The opening scene of this movie is horrific, and not because it is a horror film. It is simply shoddy acting, and that is being kind. Also, without the viewer knowing it, […]
Not Her Fault – Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957)
Post-Apocalyptian Wonderland – Hinterkind Volume 1: The Waking World
This book was a bit of a surprise in more ways than one, but it is probably best to give a bit of backstory to set it up. Once upon a time, […]
Did That Just Happen? – House of the Damned (1963)
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 […]
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 […]
The Telltale Mind 