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The Morbid Imagination

Patrick Baird

A journey into the dark corners of society, through crime and horror fiction

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Early British Gore: Part 2

In my previous post, I made the case that it was British producers in the late 1950s, responding to the success of Hammer’s early color masterpieces, that created a new, more gory and sexy style of horror movie. None were more infamous than...

8 days ago
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Early British Gore, Part One

What better time than the Spooky Season to celebrate the birth of the modern gore era – thanks to our cousins the Brits.

Conventional wisdom credits Blood Feast (1963) with inaugurating the modern era of film gore, but its mere existence d...

10 days ago
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The Terror: Devil in Silver

How about a binging choice for the spooky season?

AMC’s 2018 miniseries The Terror was a ratings and critical success, widely praised as a well produced, scary re-imagining of the ill-fated polar expedition of the HMS Terror, with the fict...

17 days ago
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Night of the Eagle/Burn, Witch, Burn

Here’s another overlooked gem for the spooky season!

Looking for some Hammer-style Gothic Horror? Night of the Eagle (1962) provides a smart and well made story of black magic and very English paranoia.

The Morbid Imagination is a reader-...

24 days ago
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Exhuma

I continue my spooky season focus on overlooked horror movies.

Trauma is a popular theme of many current horror movies, usually some individual trauma that haunts the protagonist and re-appears mirrored in some malevolent form. But trauma...

a month ago
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    Navy veteran, former newspaper reporter, and former repo man. Resident of Door County Wisconsin, author of local crime novels. I don't use A.I. Period.

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