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Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu The Vampyre playing at the old Festival Theatre on Yonge in October, 1979. It’s now the Panasonic, but even that may have changed.

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Halloween playing at several Canadian Odeon theatres, March 1979.

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Abbott & Costello Meet the Invisible Man plays the Loew’s Uptown, April 30, 1951.

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Elvira, Mistress of the Dark was one of the first flicks to open my hometown’s multiplex. October, 1988. A good month.

In 2018, my buddy Mike and I held a 30th anniversary screening of this programme at the cinema I was running at the time. We watched Halloween 4 and Elvira, with 1988-centric newscasts, trailers, etc. Such a fun afternoon.

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This city used to be great.

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A rather curious ad for the 1936 Warner Bros. flick The Walking Dead, starring Boris Karloff as a mob enforcer subject to a zombification treatment.

The ad for this screening at Toronto’s Madison Theatre (now the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema) has one believe Henry Hull from the previous year’s Werewolf of London is somehow involved in this film.

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THE WALKING DEAD / USA / 1936 / 66min. Starring Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez, Edmund Gwenn and Marguerite Churchill / Directed by Michael

The Karloff flick has some interesting moments, such as the hypnotic guilt-ridden piano performance he gives before those who wronged him.

The link above is a review I wrote for Rue Morgue sometime in 2009. The movie is worth checking out.

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Trog / Taste the Blood of Dracula double-bill at the Downtown Theatre, Toronto, October 10, 1970.