I can't remember all of the Universal monster movies I saw on TV when I was a kid, but I have clear and distinct memories of this one.
Basil Rathbone stars as the son of the dead Baron von Frankenstein from the first two films, returning to the family castle, determined to carry on his father's work.
Most people don't rate this as highly as the first two films, but I love it. It's the last time we see Boris…
The Blob sucks so bad. The blocking and dialogue are only nominally more competent than an Ed Wood movie. Steve McQueen is so old he looks like he served in combat in Korea and is finishing high school on the GI Bill.
But despite all that it’s really fun if you’re in the right mood. It’s colorful, somewhat self-aware, and the blob effects are fun.
Watched with my kids, who are now looking at the last 10 minutes of Equinox on the Criterion Channel, which also ends with a question mark onscreen.
The Haunted Strangler is a tawdry, violent little shocker that stars Boris Karloff as a novelist who digs too deeply into the mystery of a strangler-slasher who was tried and executed.
Your tolerance for this thing will be largely dependent on your enjoyment of low-budget black & white shockers, as well as how effective you find Karloff's twisted face and body when he "transforms" into the strangler.
Personally I loved it, and it was exactly what I was in the mood…
Surprisingly funny! The Rock is a charismatic performer with great timing and putting him opposite Julie Andrews and Stephen Merchant makes for a much better family comedy than I was expecting.
Black Christmas is one of the few movies that really, truly scared me as an adult, and continues to scare me. If you’re a horror fan, you know that Black Christmas is the first North American movie that can properly be called a “slasher movie,” and that it established the template that movies like Halloween and Friday the 13th would follow. Black Christmas is arguably the greatest slasher movie of all time, as well as the greatest…
What a difference six years makes. Where the Sidewalk Ends reunited Otto Preminger, the director of Laura (1944), with Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney, the two stars of Laura.
This reunion between director and actors was nothing earthshaking. In the years between Laura and Where the Sidewalk Ends, Preminger had worked with both Andrews and Tierney again separately, and Tierney and Andrews had appeared together in the film The Iron Curtain (1948), which Preminger didn't direct.
But comparing Laura with…
