The Most Dangerous Game (1932) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Ernest Schoedsack and Merian Cooper’s companion piece to their epochal King Kong, shot on many of the same sets and …
Horror Film
The Abominable Dr Phibes (1971) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Highly entertaining as a blackly comic riff on the revenge motif and an eye-catching exemplar of a strand of what …
Terrore nello Spazio (Planet of the Vampires, 1965) Movie Review & Filmsummary, Cast
An everlasting icon for the creative genius of Mario Bava, Terrore nello Spazio is an object lesson in making the …
Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte des Loups, 2001) Movie Review & Filmsummary, Cast
In initial viewings, Christophe Gans’ loopy, imaginative mixture of horror film, swashbuckler, chop-socky flick and conspiracy thriller, struck me as …
Countess Dracula (1971) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
One of the most ambitious Hammer Films productions, especially by the standards of the studio’s ‘70s output, Countess Dracula provided …
Thirst (1979) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
One of the key works of Antony I. Ginnane’s wave of international audience-seeking Aussie-made horror movies of the late ‘70s …
Carnival of Souls (1962) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Herk Harvey’s solitary but celebrated midnight matinee masterpiece is an indelibly creepy no-budget work that could be called the film …
The Ghost Ship (1943) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Along with Mademoiselle Fifi and Youth Runs Wild (both 1944), The Ghost Ship is possibly the most neglected of Val Lewton’s …
She-Wolf of London (1946) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
In spite of its title, this likeable yet very cheap and underdeveloped film is more a psychological thriller than a …
Werewolf of London (1935) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
The first, rather ill-fated effort by Universal Studios to create a werewolf film was obviously obscured by the subsequent Lon …
