Hell’s Island is a film noir filmed in VistaVision, a statement that seems utterly ridiculous but with the advent of television during the 1950’s, colour was apparently all the rage and as […]
Deceit and Betrayal on… – Hell’s Island (1955)
A Return Stay is Out of the Question – Girl in Room 2A (1974)
One has to wonder just what it is that makes a person want to stay in a place that makes them not only uncomfortable, but truly frightened. Is it obligation, a fear […]
Problems With Memory and Murder – Two O’Clock Courage (1945)
Two O’Clock Courage is a film noir about a man with amnesia and a dead body that is inexplicably tied to him. Running into a female cabbie, she decides to help the […]
One Little… – Smile Before Death (1972)
Silvio Amadio’s Smile Before Death, of which he both wrote with Francesco Villa and directed, is perhaps not the most exciting giallo to come along, but it is an interesting one. It […]
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 […]
Framed… For Murder! – I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
Whether one wants to call this film I Wake up Screaming or Hot Spot, it is a captivating little noir starring Victor Mature, Betty Grable and Carole Landis. In it, Mature and […]
After Serving Her Time, She Was Still… – The Hunted (1948)
Preston Foster and Belita star in the 1948 film noir The Hunted, as directed by Jack Bernhard. It finds Foster as a police detective who even after sending his girlfriend to prison […]
Vengeance Upon… – Fog Island (1945)
Fog Island, released by PRC in 1945, begins with an interesting premise where George Zucco’s character invites numerous people to his mansion upon an island, one that is perpetually covered in fog, […]
A Mint on the Pillow and Murder, Only at… – The Black Raven (1943)
On a dark and stormy night, a bunch of strangers are driven towards The Black Raven as the only shelter around, an inn run by the one and only George Zucco, known […]
Two Sides – The Dark Mirror (1946)
The Dark Mirror is a psychological thriller and film noir starring Olivia de Havilland and Lew Ayres, where she plays the role of twin sisters and he the psychiatrist interested in examining […]
The Telltale Mind 