Director Robert Wise's The Haunting begins with both guns blazing, so to speak. As a haunted house film, it starts beautifully--Wise lingers on an eerie black and white shot of Hill House while narration ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2001-01-06 01:00 - 0 comments

During the 1960s, there was a small explosion of literature adaptation in the horror genre, the highlight of which was Roger Corman 's Poe Cycle, a series of films based on the work of American Gothic author, Edgar Allan Poe. Once the succ ...

Movie - Julia Merriam - 2007-07-25 11:14 - 0 comments

For the fifth entry in his cycle of Edgar Allan Poe films, Roger Corman decided to take a new tact. Instead of an atmospheric, haunting chiller set in a Gothic castle, he made a wacky, slapstick comedy ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2005-03-12 01:00 - 0 comments

When Roger Corman completed filming The Raven in 1963, it turned out that star Boris Karloff still had two days left to go on his contract for the picture. Not wishing to waste those two days, Corman, and four other uncre ...

Movie - Eric Miller - 2007-10-04 01:01 - 0 comments

An unusual Hitchcock film in many ways, including that it has little hint of plot twists, The Birds amounts to Hitchcock's masterpiece entry in the late crop of 50's monster films. At least that's one ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2001-09-02 00:00 - 0 comments

Ancient Egyptian cults! Decapitations! Must I mention, the infamous “pulling out the tongue” scene? Yes, this is what Blood Feast is made of (and, really, not much more). In all its shallow, ...

Movie - Jenn Dlugos - 2002-11-15 01:00 - 0 comments

Anthologies, movies that are composed of a series of short films, are always hard to characterize. If the film is considered as a whole, does a particularly bad sequence besmirch the merit of the others? Or does a well-shot segment bolster on ...

Movie - Julia Merriam - 2007-10-22 01:20 - 0 comments

Hammer Film 's Kiss of the Vampire is a classic of the genre. Its historical place -- released in the early 60's during the spate of vampire films in the wake of Hammer's hugely successful 1 ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2000-11-20 01:00 - 0 comments

From the looks of it, this should have been an adequate Hammer horror film. Oliver Reed plays the lead role. Some hot blond chick plays the hallucinating sister. And the whole movie is about a scandal. Works ...

Movie - Jenn Dlugos - 2004-07-14 00:00 - 0 comments

It is impossible to simply watch Mario Bava’s The Whip and the Body . You can only hope to experience it, to let it wash over you and consume your senses. A sumptuous visual masterpiece dripping with sadomasochistic eroticism, The ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2007-10-23 01:46 - 0 comments