5 Dolls for an August Moon is perhaps the most curious of Mario Bava ’s horror films. As with 1963’s The Whip and the Body , Bava was hired on after the script and much of the rest of the production had already be ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2007-10-29 01:18 - 0 comments

Welcome to a new annual feature we're calling "Turkey Leftovers". The Friday after Thanksgiving every year, we'll post a review of a film generally considered to be trash or just plain bad. Whether we share the opinion-at-large wi ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2007-11-23 01:58 - 0 comments

Okay, put away your books. Time for a pop quiz. I know, I know, I promised that you wouldn’t have one today, but isn’t the point of a pop quiz the surprise factor? Don’t worry, it’s brief. Here we go. Established: Th ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2008-07-01 09:53 - 0 comments

I cannot stand listening to either William Friedkin or William Peter Blatty talk about The Exorcist . They have a tendency to speak at great length, not about what they intended, but what the film means to audiences everywhere. How it shak ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2006-10-24 00:00 - 0 comments

In the wake of New Line Cinema’s announcement that it will be rebooting the Friday the 13th series, there will be some filmgoers that will be introduced into the famed franchise for the first time and will want to check out the prev ...

Movie - John Dubrawa - 2008-08-01 01:01 - 0 comments

Most people don’t associate Francis Ford Coppola with horror, but they should. He produced Jeepers Creepers I and II , Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow , a 1999 TV production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , Kenneth Branagh&rsq ...

Movie - Chris Justice - 2008-08-07 13:36 - 0 comments

In 1968, George Romero revived the zombie genre with Night of the Living Dead .  In 1979, Lucio Fulci brought the genre full-circle by taking it back to its Caribbean voodoo roots in Zombi 2 (aka Zombie 1 ).  He al ...

Movie - Robert Ring - 2007-10-17 01:01 - 0 comments

One of the truly classic horror-thrillers of the 20th Century was most definitely The Wicker Man. Now, with Anchor Bay's Limited Edition DVD (packaged in an attractive wooden box), you can enjo ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2002-01-10 01:00 - 0 comments

Vampyres (1974) is Spanish director Joseph Larraz's entry into the 'lesbian vampire' cycle of films popular in Europe at the time. Full of nudity and violence, the movies were exploitation hous ...

Movie - Rob Wrigley - 2001-10-01 00:00 - 0 comments

Carl Theodor Dreyer's experimental Vampyr is an exercise in audacity. Watching certain scenes in the film reminds one of shorts produced in university film classes that are full of daring, cunn ...

Movie - Chris Justice - 2005-05-02 00:00 - 0 comments