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...Night of the Lepus, Janet Leigh is hungrily eyed by 1,500 mad, mutant rabbits, photographed so that they appear six feet tall. In Dr. Phibes, bats, bees, rats and locusts are on an angry prowl. Yet to come are a thriller about man-killing spiders; a spine-tingler about murderous house cats; something called Pigs, Pigs, Pigs; Rats, Rats, Rats; and the inevitable Dr. Phibes Rises Again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Noah's Ark of Horrors | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

...CANTON, N.Y., Dec. 9 -- The Harvard hockey team scored three goals in the final period to upset Eastern champions Clarkson in a vast, luxurious spine-tingler at St. Lawrence Appleton Arena, tonight...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Hockey Team Pulls Upset, Chops Down Clarkson, 7-4 | 12/10/1966 | See Source »

...this point, Uncle is just one more budget dreadful from the monster mill operated by Producer William Castle (Macabre, The Tingler). From here on, it turns into a wonderfully wacky game of you-stab-my-back-and-ril-stab-yours. Uncle strikes first. One dark night he hypnotizes the boy-Barnaby shakes the spell on the brink of a 100-ft. precipice. Barnaby strikes back with some toxic toadstools-Uncle precautiously checks the mushroom sauce. Uncle surrounds Barnaby and Chrissie with a wall of fire-rain puts the fire out. Barnaby plops a tarantula on Uncle's chest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nepoticide v. Avunculicide | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

Though some of their adventures stir excitement, 8¾% never quite makes up its mind whether to be a spoof or a spine-tingler. But just before the giddy lovers emplane for England, Morley offers a verdict about the plot. He assures everyone that the sought-after secret document was only a scrap of paper, and the whole business just a routine bit of counterespionage. Precisely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fractional Thriller | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

...Spine Tingler. "There are some things Edie won't do, but nothing she can't do," said Groucho Marx, introducing her present show at a hotel on the Las Vegas strip. This statement could only be half right, since Edie does have her limitations. She is no Judy Garland. But nonetheless she is an above-average singer who is also an amusing comedienne and a pretty, been-around blonde with a spooky resemblance to Marilyn Monroe. The resemblance is so spooky, in fact, that she has had to drop Marilyn from her repertory of impressions (Jeanette MacDonald, Shirley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightclubs: Tax Missionary | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

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