Short on time? 1943’s Poverty Row feature The Ape Man, starring Bela Lugosi and directed by (of course) William Beaudine, runs a scant 63 minutes. It’s super cheap and silly, but endearing,… Read Article →

I know I’ve been leaning on the Cult Cinema Classics channel pretty hard as I spotlight “films you can watch for free on YouTube.” There’s a reason for that, though. They have… Read Article →

One of the better Amicus portmanteau films, House that Dripped Blood, is available via the Cult Cinema Classics channel on YouTube. Hey, a film that features both Sean John Pertwee and Ingrid… Read Article →

Screaming Skull is a prime example of what cheapie monster movies were like back in the day. Budgetary reasons often only had the monster fully revealed in the last five or ten… Read Article →

Behold the terror! Are you one of the many who feel Monster on the Campus is too…posh, too rarified, too tony? Well, there’s always the, er, much more blue collar The Neandertal… Read Article →

It’s on YouTube! I’d suggest watching this and yesterday’s flick and many more cool monster monsters on the Cult Cinema Classics channel. From what I’ve seen, they have much nicer prints than… Read Article →

With people spending a little more time at home (I’m still going into work, so other than stopping to sit down and grab a bite, this whole thing isn’t really doing that… Read Article →

The ’80s really were the last heyday for practical effects monsters. As noted yesterday, I haven’t seen TerrorVision, but this thing was apparently huge and required several people to operate it. Although… Read Article →

Ugh, Monday. Well, for me anyway, it’s off to work. Although again there are only a couple of us in a big space now, so the distancing thing isn’t that difficult. I… Read Article →

Stuart Gordon has passed away. I’m getting up there, so I remember when filmmakers from the ’40s and ’50s started dying, now it’s people remembered from the ’80s. I never really felt… Read Article →