Not to be confused with the AMC horror series of the same name, this horror film does not have Rick Grimes and Daryl Dixon shooting zombies in the head. Instead, we get a unique blend of horror, mystery and courtroom drama, not to mention the legendary horror icon Boris Karloff, all going towards making this…
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The Invisible Ray (1936) – Review
In this 1936 offering from Universal Pictures, we find Karloff giving a rather understated and subdued performance as the film’s villain. In this outing, he’s almost a tragic figure and only becomes the stereotypical “mad scientist” when something goes drastically wrong. But The Invisible Ray doesn’t just provide us a fun take on the genre;…
The Invisible Man’s Revenge (1944) – Review
Discounting the comedic outing of Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, this would be the last in the series of Invisible Man movies from Universal, and we can be thankful for that because this watered-down installment was more a psychotic pot-boiler about revenge than it was a decent science fiction flick about an invisible…
The Invisible Man (1933) – Review
Along with Jules Verne, author H.G. Wells is considered by many to be one of the fathers of science fiction, but when looking at “The War of the Worlds” or “The Time Machine,” it’s clear that though those stories fell under the umbrella of science fiction, there were elements of horror as well. From the…
Overlord (2018) – Review
Genre mash-ups can be a lot of fun, and when it’s horror with another genre, the results can be quite surprising – horror-comedy being one of the more prevalent of these – but one horror combo that doesn’t get a lot of love is the horror/war movie mash-up, which is why Overlord is such a…