Mill of the Stone Women (1960)
Based on a Flemish short story by Pieter Van Weigen, Mill of the Stone Women is an excellent slice of Eurocult Gothic horror. The film is along the same lines as films by Mario Bava; most notably Black Sunday and…
They Came from Beyond Space (1967)
Meteorites landing in Cornwall, England turn out to be invaders from outer space. They take over the minds of Earthlings, set up camp, and conduct top secret experiments. The aliens’ appetite for fine scientific brains is unquenched by heroic Robert…
Black Samurai (1977)
It has been a while since I watched Black Belt Jones, but that was the previous Jim Kelly film I had seen and recently the mood took me for some blaxploitation films. Where the previous film had Kelly fighting for…
The Devil Rides Out (1968)
THE DEVIL RIDES OUT, while it came along almost 10 years after Hammer first started churning out horror films, is possibly the best horror film they ever produced. Even though HORROR OF DRACULA and CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF rank highly…
Son of Dracula (1943)
Producer Carl Laemmle Jr changed history of horror cinema when he hired director Tod Browning to make the first official adaptation to Bram Stoker’s classic novel “Dracula”. This was the beginning of Universal Studios’ tradition of Gothic horror that reigned…
The Spotlight is on Paul Logan and THE HORDE
Paul Logan has starred in action, comedy, drama, and horror films along with starring in prime time TV series and a soap opera. He was born and raised in NY and was a skinny kid that was constantly being…
The Underwater City (1962)
This was one of the last science-fiction adventure relics from the 1950s to early 1960s before the JFK assassination changed the mood of this genre to something less innocent and more grim. Lovely Julie Adams portrays a psychologist who tests…
Moon Zero Two (1969)
Ah, the year was 1969. Apollo 11 had landed on the moon. I was 11 and eating up any science fiction I could. When I saw the advertisement for this movie I HAD to see it. So I had my…
The Cosmic Monster (1958)
Interesting little British sci-fi movie about man’s attempt to create a powerful electro-magnetic energy generator that tares a hole in the fragile Iononasphere. This creates a massive bombardment of the Earth by deadly and radioactive Cosmic Rays that cause havoc…
Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)
Time travel is a subject which has been addressed occasionally in films with varying degrees of success. For the most part these adventures usually entail journeying into Earth’s imminent future and can provide an interesting basis for speculation of what…
The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)
Older people tell us that as you age, time seems to speed up and fly quickly bye. Watch “The Beast of Yucca Flats” and you will observe a paradox – you will age rapidly, yet time will slow to a…
Django (1966)
As soon as the familiar Spaghetti Western tones hit, you know you’re going to be in for a treat and that’s what this film certainly is. Franco Nero plays the character that would eventually become synonymous with his name; the…
The Illustrated Man (1969)
‘The Illustrated Man’ shows how good a writer Ray Bradbury was, not to mention how his head was full of fascinating ideas. It shows this because the film is incredibly dated today, from the acting styles to the visions of…
Dolls (1987)
While driving in a stormy night, the car of Rosemary Bower (Carolyn Purdy-Gordon), her husband David Bower (Ian Patrick Williams) and his seven year-old daughter Judy (Carrie Lorraine) get stuck in the mud in the middle of nowhere. The family…
The Screaming Skull (1958)
After killing his rich wife Mariam by staging an accident where she ended up drowning in a pond at the Whitlock Estate Eric Whitlock, John Hudson, realized that he jumped the gun by taking out Mariam before she she could…
After the Fox (1966)
Peter Sellers is a real enigma. During his career, he made many brilliant films with amazing characterizations (such as DR. STRANGELOVE, BEING THERE, THE MOUSE THAT ROARED and many others), but he also did a lot of amazingly limp films…
Requiem For The Showmen
Before there were moving pictures, there were movie showmen. In 1895 there were between 50,000 and 60,000 lantern showmen in the United States, giving between 75,000 and 150,000 performances a year. The chances are you’d go to a magic-lantern show,…
A Moment With Vincent- An Essay By Darrell Ann Gamache Stone
This is an essay by the Indiana based Actor, Darrell Ann Gamache Stone. Darrell who is a wonderful and generous performer shared her photography of the Vincent Price Plaster mask and the essay it inspired with me today. I was…
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
An often overlooked and under-appreciated entry in Universal’s classic “Frankenstein” series that succeeds as an atmospheric, effortlessly paced monster movie. Dark, stormy nights, crashing thunder and lightning — all add in setting the stage for a thoroughly satisfying night of…
Malibu High (1979)
The absolute optimum in trashy titillation, MALIBU HIGH is unquestionably one of the sleaziest movies ever made, and a classic of its kind. This deliciously contumelious soap-opera centers around Kim, an embittered and mean-spirited high school senior…she’s a “bottom drawer”…