If Tod Browning’s Dracula (1931) is criticized for being too much like a play, then The Thirteenth Chair (1929) doesn’t have a chance! On...

For a 73-minute movie, Night Monster (1942) has a lot happening! In fact, it took a while for me to get acclimated and understand exactly...

When I think of Michael Curtiz, I automatically associate him with Casablanca (1942.) I forget the number of classic horror films he...

I run to death, and death meets me as fast, and all my pleasures are like yesterday. Holy sonnet VII, Jonne Donne The Seventh Victim...

Universal monster movies from the 1940s have a distinct look. Had I not seen the Paramount logo at the beginning of The Monster & the...

Get out your whiteboards and markers for this one… In 1924, Agatha Christie (you may have heard of her) wrote a short story called,...

It doesn’t take a stretch of the imagination to believe Twentieth Century-Fox was eager to capitalize on the success of Universal’s The...

Added to the many miracles performed by modern science that have accounted for the saving of thousands upon thousands of human beings,...

Talk about a bad rap! All right, The Return of Doctor X (1939) isn’t a fantastic movie; however, with a running time that's barely an...

Return of the Ape Man (1944) opens with an ominous headline: A hand pulls a lever in a laboratory and Professor Dexter (Bela Lugosi)...

The Ape Man (1943) opens with members of the press waiting for a ship to dock. A newspaper story provides further exposition: Doctor...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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,...

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...

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

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