Watching The Baby (1973) has left me in a rare state: I don't know what to say. If I thought there was a real condition in which an adul...

"Abracadabra, I sit on his knee. Presto, change-o, and now he's me! Hocus Pocus, we take her to bed. Magic is fun...when you're dead." I ...

Several times during the first few minutes of Horrors of Malformed Men (1969), I thought I was going to have to turn it off. It reminded ...

At some point in the mid-1970s, my memories of seeing movies at the drive-in shift from the Enid Drive-In out by the fairgrounds, to the ...

Nearly ¼ of the movies I watched and loved in the 70s were released by American International Pictures, and 2/3 of those were also produc...

My education in Eurofilm continues with my first poliziotteschi, What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974). The term describes a subg...

It comforts me to read that Who Can Kill a Child? (1976) was “virtually unavailable” until the last decade or so. That may explain why I’...

If The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail (1971) is truly considered a giallo, then it’s the smartest one I’ve seen. It features a killer dress...

Of the early 1970s films from future horror masters, Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left (1972) is my least favorite. In fact, I don’...

Knowing absolutely nothing about it, I popped Death Smiles on a Murderer (1973) into the Blu-ray player expecting, as the name indicates,...

It's strange to hear thunder crashing behind the familiar Toho logo at the beginning of The Vampire Doll (1970), the first in the "Bloodt...

Never shown theatrically in the United States, El Caminante (1979), what is perhaps Paul Naschy's most acclaimed film, finally makes its ...

Can a home video release magically transform a bad movie into a good one? Maybe not, but it can certainly elevate a nearly unwatchable on...

More than one of the bonus materials on Arrow Video's new two-disc Blu-ray release of Deep Red (Profundo Rosso) emphasizes the importance...

At just over an hour into Images (1972), and I don't know what took me that long, I realized that no matter what happened, there wasn’t g...

In the 14-minute bonus feature interview with director John Grissmer on the new Arrow Video Blu-ray release, Scalpel, Grissmer says he an...

My first encounter with The Blood Spattered Bride (1972) was in the form of the Gorgon Video VHS release sometime during my nearly 20-yea...

From the bonus materials included with Arrow's limited edition release of The Cat O’ Nine Tails (1971), it's easy to conclude that the mo...

Unless you’re extremely fond of a particular movie, there’s sometimes no reason to upgrade from a perfectly adequate DVD to a supposedly ...

Neither an expert on the sub-genre nor a particular fan of it, I’d nevertheless categorize J.D.’s Revenge (1976) as a blaxploitation film...