The Body Snatcher
I’m not the biggest fan of Robert Wise, but I do love The Set-Up (1949) and The Body Snatcher (1945). While The Set-Up sits comfortably in the Noir cannon, The… Read more »
I’m not the biggest fan of Robert Wise, but I do love The Set-Up (1949) and The Body Snatcher (1945). While The Set-Up sits comfortably in the Noir cannon, The… Read more »
The Black Torment (1964) is a British horror film that really deserved its release on Kino Lorber’s Redemption label. It may be a flawed film, but it represents all of… Read more »
Richard Stanley has been making a comeback of sorts with his best film yet, Color Out Of Space (2019), so I decided to revisit the film that once derailed his… Read more »
The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) is one of the great horror-comedies of all time. This may sound like hyperbole, but after finally getting around to seeing this Roger Corman produced… Read more »
When Werner Herzog remade F.W. Murnau’s masterpiece in 1979 with Klaus Kinski in the titular role he essentially bridged the gap between pre-Nazi German cinema and the determinedly nationalistic New… Read more »
It’s interesting watching Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017) today. Get Out remains a harrowing social satire and harsh indictment of the “color lines” that partition this country. But there was… Read more »
Lon Chaney Jr. is probably the most iconic Wolfman in cinema, but the most prolific has to be Paul Naschy. Naschy played the werewolf character Count Waldemar Daninsky twelve times… Read more »
After revisiting the original Scream trilogy in early September I thought that, in the spirit of Halloween, I should finally watch Wes Craven’s final feature Scream 4 (2011). Scream 4… Read more »
Before Ulli Lommel moved to the United States and began collaborating with Andy Warhol (and segueing into the direct to video market) he directed The Tenderness of Wolves (1973). Lommel’s… Read more »
As director Paul Schrader points out in an interview on the Shout! Factory release of his film Cat People (1982) that a majority of his films, which he either wrote and… Read more »