Ask FlickChick An All-new What Was That MovieQuestion When I was a kid there was a movie I used to stay up to watch on Creature Features I think it was from the early 1970s All I remember is it had the word queen in the title I think John Saxon was in it The monster was some kind of vampire with green skin I suppose the movie woul be really lame by todays standards but I used to love it when I was a kid Can you tell me the name Ive been told Queen from Outer Space starring Zsa Zsa Gabor by mistake AlbertoFlickChick The queen you want is Queen of Blood 1966 starring John Saxon Basil Rathbone and a young Dennis Hopper Queen of Blood was produced by the legendary Roger Corman who conceived it as a way to make a good-looking sci-fi movie on the cheap by pilfering high-quality outer-space footage from a Russian film whose American rights he owned and then marrying them to a new inexpensively shot monster story Writer-director Curtis Harrington
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Question: There was a '70s movie that I think starred Meredith Baxter Birney as a mummy. She looks normal for most of the movie, kills people (something to do with an amulet), reverts to mummy form on the roof of a building and is killed by cats. Do you know the title?
Answer: I vividly remember seeing this movie when it debuted in the ABC Movie of the Week slot: Directed by Curtis Harrington and scripted by Robert Bloch, it was called The Cat Creature (1973) and starred Meredith Baxter Birney as a resurrected Egyptian priestess of a cat cult turned loose on modern-day Los Angeles when a sacred amulet is stolen from her dessicated corpse. The cast of this affectionate homage to '40s ho
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