In 1976, Warner Bros. hired a mostly unknown director named John Carpenter to write a screenplay for a feature film based on the...

Another week, another rewatch of a 1986 movie I originally hated, but now kind of enjoy. This may be blasphemous since the movie is...

The following are excepts from my feature about A Fire in the Sky (1978) in the We Belong Dead publication, Spotlight on Science Fiction,...

What was wrong with me in the mid-1980s? I didn’t like most horror films. Take 1986, the year today’s film, Deadly Friend, was released....

Linda Blair and her hair star in Summer of Fear (1978), but, contrary to the appearance of the latter, they’re not the ones possessed....

While the world falls apart around us, Jeff and Richard focus on two specific disasters. In San Francisco, a fire rages out of control in...

In the vein of not judging a book by its cover, Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978) isn’t nearly as ridiculous as it sounds. If demons...

Spoiler Alert! . It’s going to take a while to fully understand how I feel about Possession (1981)... and I may never understand the...

Watching horror films as much as I do, I’m not easily offended. However, I think Are You in the House Alone? (1978) did it. It’s mostly a...

There’s something about mid-century British films that make them distinctively British. While it’s hard to describe, you can recognize...

For a simple werewolf movie, no more, no less, Deathmoon (1978) has a little going for it for classic horror fans, but very little for...

Parts of Woman in the Moon are familiar; we’ve seen them in countless science-fiction movies over the years. However, because it was made...

With all the evil that ghosts do, it’s easy to forget that sometimes they’re benevolent, remaining on this earthly plane to warn others...

In retrospect, there were parts of Murder Story (1989) that I enjoyed. However, when I consider the experience of watching it, it’s...

The first thing I noticed when watching Dracula & Son (1976) was how gorgeous it looks. Next, I noticed the lush score. Like the rest of...

The Initiation of Sarah (1978) is such a blatant rip-off of Carrie (1976) that the few original ideas it threatens to offer are forgotten...

Dark Places (1974) feels right at home with an Amicus Production, which it is not. It was the only film produced by a man named James...

If nothing else, The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (1967) is beautiful to watch. It’s the only color, full-length feature film included...

Backed by a relentless soundtrack that ensures you know how to react while simultaneously beating you into submission, Cruise into Terror...

When I first watched Crypt of the Vampire (1964), it was to include it in an article about film adaptations of Sheridan Le Fanu’s novel,...