If a person were to find themselves in a horror movie a solid piece of advice to follow would be, “Don’t accept an invitation from Vincent Price!” By the late 50s William Castle had made a name for himself as a talented producer of low-budget entertainment, and also as a bit of genius when it…
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Silver Bullet (1985) – Review
If you name your wheelchair the “Silver Bullet” and you end up having to fight a werewolf, you were basically asking for it. The movie Silver Bullet was based on the Stephen King novella “Cycle of the Werewolf” which itself was originally a calendar illustrated by the late great comic book artist Bernie Wrightson, and…
Munsters, Go Home! (1966) – Review
At a glance, the television series The Munsters could be considered nothing more than an Addams Family rip-off, but the key difference between those two shows was that although the Munsters looked like monsters, they acted like people, while on the other hand, The Addams Family looked like people and acted like monsters, making this…
The Haunted Mansion (2003) – Review
Basing a movie on a novel or stage play would be considered to be a rather common origin for many productions while basing a movie on a theme park ride is anything but normal. Enter Disney Studios who just so happened to own the most famous theme parks in the world. With corporate synergy being…
Assimilate (2019) – Review
There have been many adaptations of Jack Finney’s classic science fiction tale The Body Snatchers, where alien organisms arrive on Earth and quickly proceed to duplicate the inhabitants, but as this has now become almost a subgenre, I see no problem with anyone taking another swing at the bat. Right off the top, I’ll state…