2018 was a big year for film, packed with sequels and independent darlings among others from the major studios while Netflix kept trying to find itself some hits and managed a few, […]
Favourites 2018 – Film
The Telltale Mind and Thy Critic Man Share a Black Christmas!
Thy Critic Man – To make a long story short: It is the Christmas season. I called upon some friends to assist me in taking on the most horrifying Christmas releases of […]
Sins of the Father – Son of Frankenstein (1939)
Son of Frankenstein marks the second sequel to the original film, this time without Colin Clive as Henry and without James Whale as director. Instead, Universal went to Rowland V. Lee when […]
Like Father, Like… – Son of Dracula (1943)
Even though Dracula is dead and his bones burned, somehow he returns to life and gets himself invited to the United States. Son of Dracula is the second sequel to the original […]
Daddy’s Little Girl – Dracula’s Daughter (1936)
Unlike its predecessor, Dracula from 1931, this film would start out with a much lighter tone, comedic in fact, which would set it apart from the first one in more ways than […]
Where’s Kevin Sorbo? – Hercules (2014)
When it comes to wrestlers making the transition from the ring to the big screen, there have been very few successes. Even when counted as such, those films are often not what […]
Not King Kong, But… – Konga (1961)
Poor Konga. He only wanted to play in the jungle with his friends, eat bananas and other yummy fruits and just have a good time. He never expected botanist and scientist Charles […]
Look Out For… – The Vampire (1957)
Seems like Dr. Campbell has passed away. When Dr. Beecher is called to look in on him he finds a bottle of pills and takes them home. Dr. Campbell was doing experiments […]
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 […]
Mission Failure – The Angry Red Planet (1959)
The Angry Red Planet deals with an ill-fated trip to Mars, seeing half of the crew make it home and the other half succumbing to the nameless terrors that resided there. Dr. […]
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