From the time I was a very young kid I didn’t want to do anything but make movies the rest of my life. Bert I. Gordon With Picture Mommy...

Unfortunately, "Hillbillys in a Haunted House" was Rathbone’s last film -- a sad epitaph for one of the world’s greatest actors. Marcia...

When my master says, "Krull, do this thing," I do the thing, whatever it may be. Krull (Oskar Homolka) Director William Castle emerges...

Just as I told you, no pulse at all. She's dead. John Jaffrey (Melvyn Douglas) Unusual and old-fashioned at the dawn of a new age of...

No American distributor wanted to touch it once we were done. Sam Raimi Each time I watch The Evil Dead (1981), I increase my rating. One...

Imagine... Dr. Beaumont keeping this heart pumping for over twenty years! Jimmy (Warren Hull) Wish he could do something about making...

Puns are the highest form of literature. Alfred Hitchcock Watching Family Plot (1976) again, it felt more than ever like I was watching...

Love is greater than illusion, and as strong as death! Prince Sirki/Death (Frederic March) The origin of Death Takes a Holiday as a stage...

I saw a lot of promise in the carnival. I always wanted my own carnival. Tobe Hooper Soon after its release in March of 1981, I wrote...

I often tried to exorcise my personal Hell to no avail, so now I show it in my films. Lucio Fulci With The House by the Cemetery (1981,)...

When she found out what I did to you... she hated me! Crane (Lionel Barrymore) Phroso (Lon Chaney) is paralyzed during a scuffle with...

The old customs remain and the ancient gods live on. Baron Corofax (Peter Cushing) In The Devil’s Men (1976), Peter Cushing doesn’t look...

Since you know that I'm dead, I suppose you know that you can't kill me. Dr. Emil Zurich (Henry Daniell) There may be a fair number of...

What you did was an act of pure barbarism, and were it not for the love I bear my daughter, and for the respect and esteem in which I...

Little Phoebe was one of those persons who possess, as their exclusive patrimony, the gift of practical arrangement. It is a kind of...

What do they know? What will they ever know? I'll take them somewhere they've never been. Back into time. It will work well tonight. I'm...

This is the final review for my annual Countdown to Halloween. This year, I invited you to join me as I attempted to gain some space on...

It’s impossible for me not to compare The Leech Woman (1960) with The Wasp Woman (1959.) Both are, in essence, about women seeking...

The 1924 silent classic, He Who Gets Slapped, did not air on TCM as part of its Lon Chaney marathon that I recorded on October 14, 2020....

It’s a good thing horror fans are such an accepting group, rarely participating in social media vitriol. Otherwise, I wouldn’t feel...