House of the Damned is a slick little horror/suspense film that runs along smoothly until it is let down by its very own ending. Up until that moment when all is made […]
Did That Just Happen? – House of the Damned (1963)
Happy Birthday to Lon Chaney!
Today is the birthday of a man who defined horror for many years, and still does to this very day. Without him, horror would be a much poorer genre. On a related […]
More Like Mediocrity – Messiah of Evil (1973)
Messiah of Evil is a strange and surreal film and even though it is a horror film, it is not scary or frightening in any way, more than likely due to the […]
It’s a Small World After All – Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
Mr. Franz, played by John Hoyt, likes dolls. A lot. Hoyt does a great job as the crazy toymaker who would rather be around miniature people than normal everyday humans. He plays […]
Hope, Goddard and Ghosts – The Ghost Breakers (1940)
Mary, played by Paulette Goddard, is making plans to head down to Cuba as she has just inherited a castle. Hope plays Lawrence Lawrence Lawrence, a radio personality who has the scoop […]
Mad or Driven Mad? – The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
Boris Karloff as Dr. Savaard thinks that he has found a method to bring the dead back to life. To do so he must first experiment and to do that, he needs […]
Like Going on a Day Trip… – Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962)
Spaceship Explorer 12 is sent out to explore Uranus and check out the source of a radiation signal, and while there, search for possible life which seems highly doubtful. As they get […]
Full of Potential – The Occultist Volume 1
The Occultist, written by Tim Seeley, deals with a guy named Rob, who just happens to stumble upon some powers that he never asked for in the first place and now must […]
Man-Eaters… – Piranha 3DD (2012)
When you put out a movie like Piranha 3DD, what is it that one exactly expects to see in such a film? World class acting or special effects? A story to move […]
Sheer Crazy – Fear Chamber (1968)
The movie claims to have all the macabre horror of Edgar Allen Poe. Lies! Stars Boris Karloff in one of his last roles. Cool. Sadly he cannot even save this film. Karloff […]
The Telltale Mind 