THE AMUSEMENT PARK (1973) Movie Review
The Amusement Park (1973) d. George A. Romero (USA) (54 min) This recently uncovered and restored “lost” film from the Zombie King is a decided curiosity, with as much going on behind the scenes as in...
View ArticleVOODOO BLACK EXORCIST (1974) Blu-ray Review
Voodoo Black Exorcist (1974) d. Manuel Caño (Spain) (88 min) Despite trying to cash in on the name of William Friedkin’s possession classic (and the quickly fading blaxploitation era), this is really a...
View ArticleTHE VAMPIRE LOVERS (1970) Blu-ray Review
The Vampire Lovers (1970) d. Roy Ward Baker (UK) (88 min) In the late 18th Century, in the Austrian province of Styria. General Spielsdorf (Peter Cushing) holds a ball celebrating the birthday of his...
View ArticleDISCOVER THE HORROR... THE PODCAST!
Hey there! Any of you out there who have been paying attention over the last 17 years know that I happen to hold a certain gentleman named Jon Kitley in high regard. When it comes to “horror mentors,”...
View ArticleTHE LAST DAYS ON MARS (2013) Movie Review
The Last Days on Mars (2013) d. Ruairi Robinson (UK/Ireland) (98 min) Astronaut Vincent Campbell (Liev Schreiber) and his international crew are in the final hours of their exploratory mission on the...
View ArticleTORSO (1973) Blu-ray review
Torso (1973) d. Sergio Martino (Italy) (93 min) The female populace of an international Italian university is slowly being picked off by a ski-masked killer, beginning with two of the three subjects of...
View ArticleCAMERON'S CLOSET (1988) Movie Review
Cameron’s Closet (1988) d. Armand Mastroianni (USA) (86 min) Cameron (Scott Curtis), a young lad with psychic abilities, is put through the paces by his scientist father (Tab Hunter), but the attempts...
View ArticleDON'T GO IN THE HOUSE (1980) Blu-ray Review
Don’t Go in the House (1980) d. Joseph Ellison (USA) (92 min) Lonely misfit city worker Donny Kohler (Dan Grimaldi) suffers the one-two punch of witnessing a co-worker engulfed in flame after an...
View ArticleTHE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT (1955) Blu-ray Review
The Quatermass Xperiment (aka The Creeping Unknown) (1955) d. Val Guest (UK) (82 min) After Professor Quatermass’ (Brian Donlevy) experimental Q1 rocket crashes in a field in the English countryside,...
View ArticleEYEBALL (1975) Blu-ray Review
Eyeball (1975) d. Umberto Lenzi (Italy/Spain) (100 min) A group of American tourists seeing the sight of Barcelona are targeted by a red-gloved killer with a penchant for slashing and dashing and...
View ArticleMY DEAR KILLER (1972) Blu-ray Review
My Dear Killer (1972) d. Tonino Valerii (Italy/Spain) (100 min) While investigating an unsolved kidnapping, an insurance agent is killed in most dramatic fashion, lifted up and then decapitated by a...
View ArticleTHE SWORD AND THE SORCERER (1982) Blu-ray Review
The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982) d. Albert Pyun (USA) (100 min) Titus Cromwell (Richard Lynch), frustrated by noble King Richard’s successful defense of Ehdan, ventures to Tomb Island and resurrects a...
View ArticleON THE 3RD DAY (2021) Blu-ray Review
On the 3rd Day (2021) d. Daniel de la Vega (Argentina) (85 min) Enrique (Gerardo Romero) answers a mysterious phone call, telling him to bring a certain item to Santa Cruz, with it “hopefully being the...
View ArticleMONSTER FROM GREEN HELL (1957) Blu-ray Review
Monster from Green Hell (1957) d. Kenneth G. Crane (USA) (71 min) Dr. Quint Brady (Jim Davis) and colleague Dan Morgan (Robert E. Griffin) are performing the usual 1950s cinematic scientist duties of...
View ArticleTHE MUMMY (1959) Blu-ray Review
The Mummy (1959) d. Terence Fisher (UK) (86 min) In 1895, archaeologists Stephen Banning (Felix Aylmer) and his brother-in-law Joseph Whemple (Raymond Huntley) unearth the opening of Egyptian princess...
View ArticleTASTE OF FEAR (aka SCREAM OF FEAR) (1961) Movie Review
Taste of Fear (aka Scream of Fear) (1961) d. Seth Holt (UK) (81 min) Following the recent death (by drowning) of her boarding school friend Maggie, wheelchair-bound Penny Appleby (Susan Strasberg) is...
View ArticleTRAUMA (1993) Blu-ray Review
Trauma (1993) d. Dario Argento (Italy) (106 min) David (Christopher Rydell), a graphic artist for a local news station, encounters a young Romanian runaway Aura (Asia Argento) contemplating suicide on...
View ArticleTHE BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS (1957) Blu-ray Review
The Brain from Planet Arous (1957) d. Nathan Juran (as Nathan Hertz) (USA) (71 min) “Recognized nuclear scientist” Steve March (John Agar) and his way-too-young assistant Dan Murphy (Robert Fuller)...
View ArticleTHE PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES (1966) Blu-ray Review
The Plague of the Zombies (1966) d. John Gilling (UK) (91 min) In a remote 19th-century Cornish village, a mysterious plague relentlessly consumes lives at an unstoppable rate. Unable to find the...
View ArticleTHE HOUSE WITH LAUGHING WINDOWS (1976) Movie Review
The House with Laughing Windows (1976) d. Pupa Avati (Italy) (110 min) Art historian and restoration specialist Stefano (Lino Capolicchio) is summoned to a rural Italian town to restore a grotesque...
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