If you can’t trust a murderous lab assistant named Igor, who can you trust? While Bela Lugosi returns as the troublesome Igor, The Ghost of Frankenstein marks the first time The Wolf Man star Lon Chaney Jr. would step in to fill those over-sized shoes of the Monster, and it is also at this point…
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Son of Frankenstein (1939) – Review
How do you follow up not only one of the greatest sequels of all time but one of the greatest horror movies of all time? This was the problem facing director Rowland V. Lee when he was tasked with helming the sequel to James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein, made even trickier by the fact that…
In Search of Titanic (2004) – Review
In 1999 an Italian animation company released one of the most bizarre attempts at cashing in on the success of James Cameron’s Titanic with a bizarre retelling of the classic tale only with a giant octopus and no tragedy whatsoever, five years later and these filmmakers were at it again with a whole new and…
The Legend of the Titanic (1999) – Review
When James Cameron’s Titanic broke box office records it kicked off a whole slew of Titanic films and documentaries about the world’s most famous ship, some good some not-so-good, but of all the entries that followed the success of Cameron’s movie only one of them had a giant octopus being tricked into lobbing an iceberg…
The Return of Captain Invincible (1983) – Review
There have been more than a fair number of superhero movies based on characters found in the pages of either DC or Marvel Comics, it’s basically a cottage industry now, yet once in a while a little superhero gem will wander onto the scene that’s a truly original piece of superhero fiction, one that will…