Dr. Ivanna Rakowsky (Erna Schurer) is an assertive woman who, in Scream of the Demon Lover (1970), regularly exercises her agency....

While the world falls apart around us, Jeff and Richard focus on two specific disasters. In San Francisco, a fire rages out of control in...

The first thing I noticed when watching Dracula & Son (1976) was how gorgeous it looks. Next, I noticed the lush score. Like the rest of...

Dark Places (1974) feels right at home with an Amicus Production, which it is not. It was the only film produced by a man named James...

In her 1969 memoir, Veronica: The Autobiography of Veronica Lake, the actress writes: Some day soon, perhaps on your local television...

Puns are the highest form of literature. Alfred Hitchcock Watching Family Plot (1976) again, it felt more than ever like I was watching...

I often tried to exorcise my personal Hell to no avail, so now I show it in my films. Lucio Fulci With The House by the Cemetery (1981,)...

The old customs remain and the ancient gods live on. Baron Corofax (Peter Cushing) In The Devil’s Men (1976), Peter Cushing doesn’t look...

For years, I’ve vividly remembered a movie in which a car was driving down a lonely highway and the giant electrical towers along the...

Five minutes into The Freakmaker (1974), aka The Mutations, time lapse photography creates an illusion that flowers opening their petals...

For all intents and purposes, this was the first time I watched The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1977), the name of the movie on the...

Before watching even one second of Tintorera: Killer Shark (1977), I could have guessed that a two-hour and six-minute running time was...

Andy Milligan (1929-1991) Andy Milligan was openly gay, but made a contradictory decision in 1968: he married a woman, Candy Hammond, who...

For some reason, I’ve been anticipating a decline in quality of the Gamera films, but it doesn’t arrive (yet) with Gamera vs. Zigra...

When I watched Gamera vs. Guiron (1969) 11 months ago and paused my exploration of the Arrow Video box set, Gamera: The Complete...

Thanks to Rod Barnett and his podcast, The Bloody Pit, I finally took a plunge into the gory guts of Flesh for Frankenstein (1973.) Both...

Hoping to enjoy Grizzly (1976) more than I ever have, which hasn’t been much, I recently loaded the Blu-ray into the machine and leaned...

It’s appropriate that we conclude Naschy November with a Waldemar Daninsky werewolf film, considering we started it with one 30 days ago....

Now comes Paul Naschy’s take on The Exorcist. He claimed the screenplay for Exorcismo (1975) was written before The Exorcist was released...

Devil’s Possessed (1974) is Naschy November’s first historical drama, although it’s light on historical fact. As the first of this style...