Working for RKO, producer Val Lewton brought to screen some startling moments of cinematic horror with such offerings as Cat People and I Walked with a Zombie to his credit, but in the case of The Body Snatcher, he and director Robert Wise were given the keys to the horror kingdom with Boris Karloff in…
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Night Monster (1942) – Review
If you are invited by a bitter invalid to an old dark house, one that is located near a foggy swamp, don’t go as it’s not going to end well for anybody. But without such examples of Darwinism in action we wouldn’t get such fun classic horror films like Universal’s Night Monster.
The Black Cat (1941) – Review
The 1930s and 1940s were a Golden Age of “Old Dark House” stories with such offerings as The Cat and the Canary and Horror Island populating theatres, but when you blend that “Old Dark House” setting with one of the works by the greatest Gothic writers of all time, Edgar Allan Poe, you are pretty…
Classic Horror Films of the 1930s
The 1930s marked a significant era in the history of cinema and particularly for the horror genre. It was during this decade that classic horror films emerged and left an indelible mark on the industry, bringing many iconic characters to life while also influencing future generations of filmmakers and changing cinema forever.
Black Friday (1940) – Review
Modern viewers should be warned that Universal’s Black Friday has nothing to do with certain holiday centric sales promotion – which is its own type of horror – in this film we have another great pairing of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi but instead of the usual Gothic horror, this particular outing has a mad…