Hollywood has produced quite a few alien invasion movies over the years and while most of them dealt with UFOs in the traditional style of those found in films like Ray Harryhausen’s Earth vs the Flying Saucers it was Allied Artists who took a different tack with their science fiction entry The Atomic Submarine. This…
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Horror Island (1941) – Review
A haunted castle, buried treasure, hidden passages and a phantom killer all add up to a fun little “And then there were none” mystery that reveals in the “Old Dark House” subgenre, in fact, fans of Scooby-Doo should get a lot out of this mystery as the setting and the comedic hijinks have a very…
The Mummy’s Tomb (1942) – Review
With this sequel, Universal Studios not only told the world that there was still life in the shuffling bandages of the Mummy but that they would also bring Lon Chaney Jr. back into the fold, the man who had created the role of The Wolf Man, rocked it as The Son of Dracula and he…
The Mummy’s Hand (1940) – Review
In 1932 Boris Karloff helped bring to the screen one of the defining entries in the Universal Monsters franchise, but unlike Frankenstein, he wouldn’t return for any of the sequels and the threat of the malevolently driven priest Imhotep was replaced with the standard bandaged wrapped monster we think of today when anyone mentions The…