Five years after the release of Frogs, the "Nature Gone Wild" or "Eco-Horror" film subgenre was still going strong. Post-Jaws, there was...

Twenty years before Steven Spielberg directed Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park, Crichton himself directed another movie about an...

One of my biggest disappointments rewatching movies from the 1970s has been the realization that I don't really like The Omen as much as...

Note: Willard and its sequel, Ben, were the subjects of the sixth episode of The Classic Horrors Podcast. Click here to listen. . We...

Hammer's cycle of mummy movies provides evidence of the evolution of the studio, as well as film making styles in general.  The Mummy...

Of all the 70s movies I've re-watched recently, I think the one that maintains the best feel of the decade is It's Alive.  Perhaps it's...

Like Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, I don’t remember the first time I saw The Abominable Dr. Phibes. I do, however, remember the...

When I was a child, there were no video stores. There was no Netflix, Amazon Instant Video or iTunes.  Heck, there was no Internet, at...

According to imdb, the most filmed character of all time is Dracula. As horror fans, I’m sure we’ll all seen at least a few different...

Oh, Incredible Melting Man, how bad are you? Let me count the ways… Your budget is so low you can’t even afford to use stock footage of...

Sometimes memory does not fail me, but I wish it would. Just because I clearly remember how bad a movie was when I first saw it, I...

One Monday morning at school, my friend Tommy Terrell ran up to me to tell me about the movie his father took him to see over the...

The final film in Hammer’s original psychological thriller cycle, Fear in the Night, is a return to form for the studio. The movie has...

By the time it was over, I think I liked Straight on Till Morning. However, it was a tough sell at the beginning and I wasn't sure I'd...

Demons of the Mind is a challenging movie to watch. I can't decide if it's too smart for its own good, too ambitious for its own good,...

Die! Die! My Darling! (aka Fanatic) is a departure from the usual formula for a Hammer "mini-Hitchcock" thriller. The story is...

When you go on a movie binge like I have, watching more than 35 movies in one month, you’re bound to have surprises and disappointments....

Ten years after director Val Guest made Stop Me Before I Kill! for Hammer Films, he returned in 1970 with When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth....

When I wrote about The Vengeance of She, I called it "odd." However, it has nothing over The Lost Continent. It's actually a...

Oh my goodness, what do I make of Moon Zero Two? From the animated opening credits and song, I knew I was in for something bizarre. ...