Satanik, the big screen adaptation of the Italian comic book, is a good movie if taken on its own as it should be. Many like to compare it to Bava’s Diabolik film […]
A Twisted Reflection – Satanik (1968)
Not All As It Seems – The Good Neighbor (2016)
Humans are curious creatures, always wanting to know what their friends or co-workers or even strangers are up to. That curiosity can account for the rise in popularity of reality television, the […]
Nobody Will Hear You – Scream for Help (1984)
Scream for Help is something of a strange beast. It starts out with a pretty shocking statement from Christie, the lead character about how her stepfather is trying to kill her and […]
Buried Beneath the Earth, Can She Hear… – The Screaming Woman (1972)
Though 1972 may not have been the height of Olivia de Havilland’s popularity or of her career, she nonetheless still had the acting chops to deliver a top-rate performance in The Screaming […]
Not Really a… – Joyride (2001)
Is there anything so menacing as a trucker, those big-rig truck drivers who barrel down the highways, tail-gating poor families on their way to holiday or people commuting to work? Some might […]
Impersonation Gone Wrong – Crimes at the Dark House (1940)
Crimes at the Dark House is a macabre little film starring the larger-than-life Tod Slaughter as a man who impersonates another in order to gain his fortune and does a poor job […]
Secrets Will Kill You – Die Screaming, Marianne (1971)
Die Screaming, Marianne is a turgid little film and not necessarily because it is obscene or particularly bad in any way. No, it is simply for the fact that it is extremely […]
Not What the Bride Imagined – Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970)
Written by Mario Bava and Santiago Moncada and directed by Bava, Hatchet for the Honeymoon is a giallo film from 1970 that is equal parts psychological thriller and horror. Considered to be […]
Now Boarding… – The Ghost Ship (1943)
The Ghost Ship is another film by Val Lewton whose title is a little misleading, a movie most would assume to be a horror when in fact is more of a suspense-laden […]
She Will Do What it Takes to Survive – Tiger House (2015)
Like many films in many genres, you find that after a while, they tend to repeat themselves with very little of anything you can call new to set themselves apart. Tiger House […]
The Telltale Mind 