Writing a review lauding the merits of Alfred Hitchcock 's Psycho is like writing an essay on why breathing is important. Or better yet, why sex feels good. Talk about begging the question. ...

Movie - Chris Justice - 2005-05-26 00:00 - 0 comments

In 1960, two films came out in a fluster of controversy, due to their new takes on audience terror. One, Psycho , proved to be a success, and furthered the notion that director Alfred Hitc ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2001-03-03 01:00 - 0 comments

Of all of the lists of “classic movie monsters,” Dr Jekyll/Mr. Hyde is the monster most forgotten. Maybe because the plot is entirely too similar to the far superior Wolf Man, or perhaps because there ...

Movie - Jenn Dlugos - 2005-08-24 00:00 - 0 comments

Ranging from stark and haunting to just a touch of mild yawn-inducement, Village of the Damned covers a lot of territory in its scant 77 minutes -- most of it rewarding. The epitome of the haunting materi ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2000-09-21 01:00 - 0 comments

If the title Little Shop of Horrors only brings forth images of Rick Moranis, Steve Martin, and Ellen Greene , it's time to expand your cinematic experience a little. Roger Corman 's 1960 The Little Shop of Horrors is a gem, a f ...

Movie - Timothy J. Rush - 2007-10-03 01:52 - 0 comments

Ahhh… the world would be so boring without Roger Corman directing movies like The Wasp Woman . This Corman classic was shot in Los Angeles, and like many of his B-gems, required a miniscule budget of less than $50K and was c ...

Movie - Chris Justice - 2007-10-02 01:27 - 0 comments

In the early 1960s, low-budget filmmaker Roger Corman convinced American International Pictures to give him enough money to fund a movie based on Edgar Allan Poe's "Fall of the House o ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2005-05-08 17:29 - 0 comments

Italian horror, that awkward pile of animal feces capped with 24-karat gold, owes quite a bit to Mario Bava. More specifically, it owes it to Bava's first solo directorial effort, La Maschera del Demonio , ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2005-10-31 01:00 - 0 comments

Georges Franju's 1959 horror classic Eyes Without a Face (aka Les yeux sans visage and The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus ) opens on a woman driving a car through the French countryside. ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2005-03-03 01:00 - 0 comments

Of all the films given the Hammer Stamp of Approval, Brides of Dracula , is probably the most popular. It seems to be given the most play on television, it’s one of the most highly rec ...

Movie - Jenn Dlugos - 2003-01-14 17:26 - 0 comments