WHY I'VE NEVER SEEN IT I'm not sure why I've never seen Die, Monster, Die!, but for some reason, over the years, I've been more focused...

WHY I'VE NEVER SEEN IT I've wanted to see The Horror of Party Beach ever since I ran across the "Famous Film" magazine that told the...

ABOUT OUR GUEST I "met" Neil when we co-authored a chapter on the 1970s in the soon-to-be-published retrospective of the genre during the...

WHY I'VE NEVER SEEN IT Yes, it stars Peter Cushing and yes, it's directed by Terence Fisher. However, I always thought it was about...

ABOUT OUR GUEST Kevin is one of the gentlemen I met while writing for "We Belong Dead" magazine and "Unsung Horrors." Well, meeting him...

WHY I'VE NEVER SEEN IT Actually, I may have seen Wait Until Dark; but, if so, it’s been a long, long time and it turns out I remember...

WHY I'VE NEVER SEEN IT Cyborg 2087 is another movie I had never heard of. However, it introduces into this year’s Countdown to Halloween...

ABOUT OUR GUEST I've known Orrin for over 20 years. We first met when he was attending college at Baker University in Baldwin City,...

Oh, the years of enjoyment I wasted not realizing how good a movie Tales of Terror (1962) really is! I have a love/hate relationship...

As beautiful as it is terrifying, Onibaba (1964) is as much an experience as it is a narrative film. That's not to say it's too artsy for...

We've all seen comedies spoofing dramatic revelations in movies that are accompanied by musical "stingers," but I don't recall ever...

Can death be outwitted? Is the secret of eternal life just around the corner? These are just two questions the narrator (Bradford...

Of all the adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe that I’ve seen, I’ve never watched anything as artsy as Spirits of the Dead (1968), an...

If Blood Feast (1963) was a watershed moment for the splatter film, as its director, Herschell Gordon Lewis, states, then The Gruesome...

Yes, it’s commonly considered one of the worst movies ever made; however, at risk of losing all credibility, I don’t think Santa Claus...

The story is neither complicated nor unique. When four men witness a human sacrifice in Haiti, and steal the idol that the dancers...

At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul was my introduction to the character of "Coffin Joe," much like it was Brazil's in 1964. He's an...

Yongary, Monster of the Deep (1967) is South Korea's entry into the daikaiju (large strange beast) subgenre during the time when Japan...

The poster for Brides of Blood (1968) promises a lot of sensational things and, in a rare case of truth in advertising, the movie...

The history of The Awful Dr. Orloff (1962) is a little confusing to me without conducting more in-depth research into it. I understand...