With the arrival of the 1950s the horror genre was slowly moving out of Gothic castles and beaker-strewn laboratories into the wider world of the atomic age, and with that came irradiated monsters and visitors from outer space. Launching this cinematic change was the Howard Hawks film The Thing from Another World, an entry that…
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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.
Hausu (1977) – Review
A haunted house is one of the more popular settings of the horror genre but with Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Hausu we get something altogether unique, and by that I mean this film is like no other horror movie you’ve ever seen. This Japanese cult classic combines surrealism, horror and comedy in a bizarre mind-bending experience that…
The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959) – Review
What would a version of The Creature from the Black Lagoon look like if the filmmakers had no money? It was the lack of proper funds that faced producer Jack Kevan and director Irvin Berwick back in 1959 when they made their independently produced creature feature, one that showcased a monster of a rather dubious…
Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957) – Review
What can you do if your science fiction film doesn’t quite have the budget to pull off a proper alien invasion? Easy, just shift the tone into the arena of comedy so that the audience is laughing “with you” instead of at the cheesy special effects on display. This is exactly what happened with Edward…