The Universal sequel The Invisible Man Returns (1940) was made seven years after The Invisible Man, but takes place nine years after the...

Although they’re not great, the movies in the Universal Monsters mummy series at least had a consistent recipe. Beginning with The...

With the exception of the "Abbott & Costello Meet…” movies, I never really expected other comedies to be part of a Universal Classic...

The Mummy’s Curse (1944) strays ever so slightly from the recipe established in the previous four Universal Monsters mummy movies, but...

Of all the wonderful elements in Universal’s The Mummy (1932), there’s one that’s largely absent: a mummy. The cloth-wrapped version of...

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...

Although I often feel like other people don’t see me, particularly when I’m driving, I wonder what it would feel like to be truly...

If there’s anything worse than Lon Chaney Jr. as Frankenstein’s monster, it’s Lon Chaney Jr. as Dracula. With his pencil mustache and...

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...

Maniac makes you long for the good old days… the early 1960s, when a “maniac” was simply a man locked away for a crime of revenge, not a...

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...

Nightmare was the fourth Hammer "mini-Hitchcock" that Jimmy Sangster wrote and the second that Freddie Francis directed. (Francis...

On IMDb, Paranoiac is ranked third only to The Nanny and Scream of Fear with the highest User Rating for one of Hammer's...

In 2016, pedophilia is an uncomfortable subject for a movie. Can you imagine what it would have been like in 1960? Although it was...

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....