As far as thrillers go, The Victim is a pretty standard affair, only setting itself apart thanks to leading lady Elizabeth Montgomery of Bewitched fame. While many of the elements that make […]
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night… – The Victim (1972)
Buried Beneath the Earth, Can She Hear… – The Screaming Woman (1972)
Though 1972 may not have been the height of Olivia de Havilland’s popularity or of her career, she nonetheless still had the acting chops to deliver a top-rate performance in The Screaming […]
A Need to Live With an Acquired… – Blood Thirst (1971)
Blood Thirst is a strange hybrid of a film that mixes classic noir with horror and surprisingly, does a pretty good job of it. The movie is no masterpiece, but for those […]
Born by Science – The Mad Monster (1942)
During the past hundred years of cinema, there have been numerous films about werewolves. Some were good, some were bad and some managed to be iconic. The Mad Monster falls into that […]
What Happened to… – All the Kind Strangers (1974)
If there is one word you could use to describe All the Kind Strangers, it would be disturbing. With a real Children of the Corn/Village of the Damned vibe, this television movie […]
A Gift or a Curse? – Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
Night Has a Thousand Eyes is a 1948 motion picture based upon the novel by Cornell Woolrich, a tense film noir that finds Edward G. Robinson as a man who can see […]
Haunted by… – The Girl in the Photographs (2015)
The Girl in the Photographs is a decent modern-day thriller/slasher, but where it holds promise in the beginning as a straight-up psychological horror, it soon heads into cliché territory during the last […]
Nefarious Dealings – Juggernaut (1936)
Juggernaut from 1936 is an old-fashioned mystery yarn starring Boris Karloff who once again plays the villain. This go round he is a doctor who has run out of money and he […]
Not Really a… – Joyride (2001)
Is there anything so menacing as a trucker, those big-rig truck drivers who barrel down the highways, tail-gating poor families on their way to holiday or people commuting to work? Some might […]
A Monster Indeed – The Island Monster (1954)
Over the course of his career, Boris Karloff has made some astoundingly good pictures and some truly bad ones as well, but The Island Monster has to be one of the most […]
