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

It is impossible to simply watch Mario Bava’s The Whip and the Body . You can only hope to experience it, to let it wash over you and consume your senses. A sumptuous visual masterpiece dripping with sadomasochistic eroticism, The ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2007-10-23 01:46 - 0 comments

Although you wouldn’t know it from the American release title, the reproachable Attack of the Mushroom People , Ishiro Honda’s 1963 Matango is a creepy little conglomeration of horror, science fiction, fantasy, and human dr ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2008-02-15 15:48 - 0 comments

"I have been hurt by others. And I will hurt them. I will make them suffer like I have suffered." Thus begins The Sadist , horror cinema's best-kept secret. After Charlie's opening lines, a narrator (uncredited producer Arch ...

Movie - Robert Ring - 2007-01-18 22:36 - 0 comments

Roger Corman, despite his myriad of other films, will always be remembered for the Poe Cycle of the 1960s. Spooky stories, opulent sets, and Vincent Price's languid mannerisms – the Gothic beauty of Edgar Allan Poe, all shot in 2.35:1 w ...

Movie - Julia Merriam - 2008-02-12 01:34 - 0 comments

Director Robert Wise's The Haunting begins with both guns blazing, so to speak. As a haunted house film, it starts beautifully--Wise lingers on an eerie black and white shot of Hill House while narration ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2001-01-06 01:00 - 0 comments

During the 1960s, there was a small explosion of literature adaptation in the horror genre, the highlight of which was Roger Corman 's Poe Cycle, a series of films based on the work of American Gothic author, Edgar Allan Poe. Once the succ ...

Movie - Julia Merriam - 2007-07-25 11:14 - 0 comments

For the fifth entry in his cycle of Edgar Allan Poe films, Roger Corman decided to take a new tact. Instead of an atmospheric, haunting chiller set in a Gothic castle, he made a wacky, slapstick comedy ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2005-03-12 01:00 - 0 comments

When Roger Corman completed filming The Raven in 1963, it turned out that star Boris Karloff still had two days left to go on his contract for the picture. Not wishing to waste those two days, Corman, and four other uncre ...

Movie - Eric Miller - 2007-10-04 01:01 - 0 comments

An unusual Hitchcock film in many ways, including that it has little hint of plot twists, The Birds amounts to Hitchcock's masterpiece entry in the late crop of 50's monster films. At least that's one ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2001-09-02 00:00 - 0 comments