The final third of Queen of Blood (1966) is a great little film; however, the first two-thirds is a hot mess. You can easily find trivia...

Here’s one justification for not rushing to consume every movie in a particular genre, from a particular studio, or from a particular...

Let’s get one thing out of the way up front. While The Old Dark House (1963) is technically a remake of the superior 1932 version, any...

Night Must Fall (1964) is an odd film that feels like a distant relative of Night of the Hunter (1955) or Cape Fear (1962). Here, it’s...

Let’s be honest, the movies I’ve chosen for this year’s Countdown to Halloween may have been fun, but they haven’t exactly been the...

In the year 2001, life has changed from the year Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962) was made. The story takes place “after man has...

I can count on one hand the number of times I've either walked out of a movie at the theater or turned one off on TV. I can endure almost...

Since the original Japanese poster for Gorath (1962) features a giant walrus monster, I expected it to appear at some point in the movie....

The physical characteristics of a 1960s low-budget American horror movie are distinct, but similar characteristics of a 1960s low budget...

When I posted on Facebook that I was watching Death Curse of Tartu (1966), I received comments like, “I irrationally love this movie” and...

Creature of Destruction (1967) reminds me an awful lot of a movie released two years earlier, The Beach Girls & the Monster. This is...

It’s been on my watch-list forever and I can’t count the number of times I’ve recorded it on TCM, but then never watched it. Why did...

At an hour and 19 minutes, Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster (1965) is about 19 minutes too long. It starts out great and I thought I...

Interested in clearing something off my DVR, The House That Screamed (1969) piqued my interest one night last week, probably because I...

The way author Allan Bryce depicts the production of The Deadly Bees (1966) in his book “Amicus: The Friendly Face of Fear,” it’s amazing...

Revered for its portmanteau films, Amicus Productions seemed just as interested in science fiction during its early years in the...

Derek M. Koch from Monster Kid Radio and Svengoolie must be in cahoots. Two days following an MKR episode about building two movies...

Ever since I saw Jon Hall in The Invisible Agent (1942), I’ve wanted to watch The Beach Girls & the Monster (1965), in which he not only...

Despite its reputation, it has taken me many years to finally watch The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962).  In spite of its reputation, I...

With its very noir pre-credits sequence, it seems like Hands of a Stranger (1962) might not be a horror film at all. When a man walking...