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…
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….