"Abracadabra, I sit on his knee. Presto, change-o, and now he's me! Hocus Pocus, we take her to bed. Magic is fun...when you're dead." I...

Several times during the first few minutes of Horrors of Malformed Men (1969), I thought I was going to have to turn it off. It reminded...

At some point in the mid-1970s, my memories of seeing movies at the drive-in shift from the Enid Drive-In out by the fairgrounds, to the...

Nearly ¼ of the movies I watched and loved in the 70s were released by American International Pictures, and 2/3 of those were also...

My education in Eurofilm continues with my first poliziotteschi, What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974). The term describes a...

If The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail (1971) is truly considered a giallo, then it’s the smartest one I’ve seen. It features a killer...

It comforts me to read that Who Can Kill a Child? (1976) was “virtually unavailable” until the last decade or so. That may explain why...

Thinking it would be as entertaining as Blacula (1972), I’ve wanted to watch Blackenstein aka The Black Frankenstein (1973) for some time...

Of the early 1970s films from future horror masters, Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left (1972) is my least favorite. In fact, I...

If you mixed two parts Smokey & the Bandit with one part Rosemary's Baby, and added just a pinch of Duel, you'd concoct a movie like Race...

Off a dirt road in the northern part of Enid, Oklahoma, stood the Enid Drive-In Theater. During my youth, I remember spending many...

Alan Ormsby began his career in feature films working on a trio of B-movies with Bob Clark, who's probably best known for writing (with...

Knowing absolutely nothing about it, I popped Death Smiles on a Murderer (1973) into the Blu-ray player expecting, as the name indicates,...

It's strange to hear thunder crashing behind the familiar Toho logo at the beginning of The Vampire Doll (1970), the first in the...

Although it was the final anthology for Amicus Productions, From Beyond the Grave (1974) is one of the best. Nothing tops the first, Dr....

Never shown theatrically in the United States, El Caminante (1979), what is perhaps Paul Naschy's most acclaimed film, finally makes its...

Here’s one of the things wrong with the United States. Except for Sisters and The Exorcist, most of the horror movies of the 1970s were...

Can a home video release magically transform a bad movie into a good one? Maybe not, but it can certainly elevate a nearly unwatchable...

You discover all the time about famous actors, directors and writers who got their starts in the film industry making low-budget horror...

More than one of the bonus materials on Arrow Video's new two-disc Blu-ray release of Deep Red (Profundo Rosso) emphasizes the importance...