The purpose of Arrow Video’s limited edition box set, Between Night & Dawn is “to shine a light on the broader thematic concerns and aute...

Prior to watching Don't Torture a Duckling (1972), I was familiar with Lucio Fulci only through a handful of the more horrific films he m...

The Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975) is an odd film to categorize, if, like me, you’re compelled to do that kind of thing. IMDb lists ...

Hammer's cycle of mummy movies provides evidence of the evolution of the studio, as well as film making styles in general.  The Mummy (19...

Of all the 70s movies I've re-watched recently, I think the one that maintains the best feel of the decade is It's Alive.  Perhaps it's t...

Like Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, I don’t remember the first time I saw The Abominable Dr. Phibes. I do, however, remember the commerc...

When I was a child, there were no video stores. There was no Netflix, Amazon Instant Video or iTunes.  Heck, there was no Internet, at le...

According to imdb, the most filmed character of all time is Dracula. As horror fans, I’m sure we’ll all seen at least a few different ver...

Oh, Incredible Melting Man, how bad are you? Let me count the ways… Your budget is so low you can’t even afford to use stock footage of ...

Sometimes memory does not fail me, but I wish it would. Just because I clearly remember how bad a movie was when I first saw it, I usuall...

One Monday morning at school, my friend Tommy Terrell ran up to me to tell me about the movie his father took him to see over the weekend...

The final film in Hammer’s original psychological thriller cycle, Fear in the Night, is a return to form for the studio. The movie has mo...

By the time it was over, I think I liked Straight on Till Morning. However, it was a tough sell at the beginning and I wasn't sure I'd b...

Demons of the Mind is a challenging movie to watch. I can't decide if it's too smart for its own good, too ambitious for its own good, o...

Die! Die! My Darling! (aka Fanatic) is a departure from the usual formula for a Hammer "mini-Hitchcock" thriller. The story is straightf...

When you go on a movie binge like I have, watching more than 35 movies in one month, you’re bound to have surprises and disappointments. ...

Ten years after director Val Guest made Stop Me Before I Kill! for Hammer Films, he returned in 1970 with When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth....

When I wrote about The Vengeance of She, I called it "odd." However, it has nothing over The Lost Continent. It's actually a straightfo...

Three years after She was a hit for Hammer, the studio produced a sequel called The Vengeance of She. It's barely about Ayesha ("She Who...

Oh my goodness, what do I make of Moon Zero Two? From the animated opening credits and song, I knew I was in for something bizarre. Fro...