CIPC #125: The invisible ghost
Before Ben Kingsley, before Michael Ironside, before Lee Van Cleef even, the guy you went to if you wanted a memorable villain for your Hollywood movie was Bela Lugosi. Born...
CIPC #124: The blob
We will stay in the wonderful, whimsical world of the creature feature for just a while longer, but in contrast to last week’s Creature from the haunted sea, which was...
CIPC #123: Creature from the haunted sea
Long before Michael Bay and Steven Seagal were the schlockmeisters par excellence of the film world, way, way back in the swinging sixties, the b-movie scene was dominated by the...
CIPC #120: The lodger: A story of the London fog
One might easily forget it, but the great Alfred Hitchcock started his career all the way back in the twenties, more than thirty years before Psycho, making silent movies because...
CIPC #118: Barbie in the 12 dancing princesses
It is a truth universally acknowledged that any single thing capable of making a fortune must be in want of a movie script to be made into. It is, then,...
CIPC #115: The Addams family
The Addams family is the story of an old noble family with an enormous fortune, a slight supernatural touch, and a distinct taste for the macabre. It started as a...
CIPC #114: At land
At land is not as well-known as the movies I usually feature in this series, so maybe some explanation is in order. It is a silent American short film from...
CIPC #105: The bone collector
The bone collector. With a title like that, who can blame me that I was expecting a thrilling tale of ruthless rivalry, fierce competition, and enormous piles of bones in...
CIPC #100: Vacanze di natale ’91
As the number of blog posts you’ve written increases, the speed at which you encounter nice, round numbers unfortunately decreases, so you have to savour the occasion. What better subject,...
CIPC #93: Das Wachsfigurenkabinett
Today, we travel all the way back to 1924. The roaring twenties! It’s the time of the Weimar republic, Jazz is becoming big, Joyce’s Ulysses is published. But it’s not...
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