Some movies are classics because they’re brilliant. Others are classics because they’re accidents. And then there’s The Brain That Wouldn’t Die, a film so dedicated to proving “science has gone too far” that it basically becomes a PSA for never letting your boyfriend operate on you in a basement. It’s a Frankenstein riff, a medical…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
The Wraith (1986) – Review
In one of the most 80s movies ever made — and I mean that as both a compliment and a warning — we get Charlie Sheen showing up in a small Arizona town in the role of a mysterious stranger. At the very same time, a black, otherworldly turbo interceptor rolls into town like Darth…
The Hearse (1980) – Review
Some movies slip through the cracks of horror history—not quite cult classics, not quite forgotten relics, but instead hovering in that strange purgatory where genre fans know of them without necessarily having seen them. The Hearse, directed by George Bowers, is exactly that sort of film.
Curse of the Faceless Man (1958) – Review
From the ashes of Pompeii rises a terror unlike any other—an immortal gladiator, entombed for centuries, now walking the earth once more. Curse of the Faceless Man trades the familiar Egyptian mummy wrappings for volcanic stone, giving audiences a lumbering relic whose face is as blank as his fate is sealed. Equal parts menace and…
The Avengers: A Touch of Brimstone (1966) – Review
Few episodes of The Avengers, or any other television shows for that matter, have ever danced so boldly along the line of risqué and refined as “A Touch of Brimstone”—a stylish, subversive, and deliciously decadent hour of television that remains one of the show’s most infamous outings.