In The Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972), it’s not what the Knights Templar do when they’re dead that’s so horrific; it’s what they do when...

Watching a lot of horror films, there have been times when they cease to shock me. Don’t get me wrong; I’m never completely desensitized...

As much gialli as I've watched lately (Don't Torture a Duckling, The Suspicious Death of a Minor, The Girl Who Knew Too Much, and The...

Once again, I'm not sure exactly which version of a foreign movie I just watched. I'm guessing that the dubbed DVD of The Bird with the...

Today's movie takes us into a bizarre subgenre called "Turksploitation." Wikipedia defines turksploitation as "a tongue-in-cheek label...

Rituals (1977) is a refreshing pre-slasher horror film because its victims are not horny teenagers or scantily-clad women. They're...

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...

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...

Five years after the release of Frogs, the "Nature Gone Wild" or "Eco-Horror" film subgenre was still going strong. Post-Jaws, there was...

Twenty years before Steven Spielberg directed Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park, Crichton himself directed another movie about an...

One of my biggest disappointments rewatching movies from the 1970s has been the realization that I don't really like The Omen as much as...

Note: Willard and its sequel, Ben, were the subjects of the sixth episode of The Classic Horrors Podcast. Click here to listen. . We...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...