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, technically awful glory, it is one of the most important “trash” films ever made.(read more...)

God is one mean mother... er... father... thing. At least Larry Cohen, the writer/director of God Told Me To (also known as Demon), believes that.

There are few films out there like this. It is at once a gritty New York crime story and a science fiction/horror mystery of such bizarre magnitude that one may have to watch it twice just to check their sanity.

There's been a rash of mass murders in the Big Apple that are seemingly unrelated, except that all of the perpertrators justify their actions in the same way: "God Told Me To." Detective Lt. Peter Nicholas of the NYPD (Tony Lo Bianco) finds himself inexorably drawn to the case, tangled in its enigma more than he's willing to admit.(read more...)

If you listen to many Hammer fans, they will tell you to stay away from this movie. Don’t listen to them. Listen to me, the resident Hammer film completeist. A Hammer film directed by William Castle may sound like an unsettling mixture. Well it is, but that’s a good thing! (God, I sound like Martha Stewart).(read more...)

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 (both 1932). These films are timeless gothic fables that will be viewed and appreciated till the end of time. In 1932, Karloff took a brief sabbatical from Universal and made The Mask of Fu Manchu for MGM. This film is not like his other films from the period. It is not an immortal classic, and remains firmly entrenched in its era. It is a movie that is surrounded in the bigotry and ignorance of the period that produced it. The film is entertaining as a cult-trash flick but nothing else.(read more...)