When it comes to 1960s Italian gothic horror, Nightmare Castle isn’t exactly in the top tier with Mario Bava’s Black Sunday or Riccardo Freda’s The Horrible Dr. Hichcock, but it holds a special place in the Barbara Steele canon. Directed by Mario Caiano, the film mixes science, sadism, and supernatural revenge in a way that’s…
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Castle of Blood (1964) – Review
Italian Gothic horror doesn’t get much more gloriously moody than Castle of Blood, or Danza Macabra if you’re feeling fancy and prefer your titles in the original Italian. Directed by Antonio Margheriti (sometimes moonlighting under his Anglo pseudonym, Anthony M. Dawson), it’s a chilly black-and-white fever dream where superstition, Poe, and Barbara Steele’s haunting eyes…
The Hearse (1980) – Review
Some movies slip through the cracks of horror history—not quite cult classics, not quite forgotten relics, but instead hovering in that strange purgatory where genre fans know of them without necessarily having seen them. The Hearse, directed by George Bowers, is exactly that sort of film.
The Haunting (1999) – Review
In 1963 Robert Wise helmed an adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, which was a wonderfully executed psychological thriller with subtle horror aspects, flash forward to 1999 when Jan de Bont, the director of Twister, helmed a new take on the novel, one that didn’t bother with pesky little things like subtlety.
Disney’s Tower of Terror (1997) – Review
When you think about it, turning a theme park attraction into a motion picture is a pretty strange idea, as most rides only last a few minutes it would seem hard to stretch that into a feature film, but back in 2003 Disney took one of their most popular rides and turned it into the…