Vampyres (1974) is Spanish director Joseph Larraz's entry into the 'lesbian vampire' cycle of films popular in Europe at the time. Full of nudity and violence, the movies were exploitation hous ...

Movie - Rob Wrigley - 2001-10-01 00:00 - 0 comments

Pete Walker's Frightmare appears to have been made primarily to shock the common British public of 1974; in many ways, it's nothing more than series of grotesqueries strung along a thin thread of plot. Thirty-four years later, however, it ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2008-05-05 00:20 - 0 comments

Editor’s Note: This review covers the public domain Horror of the Zombies version, which is formatted to fit a standard television and features minor cuts for violence. Although Horror of the Zombies is the th ...

Movie - Robert Ring - 2008-01-25 01:14 - 0 comments

Known originally as Dead of Night but released in America as Deathdream , Bob Clark’s second foray into zombie cinema is an engaging, well invested 88 minutes of thrills, technical artistry, and provocative social commentary a ...

Movie - Chris Justice - 2006-11-13 01:00 - 0 comments

With all the revolutions in the film industry in the late 1960s and early 1970s, many of the older film monsters were starting to appear cliché, even trite. Dracula, long the enemy of Victorian standards, needed to be updated for a tim ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2006-10-22 02:01 - 0 comments

Some scenes in film history will live in our minds forever. They include the shower scene in Psycho , King Kong on top of the Empire State Building, and the laboratory creation of The Monste ...

Movie - Chris Justice - 2005-08-17 00:00 - 0 comments

A triumph of foreboding atmosphere and gritty style, Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is no doubt one of the most influential horror films of all time. Its status has acquired almost mythical ...

Movie - Kairo - 2005-05-03 22:12 - 0 comments

After viewing Bob Clark’s Black Christmas , horror fans will struggle to view slasher classics like Halloween , Friday the 13th , or Nightmare on Elm Street the same way again. Black Christmas solidified ...

Movie - Chris Justice - 2006-10-27 00:00 - 0 comments

Captain Kronos can kill three men at once. Captain Kronos can take a vampire bite without turning into one of the undead himself. Captain Kronos is down with G-O-D. Captain Kronos can smoke pot and not ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2005-10-20 00:00 - 0 comments

In 1972, "Dark Shadows" creator Dan Curtis collaborated with famed horror writer Richard Matheson to bring an unpublished story by Jeffrey Grant Rice to the small screen as the television ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2005-10-17 01:23 - 0 comments