On December 23, the employees of the Haversham branch of the City & Colonial Bank come to work as they would on any other day. They...

Taste of Fear (aka Scream of Fear in the United States) was written by the prolific Hammer Films screenwriter, Jimmy Sangster. However,...

There are two scenes in Stop Me Before I Kill! demonstrating a visual style distinctive from the rest of the movie. Around the midway...

A decade after Professor Bernard Quatermass appeared in two Hammer Films (The Quatermass Xperiment and Quatermass 2), he returned in...

What do you make of The Damned, a movie so frustrating and odd, yet so deeply fascinating? At its core, it’s a cerebral tale about early...

There’s not much I can write about the cult classic, Carnival of Souls, that hasn’t already been written. And since the filmmakers were...

From the opening shots of both The Haunting (1963) and its bloated 1999 remake of the same name, a difference in focus is clear. The...

If memory serves, Horror Hotel was first released on VHS in the mid-1990s by Anchor Bay. At the time, there was a lot of publicity about...

The two opening shots of X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes suggest the movie that follows is going to be more sensational than it really is....

Originally published October 6, 2012. . In 1872, 25 years before publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le...

After a three-hour surgery, Dr. Steve Harris (Noel Trevarthen) tells his colleague, Sir John Rowan (Peter Cushing), that he doesn't know...