The history of The Awful Dr. Orloff (1962) is a little confusing to me without conducting more in-depth research into it. I understand...

In a 1987 archival interview with Herschell Gordon Lewis on Arrow Video's latest release of Blood Feast, the "Godfather of Gore" defines...

With foreign films, you often have to specify which version you're watching. For Castle of Blood (1964), originally known in Italian as...

How significant should we consider Mario Bava's The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963) to be? It is the first and the last of something in...

"Viy is a colossal creation of the imagination of simple folk. The tale itself is a purely popular legend. And I tell it without...

Francis Ford Coppola was working in the sound department for a 1963 movie called The Young Racers when producer Roger Corman found...

Although it sounds an awful lot like Peter Cushing to me, the uncredited narrator at the beginning of The Mummy's Shroud (1967) is...

The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964) blends the basic premise of most mummy movies with elements from other horror films, as well as...

Try as I might, I have a hard time enjoying Panic in Year Zero!  Watching it again recently, my mind acknowledges what it's trying to...

Maniac makes you long for the good old days… the early 1960s, when a “maniac” was simply a man locked away for a crime of revenge, not a...

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

Nightmare was the fourth Hammer "mini-Hitchcock" that Jimmy Sangster wrote and the second that Freddie Francis directed. (Francis...

On IMDb, Paranoiac is ranked third only to The Nanny and Scream of Fear with the highest User Rating for one of Hammer's...

In 2016, pedophilia is an uncomfortable subject for a movie. Can you imagine what it would have been like in 1960? Although it was...

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...

"This is a story of long, long ago when the world was just beginning." To the narrator's opening dialogue, I would add "a fictional...

If my information is correct, Prehistoric Women (aka Slave Girls in the UK) was made after One Million Years B.C. but was released in the...

Two years after Hammer made The Stranglers of Bombay, they changed the location from India to Hong Kong and jumped an era ahead from the...

The Pirates of Blood River is as much tale of the Huguenots as much as it is a tale of pirates. In terms of Hammer Films fictional...

There's a simple reason I haven't watched most of the Hammer adventure movies until now. Categorize them as you might, but the...