are gone, except for Yvonne, and I'm pretty sure she lives in England!

HAXAN: Witchcraft Through The Ages / Aljosha Production Company, Svensk Filmindustri - 1922

So, like, Happy Halloween Everbloody!! We'll end our October adventure with this amazing bit of Swedish/Danish silent film making from 1922! This story is part history lesson followed by re-enactments with actors depicting the history of witchcraft from its earliest days through to the present day. The result is this documentary-like film that's among the first to use re-enactments as a visual and narrative tool. From pagan worship to satanic rites to hysteria, the film takes us on a journey through the ages of witchcraft with very effective visual imagery...

Images in the movie include witches kissing the ass of Satan, boiling non-baptized babies and giving birth to demons, not to mention getting a full tour of the state-of-the-art in medieval torture devices, none of that is shown here though!

Nymphs were considered witches because they liked to run around naked in nature with their little animal friends surrounding them!

Stocks were a useful device to subdue witches while trying to figure out what the Hell to do with them!

Even the church has its problems, no place is safe from witches and even the devil hisself!

Oh boy, it's time for all the little (and big) demons to come out and play! These scenes have such a magical, surreal quality to them!

Here's the amazing entrance to the devilish underground play land where all the demons can go have a ball...

In order to get in, one must get past the greeter pigs!

Okay, so like... Let the freak show begin!!

First up is this fine piece of... err.. tail, for all the demons to drool over!

Here's the devil's platter, large enough to accommodate a nice, succulent, naked female body!.. Dinner is served!!

Oh, what the Hell.. Let's dance!!

Anyway, the scenes are all devilishly appealing, making for one very interesting flicker. The original movie was 122 minutes long! So, kids, that's all of our Halloween Countdown 2016! We're back on the regular track on Wednesday, see you then!

R.I.P. JOHN ZACHERLE - September 26, 1918 - October 27, 2016

Well, I don't usually do things like this, but I just found out from the WFMU Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban blog that the Babe Ruth, the Jim Morrison, of horror hosts, John Zacherle just passed away at the age of 98 three days ago on October 27th!

When I was a kid, we didn't get Zacherley's show on TV, but the fact that out of all the cool monsters in the world, they chose to put Zacherley on the cover of Famous Monsters Of Filmland twice out of 15 issues, you just knew he was THE best! In retrospect, when I finally saw his work, it didn't change my opinion! Just like Forrest J. Ackerman, or Vincent Price, or Boris Karloff, some people will just never ever be duplicated, and John Zacherle was one of a kind!

If you know who he was, then this is a sad moment, and if you don't, then it's even sadder!