Although produced by Columbia Pictures, the graveyard sets in The Black Room (1935) are as gorgeous as any number of Universal Pictures...

The set-up for The Vampire Bat (1933) couldn't be any simpler and it's established in the film's opening moments. Bats fill the sky on a...

When I recently re-watched The Raven (1935), I didn’t remember liking it as much the first time I saw it. In fact, if comparing it to my...

Henry Smedhurst (James Mason) and his wife (Barbara Mullen) have always wanted a place of their own and, at retirement age, they are...

Woman Who Came Back (1945) has a great gothic opening, generating a creepy atmosphere that’s sustained throughout the movie. In Eben...

In a dark cave with the sound of drums beating in the background, a young woman moans that she can’t stand it anymore. “If you love me,...

I thought The Brute Man was all right, but it was only after watching it that I learned about its reputation. My first clue should have...

Not a horror movie, per se, Strange Illusion nevertheless revolves around a ghostly, perhaps supernatural, dream. Haunted by the...

ABOUT OUR GUEST Another colleague from the "We Belong Dead"/"Unsung Horrors" group and another great contribution to the countdown! ...

WHY I'VE NEVER SEEN IT In July, 2017,Derek M. Cook and Troy Howarth discussed Invisible Ghost on episode 326 of Monster Kid Radio. It...

ABOUT OUR GUEST "Adventure guaranteed. Monsters optional." I love that slogan, and it belongs to someone worthy of using it, Stephen D....

Until I recently re-watched The Wolf Man (1941), I would have told you it was the best of the Universal Monsters classics. Now I'm not so...

The Crime of Doctor Crespi (1935) looks and feels like it must be one of the earliest adaptations of an Edgar Allan Poe story....

One thing I love about the Universal Monsters sequels is the attention paid to continuity between them. Both Bride of Frankenstein and...

Dr. Joseph Van Ee (George Zucco) runs the equivalent of a halfway house for strange characters, including hypnotist Prof. Leonide (Bela...

For a movie that not only depicts human beings living at the same time as dinosaurs, but that also creates said dinosaurs with a number...

I once watched a three-hour and twenty-minute Bollywood movie about cricket (Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India, 2001). Against all...

Reflecting on an article I wrote some time ago about film adaptations of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's novella, "Carmilla" (which is part of...

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) is not a horror movie; however, since it was directed by Fritz Lang (Destiny, Metropolis, M) and...

Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn opens how I imagine the play on which it is based would open. However, I’ve never seen a play...