The monster to revisit this week is Count Orlok, the barely (and legally indistinguishable) stand-in for Dracula in 1922 seminal Nosferatu. I’ve said that roughly 90% of horror movie tropes originated from… Read Article →

I mentioned Leviathan yesterday, but again, I really get much out of it. It was a turgid remake of The Thing, I thought. Still, this was the last great era for practical… Read Article →

I was very excited at the time. I’ve always loved sea movies, and obviously particularly loved sea monster movies. Godzilla is great, always, but when he comes up out of the water…c’mon…. Read Article →

If seek revenge you should dig two graves. Or, in this case, a lot more than that. The central idea stands, though, as the seeking of revenge, no matter how justified, leads… Read Article →

Remember fun kid’s horror movies? The ’80s was chockablock with them. I saw The Gate in the theater, and I remember it being pretty fun, mixing a bunch of campy tropes like… Read Article →

I know I saw Strange Invaders (1983) back in the day, but I can’t remember much at all about it. Clearly generic aliens (on purpose, I’m assuming) that call to the mind… Read Article →

Probably a movie that gets mixed up a lot with The Unnameable is The Unholy, but a priest (Ben Cross of Chariots of Fire and the Dark Shadows reboot) confronting a sexy… Read Article →

Roger Corman (strictly a producer by then) was not afraid to follow trends. In fact, he insisted upon it. So Humanoids of the Deep contained copious gore and nudity and an entire… Read Article →

I haven’t seen everything, of course, but I feel I’ve seen a solid majority of all English language horror movies made prior to, oh, 1980. Then the video age came about and… Read Article →