Month: November 2015

Plus he was wearing a shirt with girlie pictures on it.

I think I actually like Mr. Kallis work better in the widescreen lobby card format.

That guy painted a mean skull, I'll say that.

AIP's Sam Arkoff and James Nicholson famously would think of titles, commission poster art, and then if theater owners booked the movie, they would go ahead and, you know, make it. Given this system, I wonder how many of these films came into existence purely because of the fantastic poster art of Albert Kallis?…

While Italy produced several vampire films in the '60s, this one towers over the rest. Indeed, I think it would have to be on the majority of people's five best vampire movies list. In fact, let's see; Nosferatu, Dracula, Horror of Dracula, Black Sunday, Fright Night.

This is another Italian "ugly vampire" film (although he's not really a vampire, I don't think). Much like our previous subject, this one revolves around a male character who transforms into a hideous monster and kills in order to restore/maintain the beauty of a woman he's obsessed with. This one is just science-fictional rather…

This is the same as Monday's. Although torpidly paced, this film at least did some interesting things with the vampires. It does lean heavily on Horror of Dracula, a fact that fails them at the end when they try to recreate the former's climax. Still, they do give it the old college try. As…

Although they were still shooting in black and white in the mid-'60s, this still suggests the Italians did learn some lessons from Hammer.

"Hmmph. Brother, the thing's a girl's got to do to get a job in this town!" Watched this over the weekend, mostly because of a similar film Sandy Petersen and I tele-watched over the phone the weekend before. This one was weirdly coy, with the fangs not appearing until the film was two-thirds over.…