I can count on one hand the number of times I've either walked out of a movie at the theater or turned one off on TV. I can endure almost...

Since the original Japanese poster for Gorath (1962) features a giant walrus monster, I expected it to appear at some point in the movie....

The physical characteristics of a 1960s low-budget American horror movie are distinct, but similar characteristics of a 1960s low budget...

When I posted on Facebook that I was watching Death Curse of Tartu (1966), I received comments like, “I irrationally love this movie” and...

Creature of Destruction (1967) reminds me an awful lot of a movie released two years earlier, The Beach Girls & the Monster. This is...

It’s been on my watch-list forever and I can’t count the number of times I’ve recorded it on TCM, but then never watched it. Why did...

At an hour and 19 minutes, Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster (1965) is about 19 minutes too long. It starts out great and I thought I...

For a movie that turns the fog machine so high that it’s hard to distinguish the actors, The Slime People (1963) isn’t concerned with...

Not the first, and certainly not the last, The Frozen Dead (1966) belongs in the subgenre of “disembodied head” movies. What seems like a...

The way author Allan Bryce depicts the production of The Deadly Bees (1966) in his book “Amicus: The Friendly Face of Fear,” it’s amazing...

Revered for its portmanteau films, Amicus Productions seemed just as interested in science fiction during its early years in the...

Derek M. Koch from Monster Kid Radio and Svengoolie must be in cahoots. Two days following an MKR episode about building two movies...

Ever since I saw Jon Hall in The Invisible Agent (1942), I’ve wanted to watch The Beach Girls & the Monster (1965), in which he not only...

Despite its reputation, it has taken me many years to finally watch The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962).  In spite of its reputation, I...

With its very noir pre-credits sequence, it seems like Hands of a Stranger (1962) might not be a horror film at all. When a man walking...

Generally, I don’t subscribe to the idea that movies can be so bad that they’re good. If I like a bad movie, it’s not because it’s bad,...

According to author Patrick Maccias ("TokyoScope: The JapaneseCult Film Companion"), "pinky violence" refers to a subgenre that emerged...

As I’ve stated previously, I proudly have the Netflix package that sends me physical DVDs and Blu-rays one at a time. When I hear about...

ABOUT OUR GUEST Loey Lockerby is a "colleague" from the Kansas City Film Critics Circle that offered to participate in the Countdown. I...

ABOUT OUR GUEST Of my guests this month, I feel like I know Dominique Lamssies the least. I've heard her when she's been a guest on...