‘That Hellbound Train’ Roars To Life With Issue #2 This Week!

Based upon Robert Bloch’s short-story by the same name, IDW Publishing will be bringing readers the second installment of its “THAT HELLBOUND TRAIN” comic book adaptation this Wednesday thanks to scribe Joe Lansdale. Inside you can check out an 8 page preview of the ish and gawk at the beautifully rendered artwork by illustrator Dave Wachter. Read on for the skinny…

 That Hellbound Train Roars To Life With Issue #2 This Week! That Hellbound Train Roars To Life With Issue #2 This Week! READ MORE

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Asylum

On DVD July 25th: When Dr. Martin (Robert Powell) arrives at the Dunsmoor Asylum for the incurably insane, he expects to be interviewed by asylum director Dr. Starr. Instead he is met by Dr. Rutherford (Patrick Magee), who explains that Dr. Starr had suffered a mental breakdown and now is one of the patients.

Dr. Rutherford decides that if Martin can deduce which one is really Dr. Starr, then he will be given the position.

Is it Bonnie (Barbara Parkins), whose affair with a married man turns murderous? Is it Bruno (Barry Morse), a hardluck tailor visited by a mysterious stranger (Peter Cushing) with a blueprint and very special fabric for an unusual suit? Is it Barbara (Charlotte Rampling), accused of murdering her brother and her nurse but insisting that her friend Lucy (Britt Ekland) was responsible; Or is it Dr. Byron (Herbert Lom) who claims the ability to transfer collecting?

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The House That Dripped Blood

A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house: 1) A writer encounters a strangler of his own creation, 2) Two men are obsessed with a wax figure of a woman from their past, 3) A little girl displays an interest in witchcraft, and 4) A film actor discovers a cloak which gives him a vampire’s powers

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The House That Dripped Blood

A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house: 1) A writer encounters a strangler of his own creation, 2) Two men are obsessed with a wax figure of a woman from their past, 3) A little girl displays an interest in witchcraft, and 4) A film actor discovers a cloak which gives him a vampire’s powers.

Journey to Midnight

Hammer recut and repackaged two installments of their popular television series Journey to the Unknown (one of the earliest projects of longtime Hammer director Roy Ward Baker) for this theatrical release. The first tale involves a guest at an unusual masquerade party at which he is given an unflattering look at his past misdeeds; the second installment stars The Haunting’s Julie Harris as a rich woman pursued by a slimy, gold-digging potential suitor who meets his comeuppance thanks to an ancient Indian spirit. Though rather staid in comparison to Baker’s flamboyant anthology work for Amicus, this is nevertheless a moody and stylish pair of tales, if not fully representative of the series’ finer moments.

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Torture Garden

A special sideshow torture exhibit has the power, according to the showman Dr. Diablo, to warn people of evil in their futures. The skeptical customers are shown the greed and violence they’re hiding.

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The Deadly Bees

Pop singer Vicki Robbins collapses from exhaustion while shooting the 1960′s equivalent of a music video, and her physician prescribes a respite on Seagull Island with colleague and bee-keeper, Ralph Hargrove. Vicki finds the Hargroves’ bitter marital strife oddly relaxing. But when a mysterious swarm of specially bred attack bees starts killing island residents, Vicki fights for her survival, setting fire to nearly half the structures on the island in her escape.

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The Psychopath

Inspector Holloway (Patrick Wymark) is investigating a series of brutal murders in which a doll of each victim is found at the scene. The dolls, as it turns out,were purchased by the crippled Mrs. Von Sturm (Margaret Johnson), whose home is overcrowded with a doll collection. Her pale, wide-eyed, neurotic son (John Stauding) is the prime suspect and the daughter of one of the victims (Judy Huxtable) discovers the shocking truth. Screenplay by novelist Robert Bloch (“Psycho”).

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The Skull

A collector of esoterica, Dr. Maitland, buys an unusual skull from his ordinary source of artifacts. The skull is what remains of marquis De Sade. Much too soon he discovers how the skull affects him: by turning him into a frenzied killer.

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The Night Walker

A wealthy woman is terrorized by recurring dreams regarding her jealous, blind husband who supposedly burned to death in a recent fire. She tries to convince her attorney that the nightmares are real.

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Strait-Jacket

Lucy Harbin has been in an asylum for 20 years after axing her husband and his mistress during a crime of passion, witnessed by her young daughter, Carol. While trying to renew ties with Carol, who is now a young woman about to be married, heads begin to roll again. Is Lucy repeating her past?

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The Cabinet of Caligari

Jane’s car breaks down and she makes her way to a nearby estate, owned by a mysterious man named Caligari. Soon she finds that she has become a virtual prisoner, and none of the strange inhabitants of the estate are willing or capable of helping her escape. Caligari reveals himself as a passive pervert, showing her filthy pictures, spying on her, and trying to make her talk about intimate details of her life. She attempts to free herself by the only means at her disposal.

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The Couch

While undergoing therapy for his problem, a serial killer continues his murderous sprees.