Hammer’s The Brides of Dracula is a curious beast. It’s a direct sequel to 1958’s Dracula, yet it lacks the very thing the title promises: Dracula himself. What it does have is Peter Cushing returning as Van Helsing, and that alone keeps the film afloat, even as Hammer serves us a Dracula substitute with a…
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Dracula (1958) – Review
Forget the cobwebs and stagey theatrics of old; Hammer’s Dracula kicks down the crypt door with blood-red Technicolor, erotic menace, and two titans of horror: Christopher Lee as the most dangerous Count yet, and Peter Cushing as the steely Van Helsing determined to stop him. This was the film that made Dracula frightening—and sexy—again.
The Last Unicorn (1982) – Review
Rankin/Bass Productions were never going to topple the Disney company when it came to creating animated classics. Still, in 1982, with a delightful adaptation of Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn, they gave it their best shot. And while this film didn’t set the box office on fire at the time, it has generated a…
The Airport Franchise (1970 -1979) Four Classic Disaster Movies
It was in the 1970s that we saw the true beginning of the disaster movie genre because while films of catastrophic destruction had been around since almost the beginning of the medium itself it was during this period that the genre literally exploded, where Irwin Allen became known as the “Master of Disaster” but it…
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…