Reviews

Judith Evelyn is hardly a household name today, but she most certainly left a considerable amount of unforgettable performances that would make her a candidate for screen immortality, who can't forget her miss loneyhearts in her perhaps most famous film role in Hitchcock's's "rear window",and of course the deaf mute victim in Wm castle's "the tingly", I especially was fond of her black fairy portrayal in the "shirley temple storybook" rendition of sleeping beauty, which can only show you her remarkable versatility. in this suspense episode she can portray fear, suspicion and dread without one line of dialog and even color it with deep compassion as well. granted the show has its share of live TV bloopers(an appearance of a technician in a doorway for a few seconds and is quickly made to disappear, thanks to a handy techs hand to whisk hi-mm off the set) but that's part of the charm of making live TV episodes,coupling with miss Evelyn's work a joy to behold and have forever......

this is one of the more rare south of the border horror films and one the few that contain episodic tales of horror.i.v only seen the English language version and of course it was done by k.Gordon Murray and you know what to expect from that. unintentional laughter from dialog and translation differences and the obvious same flat voices used for the characters. this aside, "the 100 cries of terror" is not a bad excursion into the world of terror and horror as reflected in the two stories' the first one is on the idea of "angel street", "diabloque" and "what beckoning ghost", but has it's own special twist and the second one of course borrows from Edgar Allan Poe's "premature burial". but again it has it's own special twist of surprises to make it special for the viewer. the director and writer Ramon ob on gives us a rather nice atmosphere of dread with a regulative small cast to deliver the goods and it's well worth seeing. perhaps one of these days they'll release the original Spanish language version so one can see what originally was intended for us to enjoy.....

i remember "macabre" when the ads for the movies first appeared.one consisted of a sad looking man with a top hat driving a horse drawn hearse containing a flowered draped casket. under the title"macabre" was this line "see it with someone who can carry you home". I remember the front of the theater had a real casket on display. it was opened and it was a hideous looking corpse with the Lloyd's of London policy displayed on the inside of the lined lid of the casket. I wanted to go see it that weekend, but my mother said to me "do you want to die?"so I chickened out. I later heard from my school chums that the movie was a big disappointment and don't bother to see it. I finally got to see it during halloween of 1960 at the same theater where it first opened. there was no casket there to greet me.so i just had the movie to deal with. In watching it I was waiting for the shock moments to occur, but there were just not there, except during the scene in the casket room, and the one in the mausoleum and of course the grand finale with the graveside service at midnight and the discovery of the small casket with it's horrible contents that managed to issue a scream or two from the rather small audience. I still enjoyed the movie regardless of it's shortcomings and can hardly wait till it makes it on DVD.