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Twice Told Tales, a review by addicted2dvd

Twice Told Tales: Midnite Movies Double Feature (1963/United States) Trailer |IMDb |Wikipedia | MGM Home Entertainment Director: Sidney Salkow Writing: Nathaniel Hawthorne (Original Material By), Robert E. Kent (Screenwriter) Length: 120 min. Rating: NR Video: Widescreen 1.66:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: Mono Subtitles: French, Spanish

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Stars:
Vincent Price (1911) as Medbourne/Rappaccini/Pyncheon
Sebastian Cabot as Dr. Carl Heidigger
Brett Halsey as Giovanni Guasconti
Beverly Garland as Alice Pyncheon
Richard Denning as Jonathan Maulle
Mari Blanchard as Sylvia Ward

Plot:
It's spine-tingling terror... in triplicate! "Virtuoso of horror" (Los Angeles Times) Vincent Price dials up the depravity in this spellbinding trilogy of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "all-chiller" (LA Herald-Examiner) classics! Featuring "a demented genius! Poisonous plants! Oozing blood! [And] a corpse in a wedding gown" (The Film Daily), Twice Told Tales spins three diabolical nightmares of madness, mayhem and murder most foul!

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Feature Trailers

This is one that is in Danae Cassandra's collection. My first thought when I saw the opening credits... Vincent Price! A favorite of mine... can't go wrong here. And it didn't go wrong. I enjoyed this one quite a bit... it isn't my favorite Vincent Price movie out there... but it is definitely a good one.. one I hope to add to my own collection at some point.

This film is an anthology... it has 3 separate stories in the one film.... all three starring Vincent Price. My favorite segment is the last one... very good. Followed by the first segment... which I also enjoyed quite a bit. the second segment unfortunately left some to be desired. But over all I would say this one is definitely worth the time put in to watch it. Recommended.

 

Scorecard:
TV Eps: 14
Movies: 7

(From Month Long Horror/Halloween Marathon on October 7th, 2014)

The Nurse, a review by addicted2dvd

Title: The Nurse
Movie Count: 47
TV Ep Count: 8
Time Started: 3:30pm
Plot:
When her father kills himself and his family after being named in an embezzlement scandal, nurse Laura Harriman (Lisa Zane, Monkeybone) vows revenge on the man responsible. She soon gets her chance when his accuser (Michael Fairman, Dead Silence) suffers a stroke that leaves him paralyzed and mute - the perfect victim. After becoming his private nurse, the "angel of death" sets out on a psychotic killing spree that will complete her descent into madness and destroy an innocent family... one by one.

My Thoughts:
OK... this is different. According to the cover this movie is Rated R. But watching this movie... everything about it shouts TV Movie of the Week. Not saying that is a bad thing... I thought the story was pretty good. But the feel of the movie... the production value and the effects all screamed TV Movie. It even had the almost required TV Series actress in it. In this case Nancy Dussault (Muriel Rush on Too Close for Comfort)... who even though was starting to show her age looked much the same in this 1997 movie. If there wasn't for one case of cursing and one slit throat I would have been completely convinced it was a TV movie. But as I said... the story was pretty good. So I am not disappointed I got it. Is one I can enjoy again.



(From My Month Long Horror/Halloween Marathon: 2008 on October 12th, 2008)

Smallville Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

5. Perry
Perry White, a once promising journalist whose career was destroyed by Lionel Luthor, arrives in Smallville in search of alien stories for a tabloid news show. In spite of being constantly inebriated, Perry believes he has witnessed Clark using his extraordinary speed, so he devises a dangerous scheme to expose Clark's superpowers.

My Thoughts:
Perry was a pretty good episode... though not as good as I was expecting it to be. I do think that Michael McKeon did a good job a a young Perry White.

6. Relic
Clark discovers that Jor-El was on Earth forty years ago. Lana's great uncle, who was convicted of murdering his wife forty years ago, shows her a picture of the man he believes really killed her aunt, and she is shocked to discover the drifter looks just like Clark.

My Thoughts:
This was never one of my favorite episodes. It is ok... but I think it could have been better. It was kind of an interesting idea that Jor-El was on Earth before sending Clark.

7. Magnetic
Clark is suspicious when Lana suddenly becomes attracted to a fellow student and begins to act rebelliously, which eventually lands her in jail.

My Thoughts:
Again.... I really wasn't that impressed with this episode.  I don't know... just didn't hold my interest very much.

8. Shattered
Lex locates Morgan Edge and gets him to admit to dirty dealings with Lionel, but before Lex can take it to the authorities, someone tries to kill him at the mansion.

My Thoughts:
Well... seems like this whole disc didn't do too much to impress me. I don't know... just didn't care for the whole drive Lex crazy arc.  Anyway out of these four episodes I liked Perry the best. At least the next disc has a couple I really did enjoy!

(From Smallville Marathon on August 5th, 2007)