Carl Theodor Dreyer's experimental Vampyr is an exercise in audacity. Watching certain scenes in the film reminds one of shorts produced in university film classes that are full of daring, cunn ...

Movie - Chris Justice - 2005-05-02 00:00 - 0 comments

Made on a shoestring budget with bad actors and painted backdrops, this early horror classic still holds up as an entrancing and spooky masterpiece of sorts. White Zombie is the first zombie ho ...

Movie - Kairo - 2005-10-13 00:00 - 0 comments

Funny, frightening, and fabulous, this movie is the first and best of the “dark secret in the attic of the old creepy house” movies. Starring Boris Karloff and directed by James W ...

Movie - Jenn Dlugos - 2002-10-27 00:00 - 0 comments

In the early 1930s, Boris Karloff cemented his reputation in our cultural landscape with films such as Frankenstein (1931) , The Old Dark House , and The Mummy ...

Movie - Jake Tucker - 2002-11-02 01:00 - 0 comments

“One of us! One of us!” Who could forget that infamous scene that is spoofed to this very day (latest was in Kevin Smith’s "Clerks" cartoon). Sensitive and powerful, this film is ...

Movie - Jenn Dlugos - 2002-10-14 00:00 - 0 comments

"This is the scroll of Thoth. Herein are set down the magic words by which Isis raised Osiris from the dead." More importantly, those are the opening words of Universal Pictures monst ...

Movie - Jason Jones - 2002-10-09 00:00 - 0 comments

Stumbling onto Doctor X used to be like stumbling onto a 5 dollar bill in the street -- a rare occurence, definitely worth it, but you kind of wished it was a 10. While available on VHS, it was hardly a prominently placed tape. More likel ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2006-10-20 00:00 - 0 comments