Rattlers (1976)
A small desert community is ambushed by aggressive killer rattle snakes. Did that tin drum that the government secretly buried in the desert have anything to to with all of this? Hmmmmmmmmm…..maybe. Certainly no Academy Award nominations to be given…
The Amazon Head Hunters (1932)
The Marquis de Wavrin, a Belgian explorer, spends four years in the Amazon jungle in Ecuador looking for a lost friend who may have fallen victim to headhunters.
Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (1971)
This is by a long way the best of the three adaptations so far of Bram Stoker’s complex and disturbing novel of an Egyptologist’s obsessive desire to revive an evil ancient Egyptian queen. (The novel was so worrying in 1903…
Horror of Dracula (1958)
Terence Fisher’s DRACULA (HORROR OF DRACULA in the USA; 1958) is the best vampire film of all time. No other picture combines the right amounts of horror, humor, action, and eroticism. Britain’s Hammer Films is legendary for their horror films–this…
Beyond Darkness (1990)
Beyond Darkness is a b horror picture about a haunted house. It’s Poltergeist meets The Exorcist. A reverend and his unsuspecting family move into a house with mysterious supernatural symptoms. Even more mysterious was why a married Protestant minister was…
Night Creatures (1962)
Captain Clegg (AKA: Night Creatures) is a Hammer-Major production in Eastman Color, it’s directed by Peter Graham Scott with a screenplay written by John Elder. It stars Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen, Oliver Reed, Michael Ripper and David Lodge….
Pigs (1973)
After a pre-credit sequence which takes a principled stand against childhood sexual abuse by showing an older adult male’s hand feeling up the bottom of a voluptuous and very mature-looking “teenager”, this movie gets right down to business with it’s…
Joy of Sprockets
When I was in high school I would often volunteer my services to run a 16mm projector. It could either be running cartoons at a Christmas party or doing the Friday night movie screening at a local Children’s Hospital. There…
Satan’s Slave (1976)
Perhaps because of the success of ROSEMARY’S BABY (1968) and THE EXORCIST (1973) and, to a lesser extent, THE OMEN (1976), the 1970’s were a time in which the genre of horror in film was saturated with movies about evil…
Twins of Evil (1971)
The third and final entry to the ‘Karnstein Trilogy’, “Twins of Evil” of 1971 is doubtlessly one of the creepiest and best films the great British Hammer Studios have brought forth in the early 70s. After the fantastic “The Vampire…
Devil Doll (1964)
“Devil Doll” may not be the crown jewels, but it is a small gem, and a very enjoyable horror tale. Except for a few slow-moving scenes in newspaper offices, it is well acted, directed and photographed, with great use of…
The Leech Woman (1960)
“The Leech Woman” is a film that’s a lot better than its title. Coleen Gray plays the older wife of Phillip Terry, a doctor who’s been experimenting with various mixtures in order to find the fountain of youth. The acting…
Without Warning (1980)
An alien has landed and it’s killing innocent humans! Why, you ask? If you’re looking for a feasible explanation like harvesting humans for food or cleaning off this planet for future alien use, forget it. Here the bad guy is…
The Vampire Lovers (1970)
Hammer Studios speeds up to the more sexually explicit times with Vampire Lovers, a sleek, beautifully filmed atmospheric filming of the vampire tale Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu. This wonderfully done film combines the traditional vampire legend with the more…
Black Magic 2 (1976)
A hospital is full of patients suffering from mysterious and very icky ailments. A doctor believes that spells might be the cause and tries to convince his wife and colleagues, putting them all in danger from the black magician responsible….
The Asphyx (1972)
“Sir Hugo” (Robert Stephens) is a much respected scientist in Victorian Britain fascinated by motion pictures. Whilst filming his friends punting on the river; they have a calamitous accident and die. What shows up on his photography afterwards intrigues him…
I sette magnifici gladiatori (1983)
The mighty Lou Ferrigno stars in this swords & sandal take on Akira Kurosawa’s classic The Seven Samurai, brought to us in this case by the ever maligned Bruno Mattei. Big Lou’s mission, along with his assembled warriors, is to…
The Nail Gun Massacre (1985)
A nice little independent film from Texas? Not even close. Some guy named Terry Lofton wrote the story, screenplay, also directed and even had a bit part in his little movie, about an embittered construction worker who goes around with…
Blood Voyage (1976)
What is meant to be a pleasure cruise becomes a nightmare as murder follows murder on a small ship. With tension mounting, passengers and the crew turn on each other in a desperate attempt to identify the killer. The version…
A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die (1967)
“A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die” is a quality spaghetti western with a solid cast and an interesting storyline. It is filmed beautifully, with a relatively high production value for a film in this genre. Alex Cord does…