Terror from the Year 5000 is a film about time travel, when time travel on the big screen was hardly represented. Not as of 1958, at least. In this respect, it is […]
Reaching Through – Terror from the Year 5000 (1958)
Time to Grow Up – Teenage Caveman (1958)
The most remarkable thing about Roger Corman’s Teenage Caveman, which was released in 1958, is that it stars a very young Robert Vaughn as the titular character. Everyone has to start somewhere, […]
Of the Spider and the Fly – The Spider (1958)
Carol Flynn is heading to school one day with her boyfriend Mike when she tells him she is worried about her father as he never returned home the night before. Mike blows […]
Through the Door – The Haunted Palace (1963)
Once upon a time, Roger Corman would make a series of pictures based on the works of Edgar Allen Poe. One of those would be called The Haunted Palace, based upon a […]
From the Ashes – Pyro… The Thing Without A Face (1964)
Some movies just scream greatness by their title alone and while Pyro… The Thing Without A Face was indeed a good film, it was by no means great, not that it did […]
Rapping At My Chamber Door… – The Raven (1963)
Vincent Price, Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre would star in a 1963 adaptation by Roger Corman and Richard Matheson of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven that would end up being far more […]
Calling Forth… – The Dunwich Horror (1970)
To some, it might seem a little strange to see Sandra Dee in a horror film, especially one based upon the work of H.P. Lovecraft and yet, at this point in her […]
Gold, Murder, Science and a… – Voodoo Woman (1957)
American International Pictures probably meant Voodoo Woman to be taken seriously as a horror film and while it was not awful in the strictest sense, it was not scary in the slightest. […]
Simply Misunderstood – Blood of Dracula (1957)
Blood of Dracula was an American International Pictures release sandwiched between I Was a Teenage Werewolf and I Was a Teenage Frankenstein. For all intents and purposes, they could have called this […]
He Knew Exactly… – How to Make a Monster (1958)
After creating a teenage werewolf and a teenage Frankenstein, it only made sense to create another picture and bring the two monsters together. So it is that How to Make a Monster […]
The Telltale Mind 