The Head

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The Head

A bizarre German B-movie horror flick, The Head involves mad scientists and their crazy experiments taking organ transplants, which in 1959 were still new and experimental, to an entirely new level. We start with the sudden death of Prof. Dr. Abel (Michel Simon) and his crazed assistant (Horst Frank) who manages to remove Abel’s head and keep it alive separate from his body to keep the professor’s knowledge alive and continue his experiments against the professor’s wishes.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – The Dancing Men

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Dancing Men

Sherlock Sunday takes us back to 221 B Baker Street and the Granada Television’s faithful adaptations of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. A baffled Hilton Cubitt (Tenniel Evans) travels to London to hire Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) about some unusual drawings which have scared his wife (Betsy Brantley) nearly to death. After finding a pattern and dismissing them as more than simple vandalism, Holmes sets out to break the code arriving at the true answer too late to prevent tragedy from striking at Riding Horse Manor.

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The Strange Case of the Demon Barber

Sherlock Sunday takes us back to 40s radio and murder. Premiering on January 28, 1946 as part of The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes radio program, Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) is put in the unlikely situation of being hired by a potential murderer to prove his guilt. Inspired by Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, the actor playing the lead role in the musical is being gaslit to believe he has committed murders at night. Quickly dismissing the “evidence” of nightly crimes, Holmes is not quick enough to save his client’s life, but the world’s greatest detective does bring the killer to justice by taking the victim’s place upon the stage.

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Spider-Man – Return of the Spider Slayer

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Spider-Man - Return of the Spider Slayer

Spidey Saturday takes us back to the 90s. The show wastes no time in bringing back the Spider Slayers. In an obvious attempt to create (pretty crappy) toys to sell, “Return of the Spider-Slayers” gives us not one, not two, but three different Spider Slayers with the new ones apparently designed off the shittiest run of Transformers ever (they even combine together to… well, do nothing really except make them infinitely easier to beat when stacked on top of each other – even though the bomb’s explosion doesn’t appear to touch the bottom Slayer). In every way, the Slayers are even less impressive a second time around.

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