Trick Or Treat
Walt Disney’s production Trick Or Treat (1952) has become the stuff of gifs and memes which litter social media every Halloween. Although the film debuted in the fifties its longevity… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Linnea Quigley’s Horror Workout
Every generation has its “Scream Queens” from Fay Wray to Jenna Ortega and Emma Roberts. For those of my generation our “Scream Queens” were Neve Campbell and Sarah Michelle Gellar…. Read more »
The Worst Witch
The first time I saw The Worst Witch (1986) was in the first grade. At my elementary school on Halloween classes ended at mid-day for a costume parade followed by… Read more »
Demons Of The Mind
Demons Of The Mind (1972) was the first of two films that Australian director Peter Sykes made for Hammer Productions (the second being To The Devil A Daughter). Demons Of… Read more »
Lubię nietoperze
Lubię nietoperze (1985), or in english I Like Bats, has been “re-discovered” thanks to critic and filmmaker Kier-La Janisse. Lubię nietoperze is profiled in Janisse’s masterful study House Of Psychotic… Read more »
Bad Moon
While on assignment in the jungles of Nepal, photo-journalist Ted Harrison (Michael Paré) and his girlfriend Marjorie (Johanna Lebovitz) are attacked by a werewolf; killing the later and cursing the… Read more »
Let’s Scare Jessica To Death
Let’s Scare Jessica To Death (1971) is one of the masterpieces of horror filmmaking to have come out of the seventies. This small, independent feature is a slow burning, tension… Read more »
The Return Of The Living Dead
Borne out of a legal dispute between the original filmmakers behind Night Of The Living Dead (1968), The Return Of The Living Dead (1985) manages to be a remarkably cohesive… Read more »
Tutti i colori del buio
Sergio Martino’s classic Tutti i colori del buio (1972) is a highly expressionistic thriller marked by psychedelic flourishes that combines the psycho-drama of Alfred Hitchcock’s Marnie (1964) with the Gothic… Read more »
Zombie High
Few movies look and feel as much a part of their moment as Zombie High (1987). This oddball horror-comedy is eighties to the hilt. Besides that it’s the cast that… Read more »
