The Devil-Doll (1936) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Tod Browning should have been on top of the world after the enormous financial success of his Dracula (1931) temporarily …
Horror Film
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Infamous for being stuck in distribution limbo in the US, in spite of sporting fast-rising It-Girl Amber Heard, and directed …
Lifeforce (1985) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Imaginative, overwrought, and freakishly bizarre, Lifeforce, as cinema history’s only would-be blockbuster apocalyptic alien vampire nudie flick, can hardly be …
Piranha (1978) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Joe Dante had cut together trailers for Roger Corman before he made his feature directorial debut with the in-joke film …
Lake Mungo (2008) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
“I runne to death / and all my pleasures are like yesterday”, as John Donne wrote, is the epigram to …
The Cat and the Canary (1927) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
…and here’s a link to a short and sweet piece I recently wrote on Paul Leni’s The Cat and the …
The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Fu Manchu is a pop cultural figure as guilt-provoking as he is indelible and irresistible. His mixture of haughty, exotic …
Homicidal (1961) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
William Castle’s efforts to establish himself as Alfred Hitchcock’s rival in cinema thrills and public notoriety sees him kick off …
The Legend of Hell House (1973) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Kinky, intense, and memorably rendered, John Hough’s filming of a Richard Matheson screenplay, drawn from Matheson’s own novel, plays with …
The Haunted Palace (1963) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
After five proper Poe adaptations and one semi-improvised riff (The Terror, 1963), Roger Corman’s epochal series of colour AIP horror …
