Welcome, movie hors! Tonight, at 9pm EST/6pm PST, is the night, as our delightful host, Raincoaster , explains:  Come, child. Come into the manor. Enter without fear (for it will do you no good). Leave behind your inhibitions, worries and attachments to any given space/time continuum. Logic is not welcome here. You have entered the world of Mario Bava’s "Lisa and the Devil." As Bree has eloquently noted, this film is beautifully photographed, enthusiastically acted, gorgeously decorated, brilliantly scored, and absolutely batshit insane. There’s no point – at any point – in asking me what’s going on, because I must have seen this film ten times (at least three of them sober) and I have no fucking clue. This a good thing, I promise! One of the looniest things you notice right up-front is that the titular Lisa is American, but is played by the thickly-accented German baroness, Elke Sommer (who is now a painter in LA). You might remember her from the "Pink Panther" or...

Mark your calanders, movie hors, for Friday, March 28th, because our very own Raincoaster is hosting another Klassy Manor Movie Night - and this time she's picked a doozy! Think of it: Telly Savalas, of "Kojak" and lollipop-slurping fame, together at last with the scintillating Elke Sommer in a 1973 gothic horror movie directed by Mario Bava, an Italian filmmaker whose credo was surely "More-more-more," as in more beauty, more blood, more shivery thrills. How can you resist? Did you know? When Mario started out making the movie, he firmly believed he could create anything he wanted - only to have his finished work cruelly ripped from his hands and radically re-cut into a wan "Exorcist" knock-off. Happily, his original, dream-like vision has been restored and that's what Raincoaster will be presenting for us. Has this version since become a cult hit? Of course it has. Famous fans include directors Joe Dante, Martin Scorsese and Tim Burton, as well a...