Anyone wondering why Hammer Films felt the need to transplant Count Dracula to Swingin’ London in Dracula AD 1972 need look no further than Scars of Dracula (1970). This tepid continuation of the studio’s Dracula series pr ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2008-07-22 21:00 - 0 comments

Hammer, perhaps in response to The Fearless Vampire Killers (Roman Polanski's spoof of their bloodsucker flicks), sends itself up in this black comedy remake of Curse of Frankenstein . They replace Peter Cushing with the then up-and-c ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2002-03-21 21:19 - 0 comments

To stab and to burn from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in psychosis and in nightmare, to hate and to objectify, from this day forward, when death tears us apart… Marital bliss, Hatchet for the Hon ...

Movie - Chris Justice - 2007-10-26 01:46 - 0 comments

As is very obvious to the poor souls that have the displeasure of knowing me, I have a documented obsession with the man we call Herschell Gordon Lewis . I am arguably the only homosapien on thi ...

Movie - Jenn Dlugos - 2002-09-04 22:18 - 0 comments

The Vampire Lovers , while based on nineteenth century writer Sheridan LeFanu’s classic vampire novella "Carmilla," is not high art. It is however, a highly enjoyable if a little tawdry ...

Movie - Jason Jones - 2002-09-18 00:00 - 0 comments

As directorial debuts go, Dario Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage is quite impressive. Although Argento would perfect his craft in later films, Bird maintains a consistent veil of suspense, mixing in a touch of ultraviolenc ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2007-02-15 01:00 - 0 comments

A sunny day, a quiet road, rural France: three things not normally associated with suspense...but the basis for terror in Robert Fuest's And Soon the Darkness . Released in 1970 to critical praise ...

Movie - Rob Wrigley - 2002-07-15 01:00 - 0 comments

Carnival of Blood is so beautifully original in composition and execution that it reminds you what an art form filmmaking is. This isn't to suggest that some films are not art or that most are ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2002-06-27 01:01 - 0 comments

It's possible to make a good film involving mad scientists, South American revolutionaries, and Hitler. If one doubts that, then watch The Boys from Brazil . It may well to be possible to make a ...

Movie - Rob Wrigley - 2003-03-27 01:00 - 0 comments

5 Dolls for an August Moon is perhaps the most curious of Mario Bava ’s horror films. As with 1963’s The Whip and the Body , Bava was hired on after the script and much of the rest of the production had already be ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2007-10-29 01:18 - 0 comments