While typical of its ilk, The Cat and the Canary is a cut above most of the rest, due in large part to its lead in Bob Hope who always seems to […]
Making Light of a Haunted Situation – The Cat and the Canary (1939)
Look Out!! – Here Come the Waves (1944)
Bing Crosby heads up Here Comes the Waves, a Paramount offering that finds him in fine form with Betty Hutton pulling double duty as twin sisters and Sonny Tufts as the comedic […]
Secrets Unearthed – The Uninvited (1944)
Though it might have been slightly shocking with its fair share of scares upon its release in 1944, The Uninvited has lost some of that impact with the passage of time though […]
A Different Sort of Love Letter – My Bloody Valentine (1981)
When it comes to slashers, Canadian-made My Bloody Valentine is one of the all-time greats. Featuring an urban legend within the film about a miner that returns every Valentine’s Day to butcher […]
To Do What She Must – No Man of Her Own (1950)
No Man of Her Own, a film that is more drama than noir and starring Barbara Stanwyck, finds her playing a single woman who is pregnant and heading home on the train […]
Where Death Has Two Legs – Murders in the Zoo (1933)
In this Paramount-produced shocker, there is a beast that stalks its prey at the zoo and it is none other than Lionel Atwill who is truly chilling as the jealous husband who […]
Human Folly – Crack in the World (1965)
Mankind is always pushing the limits, whether in science, medicine or technology, or really anything that we can get our hands on, there is always something further, somewhere else we can take […]
The Telltale Mind 