For want of a strange horror film, look no further than Lamberto Bava’s Macabre released in 1980. It begins innocently enough as audiences follow a woman on her way to an affair, […]
Head and Heart – Macabre (1980)
Of a Single Mind – The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Over the course of his career, Vincent Price has played the madman exceptionally well. Whether insane or simply driven so, the characters that Price portrays are usually flawed in some way, often […]
A Nightmare Come True – Lake of Dracula (1971)
Like Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee before him, Shin Kishida would go on to portray history’s most famous vampire in Lake of Dracula, the second film in Toho’s Bloodthirsty Trilogy, all of […]
Dare You Spend a Night in… – The House of Seven Corpses (1974)
The House of Seven Corpses is a horror movie made on a budget about a horror movie being made on a budget. While it may not have been all that original, though […]
Driven to the… – Madhouse (1974)
In a move that can only be called genius, Vincent Price stars in Madhouse – a film about an actor who features primarily in horror films, with his claim to fame being […]
Dealing With Devils – The Flesh and the Fiends (1960)
Burke and Hare, self-described ressurectionists, have been portrayed on film many times over the years and such is the case here in The Flesh and the Fiends starring Peter Cushing. Though they […]
To Stop the Mummy, You Must Have… – The Mummy’s Shroud (1967)
Three years after The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb, Hammer would release The Mummy’s Shroud, the third entry into their mummy series and it would be a big improvement over the previous […]
You Would Never Know That… – The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)
The Creature Walks Among Us is the third and final film featuring the Gill-man and follows the second movie as once again, a group of men seek out the creature, this time […]
From the Depths Comes the… – Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954)
Whenever Universal decided to make a great horror movie, creature feature or not, they went all out and the results were usually spectacular. That is not to say that when they were […]
Will Beth Survive the… – Sorority House Massacre (1986)
Sorority House Massacre is as formulaic a slasher as they come. You can pretty much guess what is coming next at any given moment during the film and it lessens the impact […]
