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Old horror movie with mad scientist and “ghost dog”?

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Hi.  My mom wanted me to see if anyone could help her figure one out.  She (in her late 70s) says she remembers seeing a movie on TV roughly in the 1954-1956 time frame that made a lasting impression on her.  It had a mad scientist who was hoping to reanimate the dead, and he first successfully performed the experiment on a dog (German shepherd she thinks).  It worked, but the dog came out aggressive and “weird”, and she said it could walk through walls which makes it sound to me more like a ghost than a revived corpse.  She remembers it snarling and baring it’s teeth a lot.

She says he planned on then doing the same thing to a human but she doesn’t think he ever had a chance to do so.  And she thinks the dog eventually killed the mad scientist.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Possibly an episode of Tales of the Unexpected? With a fish sandwich

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Hi.  I have a vague recollection of something that I *think* may have been an episode of Tales of the Unexpected, or something similar (late 70s to early 80s seems right).  I’ve read through the synopsis of all episodes as given on wikipedia though and nothing rings a bell.  All I remember is what I think is the closing scene, with a man and a woman sitting down at a table for dinner.  They’re discussing someone else, who had died, and the implication is that foul play had been suspected but the woman is explaining to the man that it ultimately was determined to be due to natural causes… Some weird medical condition the deceased person had.  In my mind the person had two of a certain organ, maybe the pancreas?  But that may have just been my childhood interpretation, because I’m not sure why having two pancreases would be an issue.  The medical condition combined with fatty food (iirc) is what did him in.

The man is eating dinner while she’s talking.  She explains that it is an incredibly rare condition, but the man gets a look on his face as if he’s having some digestive discomfort, and I believe the implication is that he too has this medical condition and might not be long for this world.  I think either he is eating a fish sandwich or the dead guy was said to have been eating a fish sandwich…  I may be completely wrong but I’d swear a fish sandwich is in the conversation somewhere.  And two pancreases.  🙂

Thanks in advance for any help!

Short story about a growing “splotch” or “ink blot” that kills

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I know it’s not a movie, and I apologize, but I was wondering if you all could help me identify a sci-fi/horror short story I read decades ago (probably early 80s but it likely was in an anthology of older stories I checked out from the school library).  The story was basically about some sort of blotch/spot/ink splotch sort of thing that someone encounters (perhaps in a book or on a wall), which gradually grows each time it’s noticed, and is implied to consume a couple of people at the end.  What was interesting about it was that the story used little drawings of the changing splotch in-line with the text if I recall correctly… not like a typical illustrated story…  It was an unusual approach, and stuck in my head.

Sorry if these sorts of requests are forbidden, I just thought there may be some overlap and someone else may have encountered that one before.

Thanks!

Movie/Show with vampire fang ring

I Don't Know the Name... (unsolved movies)

So this ties in somewhat with the “not really a vampire” one I posted yesterday that turned out to be the 1977 “Dead of Night” (thanks Livinghead for the solution to that one!)

In my flawed memory I blended these two together.  But I vaguely recall a movie or TV show wherein someone had a ring (possibly a “two-finger” fused ring) that had metal hooks on it (like fangs) and they were using it to gouge people on the throat…  I *believe* it was to fake a vampire as in the other movie, but perhaps they really were vampires and just liked doing it this way.

My brother says there was an episode of Highlander with something like that, but I really think I saw this in a vampire/horror movie at some point in time.

This one hasn’t nagged me as much as Dead of Night did over the years, but since I shuffled the memories together I figured I’d take a shot at this one too.

Thanks!

“Vampire” movie (or TV show) without a vampire?

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For years I’ve been trying to remember something I would have seen on cable TV probably in the 80s.  I’m not sure if it was a scene from a movie or perhaps an anthology horror TV show.  From what little I remember it looked like it was set in England in the same period that a lot of Hammer horror was.  I don’t remember if there was a real vampire in the story at all or not, but I think not.  I basically just recall someone tricking a man into staking another man to death under the pretense that he was a vampire…

So I think the guy kills someone, then draws some blood from the neck with a syringe.  He then drugs or knocks out some other guy and ends up dumping him in a crate in the attic, and uses the syringe to leave trickles of blood from this guy’s mouth.  Then he goes and gets another person (an older superstitious man) and takes him up to the attic and is like “look!  a vampire!” so the other guy stakes him to death.

This has been a memory fragment of mine for a LONG time so I’d be very grateful for any help!  Thanks!