The 1950s were all about giant monsters raging across the countryside, or at least that’s how I like to think of them, full of radioactive insects and cranky dinosaurs, but in 1957 the father of one of the greatest movie monsters of all time, the father of King Kong, stop-motion legend Willis O’Brien, would take…
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) – Review
Long before Stephen King became the first name in horror that title belonged to author Edgar Allan Poe, who was not only a master of the macabre but also considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre, and like King, his stories have found their way onto the silver screen many times over…
The Deadly Mantis (1957) – Review
While space explorers were tangling with Cat-Women of the Moon and Leslie Nielsen was off seducing Anne Francis on the Forbidden Planet back on good ole planet Earth scientists and their stalwart gal-pals were doing their best to save humanity from giant insects, whether it be a giant Tarantula or the colossal ants from Them!…
Frogs (1972) – Review
Eco-horror in cinema has had a rather large diversity of entries over the years, with many minions of Mother Nature getting their shot in the spotlight, from spiders, bees, ants and the like, but in 1972 a rather dubious offering hit theatres that consisted of elements most often found in the gruesome pages of an…
Cat People (1982) – Review
Re-making a horror classic is always going to be tricky business as it opens you up for hard comparisons, but the most successful way to tackle such a daunting task is to simply take the general premise of the original and then go off in your own wild and different directions, David Cronenberg’s The Fly…