Daughters of Darkness (1971)
My take: This story was a bit too slow for my liking, but it was one of the more interesting Countess Bathory stories I have seen. Rating: 2 out of 4 stars Daughters of Darkness (not to be confused...
View ArticleLet’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
My take: Was it a ghost? Was it madness? I’m still not sure, and I don’t think that is a good thing. Rating: 1 out of 4 stars This movie raised a lot of questions in my mind about the early 1970s: Were...
View ArticleReview: It Follows
My take: Riddled with suspense, this movie is right in line with the classics and it definitely one I would watch again. Rating: 3 out of 4 stars Synopsis of It Follows When you have sex in a horror...
View ArticleDevil’s Nightmare (1971)
My take: This is a lot of cheesy, Italian-gothic goodness. Tropes abound but there are enough scares to keep it fun and interesting. Rating: 3 out of 4 stars Like many of the films I have watched...
View ArticleTales From the Crypt (1972)
My take: This movie is made up of five gruesome tales. So, there’s sure to be at least one you like. Rating: 3 out of 4 stars Five strangers are on a tour of a catacombs. They fall behind the tour...
View ArticleBaron Blood (1972)
My take: This is a standard Italian gothic. Only see this one if you love others from this subgenre. Rating: 2 out of 4 stars In Baron Blood, Peter Kleist returns to his family’s ancestral castle. He...
View ArticleTombs of the Blind Dead (1972)
My take: An interesting zombie film from Spain that has a good balance of scary and cheesy scenes. Rating: 3 out of 4 stars 1972 seems to have been full of characters displaying wonton acts of hubris....
View ArticleConrad Veidt: A King of Horror
Sometimes you see an actor in a horror film and that person just gets to you. Their acting alone makes them crawl out from the screen and whisper terrifying things in your ear. Robert Englund as Freddy...
View ArticleThe Original Prometheus Script – Alien: The Engineers
I loved the new Alien movie, Aliens: Covenant. When I was raving about it at work, my co-worker sent me a pdf of the original script for Prometheus. He said, “Did you ever read the screenplay that...
View ArticleQuote From The Invisible Man
We’ll begin with a reign of terror, a few murders here and there, murders of great men, murders of little men – well, just to show we make no distinction. I might even wreck a train or two… just these...
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