After the Universal Monsters were put to sleep and horror was seemingly taking a back-step to different genres of film in the nineteen fifties, it did not necessarily mean that it would […]
Only Nightmares Emerge From… – The Black Sleep (1956)
Deep in the Heart of Mexico is… – The White Orchid (1954)
William Lundigan and Peggie Castle star in the 1954 feature film The White Orchid, an adventure movie that starts off spinning its wheels a little, yet finishes strongly. As far as movies […]
More Real Than You Think – The Mummy’s Ghost (1944)
The Mummy’s Ghost begins like the two previous films with the old priest passing on the responsibilities of looking after Kharis, who is indeed still alive, and the Princess Ananka to a […]
To See Again With a… – Dead Man’s Eyes (1944)
Dead Man’s Eyes is a nice little whodunnit that stars Lon Chaney Jr. as an artist who loses his sight and whether it was by accident or on purpose is ultimately left […]
Not So Weird – Weird Woman (1944)
The second Inner Sanctum Mystery to hit the silver screen is a vast improvement over the first with a much stronger script taken from a novel by science-fiction stalwart Fritz Lieber and […]
Did He Do It? – Calling Dr. Death (1943)
The Inner Sanctum Mysteries was a radio program once upon a time that was popular enough to garner a film series from Universal. Calling Dr. Death is the first such film and […]
You Never See it Coming – Diary of a Madman (1963)
When you think of monsters you naturally start thinking of those creatures that best represent the word like Godzilla or the Blob, dinosaurs, slimy things, hairy things, tentacled beings and so on. […]
Even Voodoo Could Not Make This Film Any Better – Voodoo Island (1957)
Voodoo Island is a 1957 horror film directed by Reginald Le Borg that sees Boris Karloff try something a little bit different than that which he usually does. Here he plays Phillip […]
The Telltale Mind 