Sleepy Hollow
Tim Burton’s unique brand of “Pop Goth” has become so codified and commodified in popular culture that his films seem to exist as an entity beyond film. The cult following,… Read more »
Tim Burton’s unique brand of “Pop Goth” has become so codified and commodified in popular culture that his films seem to exist as an entity beyond film. The cult following,… Read more »
Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel (1967) is a classic Gothic horror film from The Constantin Film AG of Germany (then West Germany). Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel reunited Constantin stalwarts… Read more »
At a remote Huguenot settlement on an island in the Caribbean, Jonathan Standing (Kerwin Mathews) is railroaded and imprisoned for adultery. Standing manages to escape the penal colony only to… Read more »
The Return Of Captain Invincible (1982) combines the wit and counterculture savvy of Richard O’Brien with Philippe Mora’s distinctly Australian view of American imperialism all within the aesthetic milieu of… Read more »
Since I was fourteen years old The Wicker Man (1973) has been one of my favorite films. I remember getting the home video release from Anchor Bay that came in… Read more »
A seminal work of avant-garde cinema, Pere Portabella’s Cuadecuc, vampir (1971) was shot in conjunction with Jesús Franco’s film Count Dracula (1970). Portabella shot his film as Franco shot his,… Read more »
Hammer Productions’ Taste Of Fear (1961) sees director Seth Holt working at the height of his powers. Taste Of Fear, like Holt’s best films for Hammer, is a thriller rather… Read more »
Shot on the same sets and at the same time as The Reptile (1966) and Dracula: Prince Of Darkness (1966), Rasputin the Mad Monk (1966) is a relatively low budget… Read more »
De Sade 70 (1970) or Eugenie… The Story of Her Journey into Perversion is Jesús Franco’s second film adaptation of a work by the Marquis de Sade. For a long… Read more »
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 »