The Black Torment
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 »
Island Of Dr. Moreau
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
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 »
Nosferatu The Vampyre
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 »
Get Out
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 »
La Noche de Walpurgis
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 »
Scream 4
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 »
The Tenderness of Wolves
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 »
Cat People
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 »
The Devil Rides Out
I first got into Hammer Films when I was roughly thirteen years old. I used to rent the Anchor Bay DVD releases from Movies Unlimited. Since then, I have been… Read more »
