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The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) – Review

Posted on November 14, 2023April 5, 2024 by Mike Brooks

When thinking about a horror movie centring around murders committed by a disfigured mad sculptor the 1953 Vincent Price classic House of Wax would be the first thing to come to mind, I certainly hope no one immediately thinks of the 2005 version starring Paris Hilton, but Price wasn’t the first mad sculptor to stalk…

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Doctor X (1932) – Review

Posted on November 10, 2023November 3, 2023 by Mike Brooks

Paramount Pictures didn’t have much box office success with their adaptation of The Island of Doctor Moreau, Island of Lost Souls, but that very same year director Michael Curtiz delivered another “mad doctor” entry, one that not only proved quite successful it also introduced actor Lionel Atwill to the general public, playing the titular Doctor…

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The Most Dangerous Game (1932) – Review

Posted on November 3, 2023January 11, 2025 by Mike Brooks

Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game” may be one of the most influential stories ever written, inspiring and influencing countless movies and television shows from Bill Bixby being hunted by a rich asshat in an episode of The Incredible Hulk to Jean Claude Van Damme being hunted by a group of rich asshats…

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King Kong (1933) – Review

Posted on May 3, 2016September 1, 2020 by Mike Brooks

During the 1930s escapism from the realities of The Depression made movie-going more important than ever and in 1933 Merian C. Cooper gave the world just that with King Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World, a film that defined the term escapist entertainment.

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King Kong: A Comparison

Posted on July 2, 2015April 30, 2022 by Mike Brooks

Somewhere in the South Pacific, there is an island shrouded in fog that is home to King Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World, a place of wonder and terror that speaks to the child in all of us.

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