Long before Stephen King became the first name in horror that title belonged to author Edgar Allan Poe, who was not only a master of the macabre but also considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre, and like King, his stories have found their way onto the silver screen many times over…
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The Deadly Bees (1966) – Review
The killer bee subgenre of ecological horror films was kicked off in the 1970s with such films as Killer Bees and Savage Bees, but over in Great Britain, they got a jump on things with a film based on H.F. Heard’s 1941 novel “A Taste for Honey,” a story that took a Sherlockian approach to…
Attack of the Puppet People (1958) – Review
As a production house, American International Pictures was mostly known for quick and cheap films that would capitalize on a current fad or the latest popular movie, often with plots centring around teenagers as they were a key demographic to the studio, and when Universal Pictures had great success with their adaptation of Richard Matheson’s…
I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) – Review
What if James Dean’s character from Rebel Without a Cause had been bitten by a werewolf? That was the basic premise behind American International Pictures’ horror “gem” which kicked off a brief-lived series of “teenage monster” movies that would end with Herbert L. Strock’s How to Make a Monster, but the first in this brief…
The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (1971) – Review
The 70s were a time of terrible fashions as the public had to deal with the beginning of Disco and exploitation films that came and went at the local Drive-In with haunting regularity, but good or bad teenagers flocked to these films in droves.