Following the success of Spielberg’s summer blockbuster Jaws, the cinema was quickly flooded with killer shark movies but one of the most blatant rip-offs didn’t involve a shark or even take place in the water as this movie dealt with “18 feet of gut-wrenching, man-eating terror!” and by that I mean William Girdler’s Grizzly, a…
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) – Review
When it comes to cinematic depictions of literary characters Dracula is up there with Sherlock Holmes when it comes to the number of times he has been brought to the big screen, from F.W. Murnau’s silent masterpiece Nosferatu to Bela Lugosi in 1931’s Dracula, Christoper Lee’s run in the Hammer Films and John Badham’s more…
Zombies of Mora Tau (1957) – Review
Zombies have been a staple of horror films for quite some time dating back to Bela Lugosi in White Zombie, even Bob Hope encountered one in his 1940 film The Ghost Breakers, but they didn’t really come into their own until George Romero’s seminal classic Night of the Living Dead hit the scene back in…
It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) – Review
If a plot consisting of a group of astronauts landing on an alien world that soon find themselves being stalked through their ship by a strange creature sounds a little familiar it’s because Dan O’Bannon, the screenwriter of the Ridley Scott science fiction classic Alien, was clearly a fan of this low-budget 50s entry in…
Carnival of Souls (1962) – Review
When it comes to horror the most memorable entries are of those that will haunt you long after you’ve turned the lights back on and with Herk “One Shot” Harvey that is exactly the kind of horror film you get with his cult classic Carnival of Souls, a story that tells a tale of psychological…