Although produced by Columbia Pictures, the graveyard sets in The Black Room (1935) are as gorgeous as any number of Universal Pictures genre films of the sa...

The set-up for The Vampire Bat (1933) couldn't be any simpler and it's established in the film's opening moments. Bats fill the sky on a dark night as the tow...

When I recently re-watched The Raven (1935), I didn’t remember liking it as much the first time I saw it. In fact, if comparing it to my memories of The Blac...

Henry Smedhurst (James Mason) and his wife (Barbara Mullen) have always wanted a place of their own and, at retirement age, they are finally able to buy one…...

Woman Who Came Back (1945) has a great gothic opening, generating a creepy atmosphere that’s sustained throughout the movie. In Eben Rock, Massachusetts, a “...

In a dark cave with the sound of drums beating in the background, a young woman moans that she can’t stand it anymore. “If you love me, kill me.” The man att...

I thought The Brute Man was all right, but it was only after watching it that I learned about its reputation. My first clue should have been that there was n...

Not a horror movie, per se, Strange Illusion nevertheless revolves around a ghostly, perhaps supernatural, dream. Haunted by the mysterious death of his fat...

ABOUT OUR GUEST Another colleague from the "We Belong Dead"/"Unsung Horrors" group and another great contribution to the countdown! Matthew Banks first said...

WHY I'VE NEVER SEEN IT In July, 2017,Derek M. Cook and Troy Howarth discussed Invisible Ghost on episode 326 of Monster Kid Radio. It instantly moved upward...

ABOUT OUR GUEST "Adventure guaranteed. Monsters optional." I love that slogan, and it belongs to someone worthy of using it, Stephen D. (Steve) Sullivan (e...

Until I recently re-watched The Wolf Man (1941), I would have told you it was the best of the Universal Monsters classics. Now I'm not so sure. I think I wa...

The Crime of Doctor Crespi (1935) looks and feels like it must be one of the earliest adaptations of an Edgar Allan Poe story. “Suggested” by "The Premature ...

One thing I love about the Universal Monsters sequels is the attention paid to continuity between them. Both Bride of Frankenstein and Dracula's Daughter beg...

For a movie that not only depicts human beings living at the same time as dinosaurs, but that also creates said dinosaurs with a number of methods that might...

Reflecting on an article I wrote some time ago about film adaptations of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's novella, "Carmilla" (which is part of a larger literary co...

IMDb Synopsis.  A ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers. Classic H...

IMDb Synopsis.  In a turn-of-the-century Renaissance Italian mansion, its tyrannical owner, a one-handed, wheelchair-bound pianist, with a strong belief in t...

Although I often feel like other people don’t see me, particularly when I’m driving, I wonder what it would feel like to be truly invisible. I’d use the powe...

If there’s anything worse than Lon Chaney Jr. as Frankenstein’s monster, it’s Lon Chaney Jr. as Dracula. With his pencil mustache and brunette hair, he’s as ...