Terror Is a Man (1959)
Apparently there are scientists around who want to turn animals into men. This is the story of one of them. Of course, the signature story is that of “The Island of Dr. Moreau.” Here, a man traps black leopards and…
The Dead Are Alive! (1972)
Amando Crispino’s L’ETRUSCO UCCIDE ANCORA aka. THE ETRUSCAN KILLS AGAIN is an interesting and somewhat unusual Giallo from the greatest Giallo-year 1972. 1972 was the year of several of the greatest genre masterpieces including Sergio Martino’s YOUR VICE IS A…
The Deathhead Virgin (1974)
Another plodding, and ultimately boring, b-movie. There isn’t much here for bad movie fans. There’s no insane dialogue, directing, acting, etc. The problem with this movie is that it simply does nothing. Norman Foster (the director) spent way too much…
The Violators (1957)
Arthur O’Connell is a lawyer who can’t get a case because he doesn’t have experience having cases. So he joins the probation department and becomes an advocate for keeping kids out of the system. This annoys everyone in the department,…
The Terrornauts (1967)
The Terrornauts which looks like it was shot on a budget for a real and not Walt Disney high school musical, is one of the quirkiest science fiction films ever made. That’s in fact part of its charm, a Star…
Legacy of Satan (1974)
This movie looks and sounds like a home movie, except longer and more tedious. The lighting is amazingly bad. Characters’ heads cast shadows on other characters’ faces a lot. Impressively bad all-synthesizer score. The vampire wears a 1970s pink ruffled…
Mako: The Jaws of Death (1976)
William Grefe’s film about a lonely man who befriends the sharks and soon trains them to kill. Universal sued the filmmakers of this claiming it was a Jaws rip-off, which it somewhat is but the film owes more to the…
The Fog (1980)
A solid, powerful story slowly developing and photographed with a unique sense for tension. THAT is `The Fog’. This story will leave a big impression on you and it’s easily John Carpenter’s best and most effective horror film. His most underrated…
The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)
Peter Cushing is still great in EVIL. Sure, he’s not playing the character exactly the same as in the other films, but it’s refreshing to see him more heroic than usual, and it’s not as though he’s a total saint…
Chillerama (2011)
On the face of it, CHILLERAMA is a throwback to those horror anthologies of old, complete with a film-within-a-film vibe with a celebration of the old drive-in experience. Unfortunately, in execution it falls substantially short of the mark, having apparently…
Curse of the Blue Lights (1988)
A group of horny and obnoxious teenagers find the corpse of the Muldoon Man buried under Colorado cemetery.The ancient mythological creature Muldoon Man has an army of zombies and ghouls,who follow his orders and are hungry for some teenage blood.I…
The Nesting (1981)
Probably should have been much more nastier and sleazy than it was, because of the plot’s lurid context and it being directed by adult filmmaker Armand Weston. However that’s not the case, even though it does provide some nudity and…
Making the Movie Industry Make Sense Again
When you slide into any discussion on the state of motion picture exhibition, there is the natural tendency to find a single cause of the problems that beset this sometimes-dynamic business. There have been cycles of downturn that are quickly…
The Drownsman (2014)
The Drownsman: Madison has strange dreams after nearly drowning; a dark figure tries to drown her in a glass tank basement. Developing extreme hydrophobia she misses her best friends wedding, unable to leave her house due to rain. Her friends…
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
Dario Argento’s first dip into the directorial pool is a pot-boiler somewhere in the realm between Hitchcock and Jack the Ripper, classic noir and the “modern” cat-and-mouse serial killer picture. Argento’s method’s may still be in a slightly embryonic state…
Faceless (1987)
The renowned plastic surgeon Dr. Frank Flamand (Helmut Berger) owns the Clinique des Mimosas in Saint Cloud. While shopping in Paris during Christmas with his beloved sister Ingrid Flamand (Christiane Jean) and his lover and the head of the clinic…
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
The fourth film of Hammer’s awesome Frankenstein series, legendary director Terence Fisher’s “Frankenstein Created Woman” of 1967 is another creepy and excellent Hammer gem, and my personal favorite film in the series. Movies like this are reason enough to admire…
Berserk (1967)
Joan Crawford’s fans will appreciate her foray into yet another horror show, this time as the feisty, hard-edged manager of a traveling circus show suddenly burdened with murders of several circus members. The careful photography cannot hide the fact that…
Possession (1981)
Acting, colour, camera movement and story thrown into hyperactivity What do you get? Well, the headache inducing, enthralling Possession. Beautiful, erotic and extremely disturbing, Andrjez Zulawski’s film (admired by the Italian Master of the Macabre himself, Dario Argento) is an extreme…
The Thing That Couldn’t Die (1958)
What do you get when you mix one part “Evil Dead” and one part “Bonanza”? You get “The Thing that Couldn’t Die”! A horror (?) film set on a ranch that apparently doesn’t grow or raise anything. I must say…