C. Henry Gordon plays Nicholas Rood, a miser of a man who once upon a time, murdered one of his business partners. When he receives a black doll upon his desk one […]
Heralding Death – The Black Doll (1938)
Pulptastic! – Thrilling Mystery 3
Mystery and Menace Was… – The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Despite heavy studio cuts, The Lady from Shanghai remains a film noir classic and one of Orson Welles’ best movies. Intended to be a much longer picture than it was, Welles might […]
Issue by Issue – Tales of the Zombie #7
Writer – Stever Gerber, Doug Moench, Carl Wessler, Chris Claremont, Kenneth Dreyfack Artist – Pablo Marcos, Alfredo Alcala, Win Mortimer Simon Garth and the voodoo priestess Layla, fresh from surviving the horror […]
A Criminal Known Only as… – The Bat (1959)
With a title like The Bat and the fact that it stars Vincent Price, one would automatically assume that this would be a horror film of some sort, perhaps about vampires or […]
Quaint, Yet Forgettable – Murder By Television (1935)
With television still being new to the world, one man has discovered a way to send a television signal all across the world nearly instantaneously and as such, there are those that […]
A Thumb, a Gun and Bad Intentions – The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
The Hitch-Hiker, like many movies before and after it, is based upon real-world events, specifically the story of killer Billy Cook. It stars William Tallman as sociopath Emmett Myers who has been […]
One Body is… – One Body Too Many (1944)
One Body Too Many is a mystery film with some comedy and horror thrown in for good measure and while it is never all that bad, it is not a film that […]
Four Colour Thoughts – Nancy Drew #1
The Creators – Kelly Thompson – Writer, Jenn St-Onge – Artist, Triona Farrell – Colours, Ariana Maher – Letters The Players – Nancy Drew, Frank Hardy, Joe Hardy, Bess Marvin, George Fayne […]
Treachery and Treason in… – Hell’s Half Acre (1954)
A man is accused of a murder he did not commit while half a country away, a woman hears his voice on a record and believes it is her husband, long-dead from […]
The Telltale Mind 