Raking in over 43 billion dollars the Harry Potter films are easily one of the most successful franchises in cinema history – I don’t know who will ever eclipse the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s ever-expanding franchise – but not only did the Harry Potter films make a killing at the box office they were also very…
Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi: Their Universal Team-ups (1934 – 1939)
When it comes to horror icons people often think of the likes of Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers or Freddy Krueger but back in the 1930s it wasn’t a set of particular monsters who fueled the imagination of millions of moviegoers across America but two legendary actors, who themselves created two of the all-time most iconic…
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973) – Review
In 1983 Stephen King released a short novel called “Cycle of the Werewolf” which was about a boy who believed there was a werewolf in his community while others decidedly did not, and this book was later turned into a film called Silver Bullet, and while that premise may be familiar to many fans of…
When Worlds Collide (1951) – Review
The disaster movie has been a staple of cinema for quite some time, with RKO’s 1933 disaster epic Deluge being one of the earliest examples of a genre that is still going on strong today, but in 1951 legendary movie producer George Pal put his stamp on the genre with his film When Worlds Collide,…
It Happened at Lakewood Manor (1977) – Review
With the success of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, the “Nature Attacks” genre literally exploded in the 1970s, with moviegoers seeing the likes of William Girdler’s Grizzly and Joe Dante’s Piranha flooding the theatres and drive-ins, but even the small-screen was not safe from the influence of this nature gone wild explosion and thus people who tuned…