Watching The Baby (1973) has left me in a rare state: I don't know what to say. If I thought there was a real condition in which an...

"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...

Until I recently re-watched The Wolf Man (1941), I would have told you it was the best of the Universal Monsters classics. Now I'm not so...

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

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...

The Crime of Doctor Crespi (1935) looks and feels like it must be one of the earliest adaptations of an Edgar Allan Poe story....

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...

One thing I love about the Universal Monsters sequels is the attention paid to continuity between them. Both Bride of Frankenstein and...

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...

It’s not shameful to say you’ve never seen all the movies of your favorite actor. At least, that’s what I’ll claim when I admit I...

Its reputation preceding it, I’ve never been in too big a hurry to see The Giant Claw (1957). However, after doing so recently, it turns...

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

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