A curated psychotronic pairing of dread, delirium, and doom.
1. Dungeon of Harrow (1962)
🕸️ "Where death waits… and sanity frays!"
Painted in the blood-red brushstrokes of gothic pulp, Dungeon of Harrow traps you in a decaying castle filled with chained heroines, leering villains, and budget-driven madness. Imagine if a high school theater group adapted The Pit and the Pendulum on a stormy night with one working candelabra and a fever dream. Shot in murky shadows and whispered menace, it oozes with the charm of regional horror on 16mm — a haunted oil painting in motion.
🩸 Vibes: Poverty Row Gothic / Southern-fried Poe / Phantom echoes in fog-drenched corridors
📼 Perfect for: Lovers of Carnival of Souls, The Terror, and public domain macabre
💀 Best watched with: Candlelight, instant coffee, and a slightly warped brain
2. The Fool Killer (1965)
🪓 "Woe to the fool, for the axe knows no mercy."
Anthony Perkins, fresh from the psycho shadows, roams Civil War-ravaged America in this forgotten existential nightmare cloaked as a Southern Gothic drama. With a young runaway boy as his only companion, Perkins mutters eerie parables and swings his axe through morality’s decaying frame. The Fool Killer is like Of Mice and Men after being left too long in the grave—slow, stark, and disturbingly poetic.
🩸 Vibes: Hushed horror / Southern twilight / Axes and allegories
📼 Perfect for: Fans of Night of the Hunter, Wise Blood, and Flannery O’Connor fever dreams
💀 Best watched with: Cold cornbread, creaking porch boards, and ghosts of American guilt
☠️ SPECIAL PROGRAM NOTE ☠️
Presented as part of the "Celluloid Coffin Club", this double bill reminds us that horror isn’t always loud—it can whisper, flicker, and stare.
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