366 Weird Movies

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Entries Tagged ‘1962’

CAPSULE: BRAINIAC [El barón del terror] (1962)

DIRECTED BY:  Chano Urueta
FEATURING: Abel Salazar
PLOT: A smirking sorcerer is burnt alive by the Spanish Inquisition, only to return three

hundred years later as a shapeshifting brain-eater to wreak his vengeance on the descendants of those who condemned him.

WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST:  Brainiac’s appeal, weird or otherwise, lies almost entirely in its [...]

16. CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962)

“We hoped for the look of a Bergman film and the feel of Cocteau.”–variously attributed to screenwriter John Clifford or director Herk Harvey

DIRECTED BY: Herk Harvey
FEATURING: Candace Hilligoss, Sidney Berger
PLOT:  Mary Henry, a church organist, is the lone survivor of an accident when the car she’s riding in plunges over the side of an old wooden [...]