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With each passing day I become more convinced that the 60s, 70s and 80s were the most creative decades of television. In the 70s, the ABC network presented a movie made especially for TV every week. The budgets were much smaller than theatrical films but the vast majority of those films were incredible. DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARKNESS was a small masterpiece of terror that has remained in the public's mind for years. It all begins when a young couple settles in an old house that they have inherited. When they begin the repairs, they remove the lid of a closed chimney without suspecting that they have released three kinds of demonic gnomes who want to take over Sally, the new owner. The most disturbing part of the story is that what happens to Sally happens to many in our daily lives, she loses objects in the house that then appear in a mysterious way, the creatures are quite creepy too, hiding throughout the house and whispering their plans to with Sally. I'm not going to spolliar but the ending is truly creepy. It is surprising how with a limited budget but with good performances, good direction and a lot of ingenuity you can achieve a terrifying atmosphere.
Taking advantage of the incredible success of Adam West's Batman series, this cartoon rescues all the clichés of the series. Here the hero is not a bat man but is actually a bat, just as the series has all kinds of gadgets with the bat prefix, its operation center is also a batcave and it also receives its missions from the Police Headquarters, but Here his companion is a kind of Kato (Bruce Lee) the green hornet assistant, his name is Karate and his appearance is that of a juice fighter in a judoka outfit. Like the Adam West series, there is a gallery of eccentric villains, among which the mad scientist Hugo a Go Go stands out, who is also the one who appears the most in the chapters, and the most ingenious and bizarre traps of the series also appear. That Batfink always comes out unscathed. Batfink also has two powers that he uses repeatedly, his steel wings that serve as a shield to repel bullets and his supersonic sonar radar, a Beep that emits and bounces bringing him information. The cartoon is extremely fun.
It is the early 1900s, Professor Henry Jarrod is a successful sculptor and his Wax Museum is a great success due to the meticulous quality of his creations, but one night one of his partners has a heated argument with him in his studio and this leads to in an all-consuming fire. Some time later the professor reappears, now bound to a wheelchair due to the injuries received in that fight and is preparing to reopen his famous wax museum, at the same time a series of mysterious crimes and disappearances of people are investigated by the police, and a creepy nocturnal figure appears to be responsible. Meanwhile, the museum opens its doors with some amazingly real sculptures, so much so that a woman named Sue Ellen becomes suspicious when she realizes that the figure of Joan of Arc is identical to one of her missing friends. Finally it is discovered that the professor and the murderer are the same person and that he has gone mad due to the horrendous deformations suffered in that fire and that he has managed to disguise himself using a wax mask made by himself and that he is using a horrible method of covering up. With cadaver wax to make their perfect sculptures. The film is from 1953 but even today it has very good suspense scenes, such as the professor's chase of Sue Ellen in the deserted and dark streets, Vincent Price is great in the role of the professor who owns the museum and the rest of the cast is also outstanding . It was a great movie in those years supported in large part by being the first horror movie made in 3D. Today it is a very enjoyable little gem despite the passage of time.