Horror Express
From the moment John Cacavas’ theme can be heard and the title card “Christopher Lee & Peter Cushing in” appears on screen, you know that Horror Express (1972) is going… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Lurkers
Cathy (Christine Moore) was terrorized and abused as a child by her mother. In a fit of rage, Cathy’s mother stabbed her father to death. This trauma plagues Cathy well… Read more »
Body Snatchers
Robert H. Solo followed up his 1978 production of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers with the quasi-sequel/remake Body Snatchers (1993). Body Snatchers wasn’t the hit its more famous predecessors were,… Read more »
Nightmare City
It took only a dozen survivors of a toxic waste spill to spread a deadly contagion through all of society. These survivors, mutated by radioactivity, have becomes vampiric zombies that… Read more »
Vampyres
Vampyres opens with a scene of disturbing violence. Two women, in the midst of making love, are gunned down. Their naked bodies splattered with blood as bullets pass through them…. Read more »
Mummy Raider
That’ll teach you to turn your back on a professor! – Prof. Cleve Somewhere in Berlin, in the garage of a derelict castle, Dr. Humboldt (Ruby LaRocca) is holding Kristen… Read more »
Transylvania 6-5000
While trying to locate a “Frankenstein” monster in Transylvania, hack journalists Jack Harrison (Jeff Goldblum) and Gil Turner (Ed Begley Jr.) encounter all manner of spooky creatures, mad scientists, aristocrats,… Read more »
The Devil’s Wedding Night
The Devil’s Wedding Night (1973) reimagines the legend of Erzsébet Báthory as a vehicle for Mark Damon. In The Devil’s Wedding Night Damon plays twin brothers, Karl and Franz, who… Read more »
Elvira: Mistress Of The Dark
You couldn’t grow up in the eighties and nineties without knowing who Elvira/Cassandra Peterson was. Elvira’s Movie Macabre (1981-86) was a staple for five years and introduced a generation to… Read more »
The Vampire Lovers
The Vampire Lovers (1970) adapts Sheridan Le Fanu’s nineteenth century novella Carmilla in true Hammer fashion. The rich colors, bombastic music that punctuates every dramatic beat and the macabre atmosphere… Read more »
